Data, Output, and Code: A Clinical Advantage: Experience informs recognition and adaptation to a novel talker with dysarthria

Perceptual training paradigms, which leverage the mechanism of perceptual learning, show that naïve listeners, those with no prior experience with dysarthria, benefit from explicit familiarization with a talker with dysarthria. The assumption, that familiarization affords listeners an opportunity to acquire distributional knowledge of the degraded speech signal. Here, we extend investigations to clinically experienced listeners, Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), and advance models of listener recognition and adaptation to dysarthric speech.