Big Mouth Research Articles

The Impact of Clear and Loud Speech Cues on Acoustic and Perceptual Features of Speech Production in Adolescents With Down Syndrome

Purpose: There are few evidence-based speech interventions designed to alter speech production in a way that ultimately results in increased speech intelligibility in adolescents with Down syndrome (DS). The primary purpose of this study was to examine the impact of clear and loud speech cues on acoustic and perceptual features of speech production in adolescents with DS. Method: Eight adolescents diagnosed with DS repeated sentences of varying lengths in three conditions: habitual, big mouth (i.e., clear speech), and strong voice (i.e., loud speech). Four hundred eighty adult listeners (20 listeners per adolescent per condition) provided orthographic transcriptions of adolescent's speech, which were used to calculate intelligibility scores. Acoustic measures of speech rate, articulation rate, proportion of time spent pausing, vocal intensity, and fundamental frequency were calculated for each sentence. Results: The big mouth condition resulted in significantly increased intelligibility, slowed speech and articulation rates, increased pauses, increased vocal intensity, and increased fundamental frequency. The strong voice condition resulted in significantly increased vocal intensity and fundamental frequency, but no other changes. Speech rate was the only variable that explained any of the variance in intelligibility. Conclusions: Adolescents with DS respond differently to clear and loud speech cues. In particular, clear speech cues resulted in significant increases in intelligibility, but loud speech cues did not. Clear speech cues hold promise as an intervention strategy for adolescents with DS.

Effects of Speech Cues on Acoustics and Intelligibility of Korean-Speaking Children With Cerebral Palsy.

Reduced speech intelligibility is often a hallmark of children with dysarthria secondary to cerebral palsy (CP), but effects of speech strategies for increasing intelligibility are understudied, especially in children who speak languages other than English. This study examined the effects of (the Korean translation of) two cues, "speak with your big mouth" and "speak with your strong voice," on speech acoustics and intelligibility of Korean-speaking children with CP. Fifteen Korean-speaking children with CP repeated words and sentences in habitual, big mouth, and strong voice conditions. Acoustic analyses were performed and intelligibility was assessed by means of 90 blinded listeners' ease-of-understanding (EoU) ratings and percentage of words correctly transcribed (PWC). In response to both cues, children's vocal intensity and utterance duration increased significantly and differentially, whereas their vowel space area gains did not reach statistical significance. EoU increased significantly in the big mouth condition at word, but not sentence, level, whereas in the strong voice condition, EoU increased significantly at both levels. PWC increases were not statistically significant. Considerable variability in children's responses to cues was noted overall. Korean-speaking children with CP modify their speech styles differentially when provided with cues aimed to increase their articulatory working space and vocal intensity. The results provide preliminary support for the use of the strong voice cue, in particular, to increase EoU. While the findings do not offer conclusive evidence of the intelligibility benefits of these cues, investigation with a larger sample size should provide further insight into optimal cueing strategies for increasing intelligibility in this population. Implications for language-specific versus language-independent treatment approaches are discussed. https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.25521052.

Clinical effect of standardized nursing for lymphoma patients and the influencing factors of nosocomial infection.

To analyze the clinical effect of standardized nursing for lymphoma patients and the influencing factors of nosocomial infection, a total of 360 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients with disease recurrence or progression after first-line treatment were retrospectively selected from our hospital from January 2021 to July 2022. After standardized nursing, the overall infection rate of lymphoma patients was 2.50% (9/360), which was significantly lower than the overall infection rate of our hospital in 2021 (7.44%, 844/11342) (P < .05). The proportion of 3 kinds of pathogenic bacteria detected were G+ bacteria (33.5%), G- bacteria (53.3%), and fungi (13.2%). The pathogenic bacteria genus with the most G+ bacteria is Enterococcus, the pathogenic bacteria genus with the most G+ bacteria is Enterobacteriaceae, and the pathogenic bacteria with the most fungi is Candida albicans. Female infection rate was significantly higher than male (P < .05). There was no significant difference in nosocomial infection among different marital status/fertility status (P > .05). The nosocomial infection of patients with different hospitalization times was statistically significant (P < .05). The duration of hospitalization in the infected group was significantly higher than that in the non-infected group (P < .05). The clinical effect of standardized nursing for lymphoma patients is significant, and the influencing factors of nosocomial infection include patient gender, hospitalization frequency, and hospitalization duration.

Introduction

This Forum brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars who reflect with us about our film-in-progress, Big Mouth, about defamation, sexual violence, and advocacy in Guinea. In this introductory essay, we lay out the complex constellation of events, people, and questions that animate the film. We also introduce the central themes of justice claims and evidence that inspire and tie together our respective contributions to Hau. In this regard, we ask what role ethnography and filmmaking might serve. While video is increasingly used as a form of evidence in legal proceedings, what is its potential as a form of intervention outside of the courtroom? How can film resist the binary thinness of political discourse and legal practice by instead exploring the sensorial experiences of justice claims and aspirations? Collectively, we think beyond formal legal approaches to evidence and testimony and instead towards more expansive and everyday modes of witnessing and practices of testifying, naming, and shame.

Big mouth: amplified feminism in Guinea

ABSTRACT In January 2019, the Guinean journalist and feminist activist, Moussa Yéro Bah, was found guilty in a defamation suit. The suit involved a clip on her radio news program, in which she spoke about an ongoing rape case. While she never named the alleged perpetrator, his identity was well known on the street and in social media. He promptly sued Ms. Bah, and won. In this article, I explore this case and activists’ reactions to it, to consider how voice, sound, and listening shape responses to sexual violence. I examine the role of amplification in feminist struggles for gender justice in Guinea and analyse the sound effects of a series of vocal interventions by activists and journalists. My analysis explores how vocal practices, audio technologies, and ways of hearing shape both legal and extra-legal proceedings. As I show, activists strategically sound out their claims in everyday spaces in order to bypass the failures of formal legal systems and create possibilities for more collective, transformative action.

Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture

Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture

It’s Big Mouth!

The intermedial performance displayed in this video essay, highlights the need to re envisage Laura Mulvey’s 1975 theory of the male gaze in relation to the female-identifying ageing woman. The masculinised gaze that Mulvey discusses discards the ageing woman and relentlessly fetishizes the youthful state of femininity. I propose that Mulvey’s theory should be revised, along with a focus on rejecting and providing alternatives to the decline narrative that dominates ongoing contemporary perceptions of ageing (Gullette 1997; Mangan 2013). Applying this knowledge, along with methods of practice-based research, I argue that feminist performance art can fruitfully glorify the productive potentials of ageing femininities. This investigation illustrates how I combine digitised media with live performance to interrogate the positioning of the figure of the ageing Hollywood diva. My performative celebration of the diva is rooted in heightened performativity and the grotesque as a means of bursting through the confines of the male gaze, building on the work of performance artists such as Cindy Sherman and Lauren Barri Holstein. Highlighting my creative focus on the face as a medium for subversion, this work displays an engagement with a variety of textures and skins that the diva sheds and outgrows, alluding to the adaptability of the ageing woman. This video essay concludes by exploring the notion of the uncanny cyborgian diva. Using digital software to create an aged cyborgian version of myself, I continue to emphasise the resilient versatility of the diva. Throughout this work I ask; who is the cyborg diva? And what can we learn from her when considering the human problem of ageism? As I am 27 years old, my digital and artificial representations of ageing serve to expose the mechanisms behind my performance of age, highlight the constructedness of my performance techniques, and so challenge the problematically constructed concepts and perceptions of the ageing woman. *This video essay will consist of footage from my live performance of It’s Big Mouth! along with the film work that I shot as an accompaniment to it. The piece will also includes a written transcript for readers, along with a link to the video file*.

Perceptual and Acoustic Effects of Dual-Focus Speech Treatment in Children With Dysarthria.

Purpose Children with dysarthria secondary to cerebral palsy may experience reduced speech intelligibility and diminished communicative participation. However, minimal research has been conducted examining the outcomes of behavioral speech treatments in this population. This study examined the effect of Speech Intelligibility Treatment (SIT), a dual-focus speech treatment targeting increased articulatory excursion and vocal intensity, on intelligibility of narrative speech, speech acoustics, and communicative participation in children with dysarthria. Method American English-speaking children with dysarthria (n = 17) received SIT in a 3-week summer camplike setting at Columbia University. SIT follows motor-learning principles to train the child-friendly, dual-focus strategy, "Speak with your big mouth and strong voice." Children produced a story narrative at baseline, immediate posttreatment (POST), and at 6-week follow-up (FUP). Outcomes were examined via blinded listener ratings of ease of understanding (n = 108 adult listeners), acoustic analyses, and questionnaires focused on communicative participation. Results SIT resulted in significant increases in ease of understanding at POST, that were maintained at FUP. There were no significant changes to vocal intensity, speech rate, or vowel spectral characteristics, with the exception of an increase in second formant difference between vowels following SIT. Significantly enhanced communicative participation was evident at POST and FUP. Considerable variability in response to SIT was observed between children. Conclusions Dual-focus treatment shows promise for improving intelligibility and communicative participation in children with dysarthria, although responses to treatment vary considerably across children. Possible mechanisms underlying the intelligibility gains, enhanced communicative participation, and variability in treatment effects are discussed.

Offline: Science and politics in the era of COVID-19

“How can we follow the science when scientists haven't the foggiest.” “‘Big mouth’ scientists losing trust of Ministers.” Headlines such as these are increasingly common in UK newspapers. Scientists are no longer seen as providing impartial, independent advice to government. They are seen as being responsible for crashing economies, driving up unemployment, and ruining livelihoods. Chris Whitty, England's Chief Medical Officer, and Patrick Vallance, Chief Scientific Adviser, have received the sharpest criticism.

Situating Netflix’s Original Adult Animation: Observing Taste Cultures and the Legacies of ‘Quality’ Television through BoJack Horseman and Big Mouth

This article aims to expand upon a key aspect of Mareike Jenner’s work on Netflix original comedy by considering how the streaming network’s original adult animated series reflect developments occurring within the sitcom format post-TV III. Using Netflix original animations BoJack Horseman (2014–) and Big Mouth (2017–) as case studies, this article will consider how thematically complex, ostensibly ‘smart’ animated shows illustrate changing industrial dynamics and taste cultures. While exhibiting qualities found in preceding key adult animated shows such as South Park (Comedy Central 1997–) and Family Guy (Fox 1999–), including lewd humour, metatextual in-jokes and topicality, the knotty storytelling and ambiguous characterizations of the shows under discussion reflect links to other contexts of TV production. Exploring these links, this article uses BoJack Horseman and Big Mouth to explore current trends in animated television, situating their characteristics and reception within a broader network of influences. The author argues that the turn towards complex storytelling manifests both in inherited production tactics, changing taste cultures and in the multifaceted and multifarious potentialities provided by the medium itself.

Effects of speech cues in French-speaking children with dysarthria.

Articulatory excursion and vocal intensity are reduced in many children with dysarthria due to cerebral palsy (CP), contributing to the children's intelligibility deficits and negatively affecting their social participation. However, the effects of speech-treatment strategies for improving intelligibility in this population are understudied, especially for children who speak languages other than English. In a cueing study on English-speaking children with dysarthria, acoustic variables and intelligibility improved when the children were provided with cues aimed to increase articulatory excursion and vocal intensity. While French is among the top 20 most spoken languages in the world, dysarthria and its management in French-speaking children are virtually unexplored areas of research. Information gleaned from such research is critical for providing an evidence base on which to provide treatment. To examine acoustic and perceptual changes in the speech of French-speaking children with dysarthria, who are provided with speech cues targeting greater articulatory excursion (French translation of 'speak with your big mouth') and vocal intensity (French translation of 'speak with your strong voice'). This study investigated whether, in response to the cues, the children would make acoustic changes and listeners would perceive the children's speech as more intelligible. Eleven children with dysarthria due to CP (six girls, five boys; ages 4;11-17;0 years; eight with spastic CP, three with dyskinetic CP) repeated pre-recorded speech stimuli across three speaking conditions (habitual, 'big mouth' and 'strong voice'). Stimuli were sentences and contrastive words in phrases. Acoustic analyses were conducted. A total of 66 Belgian-French listeners transcribed the children's utterances orthographically and rated their ease of understanding on a visual analogue scale at sentence and word levels. Acoustic analyses revealed significantly longer duration in response to the big mouth cue at sentence level and in response to both the big mouth and strong voice cues at word level. Significantly higher vocal sound-pressure levels were found following both cues at sentence and word levels. Both cues elicited significantly higher first-formant vowel frequencies and listeners' greater ease-of-understanding ratings at word level. Increases in the percentage of words transcribed correctly and in sentence ease-of-understanding ratings, however, did not reach statistical significance. Considerable variability between children was observed. Speech cues targeting greater articulatory excursion and vocal intensity yield significant acoustic changes in French-speaking children with dysarthria. However, the changes may only aid listeners' ease of understanding at word level. The significant findings and great inter-speaker variability are generally consistent with studies on English-speaking children with dysarthria, although changes appear more constrained in these French-speaking children. What this paper adds What is already known on the subject According to the only study comparing effects of speech-cueing strategies on English-speaking children with dysarthria, intelligibility increases when the children are provided with cues aimed to increase articulatory excursion and vocal intensity. Little is known about speech characteristics in French-speaking children with dysarthria and no published research has explored effects of cueing strategies in this population. What this paper adds to existing knowledge This paper is the first study to examine the effects of speech cues on the acoustics and intelligibility of French-speaking children with CP. It provides evidence that the children can make use of cues to modify their speech, although the changes may only aid listeners' ease of understanding at word level. What are the potential or actual clinical implications of this work? For clinicians, the findings suggest that speech cues emphasizing increasing articulatory excursion and vocal intensity show promise for improving the ease of understanding of words produced by francophone children with dysarthria, although improvements may be modest. The variability in the responses also suggests that this population may benefit from a combination of such cues to produce words that are easier to understand.

Faulkner at the Movies: Lucas Burch/Joe Brown/Joe E. Brown

Faulkner at the Movies: Lucas Burch/Joe Brown/Joe E. Brown Karl F. Zender The purpose of this note is to identify and comment on a motion-picture-related joke in the second chapter of William Faulkner’s Light in August. The joke, an allusion to the film comedian Joe E. Brown, occurs midway through the conversation between Byron Bunch and Lena Grove in which Byron, already in love with Lena, “though he does not yet know it” (Faulkner 55), inadvertently reveals that her runaway betrayer, Lucas Burch, has taken on the assumed name of Joe Brown. When Lena asks whether Joe Christmas’s “partner [is] named Joe too,” Byron responds with sidelong but telling skepticism: Yes, ma’am. Joe Brown. But I reckon that may be his right name. Because when you think of a fellow named Joe Brown, you think of a bigmouthed fellow that’s always laughing and talking loud. And so I reckon that is his right name, even if Joe Brown does seem a little kind of too quick and too easy for a natural name, somehow. But I reckon it is his, all right. Because if he drew time on his mouth, he would be owning this here mill right this minute. (54) There are several reasons for believing that there is an allusion to Joe E. Brown here, and for seeing in the allusion somewhat more significance than it might at first appear to possess. For most current-day movie goers, Brown is familiar, if at all, for his role as Osgood Fielding III, the character enamored of Daphne, the character played by Jack Lemmon, in Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959). But in the early 1930s, at a time overlapping with the writing of Light in August, Brown was emerging as one of the most popular film comedians. Beginning at the age of ten as a member of a team of traveling acrobats, then progressing through work in circuses, burlesque, vaudeville, and Broadway and touring company stage shows, Brown arrived in Hollywood in the late 1920s already an accomplished and successful comedian. In 1929, after a few minor roles and a couple of films in which he was miscast as a tragedian, Brown signed a contract with Warner Brothers, a studio [End Page 241] fending off bankruptcy by pioneering the emerging technologies of color and sound. With Warner Brothers, Brown transferred to his film work a previously developed comic persona that emphasized the extraordinary width of his mouth and a variety of vocal mannerisms suitable to roles as a “smart-aleck athlete,” a “fast-talking young playboy[],” and “someone mistaken for a champion athlete” (Gehring 64, 55, 46). Between 1929 and 1932, Brown was extraordinarily active, appearing in three or more films each year.1 Whether Faulkner ever saw a movie featuring Joe E. Brown is, so far as I can determine, not known. But he would have had several opportunities to do so, and he could have become aware of what an early critic called Brown’s “crater mouth” even without attending one of his films. For the entirety of 1929, 1930, and most of 1931, Faulkner resided in Oxford, writing and attempting to publish Sanctuary and numerous short stories. On August 17, 1931, he began writing Light in August, completing the manuscript on February 19, 1932 (Gresset 28–32). A review of ads in the Oxford Eagle for the Lyric, Oxford’s sole movie theater at that time, shows that at least five of Brown’s movies played there during this period, with ads appearing for On with the Show! (April 12, 1930), Song of the West (April 26, 1930), The Lottery Bride (January 4, 1931), Going Wild (January 6, 1931 and January 10, 1931), and Local Boy Makes Good (February 16, 1932). The ads for all but the first of these movies feature Brown, at times above the title, and the one for Going Wild on January 10, 1931 identifies him as “Big Mouth Brown.” Also, had Faulkner happened to walk by the theater, the posters outside could have made him aware of Brown’s unusual physiognomy, for they almost invariably featured caricatures exaggerating the width...

Ahlaki Çözülme, İdeal İnsan ve Hayatın Anlamı Bağlamında Atebetü’l-Hakâyık

İslami dönem Türk edebiyatının en önemli eserlerinden biri Atebetü’l-Hakâyık’tır. Edip Ahmed’in bu eseri ideal insan tipinin nasıl olması gerektiği hakkında kısa ve özlü bilgiler vermesinin yanında bulunduğu dönemin dini hayatını eleştirel bir gözle ele almıştır. O, ideal insanın sınırlarını bazı değerler üzerinden belirlemiştir. Bu değerler, bilgili olmak, dili korumak, alçak gönüllü olmak, yardımsever-cömert olmak, hilm sahibi (sakin, ağırbaşlı) olmak, iyi arkadaş edinmek ve hayatın anlamına vakıf olmaktır. Toplumsal düzenin bozukluğuyla ilgili ise şair öncelikle vefasızlığın üzerinde durmuştur. Daha sonra ise samimiyetsiz dini hayatın belirtilerini inandığı gibi yaşamamak, iyi insanların suskunluğu, sistemin bozukluğu, adaletsizlik ve dünya malına düşkünlük olarak sıralamıştır. Ayrıca şair, ideal insan ve ahlaki yozlaşma arasında gidip gelen insanın tarihsel serüvenini kader inancı çerçevesinde açıklamaya çalışmıştır. Şaire göre birey, her daim ideal insan hedefi doğrultusunda bir hayat yaşamaya çalışmalıdır. Bu hedeften uzaklaşmak sadece insanın değil toplumun da ahlaki bir çıkmaza girmesine ve dolayısıyla yozlaşmasına neden olabilir. Şaire göre bu durum acı bir gerçeklik olsa da insanın ve toplumlarının kaçamayacağı tarihsel kaderdir. Şöyle ki; insanın psikolojik zaafları dünyanın gidişatına göre her an baskın olabilir ve birey ideal insan hedefinden uzaklaşabilir.

Introduction: "Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography"

Introduction:"Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography" Camille Callison (bio), Candida Rifkind (bio), Niigaan James Sinclair (bio), Sonya Ballantyne (bio), Jay Odjick (bio), Taylor Daigneault (bio), and Amy Mazowita (bio) This is an introduction to the open-access online resource "Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography," posted at: jeunessejournal.ca/index.php/yptc/resources. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Jimmy Adams fish camp [image description: John Vaneltsi and his grandson Clifford Vaneltsi sit inside a canvas wall tent lined with spruce boughs. Clifford sits reading a comic book. A baby sling hangs behind a wood stove on cans. Possibly at a camp near Shiltii Rock].1 CREDIT: NWT Archives/James Jerome fonds/N-1987-017: 0035. [End Page 139] Graphic writing—now called comic books—are the oldest and most creative form of Indigenous writing. From rock faces to skin to panels and pages, comic books encapsulate histories and dreams of Peoples and nations. —Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair As a child, I believed I was a super hero. I had become car sick and threw up all over a full-page spread of kryptonite in the Superman comic I was reading. I was around 5. Suddenly, it was all clear to me: • the mistreatment I received because of my Native ancestry • the bullying I endured because I was a girl • my grandmother's constant fear that making myself stand out would put me in danger was all because of my Kryptonian ancestry! Like Kal-El of Krypton, I was the last of a line of strong peoples nearly destroyed by circumstances beyond their control. I was the last hope for my people. But what of my powers? I was just a little Rez girl with stringy hair and a big mouth. I was not capable of saving the world! Then I remembered that Kal-El had to discover his powers with time and realized that I would to. I would treasure each comic book I was able to buy as they were rare to obtain in Northern Manitoba. They were how I saw the world and helped form my image of what a true hero was. But I never saw a girl like me in one. I realized that one of the powers I was waiting to blossom was my ability to write. My gift to the world would be making sure that another little Rez girl with stringy hair and a big mouth would not be without her hero. —Sonya Ballantyne [End Page 140] We live in exciting times insofar as Indigenous books, publishing and comics go—I am older than I look, or so I like to think, anyway—and I remember a time when Indigenous comics were few and far between, but they're becoming much more readily prevalent and available. It's important for people to see themselves represented in media—especially honestly, accurately and positively. I believe comics are way ahead of many other forms of media in that regard. Comics are a vast and diverse medium that should encompass all genres—and in that way are a great way to show the dynamic nature and diversity of Indigenous peoples! —Jay Odjick Part 1: Introduction to the Annotated Bibliography Online Resource —Candida Rifkind I came to this project as a settler scholar of Canadian and social justice comics, interested in learning from and about Indigenous comics and graphic novels. As I started to add more Indigenous comics to my Canadian comics undergraduate courses at the University of Winnipeg, I realized that students, teachers, researchers, and comics fans needed a clearer sense of the shape and scope of this field. This annotated bibliography is the result of my desire to learn more about the diversity and depth of Indigenous work in this area. The following introduction reflects what I have learned from the process of compiling these resources and from collaborating with the other members of the project team. Ultimately, this annotated bibliography can only ever offer a selection of works, rather than an exhaustive survey; however, I hope it will open up the field of Indigenous comics and graphic novels to more students, researchers, and comics fans. The...

얼굴형태소의 특징에 따른 사무형 직무 면접평가지 구안

The purpose of this study is to develop an interview evaluation paper by analyzing the effects of facial morpheme characteristics on basic qualities (integrity, responsibility, activeness, endurance). The influence of the facial morpheme characteristics on the judgment of basic qualities of office work types was examined in 203 subjects. As a result, the characteristics of facial morphemes were analyzed to affect the judgment of basic qualities of office type: sincerity, responsibility, activeness and endurance. Egg-shaped face, square face, inverted triangular face, obtuse eyebrows, eyes with lowered eyes, thin lips affect judgment of integrity and square face, inverted triangular face, high nose, long nose, straight-on mouth affect judgment of responsibility and dark eyebrows, raised eyes, and big mouth affect the judgment of activeness and square face, rhombus face, small eye, long eyes, and lowered eyes affected the judgment of endurance. Second, based on the analysis of the effects of facial morphemes on the judgment of basic qualities of office work, interview score sheet and job assignment sheet were developed to place the right people in right positions according to different job descriptions. It is significant as it provides a baselie data to create a scale for staffing utilizing the results of this study.

Don't interru…

Here, Burrell reveals the surprising causes and how you can fight back. Media reports tell us that men often interrupt and mansplain things to women -- last month, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau got unflattering attention for doing so -- and stereotypes would have us believe that people from some countries are more likely to jump in than those from others. But take a closer look at how interruptions play out and things aren't always what they seem. Figure out why and how people interrupt and you might find yourself more forgiving of the big mouth who stole your moment or better placed to avoid it happening again. But psychologist Ann Weatherall at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand says the early studies counted all overlapping speech, skewing the results. Sometimes people overlap and it's not interruptive at all, she says. It is also hard to know whether men interrupt because of their gender or their status, she says, with men more often holding positions of power

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Acoustic and Perceptual Consequences of Speech Cues for Children With Dysarthria.

Reductions in articulatory working space and vocal intensity have been linked to intelligibility deficits in children with dysarthria due to cerebral palsy. However, few studies have examined the outcomes of behavioral treatments aimed at these underlying impairments or investigated which treatment cues might best facilitate improved intelligibility. This study assessed the effects of cues targeting clear speech (i.e., "Speak with your big mouth") and greater vocal intensity (i.e., "Speak with your strong voice") on acoustic measures of speech production and intelligibility. Eight children with spastic dysarthria due to cerebral palsy repeated sentence- and word-level stimuli across habitual, big mouth, and strong voice conditions. Acoustic analyses were conducted, and 48 listeners completed orthographic transcription and scaled intelligibility ratings. Both cues resulted in significant changes to vocal intensity and speech rate although the degree of change varied by condition. In a similar manner, perceptual analysis revealed significant improvements to intelligibility with both cues; however, at the single-word level, big mouth outperformed strong voice. Children with dysarthria are capable of changing their speech styles differentially in response to cueing. Both the big mouth and strong voice cues hold promise as intervention strategies to improve intelligibility in this population. https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.5116843.

Growth, Survival, Longevity, and Population Size of the Big Mouth Cave Salamander (Gyrinophilus palleucus necturoides) from the Type Locality in Grundy County, Tennessee, USA

Salamander species that live entirely in subterranean habitats have evolved adaptations that allow them to cope with perpetual darkness and limited energy resources. We conducted a 26-month mark–recapture study to better understand the individual growth and demography of a population of the Big Mouth Cave Salamander (Gyrinophilus palleucus necturoides). We employed a growth model to estimate growth rates, age at sexual maturity, and longevity, and an open population model to estimate population size, density, detectability, and survival rates. Furthermore, we examined cover use and evidence of potential predation. Individuals probably reach sexual maturity in 3–5 years and live at least nine years. Survival rates were generally high (>75%) but declined during the study. More than 30% of captured salamanders had regenerating tails or tail damage, which presumably represent predation attempts by conspecifics or crayfishes. Most salamanders (>90%) were found under cover (e.g., rocks, trash, decaying plant ma...

Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger Brains

Book Review| February 01 2016 Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger Brains Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger Brains. By Adelina Anthony. San Francisco: Kórima Press, 2013; pp. ix + 77, $15.00 paper. Ruby Kim Ruby Kim Washington State University, USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2016) 3 (1): 172–173. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.3.1.0172 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ruby Kim; Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger Brains. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 1 February 2016; 3 (1): 172–173. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.3.1.0172 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressQED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.