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Tipping the Scales: Indiscriminate Use of Interval Scales to Rate Diverse Dysarthric Features. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Kaila L Stipancic,Brooke-Mai Whelan,Lauren Laur,Yunxin Zhao,Andrea Rohl,Inyong Choi,Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale
PURPOSE Error related to incorrect use of rating scales is problematic in the assessment and treatment of dysarthria. The main purpose of this project was to determine scale fit for cardinal speech features of hypokinetic dysarthria. A secondary aim was to determine rater reliability for the two different scales explored. METHOD Forty-three speakers with Parkinson's disease (PD) and 25 neurologically
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English Vowel Perception in Spanish-English Bilingual Preschoolers: Multiple-Talker Input Is Only Beneficial for Children With High Language Exposure Levels. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Simona Montanari,Jeremy Steffman,Robert Mayr
PURPOSES This study examines English vowel perception in Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers, comparing bilinguals' perception patterns to those of monolinguals and examining how child internal (age) and external variables (input quantity and input diversity) predict perceptual performance. METHOD Sixty children between 3;6 and 5;6 (years;months) of age participated in the study, 28 of whom were
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Predictive Measures in Child Language Development: The Role of Familial History and Early Expressive Vocabulary. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Elena Capelli,Chiara Dondena,Maria Luisa Lorusso,Sara Mascheretti,Raffaella Pozzoli,Antonio Salandi,Massimo Molteni,Valentina Riva,Chiara Cantiani
PURPOSE Prediction of developmental language disorder in children under 3 years of age is challenging. Among early risk factors, research has focused on having a positive familial history (FH+) for language or literacy problems and on late language emergence, that is, late-talker (LT) status. The interaction between these two risk factors and their cumulative effect is still debated. Here, we (a) investigate
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Measuring the Effects of Cognitive Capacity on Sentence Comprehension: Evidence From Elementary School-Age Children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Beula M Magimairaj,Naveen K Nagaraj,Ronald B Gillam
PURPOSE Our aim was to (a) develop a sentence comprehension measure that distinguished between cognitive capacity and syntactic knowledge in school-age children and (b) examine the relationship between comprehension performance and cognitive variables (working memory capacity and retrieval from long-term memory). METHOD We developed and administered a picture selection sentence comprehension task to
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Decomposing Variation in Vocabulary and Listening Comprehension Task Performance in Spanish and English Into Person, Ecological, and Assessment Differences for Spanish-English Bilingual Children in the United States. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Young-Suk Grace Kim,Nuria Gutierrez,Yaacov Petscher
PURPOSE We investigated the contributions of person, ecological, and assessment characteristics to one's performance on vocabulary and listening comprehension tasks in English and Spanish. Person characteristics included English learner status, ecological characteristics included instructional program enrollment (bilingual vs. English immersion) and poverty status, and assessment characteristics included
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Effect of Stellate Ganglion Block on Dysphagia and Cognitive Impairment in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: A Randomized Controlled Study. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Hongji Zeng,Weijia Zhao,Lixuan Fang,Huoying Pan,Shaochun Huang,Xi Zeng
BACKGROUNDS Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) can potentially and frequently lead to dysphagia and cognitive impairment. Stellate ganglion block (SGB) can alleviate the symptoms by regulating neural pathways and improving cerebral blood circulation. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to explore the clinical effect of SGB on airway protection, dysphagia, cognitive impairment, and activities of daily living
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Frequency and Universal Principles in the Acquisition of Word-Initial Consonant Clusters in Palestinian Arabic. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Ola Watad,Outi Bat-El Foux,Avivit Ben-David
PURPOSE In this article, we present the results of our study on the acquisition of word-initial consonant clusters in Palestinian Arabic. The remarkable property of word-initial clusters in Palestinian Arabic is that they often violate the Sonority Sequencing Principle, a universal constraint that disfavors sonority fall (e.g., lba:n "gum") and, to a lesser degree, sonority plateau (e.g., kta:b "book")
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Higher Frequency of Stuttered Disfluencies Negatively Affects Communicative Participation in Parkinson's Disease. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Eloïse Gooch,Tracy R Melzer,Kyla-Louise Horne,Sophie Grenfell,Leslie Livingston,Toni Pitcher,John C Dalrymple-Alford,Tim J Anderson,Megan J McAuliffe,Catherine Theys
PURPOSE Up to 90% of people with Parkinson's disease (PD) develop communication difficulties over the course of the disease. While the negative effect of dysarthria on communicative participation has been well-documented, the impact of the occurrence of acquired stuttered disfluencies on communication in different speech situations is unknown. This study aimed to determine if the frequency of occurrence
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The Use of Language Sample Analysis to Differentiate Developmental Language Disorder From Typical Language in Bilingual Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 José A Ortiz,Jessica M Nolasco,Yi Ting Huang,Jason C Chow
PURPOSE Language sample analysis (LSA) is a commonly recommended method of assessment for bilingual children. This systematic review and meta-analysis provides a comprehensive overview of the literature on the use of LSA to differentiate between developmental language disorder (DLD) and typical language (TL) in bilingual children. METHOD We conducted a search of several large electronic databases along
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Acoustic and Kinematic Predictors of Intelligibility and Articulatory Precision in Parkinson's Disease. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Austin Thompson,Yunjung Kim
PURPOSE This study investigated relationships within and between perceptual, acoustic, and kinematic measures in speakers with and without dysarthria due to Parkinson's disease (PD) across different clarity conditions. Additionally, the study assessed the predictive capabilities of selected acoustic and kinematic measures for intelligibility and articulatory precision ratings. METHOD Forty participants
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Variability in Vowel Space in Parkinson's Disease: Associations With Cognitive and Motor Impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Ginige S DeSilva,Prashasti Upadhyay,Michelle Manxhari,Daksha Gopal,Kara M Smith
PURPOSE People with Parkinson's disease (PwP) typically experience impairments in vowel articulation; however, less is known about how this measure varies with speech task type and clinical characteristics such as cognitive impairment. We characterized vowel space in PwP with and without mild cognitive impairment (MCI) comparing performance across phonation, reading, and picture description tasks.
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Craniofacial and Velopharyngeal Dimensions in Infants 0-12 Months: Between- and Within-Group Differences Based on Age and Sex. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Samantha J Power,Annalisa V Piccorelli,David L Jones,Ilana Neuberger,Gregory C Allen,Krystle Barhaghi,Katelyn J Kotlarek
PURPOSE The purpose of the present study is to (a) provide quantitative data on the growth of levator veli palatini (LVP), velopharyngeal (VP), and craniofacial dimensions in children under 12 months while controlling for corrected age and sex and (b) compare variability within age and sex groups. METHOD Magnetic resonance imaging scans of 75 infants between 0 and 12 months were measured and divided
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Temporal Coordination of Articulatory Gestures in Nonnative Onset Clusters: Evidence From American English Speakers Using Electromagnetic Articulography. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Hung-Shao Cheng,Matthew Masapollo,Christina Hagedorn,Adam Buchwald
PURPOSE Research in cross-language speech production indicates that, although the production of nonnative consonant clusters is often difficult, speakers of American English can produce some nonnative clusters (e.g., /fn/) with high accuracy. This ease of production for select nonnative clusters may occur due to similarity of phonetic structure with native clusters (e.g., nonnative /fn/ and native
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Adductor Laryngeal Dystonia Versus Muscle Tension Dysphonia: Examining the Utility of Automated Acoustic Analysis to Detect Task Dependency as a Distinguishing Feature. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Nelson Roy,Shaheen N Awan,Skyler Jennings,Jenna Jensen,Ray M Merrill
OBJECTIVE Differentiating adductor laryngeal dystonia (ADLD) and primary muscle tension dysphonia (pMTD) can be challenging. Unlike pMTD, ADLD is described as "task-dependent" with voiced phonemes purportedly provoking greater sign expression than voiceless phonemes. We evaluated the ability of two automated acoustic measures, the Cepstral Spectral Index of Dysphonia (CSID) and creak, to detect task
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Acoustic Analysis of Spatiotemporal Variability in Children With Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Janet Vuolo,Alan Wisler
PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate acoustic spatiotemporal variability in children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) compared to children with typical development (TD). Increased spatiotemporal variability in children with CAS relative to nonapraxic peers has been documented in multiple kinematic studies. To date, few studies have investigated spatiotemporal variability in CAS
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Introduction to the Forum: Native Language, Dialect, and Foreign Accent in Dysarthria. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Yunjung Kim
This timely collection is an international effort to serve as a foundation to encourage research that offers insights into the interaction between language variation and motor speech disorders. Specifically, this forum aimed to provide a platform that (a) explores and demonstrates the role of language variation in the manifestation of dysarthria, (b) considers language variation in clinical assessment
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Eye-Tracking Methodology to Detect Differences in Attention to Faces Between Developmental Language Disorder and Autism. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Julia Vacas,Adoración Antolí,Araceli Sánchez-Raya,Carolina Pérez-Dueñas,Fátima Cuadrado
PURPOSE Developmental language disorder (DLD) and autism sometimes appear as overlapping conditions in behavioral tests. There is much literature on the visual scanning pattern (VSP) of faces in autistic children, but this is scarce regarding those with DLD. The purpose of this study was to compare the VSP of faces in young children with DLD, those with autism, and typically developing peers, assessing
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Vigilant Attention During Cognitive and Language Processing in Aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Dannielle Hibshman,Ellyn A Riley
PURPOSE Persons with aphasia (PWA) experience differences in attention after stroke, potentially impacting cognitive/language performance. This secondary analysis investigated physiologically measured vigilant attention during linguistic and nonlinguistic processing in PWA and control participants. METHOD To evaluate performance and attention in a language task, seven PWA read sentences aloud (linguistic
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The Influence of Cough Reflex Testing on Patient Management. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Keri Darrock,Emma Wallace,Esther Guiu Hernandez,Maggie-Lee Huckabee,Madeline Mills,Phoebe Macrae
PURPOSE Cough reflex testing (CRT) is an adjunct to the clinical swallowing evaluation (CSE), providing information on patients' risk of silent aspiration. CRT has been shown to influence diet recommendations, but in previous work, the many varied patient characteristics are not controlled. Therefore, the specific role of CRT results in these decisions remains unclear as this relationship has not been
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Socioeconomic Deprivation Detrimentally Influences Language Outcomes in Toddlers With Cleft Palate. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Robert Brinton Fujiki,Kari M Lien,John Munday,Susan L Thibeault,
PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of socioeconomic deprivation on language and developmental outcomes in toddlers with cleft palate with or without cleft lip (CP ± L). Other factors known to influence language outcomes were also considered, including home language history, history of hearing problems, syndromic diagnoses, and sex. METHOD A multicenter, cross-sectional study
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Accuracy of Speech Sound Analysis: Comparison of an Automatic Artificial Intelligence Algorithm With Clinician Assessment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Micalle Carl,Eduard Rudyk,Yair Shapira,Heather Leavy Rusiewicz,Michal Icht
PURPOSE Automatic speech analysis (ASA) and automatic speech recognition systems are increasingly being used in the treatment of speech sound disorders (SSDs). When utilized as a home practice tool or in the absence of the clinician, the ASA system has the potential to facilitate treatment gains. However, the feedback accuracy of such systems varies, a factor that may impact these gains. The current
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Velopharyngeal Gap Size During Sustained Vowel Production Correlates With Perceptual Ratings of Hypernasality in Connected Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Jessica L Williams,Jamie L Perry,Kate Bunton,Kelly Nett Cordero,Taylor D Snodgrass,Davinder J Singh,Hamy Temkit,Thomas J Sitzman
PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceptual ratings of hypernasality made during connected speech and velopharyngeal (VP) gap size measured in millimeters in the sagittal plane during sustained vowel production using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). METHOD A retrospective cross-sectional analysis was completed. A subgroup of 110 participants from another
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Research Priorities for Childhood Apraxia of Speech: A Long View. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Patricia McCabe,Molly Beiting,Elaine R Hitchcock,Edwin Maas,Amy Meredith,Angela T Morgan,Nancy L Potter,Jonathan L Preston,Laura Moorer,Pooja Aggarwal,Kirrie Ballard,Laura Baskall Smith,Nicole F Caballero,Kathryn Cabbage,Julie Case,Susan Caspari,Karen V Chenausky,Shina Cook,Ewa Grzelak,Maryane Gomez,Aubrie Hagopian,Chantelle Highman,Anne Hodits,Jenya Iuzzini-Seigel,Jillian LeVos-Carlson,Barbara A Lewis
This article introduces the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Special Issue: Selected Papers From the 2022 Apraxia Kids Research Symposium. The field of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) has developed significantly in the past 15 years, with key improvements in understanding of basic biology including genetics, neuroscience, and computational modelling; development of diagnostic tools
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Determinants of Multilevel Discourse Outcomes in Anomia Treatment for Aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-15 Robert Cavanaugh,Michael Walsh Dickey,William D Hula,Davida Fromm,Jennifer Golovin,Julie Wambaugh,Gerasimos Fergadiotis,William S Evans
PURPOSE Individuals with aphasia identify discourse-level communication (i.e., language in use) as a high priority for treatment. The central premise of most aphasia treatments is that restoring language at the phoneme, word, and/or sentence level will generalize to discourse. However, treatment-related changes in discourse-level communication are modest, are poorly understood, and vary greatly among
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Articulation Assessment for Tongue Cancer Patients: Using Consonant Production Performance to Capture Speech Deficits. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Tongtong Xie,Yi Li,Yudong Xiao,Huayong Zheng,Guiqing Liao,Shuo Lu
PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to thoroughly analyze postoperative consonant errors by tongue cancer (TC) patients with speech disorders and also to investigate the correlation between the pathological factors and the speech performance using our Consonant-based Articulation Assessment Battery (CAAB). METHOD The participants were 57 monolingual Mandarin TC patients (26 women, 31 men) after surgery
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Evaluating Stuttering Self-Stigma and Its Relationship to Adverse Impact in Children and Adolescents With the Child Stuttering Self-Stigma Scale. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Chelsea A Johnson,Katelyn L Gerwin,Seth E Tichenor,Michael P Boyle,Bridget Walsh
PURPOSE Self-stigma occurs when a person internalizes and applies stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination to themselves. For adults who stutter, self-stigma is linked to negative outcomes and reduced quality of life. The development of self-stigma in people who stutter is not well understood. The aim of this study is to evaluate stuttering self-stigma in school-age children and adolescents and explore
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Is the Articulatory Trajectory of Changing Syllables Important for Achieving Higher Syllable Rates Compared to Repeated Syllables? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Monica Lancheros,Marina Laganaro
PURPOSE The production of speech-like sequences composed of varying syllables has been reported to achieve higher syllable rates than the production of repeated syllables (commonly designed as sequential motion rate [SMR] and alternating motion rate [AMR] tasks, respectively). The faster rate for SMR relative to AMR sequences is explained by different interpretative hypotheses, which remain empirically
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Relations Among Multiple Dimensions of Self-Reported Listening Effort in Response to an Auditory Psychomotor Vigilance Task. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Edward J Golob,Ricardo C Olayo,Denver M Y Brown,Jeffrey R Mock
PURPOSE Listening effort is a broad construct, and there is no consensus on how to subdivide listening effort into dimensions. This project focuses on the subjective experience of effortful listening and tests if cognitive workload, mental fatigue, and mood are interrelated dimensions. METHOD Two online studies tested young adults (n = 74 and n = 195) and measured subjective workload, fatigue (subscales
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The Effect of Age of First Exposure on Vocabulary, Mean Length of Utterance, Morphosyntactic Accuracy, and Semantic and Sentence-Level Patterns in the First 2 Years of French Second-Language Learning by Preschool- to Adolescent-Age Mandarin Speakers. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Elin Thordardottir,Ludivine Plez
BACKGROUND Bilingual assessment is particularly difficult in the very first period of children's second language (L2) exposure. This exploratory, longitudinal study examined L2 learning after 1 and 2 years of L2 exposure by young immigrants and how it is affected by their age at first exposure to the L2 (AoE). METHOD Participants were 18 immigrants ranging in age from 2;11 to 14;2 (years;months), all
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Insights From Important Event Recounts Told by People With Traumatic Brain Injury. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Erica Zhang,Joanne Steel,Leanne Togher,Davida Fromm,Brian MacWhinney,Elise Bogart
PURPOSE Communication can be chronically impacted by severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), yet there is a critical lack of research investigating communication recovery beyond 12 months postinjury with discourse measures. This longitudinal study aimed to investigate quantitative and qualitative changes in important event recounts produced by a group of people with severe TBI up to 2 years postinjury
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Contributions of Speech Timing and Articulatory Precision to Listener Perceptions of Intelligibility and Naturalness in Parkinson's Disease. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Saul A Frankford,Alex Estrada,Cara E Stepp
PURPOSE Parkinson's disease (PD) results in hypokinetic dysarthria in as many as 90% of cases. Among the most distinctive features of hypokinetic dysarthria are atypical timing and articulatory imprecision in speech production. Here, we examined the contributions of perceived speech timing typicality and articulatory precision, both on their own and while controlling for the other, on intelligibility
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Statistical Learning Among Preschoolers With and Without Developmental Language Disorder: Examining Effects of Language Status, Age, and Prior Learning. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Leah L Kapa,Heidi M Mettler
PURPOSE Our goal was to compare statistical learning abilities between preschoolers with developmental language disorder (DLD) and peers with typical development (TD) by assessing their learning of two artificial grammars. METHOD Four- and 5-year-olds with and without DLD were compared on their statistical learning ability using two artificial grammars. After learning an aX grammar, participants learned
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Automatic Speech Recognition in Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Katerina A Tetzloff,Daniela Wiepert,Hugo Botha,Joseph R Duffy,Heather M Clark,Jennifer L Whitwell,Keith A Josephs,Rene L Utianski
INTRODUCTION Transcribing disordered speech can be useful when diagnosing motor speech disorders such as primary progressive apraxia of speech (PPAOS), who have sound additions, deletions, and substitutions, or distortions and/or slow, segmented speech. Since transcribing speech can be a laborious process and requires an experienced listener, using automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for diagnosis
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Dual-Task Interference in the Assessment of Listening Effort: Results of Normal-Hearing Adults, Cochlear Implant Users, and Hearing Aid Users. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Dorien Ceuleers,Sofie Degeest,Freya Swinnen,Nele Baudonck,Katrien Kestens,Ingeborg Dhooge,Hannah Keppler
PURPOSE The purpose of the current study was to assess dual-task interference (i.e., changes between the dual-task and baseline condition) in a listening effort dual-task paradigm in normal-hearing (NH) adults, hearing aid (HA) users, and cochlear implant (CI) users. METHOD Three groups of 31 participants were included: (a) NH adults, (b) HA users, and (c) CI users. The dual-task paradigm consisted
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Neural Decoding of Spontaneous Overt and Intended Speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Debadatta Dash,Paul Ferrari,Jun Wang
PURPOSE The aim of this study was to decode intended and overt speech from neuromagnetic signals while the participants performed spontaneous overt speech tasks without cues or prompts (stimuli). METHOD Magnetoencephalography (MEG), a noninvasive neuroimaging technique, was used to collect neural signals from seven healthy adult English speakers performing spontaneous, overt speech tasks. The participants
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Communication Public Health: An Integration of Audiology, Speech-Language Pathology, and Public Health. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Sarah E Warren,Leslie C Lopez,Teresa Anthony,Laura Coco
PURPOSE Health care is advancing toward a collaborative and integrative approach that promotes general health and wellness while addressing health inequities through the consideration of broader social and economic factors that influence the well-being of the entire population. Recently, there has been growing evidence of public health concept applications in fields related to speech, language, and
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Characteristics of Speech Auditory Brainstem Response in Preschool Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Yuying Sun,Jia Zhou,Huiqin Zhu,Panting Liu,Huanxi Lin,Zhenglu Xiao,Xinyue Yu,Jun Qian,Meiling Tong,Xia Chi,Qin Hong
OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of auditory processing (AP) in preschool children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) using the speech auditory brainstem response (speech-ABR), which provides insights into the AP of speech signals in the central auditory nervous system (CANS). METHOD A total of 84 preschool children diagnosed with ADHD, aged 4-6 years
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Audiograms and Prevalence of Hearing Loss in U.S. Children and Adolescents 6-19 Years of Age. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Larry Humes
PURPOSE The aim of this study was to determine median audiograms and prevalence of hearing loss for U.S. 6- to 19-year-olds. METHOD U.S. national audiometric data for 2,709 six- to 19-year-olds from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2017-2020 were analyzed. Analyses were primarily descriptive and relied on distribution-free medians, cumulative distribution functions (CDFs), and population-weighted
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Age-Related Differences in the Effects of Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Masking on Semantic Processing: Evidence From the N400 Component in Young and Middle-Aged Listeners. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Nicholas Stanley,Tara Davis
PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine if there are age-related differences in semantic processing with linguistic and nonlinguistic masking, as measured by the N400. METHOD Sixteen young (19-31 years) and 16 middle-aged (41-57 years) adults with relatively normal hearing sensitivity were asked to determine whether word pairs were semantically related or unrelated in three listening conditions:
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The Emergence of Verb Patterns in Arabic in Children With Developmental Language Disorder Compared to Children With Typical Development. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Naila Tallas-Mahajna,Sharon Armon-Lotem,Elinor Saiegh-Haddad
PURPOSE The Arabic verb system features a nonlinear root and pattern derivational morphology. Previous studies suggest that young Arabic and Hebrew speakers' early verb use is based on semantic complexity rather than derivational morphological structure. The present study examines the role of morphological and semantic complexity in the emergence of the verb derivational morphology in Arabic speaking
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Exploring the Activation of Target Words in Picture Naming in Children Who Stutter: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Nathan D Maxfield
PURPOSE Target word activation in picture naming was explored in children who stutter (CWS) and typically fluent children (TFC) using event-related potentials (ERPs). METHOD A total of 18 CWS and 16 TFC completed a task combining picture naming and probe word identification. On each trial, a picture-to-be-named was followed by an auditory probe word-to-be-identified; the probe was identical (Identity
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Morphological and Inhibitory Skills in Monolingual and Bilingual Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Elena Gandolfi,Giovanna Diotallevi,Paola Viterbori
PURPOSE This study examined the language and nonverbal inhibitory control skills of Italian monolingual and bilingual typically developing (TD) preschoolers with Italian as their second language and of age-matched monolingual and bilingual peers with developmental language disorder (DLD). METHOD Four groups of preschoolers were enrolled: 30 TD Italian monolinguals, 24 TD bilinguals, 19 Italian monolinguals
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Auditory Processing of Speech and Nonspeech in People Who Stutter. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Matthew C Phillips,Emily B Myers
PURPOSE We investigated speech and nonspeech auditory processing of temporal and spectral cues in people who do and do not stutter. We also asked whether self-reported stuttering severity was predicted by performance on the auditory processing measures. METHOD People who stutter (n = 23) and people who do not stutter (n = 28) completed a series of four auditory processing tasks online. These tasks
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DigiSpan: Development and Evaluation of a Computer-Based, Adaptive Test of Short-Term Memory and Working Memory. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Harvey Dillon,Christian Boyle,Shrutika Gaikwad,Ponsuang Luengtaweekul,Sharon Cameron
PURPOSE This article describes DigiSpan, a new computer-controlled auditory test of forward and reverse digit span, designed to be administered by clinicians, and presents normative and test-retest reliability data for adults. METHOD DigiSpan mimics conventional live-voice tests in that it commences with trials that ascend in length until a stopping criterion is met, giving rise to a conventional scaled
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Narrative Discourse Performance in Traumatic Brain Injury: Does Story Comprehension Predict Story Retelling? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Karen Lê,Carl Coelho,Richard Feinn
PURPOSE Little is known about the relationship between discourse comprehension and production in traumatic brain injury (TBI), especially for spoken language. This study examined to what extent narrative discourse comprehension accounts for narrative discourse production outcomes (story grammar, story completeness). A secondary aim was to provisionally test an assumption of a discourse model, the structure
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Implicit and Explicit Sequence Learning in Adults With Developmental Language Disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Gabriel J Cler,Samantha Bartolo,Jiwon Kim,Anna Nolan,Sophia Banel
PURPOSE Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that impacts approximately 7% of the population and is characterized by unexplained deficits in expressive and/or receptive components of language. A common procedural learning task, serial reaction time (SRT), has been used to develop models of the basis of DLD. However, paradigms involve differing levels of implicit and
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Adolescent-Centered mHealth Applications in a Collaborative Care Model: A Virtual Focus Group Study With Audiologists. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Danielle Glista,Robin O'Hagan,Michelle Servais,Nilram Jalilian
PURPOSE Technology-enabled care, including the use of mobile health (mHealth), is emerging as a viable hearing health care delivery method. While the integration of mHealth with adult populations currently supports a wide array of hearing services, a better understanding of the implementation across the lifespan is needed. Literature surrounding the unique population of adolescent hearing aid users
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Balance Performance in Young Adults With Hearing Aids: How Can It Be Affected by the Visual Cognitive Task? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Emre Orhan,İsa Tuncay Batuk,Merve Ozbal Batuk
OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of a visual cognitive additional task on balance performance in young adults with hearing aids (HAs). METHOD Twenty young adult HA users and 20 controls were recruited for the study. Participants were asked to stand on a force plate using computerized dynamic posturography and perform a Sensory Organization Test (SOT) as a balance task under
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A Systematic Review and Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Acoustic Measures of Prosody in Parkinson's Disease. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Jules Fumel,Delphine Bahuaud,Ethan Weed,Riccardo Fusaroli,Anahita Basirat
PURPOSE Linguistic prosody is affected in Parkinson's disease (PD), which implicates the basal ganglia's role in the production of prosody. However, there is no recent systematic synthesis of the available acoustic evidence of prosodic impairment in PD. This study aimed to identify the acoustic features of linguistic prosody that are consistently affected in PD. METHOD The authors systematically reviewed
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Accuracy of Automatic Processing of Speech-Language Pathologist and Child Talk During School-Based Therapy Sessions. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Leydi Johana Chaparro-Moreno,Hugo Gonzalez Villasanti,Laura M Justice,Jing Sun,Mary Beth Schmitt
PURPOSE This study examines the accuracy of Interaction Detection in Early Childhood Settings (IDEAS), a program that automatically transcribes audio files and estimates linguistic units relevant to speech-language therapy, including part-of-speech units that represent features of language complexity, such as adjectives and coordinating conjunctions. METHOD Forty-five video-recorded speech-language
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Validity and Reliability of the German Vocal Fatigue Index in Adults With Voice Disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Lydia Elaine Stappenbeck,Sylva Bartel,Jörg Edgar Bohlender,Meike Brockmann-Bauser
PURPOSE Vocal fatigue-related symptoms, frequent in patients with voice disorders, are reliably quantifiable with the Vocal Fatigue Index (VFI) in several languages. The main aim of this work was to investigate the content and construct validity of the German Vocal Fatigue Index (VFI-D) by comparison with the German Voice Handicap Index 9 international (VHI9i) and the Vocal Tract Discomfort Scale (VTD)
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How Do Quantitative Videofluoroscopy Measures Differ Between People With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Age-Matched Healthy Adults? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Pooja Gandhi,Ashley A Waito,Melanie Peladeau-Pigeon,Emily K Plowman,Catriona M Steele
PURPOSE Dysphagia is a leading cause of morbidity in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (PwALS). Previous videofluoroscopic swallowing studies (VFSS) in PwALS do not account for the influence of senescence. We aimed to compare swallowing in PwALS and an age- and sex-matched control group using healthy reference data to define typical and atypical values. METHOD We conducted retrospective analysis
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Assessing Relative Linguistic Impairment With Model-Based Item Selection. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Grant M Walker,Julius Fridriksson,Gregory Hickok
PURPOSE A picture naming test is presented that reveals impairment to specific mechanisms involved in the naming process, using accuracy scores on curated item sets. A series of psychometric validation experiments are reported. METHOD Using a computational model that enables estimation of item difficulty at the lexical and sublexical stages of word retrieval, two complimentary sets of items were constructed
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Age-Related Hearing Loss, Cognitive Decline, and Social Interaction: Testing a Framework. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Meisam K Arjmandi,Jean Neils-Strunjas,Samaneh Nemati,Julius Fridriksson,Sarah Newman-Norlund,Roger Newman-Norlund,Leonardo Bonilha
PURPOSE Aging increases risk for hearing loss, cognitive decline, and social isolation; however, the nature of their interconnection remains unclear. This study examined the interplay between age-related hearing loss, cognitive decline, and social isolation in adults by testing the ability to understand speech in background noise, a challenge frequently reported by many older adults. METHOD We analyzed
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The Collaboverse: A Collaborative Data-Sharing and Speech Analysis Platform. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Justin D Dvorak,Frank R Boutsen
PURPOSE Collaboration in the field of speech-language pathology occurs across a variety of digital devices and can entail the usage of multiple software tools, systems, file formats, and even programming languages. Unfortunately, gaps between the laboratory, clinic, and classroom can emerge in part because of siloing of data and workflows, as well as the digital divide between users. The purpose of
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Speak Up: How Hearing Loss and the Lack of Hearing Aids Affect Conversations in Quiet. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Eline Borch Petersen,Daniel Parker
PURPOSE The study examines the effect of hearing loss and hearing aid (HA) amplification on the conversational dynamics between hearing-impaired (HI) and normal-hearing (NH) interlocutors. Combining data from the current and a prior study, we explore how the speech levels of both interlocutors correlate and relate to HI interlocutors' degree of hearing loss. METHOD Sixteen pairs of younger NH and elderly
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Individual Predictors of Language Treatment Response in Children With Developmental Language Disorder: A Systematic Review. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Kerry Danahy Ebert,HaeJi Lee
PURPOSE Treatment response is the degree to which an individual benefits from a treatment. This systematic review sought to identify and synthesize research evidence regarding individual characteristics that predict language treatment response among children with developmental language disorder (DLD). METHOD To be eligible for inclusion, articles needed to report results of an oral language treatment
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How People Living With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Use Personalized Automatic Speech Recognition Technology to Support Communication. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Richard Cave
PURPOSE Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive, ultimately fatal disease causing progressive muscular weakness. Most people living with ALS (plwALS) experience dysarthria, eventually becoming unable to communicate using natural speech. Many wish to use speech for as long as possible. Personalized automated speech recognition (ASR) model technology, such as Google's Project Relate, is
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Multimodal Technologies for Remote Assessment of Neurological and Mental Health. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Vikram Ramanarayanan
PURPOSE Automated remote assessment and monitoring of patients' neurological and mental health is increasingly becoming an essential component of the digital clinic and telehealth ecosystem, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. This review article reviews various modalities of health information that are useful for developing such remote clinical assessments in the real world at scale. APPROACH
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Characteristics of Children and Youth Referred for Language Assessment at Different Ages. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Elise de Bree,Karin Wiefferink,Ellen Gerrits
PURPOSE Early detection of language delays is essential, as language is key for academic outcomes, well-being, and societal participation. Previous studies have focused on undetected delays in young children. Much less is known about referrals at older ages. In this study, we aimed to (a) establish how many children are referred at toddler age (2-3 years) and how many at lower elementary (4-7 years)