The University of British Columbia

Biomechanical models of the oropharynx are beneficial to treatment planning of speech
impediments by providing valuable insight into the speech function such as motor control. In
this paper, we develop a subject-specific model of the oropharynx and investigate its utility in
speech production. Our approach adapts a generic tongue–jaw–hyoid model [Stavness I,
Lloyd JE, Payan Y, Fels S. 2011. Coupled hard-soft tissue simulation with contact and
constraints applied to jaw–tongue–hyoid dynamics. Int J Numer Method Biomed Eng. 27 ( ...