Department Chair, SLHS for their constant inspiration and guidance. I would further like to thank... more Department Chair, SLHS for their constant inspiration and guidance. I would further like to thank Ms. Linda Hinderscheit for her help in recruiting participants. I would also like to acknowledge my funding agencies through SLHS departmental fellowship and Bryng Bryngelson funding. I would also like to thank my familymy parents Mr. Babul and Mrs. Amita Basu , my spouse Mr. Rahul Paul Choudhury and my sister Sreshtha for their constant moral support and priceless encouragement. I would also like to thank my friends in the SLHS department and the University of Minnesota for their support and encouragement.
PURPOSE We compared school-age children who stutter (CWS) and age and gender matched control part... more PURPOSE We compared school-age children who stutter (CWS) and age and gender matched control participants (CWNS) in a dual-task involving a word-level rhyming task and a tone task involving pitch decisions. METHODS Participants were 30 children (CWS, n = 15) between 7 and 16 years. Auditory word - picture stimuli pairs from the rhyme task were categorized into nonrhyme (e.g., bear-cart), rhyme (e.g., bear-pear), and replica (e.g., bear-bear) categories. The effort associated with managing resources in the dual-task was varied through the manipulation of stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) between the stimuli of the two tasks. Mixed methods analyses of the response time (RT, ms) and error (%) data were conducted with Group, Category, and SOA as the fixed effects and participants as the random effect. Age and phoneme awareness skills were included in the analyses. RESULTS More rhyming errors and a significant positive correlation between rhyming errors and age was observed in the CWS comp...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2019. Major: Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences. A... more University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2019. Major: Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences. Advisors: Jayanthi Sasisekaran, Robert Schlauch. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 82 pages.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2016
We examined eight persons who stutter (PWS) and eight carefully matched adult, control participan... more We examined eight persons who stutter (PWS) and eight carefully matched adult, control participants for their ability to identify vowel-consonant (VC) syllables and to detect tones in a backward masking paradigm. Speech scores (percent correct) were obtained in quiet and in conditions with a fixed-level broadband masker with a delay of 0 ms and 300 ms. Tonal thresholds (1000 Hz) were obtained using an adaptive procedure in quiet and with the same masker delays as in the speech conditions. The results revealed significantly poorer performance for PWS for all of the speech conditions, including the quiet condition. Tonal thresholds in quiet and for the condition with a 300 ms delay were identical for the two groups, but, on average, the trend was for higher masked thresholds for PWS than for the control group in the 0 ms condition. The poorer speech results are consistent with the idea that PWS may have less distinct representations of phonemic categories that are revealed in a VC tas...
Aphasia following an acquired neurological insult necessitates an in-depth evaluation of the prim... more Aphasia following an acquired neurological insult necessitates an in-depth evaluation of the primary and secondary language symptoms. Of all the tools available for aphasia diagnosis, the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB; Kertesz, 1982) has proved to be one of the most comprehensive test batteries for describing the aphasia symptom complex. Several authors have pointed out the need for language-specific tools for the assessment of aphasia. But in Bengali, the most prevalent language in eastern India, no formal language assessment tool was available to date. The present study adapted the original WAB in Bengali to give the Bengali WAB (B-WAB). The study was completed in three phases: development, standardization and validation of the B-WAB. The test material was developed preserving the total number of items, however minor changes were made wherever necessary so that it matched the sociolinguistic norms in this part of the country. It was standardized in a group of 150 normal individuals...
Purpose The aim of the present study was to investigate dual-task performance in children who stu... more Purpose The aim of the present study was to investigate dual-task performance in children who stutter (CWS) and those who do not to investigate if the groups differed in the ability to attend and allocate cognitive resources effectively during task performance. Method Participants were 24 children (12 CWS) in both groups matched for age and sex. For the primary task, participants performed a phoneme monitoring in a picture–written word interference task. For the secondary task, participants made pitch judgments on tones presented at varying (short, long) stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) from the onset of the picture. Results The CWS were comparable to the children who do not stutter in performing the monitoring task although the SOA-based performance differences in this task were more variable in the CWS. The CWS were also significantly slower in making tone decisions at the short SOA and showed a trend for making more errors in this task. Conclusions The findings are interpreted to ...
The purpose of this study was to analyze resonance characteristics (nasality and nasalance values... more The purpose of this study was to analyze resonance characteristics (nasality and nasalance values) during the menstrual cycle. Previous studies indicate changes in voice quality and nasal mucosa due to temporary falling estrogen levels in human females during their menstrual cycle. The present study compared the nasality and “nasalance scores” obtained on 15 healthy participants. The first assessment was done
Aphasia following an acquired neurological insult necessitates an in-depth evaluation of the prim... more Aphasia following an acquired neurological insult necessitates an in-depth evaluation of the primary and secondary language symptoms. Of all the tools available for aphasia diagnosis, the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB; has proved to be one of the most comprehensive test batteries for describing the aphasia symptom complex. Several authors have pointed out the need for language-specific tools for the assessment of aphasia. But in Bengali, the most prevalent language in eastern India, no formal language assessment tool was available to date. The present study adapted the original WAB in Bengali to give the Bengali WAB (B-WAB). The study was completed in three phases: development, standardization and validation of the B-WAB. The test material was developed preserving the total number of items, however minor changes were made wherever necessary so that it matched the sociolinguistic norms in this part of the country. It was standardized in a group of 150 normal individuals in five different age groups ranging from 18-70 years, and normative values were provided for each subtest for each group. For establishing validity, it was administered to 30 aphasic subjects and the results indicated that the B-WAB was a valid tool for testing individuals with aphasia.
Department Chair, SLHS for their constant inspiration and guidance. I would further like to thank... more Department Chair, SLHS for their constant inspiration and guidance. I would further like to thank Ms. Linda Hinderscheit for her help in recruiting participants. I would also like to acknowledge my funding agencies through SLHS departmental fellowship and Bryng Bryngelson funding. I would also like to thank my familymy parents Mr. Babul and Mrs. Amita Basu , my spouse Mr. Rahul Paul Choudhury and my sister Sreshtha for their constant moral support and priceless encouragement. I would also like to thank my friends in the SLHS department and the University of Minnesota for their support and encouragement.
PURPOSE We compared school-age children who stutter (CWS) and age and gender matched control part... more PURPOSE We compared school-age children who stutter (CWS) and age and gender matched control participants (CWNS) in a dual-task involving a word-level rhyming task and a tone task involving pitch decisions. METHODS Participants were 30 children (CWS, n = 15) between 7 and 16 years. Auditory word - picture stimuli pairs from the rhyme task were categorized into nonrhyme (e.g., bear-cart), rhyme (e.g., bear-pear), and replica (e.g., bear-bear) categories. The effort associated with managing resources in the dual-task was varied through the manipulation of stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) between the stimuli of the two tasks. Mixed methods analyses of the response time (RT, ms) and error (%) data were conducted with Group, Category, and SOA as the fixed effects and participants as the random effect. Age and phoneme awareness skills were included in the analyses. RESULTS More rhyming errors and a significant positive correlation between rhyming errors and age was observed in the CWS comp...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2019. Major: Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences. A... more University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2019. Major: Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences. Advisors: Jayanthi Sasisekaran, Robert Schlauch. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 82 pages.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2016
We examined eight persons who stutter (PWS) and eight carefully matched adult, control participan... more We examined eight persons who stutter (PWS) and eight carefully matched adult, control participants for their ability to identify vowel-consonant (VC) syllables and to detect tones in a backward masking paradigm. Speech scores (percent correct) were obtained in quiet and in conditions with a fixed-level broadband masker with a delay of 0 ms and 300 ms. Tonal thresholds (1000 Hz) were obtained using an adaptive procedure in quiet and with the same masker delays as in the speech conditions. The results revealed significantly poorer performance for PWS for all of the speech conditions, including the quiet condition. Tonal thresholds in quiet and for the condition with a 300 ms delay were identical for the two groups, but, on average, the trend was for higher masked thresholds for PWS than for the control group in the 0 ms condition. The poorer speech results are consistent with the idea that PWS may have less distinct representations of phonemic categories that are revealed in a VC tas...
Aphasia following an acquired neurological insult necessitates an in-depth evaluation of the prim... more Aphasia following an acquired neurological insult necessitates an in-depth evaluation of the primary and secondary language symptoms. Of all the tools available for aphasia diagnosis, the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB; Kertesz, 1982) has proved to be one of the most comprehensive test batteries for describing the aphasia symptom complex. Several authors have pointed out the need for language-specific tools for the assessment of aphasia. But in Bengali, the most prevalent language in eastern India, no formal language assessment tool was available to date. The present study adapted the original WAB in Bengali to give the Bengali WAB (B-WAB). The study was completed in three phases: development, standardization and validation of the B-WAB. The test material was developed preserving the total number of items, however minor changes were made wherever necessary so that it matched the sociolinguistic norms in this part of the country. It was standardized in a group of 150 normal individuals...
Purpose The aim of the present study was to investigate dual-task performance in children who stu... more Purpose The aim of the present study was to investigate dual-task performance in children who stutter (CWS) and those who do not to investigate if the groups differed in the ability to attend and allocate cognitive resources effectively during task performance. Method Participants were 24 children (12 CWS) in both groups matched for age and sex. For the primary task, participants performed a phoneme monitoring in a picture–written word interference task. For the secondary task, participants made pitch judgments on tones presented at varying (short, long) stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) from the onset of the picture. Results The CWS were comparable to the children who do not stutter in performing the monitoring task although the SOA-based performance differences in this task were more variable in the CWS. The CWS were also significantly slower in making tone decisions at the short SOA and showed a trend for making more errors in this task. Conclusions The findings are interpreted to ...
The purpose of this study was to analyze resonance characteristics (nasality and nasalance values... more The purpose of this study was to analyze resonance characteristics (nasality and nasalance values) during the menstrual cycle. Previous studies indicate changes in voice quality and nasal mucosa due to temporary falling estrogen levels in human females during their menstrual cycle. The present study compared the nasality and “nasalance scores” obtained on 15 healthy participants. The first assessment was done
Aphasia following an acquired neurological insult necessitates an in-depth evaluation of the prim... more Aphasia following an acquired neurological insult necessitates an in-depth evaluation of the primary and secondary language symptoms. Of all the tools available for aphasia diagnosis, the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB; has proved to be one of the most comprehensive test batteries for describing the aphasia symptom complex. Several authors have pointed out the need for language-specific tools for the assessment of aphasia. But in Bengali, the most prevalent language in eastern India, no formal language assessment tool was available to date. The present study adapted the original WAB in Bengali to give the Bengali WAB (B-WAB). The study was completed in three phases: development, standardization and validation of the B-WAB. The test material was developed preserving the total number of items, however minor changes were made wherever necessary so that it matched the sociolinguistic norms in this part of the country. It was standardized in a group of 150 normal individuals in five different age groups ranging from 18-70 years, and normative values were provided for each subtest for each group. For establishing validity, it was administered to 30 aphasic subjects and the results indicated that the B-WAB was a valid tool for testing individuals with aphasia.
Uploads
Papers by Shriya Basu