Current Projects
Articulatory Coordination in Individuals with Parkinson's Disease (Funded by Enhanced PSC-CUNY Grant 60817-00 48)
Individuals with Parkinson's disease have been observed to exhibit coordination difficulties in both limb movement and among laryngeal and
supralaryngeal speech movements. This study uses electromagnetic articulography to investigate whether deficits in supralaryngeal articulatory coordination contribute to the perception of imprecise articulation and uncontrolled acoustic duration of speech sounds in individuals with Parkinson's disease.
Individuals with Parkinson's disease have been observed to exhibit coordination difficulties in both limb movement and among laryngeal and
supralaryngeal speech movements. This study uses electromagnetic articulography to investigate whether deficits in supralaryngeal articulatory coordination contribute to the perception of imprecise articulation and uncontrolled acoustic duration of speech sounds in individuals with Parkinson's disease.
Articulatory Kinematic Markers of Childhood Apraxia of Speech (Funded by PSC-CUNY Grant 62762-00 50)
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a developmental motor speech disorder that affects the planning and programming of speech motor commands in a target sequence, and is characterized by the production of inconsistent errors across repetitions of the same word or phrase, impaired coarticulation patterns, and prosodic errors. This study uses electromagnetic articulography to identify differences in the kinematic and coordination patterns exhibited by individuals with CAS and by typical speakers.
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a developmental motor speech disorder that affects the planning and programming of speech motor commands in a target sequence, and is characterized by the production of inconsistent errors across repetitions of the same word or phrase, impaired coarticulation patterns, and prosodic errors. This study uses electromagnetic articulography to identify differences in the kinematic and coordination patterns exhibited by individuals with CAS and by typical speakers.