Invoking the influence of emotion in central auditory processing to improve the treatment of speech impairments

Safa Alqudah; Maha Zaitoun; Sara Alqudah

doi:10.15537/smj.2021.42.12.20200724

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Table 1

- Sociodemographic characteristics of the participants.

Variables	n	(%)
Age
4-15 years	67	(83.8)
15-22 years	13	(16.2)
Gender
Male	54	(67.5)
Female	26	(32.5)
Educational level
Elementary	59	(73.8)
Middle	8	(10.0)
High school	13	(16.2)
Speech disorder type
Stuttering	36	(45.0)
Articulation	44	(55.0)
Speech disorder duration
1 years- 5 year	53	(66.3)
6 year- 10 year	18	(22.5)
11 year- 15 year	9	(11.2)
Annual salaries of the families
Lower than 10000$	67	(83.7)
10001-12000$	8	(10.0)
12001-14000$	2	(2.5)
14001-16000$	2	(2.5)
Higher than 16000$	1	(1.3)

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Table 2

- The intelligibility scores for the 4 therapeutic lists, as rated by the patients.

List	Mean	SD	Statistics	P-value
Familiar voice (non-emotional words)	4.93	0.13	Z = -1.50	>0.05
Familiar voice (emotional words)	4.84	0.19
Unfamiliar voice (non-emotional words)	4.88	0.17
Unfamiliar voice*emotional words	4.9	0.15

Intelligibility scores are scored out of 5 points. SD: standard deviation

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Table 3

- Performance of the 36 participants in the sessions employing familiar and unfamiliar and emotional and non-emotional contexts to treat stuttering

Context	Mean (dysfluency %)	SD	Statistics	P-value
Familiar voice (emotional words)	3	6.05	-^*	-^*
Familiar voice (non-emotional words)	6	7.03	-4.17	<0.001
Unfamiliar voice (non-emotional words)	7.25	11.94	-4.81	<0.001
Unfamiliar voice (emotional words)	12	12.17	-5.16	>0.05

↵* This condition was optimal and was compared to other cases.
SD: standard deviation

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Table 4

- Performance of the 44 participants in the sessions employing familiar and unfamiliar, and emotional and non-emotional contexts to treat misarticulation.

Context	Mean (PCC %)	SD	Statistics	P-value
Familiar voice (emotional words)	88	12.43	-^*	-^*
Familiar voice (non-emotional words)	74	11.81	-4.41	<0.001
Unfamiliar voice (non-emotional words)	66	13.58	-5.65	<0.001
Unfamiliar voice (emotional words)	83	11.58	-0.554	>0.05

↵* This condition was optimal and was compared to other cases.
PCC: percentage of consonants correct, SD: standard deviation