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{"title":"Bilingual Perception of Dysarthric Speech.","authors":"Katerina A Tetzloff, Annalise R Fletcher, Kaitlin L Lansford, Tyson S Barrett, Stephanie A Borrie","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00288","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Despite the prevalence of bilingualism, research on the understanding of disordered speech has focused almost exclusively on monolingual populations. Hypothesis-driven studies with dysarthric speech have revealed that greater vocabulary knowledge and working memory support understanding in monolingual listeners. However, whether these explanatory models generalize to bilinguals, who differ in both cognitive and linguistic profiles, is unknown. This study examined whether bilingualism affords a perceptual advantage in understanding dysarthric speech, and whether working memory and vocabulary knowledge contribute to that advantage.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Ninety-four listeners, categorized as monolinguals, early bilinguals, or late bilinguals, completed a speech perception task where they transcribed phrases produced by speakers with dysarthria. They also completed working memory and vocabulary assessments.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Relative to monolingual and late bilinguals, early bilinguals had equivalent working memory scores, lower vocabulary scores, and reduced intelligibility scores when perceiving dysarthric speech. Vocabulary knowledge, but not working memory, predicted intelligibility scores across all groups. A post hoc correlation analysis within the early bilingual group further revealed that an earlier age of exposure to English was associated with higher intelligibility scores, suggesting that age of language exposure plays a critical role in shaping the linguistic systems that support perception of disordered speech.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings underscore the importance of vocabulary knowledge and language experience, over working memory, in facilitating understanding of disordered speech. They also highlight the need to refine models of disordered speech perception to account for variability across listener populations, in order to more fully capture the relative contributions of cognitive and linguistic mechanisms.</p><p><strong>Supplemental material: </strong>https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.30220360.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145254394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Longitudinal Investigation of the Relations Between Emergent Bilingual Children's Language Experience and Bilingual Language Outcomes.","authors":"Becky H Huang, Ye Shen","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00278","DOIUrl":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00278","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study aims to characterize Spanish-English emergent bilingual (EB) children's language experiences and to examine how these experiences contribute to their bilingual development over a 2-year period. All EB children were enrolled in dual language immersion (DLI) programs. This setting provides a unique opportunity to explore how bilingual language experiences shape bilingual language development across time.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Fifty-seven Spanish-English EB children participated in the study. Bilingual language skills were assessed at two time points: Time 1 (2019) and Time 2 (2021). Participants were in Grade 1 or 3 at Time 1 (<i>M</i>_age = 91.4 months, <i>SD</i> = 12.37) and Grade 3 or 5 at Time 2 (<i>M</i>_age = 113.43 months; <i>SD</i> = 14.07), respectively. Children were assessed on phonological awareness, morphological awareness, vocabulary, and syntactic awareness in both English and Spanish. Language experience was measured through child- and teacher-reported surveys.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Over time, teacher-reported Spanish experience at school increased and English experience decreased, while child-reported English experience at home remained stable. Except for Spanish vocabulary, significant gains were found for all language measures, indicating continuous development trajectories. Teacher-reported English experience at Time 1 positively predicted English vocabulary gains. Time 2 teacher-reported Spanish experience and child-reported English experience negatively predicted Spanish vocabulary growth, suggesting possible trade-offs.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study highlights the importance of balanced, high-quality bilingual experience across home and school. DLI programs support growth in multiple language domains, though Spanish expressive vocabulary may need targeted support. Findings have educational and clinical implications for assessment, early intervention, and promoting heritage language use without compromising English-language development.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145240754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cognitive Functions Supporting Learning Over Time in Naming Treatment for Aphasia.","authors":"Emily B Goldberg, William D Hula, Robert Cavanaugh, Alexander M Swiderski, Alyssa Autenreith, Michael Walsh Dickey","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00101","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Aphasia rehabilitation is a learning process that unfolds over time. Previous group studies have examined aphasia treatment response using pre- to posttreatment comparison, largely ignoring the unfolding learning response that occurs session-to-session. We aimed to (a) characterize the shape of learning while individuals with aphasia received intensive anomia intervention and (b) identify the cognitive predictors of this learning response.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Individuals (<i>N</i> = 39) with chronic poststroke aphasia received intensive semantic feature analysis (SFA). Naming accuracy for trained and semantically related, untrained words was probed daily. We used Bayesian generalized linear mixed-effects models to estimate the shape of learning during SFA treatment and to measure the influence of key cognitive functions on treatment response.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Most treatment gains appeared early during treatment, after the first 4 hr of intervention. Verbal recognition and visuospatial memory were associated with the magnitude of those early treatment gains, favoring strong cognitive performers. Treatment generalization to untrained targets was present but modest, with some evidence suggesting that visuospatial recall performance may be associated with treatment generalization.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Monitoring SFA treatment response early could help inform clinicians whether patients will respond optimally to intervention. Verbal recognition and visuospatial recall support learning during treatment, helping elucidate cognitive underpinnings of learning during aphasia rehabilitation.</p><p><strong>Supplemental material: </strong>https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.30213520.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145226528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluation of the Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition Test: Evidence From a Large and Diverse Secondary Data Set.","authors":"Kamila Polišenská, Shula Chiat, Jakub Szewczyk, Stanislava Antonijevic, Elma Blom, Tessel Boerma, Ute Bohnacker, Angel Chan, Vasiliki Chondrogianni, Nga Ching Fu, Daniela Gatt, Helen Grech, Magdalena Jezek, Svetlana Kapalková, Sari Kunnari, Juliane Maier, Chantal Mayer-Crittenden, Linnéa Öberg, Salomé Schwob, Katrin Skoruppa, Nadine Tabone, Josje Verhagen, Michelle White","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00158","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The aim of this study was to evaluate the crosslinguistic validity of the Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition Test (CL-NWR) based on a large multicountry sample by investigating factors related to language ability, as well as potential confounds.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The data consisted of CL-NWR scores from children aged 37-165 months, collected by 18 research teams across 15 countries. Item-level analysis was employed to examine any nondesirable effects of gender, socioeconomic status, bilingual status, and the amount of exposure to the test language, as well as desirable effects of age, item length, and clinical status (children categorized as typically developing [TD], with developmental language disorder [DLD], or with reported language concerns [LC], respectively). Subsamples were used to evaluate the consistency of findings across three time points and between different versions of the CL-NWR.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Bayesian analysis provided strong evidence for the effects of age, item length, and clinical status on CL-NWR performance, as well as consistency across time points. In contrast, there was weak or no evidence for the effects of gender, socioeconomic status, bilingual status, amount of exposure, or test version. Additionally, there were two interactions between (a) item length and clinical status, suggesting that children with DLD found longer nonwords disproportionately more challenging than TD children, and (b) age and clinical status, with the gap between TD and LC groups narrowing with age.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The CL-NWR was unaffected by environmental and demographic factors that often influence language assessments, including some nonword repetition tests. Performance was driven by factors reflecting language abilities. This makes the CL-NWR a unique and valuable tool for language assessment contributing to the identification of DLD in diverse linguistic, social, and geographical contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145226520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Accented Speech Perception in Noise After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.","authors":"Arden Ricciardone, Matthew C Phillips, Christopher Heffner, Emily B Myers","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00879","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Perceiving nonnative-accented speech is a cognitively demanding task that requires additional cognitive effort compared to perceiving native-accented speech. People who have experienced a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI; also commonly referred to as concussion) report impairments in an overlapping set of cognitive capacities, leading to the prediction that the perception of nonnative-accented speech may be even more difficult than it would be for someone without a history of brain injury. Of interest is whether people who have suffered an mTBI find nonnative-accented speech less intelligible and whether they report experiencing more cognitive symptoms than controls when perceiving nonnative-accented speech.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Adults with a positive history of concussion (<i>n</i> = 52) and without a history of concussion (<i>n</i> = 69) completed a speech perception in noise (SPIN) task varying in talker accent and signal-to-noise ratio level. To assess the perceived demand of this task and its influence on concussion-related symptoms, participants rated various cognitive symptom levels throughout the task.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Findings from this study show that, compared to healthy controls, those with a history of concussion may be differentially affected in their experience completing a SPIN task with a nonnative-accented talker. More strikingly, those with a history of mTBI presented significant differences in irritability, and somewhat reduced levels of energy and increased headache levels, when listening to speech in challenging conditions compared to individuals who have never had a brain injury.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Individuals who have had a concussion in the past may experience mild impairments in perception of nonnative-accented speech in noise. Additionally, challenging listening conditions may exacerbate existing symptoms associated with mTBI.</p><p><strong>Supplemental material: </strong>https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.30234979.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145226514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introducing the NEURAL Research Lab Data Set for Studies of Discourse and Gesture in Aphasia and Cognitively Healthy Aging Adults.","authors":"Brielle C Stark, Kent Meinert, Katelyn Urena, Grace Oeding, Davida Fromm, Brian MacWhinney","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00732","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The NEURAL Research Lab data set was collected with the intention of improving the study of short-term variation in spoken language and co-speech gesture in persons with aphasia as well as cognitively healthy adults. The purpose of this short note is to introduce readers to the available data and present two use cases as examples of leveraging the data set.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The final data set will include a minimum of 75 adults with aphasia and 75 cognitively healthy adults, tested across two time points with a short time (about a week) between sessions. The focus was on capturing spoken discourse and manual gesture.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>For the purpose of demonstrating the data's potential, we examine two case studies: (a) evaluating test-retest reliability of fluency metrics derived from narrative spoken discourse and (b) characterizing communicative gesture use during spoken discourse.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In this short research note, we methodically introduce a novel open data set, NEURAL-2, available on AphasiaBank, for the examination of naturalistic gesture and speech in persons with and without aphasia. The first example use case analysis provided evidence that persons with mildest aphasia are less fluent than cognitively healthy peers, despite being younger, and that fluency metrics appear to have good test-retest reliability. The second use case showed that gesture rates do not significantly differ between individuals with aphasia and cognitively healthy adults, do not relate to age or cognitive status, and are negatively related to aphasia severity. We intend to validate these analyses in the final large sample. Clinicians and researchers are encouraged to use this data set to improve the understanding of speech, language, and gesture in aphasia and aging.</p><p><strong>Supplemental material: </strong>https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.30203545.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Deficits in Motor Skills and Upper Limb Proprioception in Children With Developmental Language Disorder.","authors":"Ting-Yi Hsueh, Hsin-Jen Hsu, Yu-Ting Tseng","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00062","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) often exhibit motor difficulties and impaired somatosensory perception. While limb proprioceptive function is crucial for motor control, upper limb position sense performance in DLD remains unclear. This study investigated motor proficiency and wrist position sense acuity in Mandarin-speaking children with DLD, compared to typically developing (TD) peers.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Twenty-seven children with DLD and 27 age-matched TD children (aged 6-12 years) completed motor and proprioceptive tasks. Motor function was evaluated using the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-Second Edition (MABC-2), which assessed three domains: Manual Dexterity, Aiming and Catching, and Balance. Proprioceptive function was evaluated through wrist position sense matching tasks, including ipsilateral and contralateral matching, with performance quantified by position error (PE) and standard deviation of PE (SDPE).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Children with DLD exhibited significantly lower scores across all MABC-2 domains compared to TD peers (<i>p</i> < .001), with 77.8% scoring below the 5th percentile, suggesting comorbidity with developmental coordination disorder. For proprioceptive measures, while no group differences were found in PE, the DLD group exhibited significantly higher SDPE values (<i>p</i> < .05), indicating reduced wrist position sense precision.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our findings demonstrate that children with DLD exhibit impairments in both motor skills and upper limb proprioceptive acuity. This study extends our understanding of somatosensory deficits in DLD by specifically characterizing wrist proprioceptive function, highlighting the widespread nature of sensorimotor difficulties in this population.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing Decoding Skills in Newcomer Children: An Analysis of Word and Pseudoword Decoding Scores in Light of Some Contextual Factors.","authors":"Matthieu Bignon, Sandrine Mejias, Séverine Casalis","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00020","DOIUrl":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Most studies about reading development in second-language learners have been carried out on children exposed to the second language from kindergarten. They have shown that decoding skills develop in a similar way to those of monolingual children. We wondered whether this holds for primary school newcomer non-native-speaking children. This study aimed to compare their decoding skills with those of native monolingual and bilingual French-speaking children and to explore the role of contextual factors that might have an impact on these skills.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We recruited 180 nonnative French-speaking newcomer children, 176 monolingual native French-speaking children, and 80 bilingual native French-speaking children matched on duration of primary school attendance in France. They performed word and pseudoword reading tasks in French, and their families completed questionnaires on the children's linguistic and school history.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Newcomer children obtained lower scores than both monolingual and bilingual native French-speaking children in both reading tasks. The gaps were greater for word reading scores, suggesting that vocabulary partly mediates this phenomenon. Moreover, we found that having started to learn to read, having been exposed to a Latin orthography before arriving in France, and having arrived after the first grade had a positive effect on the reading scores of newcomer children.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Newcomer children had difficulties in learning to read in the additional language compared to native children, even when the groups were matched for duration of primary school attendance. We discuss the implications of these results for the identification of children at risk of reading failure.</p><p><strong>Supplemental material: </strong>https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.30220252.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Acoustic and Aerodynamic Clusters Within Primary Muscle Tension Dysphonia.","authors":"Sarah Rose Bellavance, Aaron M Johnson","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00270","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Primary muscle tension dysphonia (pMTD) is a form of vocal hyperfunction with no preexisting tissue trauma to the vocal folds. There are no known structural or neurological causes of pMTD, and there is rarely obvious, confirmatory evidence to reliably diagnose individuals accurately. Furthermore, acoustic and aerodynamic measurements taken during voice assessments vary widely within this population. The purpose of this study was to find subgroups within a sample of pMTD patients based on acoustic and aerodynamic measurements. We use a computational approach to elucidate what has largely been observational in the past.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A retrospective chart review was conducted to collect variables of interest for a sample of 72 pMTD patients seen at the NYU Langone Voice and Swallowing Center from January 1, 2021, to October 1, 2023. An exploratory factor analysis was conducted to find simpler structures in the data. Using factor scores from each patient, a <i>k</i>-means clustering analysis was conducted.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The exploratory factor analysis grouped together variables across patients, which resulted in three principal axes. These three principal axes separately consisted of aperiodicity, fundamental frequency, and aerodynamic measurements. These principal axes explained 44.7% of the total variance. Four clusters of patients were identified across the three principal axes. These were characterized by (a) a high amount of aperiodicity in the voice, (b) lower fundamental frequency values, (c) higher fundamental frequency values, and (d) high aerodynamic values.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The clusters identified in the current study are reliable and moderately separated. Furthermore, these clusters align with previously identified subgroups in related work. The analysis presented here lays the groundwork for additional clustering analyses with new pMTD samples, as well as future work establishing subtype classifications of pMTD.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Auditory-Perceptual Validation of Acoustic Chaos Parameters in Healthy and Dysphonic Voices.","authors":"Owen P Wischhoff, Varsha Gouraram, Taylor J Chumbley, Boquan Liu, Jack J Jiang","doi":"10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00155","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Understanding the correlation between objective acoustic measurements and auditory-perceptual scales is essential for improving voice assessment methods. This study examines the relationship between voice type component profile (VTCP) and weighted index of dysphonia (WID) with the Grade, Roughness, Breathiness, Asthenia, Strain Scale (GRBAS), and Consensus Auditory Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V) scales across both healthy and dysphonic voices.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Audio samples used in this study were acquired using a publicly available Perceptual Voice Qualities Database. Pearson correlations were conducted between VTCP metrics and GRBAS and CAPE-V scales. To determine the pathological significance of these measures, <i>t</i> tests and logistic regressions were performed to identify key distinguishing variables between healthy and dysphonic subjects.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results indicated that VTCP metrics have significant correlations with GRBAS and CAPE-V scales. VTC1 exhibited the strongest correlation with dysphonia grade and severity, reinforcing its role in representing overall voice quality. VTC4 demonstrated high correlations with breathiness, pitch, and overall severity, highlighting its significance in characterizing turbulent vocal signals. WID, representing a composite measure of VTCP parameters, was highly correlated with dysphonia grade and severity, further underscoring its potential clinical utility. Comparisons between CAPE-V and GRBAS revealed strong correlations, suggesting that both scales effectively capture similar perceptual dimensions of dysphonia, despite differences in rating methods. VTC1, VTC4, and WID emerged as the strongest indicators of pathology.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings support VTCP as a valuable objective measure of voice production, closely aligning with established perceptual assessment tools. The results highlight VTCP's potential for clinical implementation in dysphonia evaluation, complementing existing auditory-perceptual scales to enhance diagnostic precision and reliability.</p>","PeriodicalId":520690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}