Reliability and stability of the metrical stress effect on segmental production accuracy in persons with apraxia of speech.

CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS: The results suggest that in English, as in German, the trochaic structure is more resistant to segmental errors in persons with AOS and aphasia, providing replication of the findings of Aichert et al. in 2016. Further, this effect is stable over repeated sampling occasions. Implications for clinical management of AOS include possible ways to scaffold item difficulty and potentially improve stimulus generalization. PMID: 31338954 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - July 22, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Bailey DJ, Bunker L, Mauszycki S, Wambaugh JL Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: research