BHATTACHARYA, SK, LUTHER, RW, PATE, JW, CRAWFORD, AJ, MOORE, OF, PITCOCK, JA, PALMIERI, GMA & BRITT, LG 1985, 'SOFT-TISSUE CALCIUM AND MAGNESIUM CONTENT IN ACUTE-PANCREATITIS IN THE DOG - CALCIUM ACCUMULATION, A MECHANISM FOR HYPOCALCEMIA IN ACUTE-PANCREATITIS', JOURNAL OF LABORATORY AND CLINICAL MEDICINE, vol. 105, no. 4, pp. 422-427.
Ingham, RJ & Onslow, M 1985, 'Measurement and Modification of Speech Naturalness during Stuttering Therapy', Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 261-281.
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This paper describes two studies that illustrate the utility of listener ratings of speech naturalness for measuring and modifying speech naturalness during a stuttering therapy program. The program involved 5 adolescent stutterers who were receiving an intensive treatment incorporating a prolonged speech procedure. In Study A, a clinician used a 9-point rating scale to score the speech naturalness of 1-rain speaking samples each stutterer made at intervals over the course of the program. The results demonstrated predictable trends in speech naturalness during the program, but they also showed that natural sounding speech is not a predictable outcome of a procedure that removes stuttering, controls speaking rate, and exposes clients to transfer procedures. In Study B, 3 of the 5 stutterers participated in single subject experiments partway through their therapy program. These experiments were designed to assess the effect of regular feedback of speech naturalness ratings on the stutterer's spontaneous speech. The results showed that each subject's speech naturalness ratings could be modified toward a target level of speech naturalness.
Ingham, RJ, Martin, RR, Haroldson, SK, Onslow, M & Leney, M 1985, 'Modification of Listener-Judged Naturalness in the Speech of Stutterers', Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 495-504.
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This study investigated the effect of regular feedback of listener-judged speech naturalness ratings on the speech of stutterers. Six adult stutterers each participated in a time-series ABA experiment. During the treatment phase the stutterer was instructed to improve a clinician's rating, on a 9-point scale, of the naturalness of each 30-s interval of the stutterer's spontaneous speech. The results indicate that the naturalness ratings and stuttering for 5 of the subjects made favorable changes during the treatment phase. Analyses of the findings show that only some of the naturalness judgments were influenced by stuttering frequency and speech rate. A perceptual analysis of the speech of 2 subjects suggested that the speech naturalness ratings were also probably influenced by other less obvious variables.
Pate, JW 1985, 'Traumatic Rupture of the Aorta: Emergency Operation', The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 531-537.
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