Co-Occurrence of Hypernasality and Voice Impairment in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Acoustic Quantification.

Purpose: Hypernasality and atypical voice characteristics are common features of dysarthric speech due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Existing acoustic measures have been developed to primarily target either hypernasality or voice impairment, and the effects of co-occurring hypernasality-vo...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 64; no. 12; pp. 4772 - 4784
Autores principales: Eshghi, Marziye, Connaghan, Kathryn P., Gutz, Sarah E., Berry, James D., Yunusova, Yana, Green, Jordan R.
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Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Dec2021
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          Eshghi, Marziye
          Connaghan, Kathryn P.
          Gutz, Sarah E.
          Berry, James D.
          Yunusova, Yana
          Green, Jordan R.
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          Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA
          Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology, Harvard University, Boston, MA
          Sean M. Healey and AMG Center for ALS, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
          Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
          Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
          Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (KITE), University Health Network, Ontario, Canada
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        Disease risk factors
        Hypernasality
        Human voice
        Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
        Acoustic measurements
        Dysarthria
        Sentences (Grammar)
        Voice disorders
        Kruskal-Wallis Test
        Statistics
        Physiological aspects of speech
        Predictive tests
        Speech evaluation
        Mann Whitney U Test
        Severity of illness index
        Inter-observer reliability
        Descriptive statistics
        Intraclass correlation
        Research funding
        Data analysis
        Receiver operating characteristic curves
        Disease complications
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          Disease risk factors
          Hypernasality
          Human voice
          Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
          Acoustic measurements
          Dysarthria
          Sentences (Grammar)
          Voice disorders
          Kruskal-Wallis Test
          Statistics
          Physiological aspects of speech
          Predictive tests
          Speech evaluation
          Mann Whitney U Test
          Severity of illness index
          Inter-observer reliability
          Descriptive statistics
          Intraclass correlation
          Research funding
          Data analysis
          Receiver operating characteristic curves
          Disease complications
      ab: Purpose: Hypernasality and atypical voice characteristics are common features of dysarthric speech due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Existing acoustic measures have been developed to primarily target either hypernasality or voice impairment, and the effects of co-occurring hypernasality-voice problems on these measures are unknown. This report explores (a) the extent to which acoustic measures are affected by concurrent perceptually identified hypernasality and voice impairment due to ALS and (b) candidate acoustic measures of early indicators of hypernasality and voice impairment in the presence of multisystem involvement in individuals with ALS. Method: Two expert listeners rated severity of hypernasality and voice impairment in sentences produced by individuals with ALS (n = 27). The samples were stratified based on perceptual ratings: voice/hypernasality asymptomatic, predominantly hypernasal, predominantly voice impairment, and mixed (co-occurring hypernasality and voice impairment). Groups were compared using established acoustic measures of hypernasality (one-third octave analysis) and voice (cepstral/spectral analysis) impairment. Results: The one-third octave analysis differentiated all groups; the cepstral peak prominence differentiated all groups except asymptomatic versus mixed, whereas the low-to-high spectral ratio did not differ among groups. Additionally, one-third octave analyses demonstrated promising speech diagnostic potential. Conclusions: The results highlight the need to consider the validity of measures in the context of multisubsystem involvement. Our preliminary findings further suggest that the one-third octave analysis may be an optimal approach to quantify hypernasality and voice abnormalities in the presence of multisystem speech impairment. Future evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of the onethird octave analysis is warranted.
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