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Speech intelligibility difficulties are a frequent issue that arises at the early stages of speech production for children with Down syndrome (DS) [ 3– 6] and it continues during both adolescence and adulthood [ 6– 8].
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These measures evaluated treatment progress in expressive language, articulation, and/or speech intelligibility for children with communication difficulties of a wide range of severity.
Dysarthria is the most common communication problem in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS), however, significant difficulties with speech and intelligibility are uncommon.
Whereas normally developing children master speech intelligibility within 48 months, intelligible speech production prevails as a major difficulty for individuals with DS throughout their lives [ 11].
In addition to general irritation and annoyance with the sound, tinnitus can cause difficulties with sleep and concentration, reduced speech intelligibility and various psychosomatic, emotional and interpersonal problems.
According to Del Re et al. [13], the degree of security (deciphering difficulty) provided by a speech encryption system is related to (1) residual intelligibility (the amount of intelligibility left over in the encrypted signal) and (2) keyspace (the number of keys available for encryption).
Bearing in mind the goal of fulfilling the task, it is conceivable that test participants granted more importance to the criteria of intelligibility ('Is the speech quality good enough so that I can understand my interlocutor without any difficulty?') than to the criteria of quality (for example, dissociating narrowband from wideband encoding) when emitting the quality judgement.
The comprehensiveness of the indicators was tested by detecting and asking questions on difficulties in understanding items, scales or the content of the dimensions, in order to improve the intelligibility of the instruments when necessary and optimise the face and content validity for the main study.
As do other concessions to intelligibility.
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