Quantitative assessment of dysarthric speech in neurological disorders

Completed

• Conditions: Dysarthria; speech articulation problems; 10028037

• Registration Number: NL-OMON43507
• Lead Sponsor: niversitair Medisch Centrum Groningen

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Last Update Posted: 12 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Not specified
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

Patients:
- Dysarthria due to a neurological disorder
- 18 years or older
- Allowing access to medical records to verify inclusion criteria and some of the study parameters (see protocol Sections 7 and 8.2)
- Native speaker of Dutch or German
- (corrected-to) normal vision and hearing
- written informed consent
Healthy control participants:
- 18 years or older
- Native speaker of Dutch or German
- (corrected-to) normal vision and hearing
- written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

Patients:
- Cognitive problems (MMSE < 26)
- Brain damage caused by stroke that inflicted aphasia and/or apraxia of speech
- Language and/or (motor) speech disorders other than dysarthria;Healthy control participants:
- Cognitive problems (MMSE < 26)
- Brain damage
- Language and/or (motor) speech disorders

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational non invasive
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>The main study parameters are cues in speech in the categories phonation,<br /><br>articulation and prosody, such as articulation rate, fundamental frequency,<br /><br>intensity, intonation contour, phoneme production, pause length and vowel<br /><br>qualities.</p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>NA</p><br>