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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Ho, Aileen K. | Iansek, Robert | Marigliani, Caterina | Bradshaw, John L. | Gates, Sandra
Affiliations: Neuropsychology Research Unit, Psychology Department, Monash University, Clayton 3168, Victoria, Australia | Kingston Centre, Warrigal Road, Cheltenham 3192, Victoria, Australia
Note: [] Corresponding author: Aileen K. Ho, Department of Psychology, Monash University, Clayton 3168, Victoria, Australia. Tel.: +61 3 9755 5616; Fax: +61 3 9905 3948; E-mail: Aileen.Ho@sci.monash.edu.au
Abstract: This study classified speech impairment in 200 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) into five levels of overall severity and described the corresponding type (voice, articulation, fluency) and extent (rated on a five-point scale) of impairment for each level. From two-minute conversational speech samples, parameters of voice, fluency and articulation were assessed by two trained-raters. Voice was found to be the leading deficit, most frequently affected and impaired to a greater extent than other features in the initial stages. Articulatory and fluency deficits manifested later, articulatory impairment matching voice impairment in frequency and extent at the `Severe' stage. At the final stage of `Profound' impairment, articulation was the most frequently impaired feature at the lowest level of performance. This study illustrates the prominence of voice and articulatory speech motor control deficits, and draws parallels with deficits of motor set and motor set instability in skeletal controls of gait and handwriting.
Keywords: Parkinson's disease, speech impairment
Journal: Behavioural Neurology, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 131-137, 1998
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