Publications

  • Discriminating Children with Speech Sound Disorders from Children with Typically Developing Speech Using the Motor Speech Hierarchy Probe Words: A Preliminary Analysis of Mandibular Control

    Linda Orton, Richard Palmer, Roslyn Ward*, Petra Helmholz, Geoffrey R. Strauss, Paul Davey and Neville W. Hennessey (2025). Diagnostics 2025, 15(14), 1793

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  • Facial Movements Extracted from Video for the Kinematic Classification of Speech

    Richard Palmer, Roslyn Ward, Petra Helmholz, Geoffrey R. Strauss, Paul Davey, Neville Hennessey, Linda Orton and Aravind Namasivayam. (2024). Sensors 2024, 24(22), 7235

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  • Uncertainty analysis of clinically relevant distances derived using photogrammetric intersection for the assessment of motor-speech-control in children

    Boyle, L., Helmholz, P., Ward, R., Palmer, R., and Lichti, D. (2025). Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-G-2025, 225–232.

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  • Using AI to Automate Phonetic Transcription and Perform Forced Alignment for Clinical Application in the Assessment of Speech Sound Disorders

    Ying Li, Duc-Son Pham, Roslyn Ward, Neville Hennessey, Tele Tan. (2025). Workshop on Large Language Models and Generative AI for Health at AAAI 2025.

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  • Validation of Camera Networks Used for the Assessment of Speech Movements

    Liam Boyle, Petra Helmholz, Derek D. Lichti, and Roslyn Ward. (2024). Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-2-2024, 41–48.

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  • Improving text-independent forced alignment to support speech-language pathologists with phonetic transcription

    Ying Li, Bryce Johannas Wohlan, Duc-Son Pham, Kit Yan Chan, Roslyn Ward, Neville Hennessey, Tele Tan. (2023).Sensors 2023, 23(24), 9650

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  • A Text-Independent Forced Alignment Method for Automatic Phoneme Segmentation

    Wohlan, B., Pham, D., Chan, K. Y., Ward, R. (2022). AI 2022: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 35th Australasian Joint Conference, AI 2022, Perth, WA, Australia.

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  • PROMPT intervention for children with severe speech motor delay: a randomized control trial

    Namasivayam AK, Huynh A, Granata F, Law V, van Lieshout P (2021). Pediatr Res 89, 613–621 (2021).

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  • Development and validation of a Probe Word list to assess speech motor skills in children.

    Namasivayam AK, Huynh A, Bali R, Granata F, Law V, Rampersaud D, Hard J, Ward R, Helms-Park R, van Lieshout P, Hayden D. (2020). American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 30(2):622-648.

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  • Scanning a new landscape - The new tool unlocking facial clues to rare diseases with spatial techniques

    Helmholz P, Palmer RL, Baynam G. (2020). Position Magazine, February/March, 2020. pp. 22-24.

  • Speech sound disorders in children: An articulatory phonology perspective

    Namasivayam AK, Coleman D, O'Dwyer A, van Lieshout P (2020). Frontiers in Psychology 10, Article 2998: 22 pages.

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  • The PROMPT approach: Theory, Evidence, Use and Application

    Hayden D, Namasivayam AK, Ward R, Eigen J, Clark A. (2020, Submitted on Invitation). L. Williams, S. McLeod, & R. McCauley (Eds.), Interventions for Speech Sound Disorders. Second Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Brookes Publishing.

  • Measuring and training speech-language pathologists' orofacial cueing: a pilot demonstration

    Namasivayam AK, Bali R, Ward R, Tieu KD, Yan T, Hayden D, van Lieshout P (2018). Journal of Healthcare Engineering Article ID 4323046, 10 pages.

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  • Video-based tracking of jaw movements during speech: Preliminary results and future directions

    Bandini A, Namasivayam AK, Yunusova Y. (2017). INTERSPEECH: 689-693.

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  • Exploring quantifiable measures for the evaluation of SLP intervention fidelity

    Namasivayam AK, Ward R, Bali R, Davey P, Strauss GR, Claessen M, Hayden D, van Lieshout P. (2017). Poster presented at the 7th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Groningen, The Netherlands.

  • The assessment of fidelity in a motor speech-treatment approach

    Hayden D, Namasivayam AK, Ward R (2015). Speech Language and Hearing 18(1): 30-38.

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  • Probe wordlist for the assessment of treatment progress and generalization in children with motor speech disorders.

    Hayden D, Namasivayam A, Hard J, van Lieshout P (2014)

  • An evaluation of the effectiveness of PROMPT therapy in improving speech production accuracy in six children with cerebral palsy.

    Ward R, Leitao S, Strauss GR (2014) International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 16(4): 355-371.

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  • Improving Text-Independent Forced Alignment to Support Speech-Language Pathologists with Phonetic TranscriptionNew List Item

    Ying Li, Bryce Johannas Wohlan, Duc-Son Pham,Kit Yan Chan, Roslyn Ward, Neville Hennessey and Tele Tan. Sensors 2023, 23(24), 9650.

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