Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS)

Resources

Medical Information Sites

Cleveland Clinic – FAS Medical Information

American Speech Hearing Association (ASHA)

American Stroke Association

Support Groups

FAS Facebook Site

Living with FAS

Psychosocial Implications of Foreign Accent Syndrome: Two Case Examples

DiLollo, A., Scherz, J., & Neimeyer, R. A. (2014). Journal Of Constructivist Psychology, 27(1), 14-30.

Foreign Accent Syndrome: Between Two Worlds, At Home in Neither

Llamas, C., & Miller, N. (2010). In Language and Identities, George Square, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Living with Foreign Accent Syndrome: Insider Perspectives

Miller, N., Taylor, J., Howe, C., & Read, J. (2011). Aphasiology, 25(9), 1053-1068.

Foreign Accent Syndrome: The Stories People Have to Tell

Miller, N., & Ryalls, J. (2015). New York, NY: Psychology Press 27(1).

History of the Disorder

Foreign Accent Syndrome

Garst, D. & Katz, W. The ASHA Leader, 11(10), 10-11, 31. (2006)

Some further notes on Monrad-Krohn’s case study of foreign accent syndrome

Ryalls J, Reinvang I. (1985). Folia Phoniatr (Basel), 34(4), 37 (3-4): 160-2.

Neurogenic/functional aspects

Birdsey, Nicola, and Josie FA Millar. “Cognitive behavioral therapy for foreign accent syndrome: a single-case experimental design.” Clinical case studies 19, no. 5 (2020): 321-338.

Duffy, J. R. “Functional speech disorders: clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and management.” Handbook of clinical neurology 139 (2016): 379-388.

Edwards, Mark J., Mahinda Yogarajah, and Jon Stone. “Why functional neurological disorder is not feigning or malingering.” Nature Reviews Neurology 19, no. 4 (2023): 246-256.

Mariën, P., Keulen, S., & Verhoeven, J. (2019). Neurological aspects of foreign accent syndrome in stroke patients. Journal of Communication Disorders77, 94-113.

Utianski, R. L., & Bridge, M. J. (2024). Identifying and Treating Functional “Nonnative [Foreign] Accent Syndrome”: Perspectives From the Patient and Speech-Language Pathologist. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups9(1), 49-57.