dysarthria speech pathology
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: • At least 18 years of age and able to make an informed consent • Native speaker of Dutch • Diagnosed with oral tumors and having had a major surgical resection of a TNM stage T3 or T4, where parts of the tongue or jaw have been removed and perhaps replaced by other tissue at least 12 months before (patient subject) or a volunteer without disturbed speech.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: • Recurrence of disease • History of neurological or psychological disorders • Self-reported signs of depression • Stuttering or other pre-existing speech and language problems • Anatomy that prevents attaching sensors to the tongue (i.e., trismus or tongue immobility) • Problems with sight or hearing that impede reading or understanding instructions. When glasses or a hearing aid resolve these problems, there is no impediment to participation. • Non removable metal on, in or close to the head (e.g., piercings, dental braces, medical devices such as deep brain stimulation electrodes) or medical devices (e.g., a pacemaker) incompatible to electromagnetic fields.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| - Displacement of the tongue tip, the tongue body, the lips and the jaw at consonant and vowel targets - Velocity of tongue, of the tongue tip, the tongue body, the lips, and the jaw at key landmarks of speech gestures. - Duration of speech gestures produced with the tongue tip, the tongue body, the lips and the jaw. - Speech rate (syllables/min and words/min) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| - Acoustic measures of speech - Models to link articulation and speech, both speech synthesis from EMA, and EMA from speech (machine learning) - Changes in the variability and complexity of articulators* movement under masked auditory feedback compared to normal feedback | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed