Down Syndrome

Scientists at University of London discuss research in Down syndrome

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 5th, 2009

"This paper investigates various aspects of intonation and phonation in young adults with Down syndrome. The speech of nine speakers with Down syndrome was analyzed acoustically for different aspects of intonation and phonation," scientists in London, the United Kingdom report.

"The results of these analyses were compared to similar speech samples of nine typical speakers of Standard British English. The controls were matched for age and gender. Different aspects of speakers' individual pitch framework were analyzed, ie, organic and linguistic pitch ranges, Voice compass, and declination. Phonation was investigated acoustically as maximum phonation time, jitter, and...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-03-05)

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