Jessica E. Huber, Ph.D. - US grants
Affiliations: | 2001 | State University of New York, Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States |
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According to our matching algorithm, Jessica E. Huber is the likely recipient of the following grants.Years | Recipients | Code | Title / Keywords | Matching score |
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2002 — 2004 | Huber, Jessica E | R03Activity Code Description: To provide research support specifically limited in time and amount for studies in categorical program areas. Small grants provide flexibility for initiating studies which are generally for preliminary short-term projects and are non-renewable. |
Speech Kinematics in Parkinson's Disease @ Purdue University West Lafayette DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Major advances in speech therapy for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have been made in the last decade. Significantly improved therapy results have been reported using the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) program. A core feature of LSVT is to instruct the patient to speak more loudly, thereby increasing sound pressure level (SPL). The general goal of this project is to investigate the physiologic mechanisms underlying increased SPL in patients with PD. Individuals with PD demonstrate speech movements (kinematics) which differ from normal speakers. It has been hypothesized that, in individuals with PD, increasing SPL causes a scaling-up of motor output from all three speech subsystems - respiratory, laryngeal, and articulatory - resulting in more normal speech production. The first specific aim of this project is to examine respiratory and articulatory kinematics in individuals with PD while they increase SPL. Individuals with PD may have difficulty accurately perceiving their own vocal intensity. Due to this difficulty, the mechanisms individuals with PD use to increase SPL may depend on the amount of self-monitoring of vocal intensity required by the task. Thus, the second specific aim of this project is to examine the effect of different cues to increase SPL on the kinematic mechanisms utilized by individuals with PD. Studies of motor control of the limbs have indicated that individuals with PD may have difficulty with premotor planning. If increasing SPL results in global effects to the speech system, as has been hypothesized, premotor organization may be altered. Therefore, there is one exploratory aim in the present project: to examine premotor planning of the respiratory subsystem for speech by individuals with PD. Methods employed in this project will include the collection and analysis of chest wall, lip, and jaw kinematics to examine the mechanisms for increasing SPL in individuals with PD. An understanding of the effects of increasing SPL on speech kinematics and premotor planning and of how difficulties in perception of vocal intensity affect kinematics is likely to assist with the improvement of speech therapy for individuals with PD and to further the understanding of the effects of PD on speech motor control. |
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2008 — 2012 | Huber, Jessica E | R01Activity Code Description: To support a discrete, specified, circumscribed project to be performed by the named investigator(s) in an area representing his or her specific interest and competencies. |
Use of External Cueing to Treat Hypophonia in Parkinson's Disease @ Purdue University West Lafayette [unreadable] DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to assess the efficacy of a new treatment for hypophonia (decreased vocal loudness) associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). Current speech therapy strategies for hypophonia focus on increasing sound pressure level. It is clear from previous research that that increasing loudness affects respiratory, laryngeal, and articulatory function in healthy adults and that training individuals with PD to increase loudness can impact multiple dimensions of speech production. Based on preliminary studies from our laboratory, we propose a treatment plan which will use a voice-activated appliance which delivers monaural multi-talker babble noise while the individual speaks, stimulating louder speech (the Lombard Effect). The Lombard Effect reflects the fact that speakers will naturally and automatically speak louder under conditions of background noise. The proposed treatment plan differs from existing treatment plans in that it takes place during everyday speaking contexts, outside of what could be considered "traditional" delivery paradigms. The benefits of the treatment plan are that individuals with PD will wear the appliance in natural communication contexts, potentially achieving a louder, clearer, and more intelligible voice, without needing to self-cue. The first specific aim of this project is to assess improvements in vocal intensity, speech intelligibility and clarity, and communicative competence as the result of an 8-week treatment plan. Because individuals with dysarthria can make changes in the respiratory, laryngeal, and articulatory speech subsystems to improve overall speech output, it is important to examine each subsystem simultaneously. The second specific aim of the project is to identify the underlying speech mechanisms for therapy-related improvements using physiologic measurements of respiratory strength, respiratory kinematics during speech, laryngeal aerodynamics, and articulatory acoustics. The third specific aim is to determine the long-term maintenance of speech treatment gains, across a six-month period, in one group of patients continuing treatment and in one group for whom treatment is withdrawn. Because the treatment is designed to train the individuals, the fourth specific aim is to examine the immediate generalization of treatment effects to a noncued context. Lastly, because variability is reflective of neuromotor control status, the fifth specific aim is to document underlying neuromotor control in individuals with PD pre- and post-treatment. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Parkinson's disease (PD) affects a significant number of individuals in the U.S. population. Treatment of speech disorders associated with PD is difficult due to the multiple factors which are likely to affect the speech of individuals with PD and the way those factors may limit the generalization and maintenance of treatment gains. The intervention proposed is unique because it provides a naturalistic external cue and trains the individuals during activities of daily living. [unreadable] [unreadable] [unreadable] [unreadable] [unreadable] |
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