Speech Disorders - Complications
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

[Speech intelligibility tests in cochlear implant patients]

30 May 2009 The investigation of speech intelligibility under quiet and noisy conditions is essential to evaluate the auditory and verbal rehabilitation of cochlear implant patients. A set of audiological tests is introduced that has been validated and ... Read more...

Balance and motor speech impairment in essential tremor.

17 May 2009 The pathogenesis of essential tremor (ET) is still under debate. Several lines of evidence indicate that ET is associated with cerebellar dysfunction. The aim of the present study was to find corroborating evidence for this claim by investigating ... Read more...

Speech acquisition in older nonverbal individuals with autism: a review of features, methods, and prognosis.

27 Feb 2009 Individuals with autism often fail to develop useful speech. If they have not done so by age 5, the prognosis for future development has been thought to be poor. However, some cases of later development of speech have been reported. To quantify and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Speech Disorders - Complications'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Speech intelligibility tests in cochlear implant patients] 30 May 2009
• Balance and motor speech impairment in essential tremor. 17 May 2009
• Speech acquisition in older nonverbal individuals with autism: a review of features, methods, and prognosis. 27 Feb 2009
• Speech impairment in Nijmegen breakage syndrome: a rare anomaly. 3 Feb 2009
• Results of the Sensory Profile in children with suspected childhood apraxia of speech. 30 Dec 2008
• Sjögren-larsson syndrome: a study of clinical symptoms and dermatological treatment in 34 Swedish patients. 30 Dec 2008
• Helping a man with multiple disabilities increase object-contact responses and reduce hand stereotypy via a microswitch cluster program. 29 Nov 2008
• Hypokinetic dysarthria and palilalia in midbrain infarction. 29 Nov 2008
• Substantia nigra hyperechogenicity in depressive subjects relates to motor asymmetry and impaired word fluency. 17 Sep 2008
• Diagnosis and treatment of bulbar symptoms in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 15 Jun 2008
• Obstructive sleep apnea, seizures, and childhood apraxia of speech. 30 May 2008
• Resolving ambiguity: a psycholinguistic approach to understanding prosody processing in high-functioning autism. 25 May 2008
• Anterior open bite and speech disorders in children with Down syndrome. 28 Feb 2008
• Neuropsychological profile of pre-schoolers with metaphonological difficulties: results from a non-clinical sample. 30 Oct 2007
• Prosody and its relationship to language in school-aged children with high-functioning autism. 30 Oct 2007
• TMD current concepts: 1. An update. 30 May 2007
• Speech development patterns and phonological awareness in preschool children. 22 May 2007
• Speech and language therapy intervention in schizophrenia: a case study. 27 Feb 2007
• Joubert syndrome surviving to adulthood associated with a progressive movement disorder. 13 Jan 2007
• A boy with small supernumerary marker chromosome X identified by FISH. 30 Dec 2006

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Technical information about 'Speech Disorders'

Definition: Acquired or developmental conditions marked by an impaired ability to comprehend or generate spoken forms of language.

Descriptor UI: D013064

Alternative terms: Speech Disorders; Cluttering; Clutterings; Verbal Fluency Disorders; Verbal Fluency Disorder; Dyslalia; Dyslalias; Rhinolalia; Rhinolalias; Aprosodia; Aprosodias; Aprosodic Speech; Speech, Aprosodic; Dysglossia; Dysglossias;

Related Mesh Headings: Language Disorders;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.606.150.500.800; C23.888.592.604.150.500.800;

Technical Notes: /ther: consider also SPEECH THERAPY; do not confuse with LANGUAGE DISORDERS: read differentiation of SPEECH & LANGUAGE under SPEECH