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Deborah Matheron, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, presented her research on motor speech disorder in a platform paper presentation at the 19th Biennial Conference on Motor Speech: Motor Speech Disorders and Motor Speech Control on Feb. 24 in Savannah, Ga. Her paper, “Temporal differences in a quasi-speech task: A comparison of highly intelligible speakers with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and neurologically intact speakers,” was well received.

This is an international conference organized by Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, one of the nation's foremost providers for medical and physical rehabilitation for adults and children. The conference focuses on injury or disease processes affecting neuromuscular control of speech such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, stroke, and birth defects. Relevant topics included experimental studies of sensory or motor function in the pulmonary, laryngeal, velopharyngeal and orofacial systems of persons with motor speech disorders, diagnostic evaluation or treatment of disrupted intelligibility, speech naturalness, voice, articulation and prosody in motor speech disorders in children and adults, as well as advances in uses of neuroimaging to support treatment effect.