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Can all schizophrenic speech be discriminated from normal speech?
Author(s) -
Allen Heidelinde A.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1985.tb01337.x
Subject(s) - psychology , speech disorder , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , audiology , cognitive psychology , medicine , psychiatry
The study addressed whether the speech of non‐speech disordered as well as speech disordered schizophrenics is discriminate from normal speech. An analysis, using a clinician's acumen to detect, not as is usually the case to specify, showed that schizophrenic speech (including that of non‐speech disordered schizophrenics) can be accurately discriminated. This suggests that the speech of all schizophrenics does indeed differ from that of normals, but in as yet unspecified ways.