Picture description in the assessment of connected speech intelligibility in Parkinson's disease: A pilot study

Conclusion: Within-speaker variabil ity support literature recommendations to use multiple methods and tasks when assessing intelligibility. The inclusion of transcription of self-generated utterances elicited by picture description to the intelligibility assessment has the potential to provide additional information to assessment met hods based on oral reading of pre-scripted sentences, and to inform the planning of interventions.
Source: Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research