Dysartrie is een spraakstoornis door spiercontroleproblemen, die ademhaling, fonatie, resonantie, articulatie en prosodie beïnvloedt. Dit tast zowel de spraak als het dagelijks functioneren aan. Logopedische behandelingen richten zich op het vaststellen van de oorzaak en het type dysartrie, en op het …

Background Several conditions and diseases can result in speech problems that can have a negative impact on everyday functioning, referred to as communicative participation. Subjective problems with acquired speech problems are often assessed with the speech handicap index (SHI). To assess generic participation …

Decreased tongue strength (TS) might herald bulbar involvement in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) well before dysarthria or dysphagia occur, and as such might be prognostic of short survival. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of a decreased TS, in addition …

To report on the development and psychometric evaluation of the Radboud Oral Motor Inventory for Parkinsons Disease (ROMP), a newly developed patient-rated assessment of speech, swallowing, and saliva control in patients with Parkinsons disease (PD). To evaluate reproducibility, 60 patients completed …