Speech loudness and quality 12 months after intensive voice treatment (LSVT) for Parkinson's disease: a comparison with an alternative speech treatment

Autor: Shimon, Sapir, Lorraine O, Ramig, Patricia, Hoyt, Stefanie, Countryman, Christopher, O'Brien, Margaret, Hoehn
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP). 54(6)
ISSN: 1021-7762
Popis: Thirty-five individuals with idiopathic Parkinson's disease were enrolled in speech treatment. Twenty-two were enrolled in a high-effort phonatory-respiratory treatment program (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment, LSVT) and 13 were enrolled in a high-effort respiratory treatment program (RET). Perceptual judgments of speech loudness and quality were made independently by 6 listeners on recordings of the 'Rainbow Passage'. These recordings had been obtained just before treatment (pre) and at 12 months' follow-up (FU12). The speech samples in the LSVT group, but not in the RET group, were significantly more likely to be perceived 'louder' and 'better quality' at FU12 than at pre (p0.0001). These findings, along with others, suggest that the long-term effects of the LSVT are perceptible, clinically significant and treatment-specific.
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