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Kirrie Ballard

Professor, University of Sydney
Verified email at sydney.edu.au
Cited by 7704

Principles of motor learning in treatment of motor speech disorders

…, SNA Hula, SE Freedman, G Wulf, KJ Ballard… - 2008 - ASHA
Purpose There has been renewed interest on the part of speech-language pathologists to
understand how the motor system learns and determine whether principles of motor learning, …

Subtypes of progressive aphasia: application of the international consensus criteria and validation using β-amyloid imaging

…, VL Villemagne, S Savage, KE Pike, KJ Ballard… - Brain, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Primary progressive aphasia comprises a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative
conditions with diverse clinical profiles and underlying pathological substrates. A major …

Differential diagnosis of children with suspected childhood apraxia of speech

E Murray, P McCabe, R Heard, KJ Ballard - Journal of Speech, Language …, 2015 - ASHA
Purpose The gold standard for diagnosing childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is expert
judgment of perceptual features. The aim of this study was to identify a set of objective measures …

Understanding the nature of apraxia of speech: Theory, analysis, and treatment

KJ Ballard, JP Granier, DA Robin - Aphasiology, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
Researchers have interpreted the behaviours of individuals with acquired apraxia of speech
(AOS) as impairment of linguistic phonological processing, motor control, or both. Acoustic, …

A treatment for dysprosody in childhood apraxia of speech

KJ Ballard, DA Robin, P McCabe, J McDonald - 2010 - ASHA
… The study was supported by University of Sydney grants to Kirrie J. Ballard and Patricia
McCabe. We wish to thank Samantha Warhurst, Lauren van Rees, and Monique Signorelli for …

Speech, prosody, and voice characteristics of a mother and daughter with a 7; 13 translocation affecting FOXP2

LD Shriberg, KJ Ballard, JB Tomblin, JR Duffy… - 2006 - ASHA
Purpose The primary goal of this case study was to describe the speech, prosody, and voice
characteristics of a mother and daughter with a breakpoint in a balanced 7; 13 …

A systematic review of treatment outcomes for children with childhood apraxia of speech

E Murray, P McCabe, KJ Ballard - American Journal of Speech-Language …, 2014 - ASHA
Purpose To present a systematic review of single-case experimental treatment studies for
childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Method A search of 9 databases was used to find peer-…

Treatment for acquired apraxia of speech: A systematic review of intervention research between 2004 and 2012

KJ Ballard, JL Wambaugh, JR Duffy, C Layfield… - American Journal of …, 2015 - ASHA
Objectives The aim was for the appointed committee of the Academy of Neurological
Communication Disorders and Sciences to conduct a systematic review of published intervention …

Influence of order of stimulus presentation on speech motor learning: A principled approach to treatment for apraxia of speech

TR Knock, KJ Ballard, DA Robin, RA Schmidt - Aphasiology, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
The present study was designed to examine whether applying principles of motor learning
to a commonly used treatment approach for acquired apraxia of speech (AOS) would …

A randomized controlled trial for children with childhood apraxia of speech comparing rapid syllable transition treatment and the Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme–Third …

E Murray, P McCabe, KJ Ballard - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2015 - ASHA
… , and the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT120100255) to Kirrie J.
Ballard. Parts of this study were presented at the 2012 Annual Speech Pathology Australia …