Development of a method for assessment of dysarthria in a foreign language: a pilot study

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Table 1. Participant characteristics.

Participant’s code	Gender	Age (years)	Diagnose	Type of dysarthria	Severity of dysarthria
1	Male	56	ALS	Spastic-flaccid dysarthria	Severe
2	Male	57	Stroke	Unilateral upper motor neuron dysarthria	Mild
3	Male	52	MS	None	–
4	Female	42	MS	Spastic-atactic dysarthria	Mild
5	Male	62	Undiagnosed	Spastic dysarthria	Moderate
6	Male	62	Stroke	None	–
7	Male	63	Parkinson	Hypokinetic dysarthria	Moderate

Table 2. The four raters’ evaluations, used when calculating ICC, of the seven participants’ results in the domains Respiration and phonation, Oromotor and velopharyngeal function and Articulation, presented as mean scores.

	Respiration/Phonation (5 items)				Oromotor/Velopharyngeal function (5 items)				Articulation (11 items)
Participants	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	2.2	1.4	1.6	1.8	3.0	2.0	2.2	2.0	1.7	2.0	1.4	0.7
2	0	0.2	0.4	0.2	1.2	0.4	1.0	0.8	0	0.2	0.3	0.1
3	0.2	0.2	0.6	0.2	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	2.0	1.6	2.0	1.6	1.8	0.6	1.4	1.2	0	0	0.1	0
5	2.8	2.2	2.6	3.0	2.4	1.6	1.6	2.2	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.4
6	0	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.2	0.2	0.2	0	0	0	0	0
7	1.4	1.4	1.0	1.0	1.4	1.2	1.6	1.0	0	0	0.2	0

Figure 1. Mean ratings by the Swedish SLP (SW-SLP) and the Arabic SLP (AR-SLP) of the domains Respiration and phonation (RE/PH), Oromotor and velopharyngeal function (OM/VP), Articulation (ART), Listener comprehension (COMP), and Severity of dysarthria (SEV) for the seven participants (Part).

Table 3. Swedish speaking SLP’s/interpreter’s (SW-SLP) and Arabic speaking SLP’s (AR-SLP) descriptive features of participants’ prosody. Information about speech rate, lenght of phrases, pauses, stress, intonation and if the participant had palilalia or not is included.

	Speech rate		Length of phrases		Pauses
Participant	SW-SLP	AR-SLP	SW-SLP	AR-SLP	SW-SLP	AR-SLP
1	Slow	Slow	Too short	Too short	Normal	Prolonged
2	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal
3	Normal	Normal	Normal	Too short	Normal	Normal
4	Slow	Normal	Too short	Normal	Normal	Normal
5	Slow	Slow	Too short	Too short	Prolonged	Prolonged
6	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal
7	Slow	Slow	Too short	Too short	Normal	Prolonged
	Stress		Intonation		Palilalia
1	Reduced stress	Reduced stress	Monopitch	Monopitch	No	No
2	Normal	Reduced stress	Normal	Excess/equal	No	No
3	Normal	Reduced stress	Normal	Too short	Normal	Normal
4	Normal	Normal	Variaion	Excess/equal	No	No
5	Normal	Reduced stress	Variation	Monopitch	No	No
6	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal	Np	No
7	Normal	Reduced stress	Monopitch	Monopitch	No	No