Picture Description in the Assessment of Connected Speech Intelligibility in Parkinson ’s Disease: A Pilot Study

Conclusion: Within-speaker variability supports 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 methods 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