8th International Conference on Speech Motor Control
August 24th - 27th, 2022, Groningen, the Netherlands
August 24th - 27th, 2022, Groningen, the Netherlands
Looking back at the 8th International Conference on Speech Motor Control (SMC2022), we would like to send a special ‘thank you’ to all participants, speakers, chairpersons, and supporters. It was a great pleasure to welcome you to Groningen last week.
We hope that you have enjoyed the high-quality presentations and the stimulating discussions over the course of the conference, and that you have been able to (re)connect with old and new colleagues.
Congratulations, SMC2022 outstanding poster prize winners! The judges had a very difficult task, choosing from amongst many talented PhD students who presented their work. Posters were assessed on three criteria: scientific quality, poster layout, and presentation ✏️
📕 The SMC2022 abstract book is now available! Download (in .pdf format) here
❗🚌 Adding to the announcement below regarding the train strike on Wednesday 24 August, please find here an update:
🚄❗For those traveling to Groningen on Wednesday, August 24th: there is a planned train strike, which will affect travel to Groningen. The conference organizing committee is waiting for more information and will soon provide a list of alternative transport options. If you need to get to Groningen on Wednesday and are unsure how your travel plans are affected, please get in touch with us.
A detailed conference schedule is now available! See here for the schedule, and here for details on the poster sessions.
We look forward to welcoming you to SMC2022, and we want you to feel comfortable during the live conference. At the registration desk you have the choice between a red, yellow or green sticker to place on your name badge, so you can indicate your contact distance to fellow participants.
Feel free to use other measures that make you feel safe at SMC2022, such as wearing a face mask. Masks and self-tests will also be available at the registration desk.
You may resubmit your abstract with minor revision(s) – possibly based on the reviewer’s comments — as long as the abstract format follows the guidelines. When ready, please submit your camera-ready version before July 25 at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SMC2022/.
Registration is now open! Register here.
Hotels with special rates and conditions can be reserved here.
A poster printing service is available up until Wednesday August 17th. Poster printing information.
The deadline for submitting abstracts was closed at March 25, 2022
The conference dates are set: SMC2022 will take place Wednesday evening August 24th 2022 until Saturday afternoon August 27th 2022!
[By having postponed the conference from 2021 to 2022, we hope and expect to be able to have an in-person conference].
Following a well-established Nijmegen (5 editions) - Groningen (6th & 7th edition) tradition, the eighth edition of the International Conference on Speech Motor Control will be held in 2022 in Groningen, the Netherlands. This conference, like the ones before, will highlight new trends and state-of-the-art approaches in theoretical and applied research in the area of normal and disordered speech motor control. The five years since the previous conference in 2017 have yielded not only further insights in genetic, neural, physiological and developmental aspects of speech production, stuttering and other speech motor conditions, but have also advanced theoretical modelling. Combined with ongoing studies of genetically and neurobiologically increasingly better characterized populations, this quantitative boost of interdisciplinary results is now leading to a qualitative turning point in which large data sets are analyzed with powerful artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. The implementation of theories into computational models allows for the explicit testing of multifactorial interactions, thereby going beyond the more traditional single-factor experiments. Machine learning and the data sharing required to make this feasible are a special topic of the 2022 conference.
Speech motor control is a dynamic research field. The tremendous, multidisciplinary development made during the past decades is reflected in the Nijmegen - Groningen series of conferences. In the first edition in 1985 focus was on motor control issues in stuttering. The second conference (1990) highlighted the development of more general motor control models and the inclusion of higher order psychomotor and psycholinguistic functions, broadening the scope to other motor speech conditions than stuttering. At the third conference (1996), more emphasis was put on the emerging field of brain imaging. In addition, development of speech motor control became a prominent topic. Since the fourth edition in 2001, we witnessed the introduction of important theoretical neurophysiological and neurobehavioral concepts, and a growing interest in the ‘interface’ between higher order cognitive/psycholinguistic processes and speech production. Thus, the conferences of 2006, 2011, and 2017 have witnessed tremendous progress in integrating genetic, neurobiological, including neuro-motor, biomechanical, cognitive and behavioral levels of research in interdisciplinary collaborations. A special topic of the 2017 conference was the evolution of speech: phylogenetic evolution in homo sapiens; ontogenetic evolution in infants; and evolution of speech conditions and disorders in diverse contexts.
The conference program will be organized around five topics; the invitation of speakers and the review process of submitted papers will be coordinated by the chair and co-chair assigned to the specific topic. The topics are:
In recognition of the importance of including a wide diversity of perspectives and experiences, and following recommendations during and after the previous conference, we have made considerable effort in forming a program committee and invited speaker line-up that is balanced with respect to gender, geographic location, and career stage, as well as theoretical orientation. We hope and trust that this effort will enhance both the scientific and social experience of the conference.
There is close collaboration with the Conference on Motor Speech, Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital (Lincoln, NE, USA), and we thank the organizers of the Conference on Motor Speech for their support.
The conference will be held in the
Academy Building, in the heart of the city-centre of Groningen.
Visiting address: Broerstraat 5, Groningen.
English is used as working language throughout the conference.
Groningen Congres Bureau
Att. Ms. Maria Valbuena
Griffeweg 5
9724 GE Groningen
+31 (0)50 316 88 77
E-mail:
info@gcb.nl
Conference website:
www.slp-nijmegen.nl/smc2022/
November 20, 2021 December 1, 2021: Opening online abstract submission
February 27, 2022 March 25, 2022 (11:59pm Pacific Time): Deadline abstract submission
May 30, 2022: Notification of acceptance
June 1, 2022: Registration opens
August 24-27, 2022: Conference on Speech Motor Control
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24
15:00 - 18:00 SPRAAKLAB mobile laboratory demo
17:00 - 18.15 Registration & Conference opening
18:15 - 19:45 Speech sound disorders in children Chair: Hayo Terband
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| 18:15 Ben Maassen (invited) | Towards process-oriented, dimensional approaches for diagnosing ssd in children. State-of-the-art and future perspectives |
| 18:45 Angela Morgan (invited) | Genetic architecture of child speech disorder |
| 19:15 Aravind Namasivayam (invited) | Data-driven care pathway for children over 36 months of age with motor speech disorder |
20:00 - 21:00 Welcome reception
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25
08:00 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 12:00 Conditions Affecting Speech Motor Control Chair: Anja Lowit
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| 09:00 Yana Yunusova (invited) | Speech and orofacial biomarkers and tools in the assessment of neurological diseases |
| 09:30 Anja Staiger | Speech motor profiles in primary progressive aphasia |
| 09:50 Tabea Thies | Disease- and treatment-related changes of tongue body movements in Parkinson’s disease: an electromagnetic articulography study |
| 10:10 Jidde Jacobi | Spatial and temporal variability of speech gestures during fast syllable repetition in Parkinson’s disease: an articulatory study |
10:30 Coffee break
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| 11:00 Ingrid Aichert (invited) | Why prosody matters in apraxia of speech - theoretical and clinical issues |
| 11:30 Ho Ming Chow | An fMRI study of overt speech preparation and production in children who stutter |
12:00 – 15:00 Poster Session I
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
15:00 – 17:40 Neural Anatomy & Physiology of Speech Production Chairs: Marina Laganaro; Ben Maassen
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| 15:00 Hélène Loevenbruck (invited) | Inner speech as an exaptation of hierarchical predictive control of speech: articulating condensation, dialogality and intentionality |
| 15:30 Marina Laganaro (invited) | Temporal dynamics of motor speech encoding |
| 16:00 Mark Richardson | Cortical-subthalamic activity in speech production |
| 16:20 Joan Orpella | Decoding of speech imagery as a window to speech planning and production |
16:40 Coffee break
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| 17:10 Edward Chang (invited) – online | The encoding of speech movements and planning in the human motor cortex |
17:40 – 18:10 Conditions Affecting Speech Motor Control Chair: Anja Lowit
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| 17:40 Ludo Max (invited) – online | Motor-to-sensory influences during speech movement planning in individuals who stutter |
FRIDAY, AUGUST 26
09:00 – 12:00 Speech Production Modeling & Action-Perception Chairs: Susanne Fuchs; Phil Hoole
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| 09:00 Tiphaine Caudrelier (invited) | Altered auditory feedback as a powerful tool to explore speech action-perception relationships: a (non-exhaustive) review of experiments using formants perturbation |
| 09:30 Caroline A. Niziolek | Increased vowel contrast in connected speech induced by sensorimotor adaptation |
| 09:50 Abigail R. Bradshaw | Speech motor adaptation during synchronous speech |
| 10:10 Mark Tiede | Neural and behavioral responses to talking faces in cocktail party noise |
10:30 Coffee break
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| 11:00 Phil Hoole (invited) | Real-time magnetic resonance imaging for phonetic research: current studies |
| 11:30 Susanne Fuchs (invited) | Speech respiration: past research, recent trends, and future developments |
12:00 – 15:00 Poster Session II
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
15:00 – 18:00 (A)typical Speech Motor and Speech Sound Development in Children Chair: Aravind Namasivayam
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| 15:00 Katherine Hustad (invited) | Measuring growth and predicting speech outcomes in children with and without dysarthria |
| 15:30 Hayo Terband | Speech production errors in Australian English-Dutch bilingual children |
| 15:50 Theresa Schölderle | Speech naturalness and intelligibility in children with dysarthria: relationships with auditory-perceptual characteristics and the issue of speech development |
| 16:10 Molly Beiting | An exploratory analysis of individual-level predictors of cas treatment response |
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 Pediatric motor speech disorders: a panel discussion on a consensus Delphi project Chair: Edwin Maas
19:00 Conference dinner Feithhuis (Martinikerkhof 10)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 27
09:00 – 10:30 Machine Learning & Data Sharing Chairs: Angela Morgan; Adam Vogel
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| 09:00 Adam Vogel (invited) | Applying our expertise in motor speech to clinical trials for neurodegenerative disease |
| 09:30 Björn Schuller (invited) | Speech for health analysis: on AI and challenges |
| 10:10 Thanasis Tsanas (invited) | Developing new speech signal processing algorithms for biomedical and life sciences applications: principles, findings, challenges, and a view to the future |
10:30 – 13:30 Poster Session III
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Poster Prizes & Conference Closing
The conference program will be organized around five major themes, that can be considered basic domains in speech motor control research and the clinical approach in disorders. Listed are the five major themes, the members of the organization committee who will be the chair(s) for this theme, and the list of confirmed invited speakers per theme. Submissions of free plenary and poster presentations will be programmed within these five themes.
Marina Laganaro: Université de Genève; Psycholinguistique
Temporal dynamics of motor speech planning and programming
Helene Loevenbruck: CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes; Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition
Hierarchical predictive control of inner speech: articulating condensation, dialogality and intentionality
Edward Chang: University of California, San Francisco; Weill Institute for Neurosciences
The cortical encoding of vocal tract movements in speech
Susanne Fuchs: Berlin; Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
How breathing adapts to speech and how speech adapts to breathing
Phil Hoole: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung (IPS)
Speech motor control and fast dynamic MRI
Tiphaine Caudrelier: GIPSA-lab; CNRS & l’Université de Grenoble
State-of-the-art review on altered auditory feedback experiments
Yana Yunusova: University of Toronto; Speech-Language Pathology
Dysarthria
Ingrid Aichert: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung (IPS)
Apraxia of speech
Ludo Max: University of Washington; Speech and Hearing Sciences
Stuttering
Aude Noiray: CNRS, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Univ. Lyon 2
Spoken language acquisition: the dynamic interplay between motor and cognitive domains
Aravind Namasivayam: University of Toronto; Oral Dynamics Laboratory
Developmental speech sound disorders, stuttering, sensory-motor integration, and motor skill learning
Katherine Hustad: University of Wisconsin-Madison; Waisman Center
Communication development in children with cerebral palsy (CP)
Adam Vogel: University of Melbourne; Centre for Neuroscience
A multi-national, multi-lingual consortia for speech in neurodegenerative disease
Björn Schuller: Imperial College London & Embedded Intelligence for Health Care and Wellbeing, University of Augsburg
Speech for Health Analysis: On AI and Challenges
Thanasis Tsanas: The University of Edinburgh; Usher Institute, Edinburgh Medical School & School of Mathematics
Developing new speech signal processing algorithms for biomedical and life sciences applications: principles, findings, challenges, and a view to the future
POSTER SESSION I
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 12:00 – 15:00
Neural Anatomy & Physiology of Speech Production
| Poster number | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anastasopoulou | Speech kinematics and coordination measured with a MEG neuroimaging-compatible speech tracking system |
| 2 | Bourhis | Compensatory movement of the tongue for speech production with or without masking noise |
| 3 | Buchwald | Using tDCS to promote targeted neurorehabilitation of cortical speech network in acquired apraxia of speech |
| 4 | Demolin | Control and regulation of subglottal pressure in speech |
| 5 | Elmerich | Acoustic and aerodynamic consequences of the nasal polyposis pathology |
| 6 | Hansmann & Theys | Neurophysiological processes underpinning speech production in 3-, 5-, and 7-year-old children |
| 7 | Ito | Tongue stretch reflex for speech motor control |
| 8 | Kim | Within-Talker Stability of Inter-Articulatory Strategies in Response to Cued Speech Modifications: An Analysis Across Multiple Time Points |
| 9 | Offrede | Breathing and speech adaptation: Do interlocutors adapt their speech towards a speaker talking under physical effort? |
| 10 | Oschkinat | Temporal Perturbation of Quantity Contrasts between and within a Lexical Category |
| 11 | Rebernik | The effect of masking noise on oral cancer speech acoustics and kinematics |
| 12 | Theys | Lesions causing acquired neurogenic stuttering connect to common brain areas |
| 13 | Weston | On the relation between motion rate and speech rate with increasing physical workload |
| 14 | Wrench | The compartmental tongue: Evidence for independent neuromuscular control of six sectors of the oropharyngeal cavity |
| 15 | Yu | Multiparametric analysis of the respiratory activity in speech production |
Conditions Affecting Speech Motor Control
| Poster number | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | Abbiati | Communication is Movement: The Temporal Coordination of Pitch, Articulator Movements, and Manual Gestures in Autistic Versus Neurotypical Adults. |
| 17 | Abur | Longitudinal Changes to Speech in Parkinson’s disease |
| 18 | Bauerly | Investigating attentional focus as a mediating factor to the changes in speech-motor control during social stress in people who stutter |
| 19 | Bourbon & Fougeron | Effects of instruction and content on repetition performances of ataxic dysarthric and healthy speakers |
| 20 | Bourqui | Motor speech programming and uttering conditions: a preliminary study in speakers with motor speech disorders |
| 21 | Bouvier | Validation of an algorithm for automatic pause and speech timing analyses in French speakers with ALS |
| 22 | Bunker | Test-retest stability of Word Syllable Duration for speakers with acquired apraxia of speech |
| 23 | Chow | An fMRI study of overt speech preparation and production in children who stutter |
| 24 | Demirel | Language Lateralisation in People Who Stutter across Different Speech & Language Tasks |
| 25 | Didirkova | Finding a needle in a haystack: studying stuttering articulatory trajectories using automatic analysis on limited data |
| 26 | Franke | The effect of rhythm on inter-gestural coupling of onset and vowel gestures in adults who stutter |
| 27 | Garnier | Speech synchronization abilities in people who stutter |
| 28 | Haenssler | Assessing Dysarthria Severity of Remote Speech Recordings |
| 29 | Hobler | Motor Skill Acquisition: Insights from Studies of Implicit and Explicit Learning in Adults who do and do not Stutter |
| 30 | Horton | Validation of self-reported phenotypic data from a genome-wide association study of australians who stutter |
| 31 | Huynh | The impact of cognitive symptoms on coping with bulbar ALS: Perceived needs for bulbar symptom management |
| 32 | Jacks | Speech diadochokinesis in stroke survivors: Evaluation of automated analysis procedures |
| 33 | Jackson | Elevated Global Response Inhibition Underlies Stuttered Speech |
| 34 | Janse | Diadochokinesis performance and its link to cognitive control: alternating vs. non-alternating DDK |
| 35 | Kahraman | A Systematic Review of The Potential Impacts of 16p11.2 Deletion Syndrome on Motor Speech Disorders |
| 36 | Kim & Nagarajan | Prediction errors drive auditory-motor adaptation in a hierarchical FACTS model |
| 37 | Knuijt | The use of the Voice trainer (app) in ataxic dysarthria |
| 38 | Korzeczek | Effects of syllable frequency on accuracy and fluency in adults with developmental stuttering |
| 39 | Kothare | Assessment of atypical speech in Multiple Sclerosis via a multimodal dialogue platform: An exploratory study |
| 40 | Rowe | The Association between Longitudinal Declines in Phonetic Accuracy and Speech Intelligibility in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
| 41 | Wiltshire | The role of the supplementary motor area in speech production: Evidence from participants who do, and do not stutter |
POSTER SESSION II
FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 12:00 – 15:00
Speech Production Modeling & Action-Perception
| Poster number | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ashokumar | Speech perception training with orofacial somatosensory stimulation affects speech production |
| 2 | Buech | Articulatory characteristics of pharyngealization in Tashlhiyt |
| 3 | D’Alessandro | Variability in V-to-V coarticulation in French |
| 4 | Derrick | Gait change in tongue movement in American and New Zealand English |
| 5 | Du | Flexibility and abstractness of articulatory coordination in German and Spanish word-initial stop-lateral clusters |
| 6 | Franken | Somatosensory and motor cortex both causally contribute to speech motor learning |
| 7 | Lametti | Bilinguals Readily Acquire Language Specific Sensorimotor Maps for Speech |
| 8 | Tardif | Adapatation to Delayed Auditory Feedback |
Conditions Affecting Speech Motor Control
| Poster number | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Abbiati | Speech Elicitation Methods for Measuring Articulatory Control Vary: Does It Matter? |
| 10 | Hobler | Motor Learning and Developmental Stuttering: A Systematic Review |
| 11 | Kim & Nagarajan | The effect of error-clamping auditory feedback on centering |
| 12 | Kuschmann | The effect of drama classes on speech production in children with dysarthria: a survey of parental perceptions |
| 13 | Latacz | Fluency Friends: A Speech Recognition-based Video Game for People who Stutter |
| 14 | Lowit | ClearSpeechTogether – an SLT/peer supported speech intervention model for people with progressive ataxias |
| 15 | Rowe | The Efficacy of Acoustic-Based Articulatory Impairment Phenotypes for Characterizing and Classifying Divergent Neurodegenerative Diseases |
| 16 | Maas | A randomized controlled trial of ASSIST for childhood apraxia of speech: Initial findings |
| 17 | Mollaei | The relationship between neurogenic stuttering and hypokinetic dysarthria in Parkinson’s disease |
| 18 | Murali | An investigation into acoustic speech markers in Hypokinetic dysarthria associated with Parkinson’s disease |
| 19 | Pernon | Perceptual classification of speakers with dysarthria or apraxia of speech: effects of speaker, speech task, and listener’s expertise |
| 20 | Ponchard | Effects of age, disease, and L-dopa on airflow in parkinsonian dysarthria |
| 21 | Purcell | A Comparison of Sound Production Treatment and Metrical Pacing Therapy for Apraxia of Speech |
| 22 | Rebernik | Investigating feedback and feedforward control during vowel production by Dutch adult speakers: insights from auditory feedback perturbation tasks |
| 23 | Shahid | Examining the impact of dysarthria on communicative participation in Pakistani culture |
| 24 | Steurer | Effects on voice sound level and dysphonia after HiCommunication: a novel speech, voice and communication treatment for Parkinson’s disease |
| 25 | Stipancic | Progress toward estimating the minimal clinically important difference of speech intelligibility: A crowdsourced perceptual experiment |
| 26 | Teplansky | Influence of Stimuli Length on Tongue and Lip Movement Pattern Stability in ALS |
| 27 | Thies | Affected tongue body movements in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder |
| 28 | Tienkamp | Quantifying changes in articulatory working space following oral cancer treatment |
| 29 | Vogel | Speech in premanifest and early-stage Huntington’s disease |
| 30 | Wiltshire | Analysis of speech movements during metronome-timed speech in people who stutter using vocal-tract imaging |
| 31 | Ziegler | The prevalence of apraxia of speech in chronic aphasia after stroke |
(A)typical Speech Motor and Speech Sound Development in Children
| Poster number | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 32 | Abakarova | Linking differences in phonological representations and coarticulation degree: a modelling approach |
| 33 | Borrie | Perceptual Learning of Dysarthria with Adolescent Populations |
| 34 | Van Brenk | Acoustic measures of online and offline collected speech produced by children with CP and dysarthria: steps towards validation |
| 35 | Chenausky | Vowel Distinctiveness is Related to Expressive Language in Low- and Minimally Verbal Autistic Children |
| 36 | Clark | Using the Apraxia of Speech Rating Scale to Characterize Resolving Childhood Apraxia of Speech |
| 37 | Diepeveen | Differences between diadochokinesis rates in children across three European languages |
| 38 | Dokovova | Tongue Shape Complexity in Children with Speech Sound Disorders |
| 39 | Mogren | Co-existing difficulties in children with persistent speech sound disorders (SSD) and motor speech involvement |
| 40 | Popescu | Differences in reading proficiency correlate with variations in vowel duration and dynamics |
| 41 | Wolfswinkler | Production of vocalized laterals in West Central Bavarian - an articulatory analysis of primary school children |
POSTER SESSION III
SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 10:30 – 13:30
Speech Production Modeling & Action-Perception
| Poster number | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Franzke | The crooked relationship between tongue shift and F2 in /u/-/y/-transitions |
| 2 | Friedrichs | The effect of mandible size on temporal properties of speech |
| 3 | Gaines | Bayesian Inference of State Feedback Control Model Parameters for Pitch Perturbation Responses |
| 4 | Garnier | Towards an HD-sEMG mask to measure orofacial muscle activity during speech production |
| 5 | He | The coordination between mouth opening-closing rhythm and information in speech |
| 6 | Karlin | Lexical tone but not arbitrary f0 is co-planned with segmental gestures |
| 7 | Lancia | Unveiling the coordinative role of prosody in speech production through multiscale analysis of the modulatory activity underlying speech production |
| 8 | Li | Comparing tongue movement vs. shape representations from ultrasound imaging of /ɑɹ/ articulatory strategies |
| 9 | Lundmark | Peak acceleration determines segment boundary |
| 10 | Mücke | Analysis and Modelling of Impaired Speech Movements: Challenges and Future Directions |
| 11 | Pagel | Supra-laryngeal articulation under vocal effort variation |
| 12 | Parrell | Assessing the scope of speech motor planning with sensorimotor adaptation |
| 13 | Popescu | Lateralization in onset and coda English lateral consonants: a multislice rtMRI analysis |
| 14 | Schreen | Age-related changes on tongue body movements |
| 15 | Tardif | Adapatation to Delayed Auditory Feedback |
| 16 | Werner | Comparison of acoustic parameters of inhalations vs. exhalations with 3D-printed vocal tract models |
| 17 | Wisler | Rate-Related Changes in Movement Trajectory Characteristics and their Effects on Spatiotemporal Variability |
| 18 | Van Zelst | A matter of time: An online experiment investigating the impact of post-practice rest and sleep on speech-motor learning |
(A)typical Speech Motor and Speech Sound Development in Children
| Poster number | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | Chenausky | Child Formant Measurements from Remotely-Collected WAV and M4A Files Are Similar |
| 20 | Haas | Intelligibility and clinical communication scales in children |
| 21 | Kothare | Atypical speech acoustics and jaw kinematics during affect production in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder assessed by an interactive multimodal conversational platform |
| 22 | Korkalainen | The effectiveness of Rapid Syllable Transition Treatment in improving communication in children with cerebral palsy: A randomized controlled study |
| 23 | Lahtein | Diagnostic features of childhood apraxia of speech in Estonian, Finnish, and Lithuanian: a survey of SLPs |
| 24 | Lancheros | When do sequential motion rate tasks get faster than alternating motion rate tasks during development? Oral-diadochokinetic rates of neurotypical French-speaking children, adolescents and young adults. |
| 25 | Machart | Consonant production in children with cochlear implants and exposed to Canadian French Cued Speech: an acoustic and articulatory study |
| 26 | Maffei | Remote Markerless Facial Motion Tracking of Minimally Verbal Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| 27 | Mogren | Nonword repetition in children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) and Speech Motor Delay (SMD) – does it reflect oral motor or linguistic difficulties |
| 28 | Namasivayam | Implementing Motor Speech Outcome Measurement in Preschool Speech-Language Programs |
| 29 | Piron | Longitudinal normative data on developmental speech errors in French-speaking preschoolers, the average percentage of occurrences of phonological processes. |
| 30 | Starr-Marshall | The Effect of Lexical Status and Vocabulary on Coarticulation. |
| 31 | Van Tellingen | Treatment of Childhood Apraxia of Speech with Speech and Music Therapy |
| 32 | Ward | The use of objective articulatory kinematic measures to support clinical decision making in the diagnosis of motor speech disorders: A pilot study |
Machine Learning & Data Sharing
| Poster number | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 33 | Buech | Making articulation accessible in PRAAT |
| 34 | Dvorak & Boutsen | The Collaboverse: A collaborative data-sharing and speech-analysis platform |
| 35 | Liscombe | On Timing and Pronunciation Metrics for Intelligibility Assessment in Pathological ALS Speech |
| 36 | Shamei | Cross-language generalizability of acoustic features for Alzheimer’s disease detection models |
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❗🚌 Adding to the announcement below regarding the train strike on Wednesday 24 August, please find here an update:
🚄❗For those traveling to Groningen on Wednesday, August 24th: there is a planned train strike, which will affect travel to Groningen. The conference organizing committee is waiting for more information and will soon provide a list of alternative transport options. If you need to get to Groningen on Wednesday and are unsure how your travel plans are affected, please get in touch with us.
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Preferred Hotel Reservations is the official housing agent for this event. They negotiated special rates and conditions at the selected hotels for SMC2022 participants. After making a reservation, you will receive login details that you might need to change or cancel your booking. Make sure to reserve your hotel in time (by mid-June is advisable), even if your travel is not yet confirmed. Reservations up until 9 rooms may be cancelled free of charge until 48 hours prior to arrival at most hotels. Consult https://www.preferredreservations.nl/smc-2022 for hotel reservations.
Should you look for restaurant ideas during your stay in Groningen, those listed below are recommended by the local organizing team:
To make your visit to the conference easier and more comfortable, we have a poster printing service. We offer to have your poster printed in Groningen, so you do not have to take it along with you when traveling here.
The poster size should be A0 landscape format (height 841mm and width 1189mm). The poster boards cannot accommodate larger posters, or posters in portrait format. We kindly ask you not to laminate your poster with plastic. Laminated posters tend to curl and are difficult to affix to the boards.
Abstracts are invited for a poster (A0 landscape) or a plenary presentation (20 min; grouped in themes). Abstracts can be submitted in the five subject areas as detailed above; selection of a secondary subject area is allowed.
Abstract format: Title, authors, affiliations and body of abstract complete on 1 page, maximum of 500 words. An optional second page may be used for references and one figure.
All abstracts should be written in English.
Additional abstract guidelines:
Abstract submission has closed. Submitted abstracts may be accessed at: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SMC2022/
On June 24 2020, after a brief but devastating illness, Herman Peters passed away. Herman started his career as a clinical psychologist, and he specialized in the diagnosis of speech and language disorders. Specifically, he had a passion for understanding the underlying causes of stuttering and providing the most effective treatment for people suffering from this speech disorder. In the early 1980s, he introduced the Precision Fluency Shaping Program (the “Webster therapy”) in the Netherlands. In addition, he invited many renowned therapists and researchers from all over the world in order to implement new developments on speech and language disorders in the Netherlands.
He was one of the early advocates and implementers of scientific research in the realm of speech motor control processes in people who stutter. In 1985 he was the main founder of the series of International Conferences on Speech Motor Control. His dissertation (1987) also dealt with this topic. In 1989 he was one of the founding members of the International Fluency Association (IFA) and served this organization in various roles, including treasurer. His inspiration and organizational talents have also served the Dutch language community: Herman not only started the Dutch Society (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Stem- Spraak- Taalpathologie), but in 1992 he also started a journal (Tijdschrift Stem-, Spraak-, en Taalpathologie) and from 1997 – 2007 he edited a handbook (Handboek Stem-, Spraak-, en Taalpathologie) in the field of voice, speech and language disorders. A generation of research colleagues and clinical professionals will miss Herman’s inspiring enthusiasm, expertise, organizational talents, and always cheerful spirit.
In his career as a clinician Herman was head of the department Voice and Speech disorders, belonging to the ENT of the Universal Medical Center St. Radboud in Nijmegen. With power and charm he managed this multidisciplinary team, resulting in a kind of “working family”, with specializations on voice, cleft palate and stuttering.
Apart from his research and clinical work in the area of stuttering, Herman had a broad range of interests, in particular modern art and architecture. He truly was a man who had a zest for life and enjoyed travelling, meeting with people and enjoying all the wonderful things live had to offer. He will be dearly missed by all who knew him and our thoughts are with his wife Hanneke, his children and grand-children.
Ben Maassen
Mariëtte Embrechts
Marie-Christine Franken
Pascal van Lieshout