(function(doc, html, url) {
var widget = doc.createElement("div");
widget.innerHTML = html;
var script = doc.currentScript; // e = a.currentScript;
if (!script) {
var scripts = doc.scripts;
for (var i = 0; i < scripts.length; ++i) {
script = scripts[i];
if (script.src && script.src.indexOf(url) != -1) break;
}
}
script.parentElement.replaceChild(widget, script);
}(document, '
Speech consistency in apraxia of speech II
What is it about?
This was our second study to address the controversy about whether speech consistency helps diagnose apraxia of speech after stroke. We thought seemingly conflicting results in earlier research might be explained by differences in whether sounds, syllables, or words were analyzed for consistency.
Why is it important?
We completed several speech analyses for 14 people who had apraxia of speech after stroke. The task was to repeat the same words with many syllables five times in a row. We found that consistency was least consistent for whole words, more consistent for syllables, and most consistent for sounds. This means that earlier research studies did not contradict each other--It is just that speech consistency was defined differently each time.