Voice Lab

Recent Studies

During 2006-2007, researchers from the Laboratory have conducted or participated in the following studies:

Ludlow, C.L., Hoit, J., Kent, R., Ramig, L., Shrivastav, R., Smith, A., Stathopoulos, E., Strand, E., Yorkston, K., & Sapienza, C. (in press). Translating Principles of Neural Plasticity into Research on Speech Motor Control Recovery and Rehabilitation. J/ournal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research.

Sapienza, C.M., & Troche, M. (invited) Take 2 swallows and call me in the morning. SID 13 invited contribution. ASHA. May, 2007.

Troche, M., Rosenbek, J., & Sapienza, C. (in press) Effects of bolus consistency on timing and safety of swallow in patients with Parkinson's disease. Dysphagia

Ludlow, C.L., Adler, C.H., Berke, G.S., Bielamowicz, S.A., Blitzer, A., Bressman, S., Hallet, M., Jinnah, H.A., Juergens, U., , Perlmutter, J.S., Sapienza, C., Singleton, A., Tanner, C., & Woodson, G.E. Research profiles in spasmodic dysphonia: Report of the NIH Research planning workshop (in press). American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery.

Troche, M. & Sapienza, C. (in press). Effects of levodopa on speech timing in patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease. www.speechpathology.com (peer-reviewed).

Burkhead, L.M., Sapienza, C.M., Rosenbek, J. (in press). Strength-Training Exercise in Dysphagia Rehabilitation: Principles, procedures and directions for future research. Dysphagia, 22,3,251-265. Epub 2007 April 25.

Wheeler, K., Chiara, T., & Sapienza, C. (in press). Surface electromyographic activity of the submental muscles during swallow and expiratory pressure threshold training tasks. Dysphagia. 22,2, 108-116. Epub 2007 Feb 10.

Wingate, J.W., Sapienza, C.M., Shrivastav, R., & Brown, W.S. Treatment Outcomes for Professional Voice Users. (in press). J Voice. 2006 Mar 30; [Epub ahead of print]

* Chiara, T., **Sapienza, C.M., & Martin, D. (in press). ** **Expiratory Muscle Strength Training: Speech Production Outcomes in patients with Multiple Sclerosis. Neural Rehabilitation and Neural Repair (NNR), 21, 3, 239-249. Epub 2007, March 9. ***

Sapienza, C.M. & Wheeler, K. (2006). Respiratory Muscle Strength Training: Functional Outcomes versus Plasticity. /Seminars in Speech and Language /for a special edition called New Frontiers in Dysphagia Rehabilitation, 27, 4, 236-244.

Shrivastav, R. & Sapienza, C. (2006). Some difference limens for theperception of breathiness. /Journal of the Acoustical Society of America/, 120, 1, 416-23.

Jones, H.N., Donovan, N.J., Sapienza, C.M., Fernandez, H.H. & Rosenbek, J.C. (2006). Expiratory muscle strength training in the treatment of a severe mixed dysarthria in a patient with Lance-Adams syndrome. Journal of Medical Speech Language Pathology, 14,3,207-217.

Mendes, A.P., Brown, W.S., Sapienza, C.M. & Rothman, H. (2006). Effects of vocal training on respiratory kinematics during singing tasks. Folia Phoniatrica, 58, 363-377.

Silverman EP, Sapienza CM, Saleem A, Carmichael C, Davenport PW, Hoffman-Ruddy B, Okun MS. (2006). Tutorial on maximum inspiratory and expiratory mouth pressures in individuals with idiopathic Parkinson disease (IPD) and the preliminary results of an expiratory muscle strength training program. NeuroRehabilitation, 21(1):71-9.

Baker, S.E., Davenport, P.D. & Sapienza, C.M (2006). Examination of training and detraining effects in expiratory muscles. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 48, 6, 1-9.

* *Wheeler, K.M., Collins, S., & Sapienza, C.M. (2006). The relationship between VHI scores and acoustic measures of disordered voice production. Journal of Voice, 20, 2, 308-317.

During 2004 – 2005, researchers from the Laboratory have conducted and/or presented findings from the following studies:

Wheeler, K., & Sapienza, C.M. (2005). Swallowing and respiration: Shared Neural substrates. www.speechpathology.com

Natour, Y., Cimino-Knight, A., Wingate, J., Sapienza, C.M (2005). The consistency of Kay Elemetrics Multidimensional voice program (MDVP) for the acoustic analysis of adductor spasmodic dysphonia. Florida Journal of Communication Disorders. 21, 20-23.

Shrivastav, R., & Sapienza, C.M. (2005). Application of psychometric theory to the measurement of voice quality using rating scales.  Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. 48, 2, 323-335

Kim, J. & Sapienza, C.M. (2005). Implications of expiratory muscle strength training in the elderly. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development.Mar-Apr;42(2):211-24

Wingate, J., Hoffman-Ruddy, B., Lundy, D., Lehman, J., Casiano, R., Collins, S.,  & Woodson, G. (2005). Voice Handicap Index results for older patients with adductor spasmodic dysphonia. Journal of Voice, 19,1,124-131.

L. Gu, J.G. Harris, R. Shrivastav, and C. Sapienza (2005). Disordered speech assessment using automatic methods based on quantitative measures. EURASIP. Journal on Applied Signal Processing, To appear.

Hoffman-Ruddy, B. & Sapienza, C.M (2004).   Treating voice disorders in the school based setting: working in the framework of IDEA. Language, Speech and Hearing in the Schools. 35(4):327-32.

Sapienza, C.M., Hoffman-Ruddy, B., & Baker, S. (2004).  Anatomical and physiological features of the pediatric larynx. Language, Speech and Hearing in the Schools. 35(4):299-307.

Bruce, B.B., Foote, K.D., Rosenbek, J., Sapienza, C.M., Romrell, J.J., Crucian, G., & Okun, M.S. (2004). Aphasia and thalamotomy: important issues. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2004;82(4):186-9o.

Ruddy, B., Sapienza, C.M., Davenport, P.D., Baylor, J., Lehman, J., Baker, S., & Sapienza, C.M.. (2004). Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training and Behavioral Therapy in a Case of a Rower with Exercise Induced Paradoxical Vocal Fold Dysfunction.  International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 68, 10, 1327-1332.

Mendes, A.P., Brown, W.S., Jr. Rothman, H.B. & Sapienza, C. (2004). Effects of singing training on the speaking voice of voice majors Journal of Voice. 18, 1, 83-9.

Diaz, J.A., Sapienza, C.M., Rothman, H.., Natour, Y. (2003). Robust algorithm for the detection of the voice fundamental frequency based on the spectrogram. Rev.ista Ingeneria, 10, 3, 7-16.