IDENTIFYING AND EVALUATING APRAXIC SPEECH DEFICITS USING MAGNETOMETRY

Dani Byrd1 & Katherine S. Harris2
1USC Department of Linguistics; Haskins Laboratories; 2Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT

ID 1009
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An understanding of the relationship of speech and language symptoms to lesions in the frontal region of the dominant hemisphere depends on a fuller description of the speech phenomena than can be provided by transcriptional or acoustic investigation alone. This paper provides examples of how articulatory movement tracking can aid in describing apraxic speech deficits.