Rate and rhythm control strategies for apraxia of speech in nonfluent primary progressive aphasia

ABSTRACT The nonfluent/agrammatic variant of primary progressive aphasia is characterized by apraxia of speech and agrammatism. Apraxia of speech limits patients' communication due to slow speaking rate, sound substitutions, articulatory groping, false starts and restarts, segmentation of sylla...

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Main Authors: Bárbara Costa Beber, Monalise Costa Batista Berbert, Ruth Siqueira Grawer, Maria Cristina de Almeida Freitas Cardoso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento
Series:Dementia & Neuropsychologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642018000100080&lng=en&tlng=en