Shiraz Nursing Home Adults with Parkinson and Alzheimer Disorder Speech production comparison

This project aims is to compare speech disorders performance in two senior adults group whom suffered from Alzheimer or Parkinson disease and looking for most affective factors can improves such performance base of these speech patterns similarities.it is analytical descriptive research with two group of elders in age rang 50 to 92 in women’s shiraz nursing home .two sessions in week for one month’s thirty minutes each time were considered to have an interview with selected participants and two especial test as an research target (MMSE and spear man )was administrated then In analyzing data and answering the main research questions, Correlational devices was used to find the relationships between two groups, in this regards, the researcher used statistical descriptive measurements such as mean, standard deviation and one-way ANOVA with SPSS software And for analyzing comparison between two groups, T-Test was used. The statistical analysis of collected data showed that the people with Alzheimer disease had more problems in word repetition in their speech than the group with Parkinson but those group with Parkinson deficit had more comprehension or stating complex structures or cohesively in their sentences.at last a few prevention methods was suggested to reduce risk of developing impaired speech for both target groups. This article is a kind of descriptive research about comparison speech and language disorders in two healthy and Alzheimer’s dieses adults in age range between 52 to 92in Shiraz nursing home. In old age of life speech disorder phenomenon is one of the most serious problems which results to all seniors’ isolation from family and society and also act as an important barrier in their normal communications. The collected data showed that Among all studied seniors in this research ones with Alzheimer disease had more problem that the normal ones in all part of speech branches but with different levels of suffering much especially in comprehension of complex sentences and sentence production as they faced with difficulty in remembering the words as their short memory lack. Also the researches showed the significant differences in length of the produced sentences (P< .05) by using tree test spirman, mini mental state examination and walker. This article also refers to some applicable solutions to reduce such as these disorders especially in both studied groups.