Perception of oral diadochokinetic performances in elderly adults

Parnell, Martha M.; Amerman, James D.

doi:10.1016/0021-9924(87)90015-3

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“…From group 1 to 4, a~55 % decline was observed for the simple sequences and~52 % decline for the complex sequences. Several prior studies have shown a decline in speech rate with age (Duchin and Mysak 1987;Fozo and Watson 1998;Ramig 1983a;Ryan 1972;Searl et al 2002;Wohlert and Smith 1998), but few studies have examined accuracy and only a few have shown that older adults are less intelligible than younger adults (Parnell and Amerman 1987;Shuey 1989). The present results demonstrate, for the first time, a decline in speech sequencing skills in healthy adults.…”

Section: Speech Productionsupporting

confidence: 56%

“…In this study, participants were asked to listen and write down to a series of words embedded in a carrier phrase pronounced by young and older adults, and they misunderstood significantly more often the final consonant pronounced by older compared to younger adults, suggesting an age-related decline in speech intelligibility. Consistent with this finding, others researchers have reported that a group of 20 speech-language pathologists rated older adults (67 to 81 years old) as being less intelligible than younger adults (21 to 28 years old) in a diadochokinetic (DDK) task (Parnell and Amerman 1987).…”

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confidence: 52%

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Movement sequencing in normal aging: speech, oro-facial, and finger movements

Bilodeau-Mercure

Kirouac

Langlois

et al. 2015

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The manner and extent to which normal aging affects the ability to speak are not fully understood. While age-related changes in voice fundamental frequency and intensity have been documented, changes affecting the planning and articulation of speech are less well understood. In the present study, 76 healthy, cognitively normal participants aged between 18 and 93 years old were asked to produce auditorily and visually triggered sequences of finely controlled movements (speech, oro-facial, and manual movement). These sequences of movements were either (1) simple, in which at least two of the three movements were the same, or (2) complex, in which three different movements were produced. For each of the resulting experimental condition, accuracy was calculated. The results show that, for speech and oro-facial movements, accuracy declined as a function of age and complexity. For these movements, the negative effect of complexity on performance accuracy increased with age. No aging or complexity effects were found for the manual movements on accuracy, but a significant slowing of movement was found, particularly for the complex sequences. These results demonstrate that there is a significant deterioration of fine motor control in normal aging across different response modalities.

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Section: Speech Productionsupporting

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 52%

Movement sequencing in normal aging: speech, oro-facial, and finger movements

Bilodeau-Mercure

Kirouac

Langlois

et al. 2015

AGE

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“…Increased segment durations (Benjamin, 1982;Smith, et al, 1987) have been a relatively consistent finding, along with reduced speed of performance on oral diadochokinetic tasks (Padovani, Gielow, & Behlau, 2009;Parnell & Amerman, 1987), presence of spirantization in the stop gap (Liss, et al, 1990) and reduced tongue-to-palate contact during fricative production (McAuliffe, Ward, & Murdoch, 2006). Agerelated vowel centralization has been observed in a number of cases, particularly for very old individuals (Benjamin, 1982;Liss, et al, 1990).…”

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Effect of Speaker Age on Speech Recognition and Perceived Listening Effort in Older Adults With Hearing Loss

McAuliffe

Wilding

Rickard

et al. 2012

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose: Older adults exhibit difficulty understanding speech that has been experimentally degraded. Age-related changes to the speech mechanism lead to natural degradations in signal quality. We tested the hypothesis that older adults with hearing loss would exhibit declines in speech recognition when listening to the speech of older adults, compared with the speech of younger adults, and would report greater amounts of listening effort in this task.Methods: Nineteen individuals with age-related hearing loss completed speech recognition and listening effort scaling tasks. Both were conducted in quiet, when listening to high and low predictability phrases produced by younger and older speakers respectively.Results: No significant difference in speech recognition existed when stimuli were derived from younger or older speakers. However, perceived effort was significantly higher when listening to speech from older adults, as compared to younger adults. Conclusions:For older individuals with hearing loss, natural degradations in signal quality may require greater listening effort. However, they do not interfere with speech recognition -at least in quiet. Follow-up investigation of the effect of speaker age on speech recognition and listening effort under more challenging noise conditions appears warranted.

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“…The assessment of oral DDK comprises phono-articulatory tests, able to assess the function of lips and tongue, by using the repetition of syllables (12) . The oral diadochokinetic performance can be influenced by age (13,14) and gender (15) , as well as by the instability of dental prostheses (16) , probably owing to the aging process of muscle groups involved in the DDK tests.…”

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Diadococinesia oral e função mastigatória em idosos saudáveis

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Totta

Silva-Arone

et al. 2015

Audiol., Commun. Res.

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Purpose: To relate the findings of oral diadochokinesis (DDK) and masticatory function in healthy elderly. Methods: Analysis of medical records and images files of 35 healthy elderly subjects aged 60 to 74 years. The masticatory type and other behaviors associated with mastication of bread (1cm thick), the analysis of food seizure, bolus formation and measurement of chewing time, using a timer, were considered. For DDK assessment, the syllabic emissions "pa", "ta", "ka" and the tri-syllable "pataka", as to the parameters automatically provided Para o tipo mastigatório, apreensão e formação do bolo alimentar não houve correlação com os dados da DDC oral. Conclusão: A DDC oral correlacionou-se com o tempo mastigatório em idosos saudáveis, evidenciando que, quanto maior a instabilidade na repetição dos movimentos de ponta e dorso de língua durante a produção articulatória, maior o tempo necessário para a preparação do alimento para a deglutição.Descritores: Envelhecimento; Saúde do idoso; Mastigação; Avaliação;Testes de articulação da fala Study conducted at the Speech Therapy Course,

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Perception of oral diadochokinetic performances in elderly adults

Cited by 29 publications

References 6 publications

Movement sequencing in normal aging: speech, oro-facial, and finger movements

Movement sequencing in normal aging: speech, oro-facial, and finger movements

Effect of Speaker Age on Speech Recognition and Perceived Listening Effort in Older Adults With Hearing Loss

Diadococinesia oral e função mastigatória em idosos saudáveis

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