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Differences in the type of vocabulary understood by deaf and hearing students: Results to guide interventions J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Antonia González-Cuenca, Marina González-Jerez, María José Linero, Rocío Lavigne
Vocabulary knowledge is an essential element in language development. There is evidence of significant differences in vocabulary knowledge between deaf children and hearing peers of the same age. These differences put deaf students at a disadvantage when compared to their hearing counterparts. The aim of this study was to investigate whether certain types of words characterise the lexical difficulties
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Perceptions of and beliefs about stuttering in the Hispanic/Latino community J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Angela M. Medina, Jean S. Mead, Stefanie Moore
The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate perceptions of people who stutter and beliefs about the causes and cures of stuttering within the Hispanic/Latino community. Respondents who were 18 or older and of Hispanic/Latino origin were invited to respond to a 24-question online survey. Questions involved exploring familiarity with and beliefs regarding etiologies, treatment approaches, treatment
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Overlapping hearing and communication profiles for the deletion and the RAI1 variant form of Smith-Magenis Syndrome (SMS) J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-11 Christine Brennan, Rachael R. Baiduc
Smith-Magenis syndrome (SMS), a rare, genetically linked complex developmental disorder is associated with hearing loss and delays in speech-language development. Approximately 70 % of those with SMS have a genetic deletion within chromosome 17p11.2 and 10 % have a single gene mutation in the same area, known as the RAI1 variant form of SMS. Previous studies presented preliminary comparisons of the
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Narrative reconstruction in deaf and hearing children: A comparative study in the context of Arabic diglossia J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Dr. Hashemiah Almusawi, Dr. Bader Alqallaf, Dr. Amnah Hafsyan
This study explores the narrative skills of deaf and hearing children within the context of Arabic diglossia, a linguistic environment characterised by significant differences between spoken dialects and formal written language. Using Stein and Glenn's (1979) and Bruner's (1991) frameworks, the research analyses the narrative constructions of 13 hearing and 13 deaf children in Kuwait. The findings
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Using PAALSS for the manual analysis of language samples of individuals who use aided AAC in Spanish: A pilot study J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Gloria Soto
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Comprehension of Miranda warnings in adults with chronic, moderate-severe traumatic brain injury J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Jade T. Mitchell, Malcolm Edwards, Kimberly Walsh, Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Melissa C. Duff
To compare comprehension of Miranda rights in adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) versus adults without TBI as measured by response accuracy on the Miranda Right Comprehension Instruments. Data were collected virtually via teleconferencing from July 2022 to February 2023. Participants included 25 adults with moderate-severe TBI (12 females, 13 males) and 25 adults without TBI (12 females, 13 males)
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Aging affects Mandarin speakers’ understanding of focus sentences in quiet and noisy environments J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Xinxian Zhao, Yang Li, Xiaohu Yang
Older adults experiencing normal aging make up most patients seeking services at audiology clinics. While research acknowledges that the speech perception abilities of aging adults can be diminished in lower-level speech identification or discrimination, there is less concern about how aging affects higher-level speech understanding, particularly in tonal languages. This study aimed to explore the
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Using semantic verbal fluency to estimate the relative and absolute vocabulary size of bilinguals: An exploratory study of children and adolescents J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-07 Daphnée Dubé, Elin Thordardottir
The full assessment of bilingual children often involves at least one language for which formal vocabulary tests are lacking and which the examiner does not speak. We examined, in a sample of children with typical development (TD), whether a semantic verbal fluency task, typically used in research as a measure of executive function, could be used in the place of a formal vocabulary test to estimate
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The role of speech-language pathologists in supporting theory of mind through literacy-based activities J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Kristen Secora
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Automatic metaphor processing in developmental dyslexia J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Rita Cersosimo, Filippo Domaneschi, Hamad Al-Azary
Previous research found metaphor impairments with dyslexia; however, it is unclear if difficulties are due to initial activation of the metaphorical meaning or to subsequent discourse integration processes. The study examines the presence of early automatic processing of metaphors in adults with developmental dyslexia, considering the role of executive functions and metaphor familiarity. Using a sentence
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Lexical development in Kuwaiti Arabic in typically developing children and late talkers J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Fauzia Abdalla, Abdessattar Mahfoudhi, Saleh Shaalan, Reem Almarri, Maryam Aldousari, Hessa Alseedeqi
This study explored vocabulary development and lexical composition in young typically developing (TD) Kuwaiti children and late talkers (LT) using the ( et al.). The sample included 161 children aged 20 to 37 months: 127 TD and 34 children who were late talkers (LT group). The late talkers were first identified based on a background questionnaire answered by the parents. All the caregivers completed
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The perceived guilt and innocence of adults with developmental language disorder and adults with typical language during a mock interrogation J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Tammie J. Spaulding, Audra Blewitt
This study examined if there were differences in the guilty and not guilty judgments of adults with developmental language disorder (DLD) and those with typical language (TL) functioning. Twenty-four adults (12 DLD, 12 TL) were assigned to either the guilty or not guilty conditions. Those in the guilty condition engaged in a mock crime while those in the not guilty condition were informed that a crime
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A meta-analysis of expressive prosody in cochlear implant users J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Kara Hawthorne
Prosody is used to express indexical (identifying the talker), linguistic (e.g., question intonation, lexical stress), pragmatic (e.g., contrastive stress, sarcasm), and emotional/affective functions. It is manifested through changes in fundamental frequency (), intensity, and duration. and intensity are degraded when perceived through a cochlear implant (CI). The purpose of this meta-analysis is to
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Differential spectral characteristics of the Spanish fricative /s/ in the articulation of individuals with dysarthria and apraxia of speech J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Natalia Melle, Carlos Gallego, José María Lahoz-Bengoechea, Silvia Nieva
This study examines whether there are differences in the speech of speakers with dysarthria, speakers with apraxia and healthy speakers in spectral acoustic measures during production of the central-peninsular Spanish alveolar sibilant fricative /s/. To this end, production of the sibilant was analyzed in 20 subjects with dysarthria, 8 with apraxia of speech and 28 healthy speakers. Participants produced
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Challenges with computing scalar and ad-hoc implicatures in Mandarin-speaking 4–8-year-old autistic children J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Yi Esther Su, Yuhan Jiang
Mixed findings have been reported about the computation of scalar or/and ad-hoc implicatures in primarily school-age autistic verbal children and adolescents: while some studies reported their struggles with both implicatures, others observed their strengths in computing scalar implicatures. This study extends the previous investigation by testing the derivation of scalar (including both number and
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Changes in speech prosody perception during Parkinson's disease: A comprehensive analysis J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Nasrin Shahouzaei, Zahra Ghayoumi-Anaraki, Toktam Maleki Shahmahmood, Narges Torke Ladani, Ali Shoeibi
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects approximately 1%–2% of individuals aged 60 and above. Communication disorders in PD can significantly impact the overall quality of life. As prosody plays a vital role in verbal communication, the present study examines Persian prosody perception in PD, focusing on linguistic and emotional aspects of prosody. This cross-sectional
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Normative values for tests of central auditory processing disorder in children aged from 6 to 12 years old J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Piotr H. Skarzynski, Natalia Czajka, Rita Zdanowicz, Aleksandra Kolodziejak, Ewelina Bukato, Małgorzata Talarek, Zuzanna Pankowska, Henryk Skarzynski
Central auditory processing disorders (CAPD) can significantly affect the daily functioning of a child, and the first step in determining whether rehabilitation procedures are required is a proper diagnosis. Different guidelines for making diagnoses have been published in the literature, and in various centers normative values for psychoacoustic tests of CAPD have been used internally. The material
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Associations between social anxiety, physiological reactivity, and speech disfluencies in autistic young adults and controls J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Veera Pirinen, Kurt Eggers, Katja Dindar, Terhi Helminen, Aija Kotila, Sanna Kuusikko-Gauffin, Leena Mäkinen, Hanna Ebeling, Tuula Hurtig, Mirjami Mäntymaa, Soile Loukusa
The aim of this study was to examine possible associations of social anxiety (SA) and speaking-related physiological reactivity with the frequencies of a) total disfluencies, b) typical disfluencies, and c) stuttering-like disfluencies, as well as d) stuttering-severity in autistic young adults and controls. Thirty-two autistic young adults and 35 controls participated in this study. Participants were
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Narrative skills and language comprehension in preschool children with cochlear implants: A comparison with children with Developmental Language Disorder or typical development J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Marinella Majorano, Valentina Persici, Michela Santangelo, Rachele Ferrari, Beatrice Bertelli, Elena Florit, Manuela Lavelli, Tamara Bastianello, Letizia Guerzoni, Domenico Cuda
The narrative skills of children with cochlear implants (CIs) are fragile, but the factors at play and whether these difficulties could be similar to those detected in language impairment are not clear. The present study aims to assess, at the microstructural level, narrative skills, comparing children with CIs with children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) or Typical Development (TD). Furthermore
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Correspondence between consonant inventories obtained using modified naturalistic listening in real time (NLRT) and parent report J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Mary A. Hardin-Jones, Ann E. Dahill, Libby Heimbaugh, Adriane Baylis, Caitlin Cummings, Kathy L. Chapman, On behalf of the Cleft Outcomes Research NETwork (CORNET) Consortium
The current study examined the correspondence between consonant inventories obtained using the modified NLRT approach and parent report. Prospective comparative study. Multisite institutional. Participants included 70 children with repaired CP + L (mean age = 16 months) who were participating in the multicenter study. Parents of participants were asked to record approximately two hours of their child's
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Status of prosody in the practices of speech-language pathologists in France: A survey on theoretical and clinical dimensions J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Aline Petitpain, Juliette Brabant-Thery, Cédric Patin, Laurent Ott, Anahita Basirat
Purpose Many populations in the scope of speech and language pathologists (SLPs) are at risk of prosodic disorders that can impact communicative ability. While a few studies have examined the importance of prosody in the clinical practice of English-speaking SLPs, there is a lack of similar research in non-English-speaking countries. The current study aimed to establish an overview of the situation
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Age of onset, motivation, and anxiety as predictors of grammar and vocabulary outcomes in English as a foreign language learners with developmental language disorder J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Jasmijn Stolvoort, Megan Mackaaij, Elena Tribushinina
Like children with typical language development, their peers with developmental language disorder (DLD) are expected to learn English as a foreign language (EFL). For pupils without DLD, it is well-established that amount of informal exposure to English outside of the classroom, starting age of EFL instruction and motivation are strong positive predictors of EFL learning rate and/or achievement, whereas
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Patterns of performance on the animal fluency task in logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia: A reflection of phonological and semantic skills J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Fatima Jebahi, Katlyn V. Nickels, Aneta Kielar
This study aimed to characterize the quantitative (total number of correct words generated) and qualitative (psycholinguistic properties of correct words generated) performance patterns on the animal fluency task in individuals with the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia and to investigate the influence of phonological and semantic abilities to these patterns. Fifteen participants with
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Children's communication repair strategies: Online versus face-to-face interaction J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Haeun Chung, Kyungrang Baik, Jihye Cheon, Young Tae Kim, Dongsun Yim
One's ability to repair communication breakdown is an important pragmatic language skill. The present study examined children's communication repair strategies between online and face-to-face interactions using a reading comprehension task designed to probe for persistent clarification requests. Methods: 4–6-year-old typically developing children (Age: = 5.5years) completed a communication repair task
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Delay frustration in children who do and do not stutter: A preliminary study J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Kurt Eggers, Iris Heselmans
Purpose Frustration is an emotion often clinically reported by persons who stutter. So far, mainly questionnaire-based studies have reported findings related to increased frustration or decreased frustration tolerance. The aim of this preliminary study was to determine possible group differences between children who stutter (CWS) and children who do not stutter (CWNS) using a behavioral experimental
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Study of the peripheral and central auditory pathways in patients with mucopolysaccharidosis J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Flávia Teixeira Chimelo, Liliane Aparecida Fagundes Silva, Ivone Ferreira Neves-Lobo, Chong Ae Kim, Carla Gentile Matas
Objective To investigate the peripheral and central auditory pathways in mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) individuals. Method The research sample comprised 15 individuals (one female and 14 males), aged 8 to 46 years. The following procedures were used: medical history survey, otoscopy, speech and pure-tone threshold audiometry, acoustic immittance measures, and central auditory pathway assessment with
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A case study of bilingual neurogenic stuttering: Measures of fluency, emotion, and articulation rate J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Yael Neumann
Introduction This study explores the features of bilingual neurogenic stuttering and the potential connection between emotion and articulation rate on speech disfluencies. Method The participant is a 59-year old, Yiddish-English bilingual male with a moderate non-fluent aphasia. Thirty-two narratives (16 in each language), elicited using cue words, were analyzed for frequency of disfluency, type of
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Improving communicative access and patient experience in acute stroke care: An implementation journey J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Aura Kagan, Nina Simmons-Mackie, Elizabeth Villar-Guerrero, Melodie T. Chan, Ilona Turczyn, J. Charles Victor, Elyse Shumway, Lisa Chan, Rochelle Cohen-Schneider, Mark Bayley
Introduction Patient experience for people with aphasia/families in acute care is frequently reported as negative, with communication barriers contributing to adverse events and significant long-term physical and psychosocial sequelae. Although the effectiveness of providing supported communication training and resources for health care providers in the stroke system is well documented, there is less
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It's about more than just talking; Exploring computer-mediated communication in adolescents with selective mutism J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Maretha V. de Jonge, Nikki Nibbering, Iris Brand, Anja van der Voort
Introduction Selective mutism (SM) is an anxiety disorder categorized by a persistent failure to speak in specific situations. In an attempt to facilitate interaction with individuals with SM, other forms of communication (e.g. computer-mediated communication; CMC) are often tried. However, CMC is understudied in individuals with SM, while, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of
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Expectations from stuttering therapy: Qualitative content analysis of client's perspective in Kannada-speaking adults who stutter J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Audrey J. Dsouza, Vasupradaa Manivannan, Santosh Maruthy
Purpose The current study was carried out to explore clients’ expectations from stuttering therapy using the qualitative content method in the Indian context. Method Twenty-one Kannada-speaking adults who stutter between the age range of 18–33 years participated in the study. The procedure involved three phases, including the formulation of semi-structured interview questions, data collection and analysis
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The effect of age on the hearing-related quality of life in normal-hearing adults J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Katrien Kestens, Hannah Keppler, Dorien Ceuleers, Stephanie Lecointre, Flore De Langhe, Sofie Degeest
Introduction Recently, a new holistic Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) to assess hearing-related quality of life was developed, named the hearing-related quality of life questionnaire for Auditory-VIsual, COgnitive and Psychosocial functioning (hAVICOP). The purpose of the current study was to evaluate if the hAVICOP is sufficiently sensitive to detect an age effect in the hearing-related quality
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Self-perceived outcomes of informative and apologetic self-disclosure: A mixed methods study J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Megan M. Young, Courtney T. Byrd, Rodney Gabel
Purpose Self-disclosure statements that are informative, rather than apologetic, have been demonstrated to improve listener perceptions of adults who stutter (Byrd et al., 2017). The purpose of the present study is to investigate the benefits of self-disclosure from the perspective of the speaker and to determine whether self-disclosure statement type is associated with self-perceived outcomes of use
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Using a combined working memory – Semantic feature analysis approach to treat anomia in aphasia: A Pilot Study J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Naomi Hashimoto
Introduction The purpose of the study was to pilot a working memory (WM) – and modified Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) approach to treat word finding deficits in a group of people with aphasia (PwA). Two research questions were posed: 1. Will the group of PwA be able to complete the WM tasks used in the approach? 2. Will the approach improve naming performance in PwA? Method Three individuals with
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Corrigendum to ’Communication abilities in children with hearing loss – views of parents and daycare professionals’ [Journal of Communication Disorders 99 (2022) 106256] J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Krista Tuohimaa, Soile Loukusa, Heikki Löppönen, Taina Välimaa, Sari Kunnari
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Proceedings of the 2022 International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference: The Engaged Community J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Catherine A. Off, Esther Kim, Suma R. Devanga, Tom Sather
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Looking at gesture: The reciprocal influence between gesture and conversation J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Jennifer Thompson Tetnowski, John A. Tetnowski, Jack S. Damico
Introduction There is limited research in group communication treatment for people with aphasia but existing studies report benefits of gesture to support conversation. Gesture supports conversation through recipient design features and reducing linguistic demands of lexical retrieval and formulation. Additionally, gesture serves an affiliative function. However, the relationship between gesture use
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Language abilities in children and adolescents with DLD and ADHD: A scoping review J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Kaitlyn M.A Parks, Kara E. Hannah, Christine N. Moreau, Leah Brainin, Marc F. Joanisse
Purpose There is an emerging view that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is marked by problems with language difficulties, an idea reinforced by the fact that ADHD is highly comorbid with developmental language disorder (DLD). This scoping review provides an overview of literature on language abilities in children with DLD and ADHD while highlighting similarities and differences. Method
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Reliability and validity of the Turkish voice handicap index-partner (VHI-P-TR) J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Tuğba Kaya, Göksu Yılmaz, Richard I. Zraick, Ahmet Konrot, Mehmet Emrah Cangi
Objective This study examines the Turkish validity, reliability and diagnostic performance of the Voice Handicap Index-Partner (VHI-P-TR), which is used to obtain the perceptions of communication partners of individuals with dysphonia about the functional, physical and emotional handicap resulting from the patient experiencing dysphonia. Method The study included 160 individuals with dysphonia and
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Satisfaction with life in a sample of prelingually deaf cochlear implant users with a good command of spoken Polish as the primary language J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Joanna Kobosko, W.Wiktor Jedrzejczak, Joanna Rostkowska, D.Beata Porembska, Małgorzata Fludra, Henryk Skarżyński
Introduction This study investigated the level of satisfaction with life (SWL) in a group of cochlear implant (CI) users who had been prelingually deaf but were orally educated. They had received one or two CIs (as a child, adolescent, or adult) and were highly competent Polish speakers. This study looked at three factors that may affect SWL – psychosocial, deafness/hearing and communication related
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Language sample analysis of conversation samples from school-age children who stutter: The role of syntactic factors in stuttering J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Jayanthi Sasisekaran, Shriya Basu
Introduction The purpose of the study was to compare school-age children who stutter (CWS) and age-matched children who do not stutter (CWNS) in syntactic abilities and syntactic performance. Methods Computerized Language Sample Analysis (LSA) was conducted on the conversation samples obtained from 46 school-age CWS and CWNS between 7 and 16 years (CWS, n = 23). Syntactic abilities were assessed using
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Language impairments in people with autoimmune neurological diseases: A scoping review J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Janine Rook, Sara Llufriu, Dörte de Kok, Adrià Rofes
Introduction Autoimmune neurological diseases (ANDs) are a specific type of autoimmune disease that affect cells within the central and peripheral nervous system. ANDs trigger various physical/neuropsychiatric symptoms. However, language impairments in people with ANDs are not well characterized. Here we aimed to determine the kinds of language impairment that most commonly emerge in 10 ANDs, the characteristics
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Communication partner training for SLT students: Changes in communication skills, knowledge and confidence J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Alissa Nikkels, Philine Berns, Karin Neijenhuis
This paper describes the changes in communication skills, knowledge and confidence in Speech Language Therapy (SLT) students in conversations with People With Aphasia (PWA) after Training Con-tAct, a Dutch Communication Partner Training. Methods On a voluntary basis, nine SLT students (2nd yr) completed Training Con-tAct, in which People With Aphasia (PWA) were involved as co-workers. A mixed method
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Using bibliotherapy to rebuild identity for people with aphasia: A book club experience J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Elizabeth Hoover, Ellen Bernstein-Ellis, Debra Meyerson
Background Aphasia book clubs were developed to support connecting with literature and reading for pleasure within an aphasia-friendly environment. Bibliotherapy is an evidence-based therapeutic approach, in which a book is selected to address the challenges facing the reader. Its aim is to facilitate a deeper understanding of a lived experience in order to promote healing, strategy development, and
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Language abilities, not cognitive control, predict language mixing behavior in bilingual speakers with aphasia J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Alina Bihovsky, Michal Ben-Shachar, Natalia Meir
Purpose Language Mixing (LM) occurs among neurotypical bilinguals as well as among bilingual persons with aphasia (BiPWAs). The current study aimed to investigate whether LM in BiPWAs stems from a linguistic impairment, an impairment in cognitive control, or both. Method Twenty Russian-Hebrew-speaking BiPWAs were split into two groups based on aphasia severity (Severe/Moderate vs. Mild). Frequencies
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Alternative audiometric calibration methods: Evaluation of sound level measuring apps for audiometric calibration J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-13
Audiometric calibration, which includes the calibration of different audiometer transducers and the measurements of ambient noise levels, is historically carried out using Class 1 sound level meters. As technologies advance, many mobile applications (apps) have been developed to measure sound levels. These apps can provide alternative methods for audiometric calibration in places where sound level
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Perspectives of U.S. speech-language pathologists on supporting the psychosocial health of individuals with aphasia J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Haley Hayashi, Michelle Gravier, Kristen Gustavson, Ellen Bernstein-Ellis
Introduction Individuals living with aphasia (IWA) are more likely than stroke survivors without aphasia to experience depression, anxiety, stress, and social isolation due to communication difficulties, social and life barriers, and neurobiological changes (Hilari, 2011). Researchers in the U.K., Australia, and elsewhere have surveyed speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to ascertain their training
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Speech and phonological impairment across Alzheimer's disease severity J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Maysa Luchesi Cera, Karin Zazo Ortiz, Paulo Henrique Ferreira Bertolucci, Tamy Tsujimoto, Thaís Minett
Introduction Phonetic-phonological impairments have been described in dementia due to Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, whether the likely phonological-linguistic changes progress with the evolution of the disease or whether phonetic-motor manifestations occur in all three stages of AD (mild, moderate, and severe) has not yet been clarified. Thus, the aim of this study was to verify whether phonological-linguistic
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Telepractice in speech-language pathology: Assessing remote speech discrimination J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Erika Squires, Margaret Greenwald
Purpose To evaluate adult remote performance in speech discrimination on the Temple Assessment of Language and Short-term Memory in Aphasia (TALSA), and to compare to remote performance in NU-6 word repetition and participant ratings of self-perceived hearing ability obtained via remote session. Method Sixty older adults completed TALSA speech discrimination of concrete, low frequency words and of
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A novel non-word speech preparation task to increase stuttering frequency in experimental settings for longitudinal research J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 Farzan Irani, Jeffrey R. Mock, John C. Myers, Jennifer Johnson, Edward J. Golob
Purpose The variable and intermittent nature of stuttering makes it difficult to consistently elicit a sufficient number of stuttered trials for longitudinal experimental research. This study tests the efficacy of using non-word pairs that phonetically mimic English words with no associated meaning, to reliably elicit balanced numbers of stuttering and fluent trials over multiple sessions. The study
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Intersectional sociodemographic and neurological relationships in the naming ability of persons with post-stroke aphasia J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 Molly Jacobs, Elizabeth Evans, Charles Ellis
Introduction Significant attention has been given to the role of brain function and disruption in determining performance on naming tasks among individuals with aphasia. However, scholarly pursuit of a neurological explanation has overlooked the fundamental cornerstone of individual health—the underlying social, economic, and environmental factors that shape how they live, work, and age, also known
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Addressing disparities in speech-language pathology and laryngology services with telehealth J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-03 Anaïs Rameau, Steven R. Cox, Scott H. Sussman, Eseosa Odigie
The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected the health and well-being of marginalized communities, and it brought greater awareness to disparities in health care access and utilization. Addressing these disparities is difficult because of their multidimensional nature. Predisposing factors (demographic information, social structure, and beliefs), enabling factors (family and community) and illness
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Describing communication profiles of low-risk preterm and full-term late talkers J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Mariagrazia Zuccarini, Annalisa Guarini, Dino Gibertoni, Chiara Suttora, Arianna Aceti, Luigi Corvaglia, Arianna Bello, Maria Cristina Caselli, Alessandra Sansavini
Introduction Late talkers represent a heterogeneous population. We aimed to describe communication profiles of low-risk preterm and full-term late talkers according to their receptive and expressive vocabulary size, considering communicative, linguistic, cognitive, and motor skills, as well as biological and environmental risk factors. Methods Sixty-eight late talkers (33 born low-risk preterm and
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Changes in the early communicative behaviors of young children with significant cognitive and motor developmental delays in a two-year span J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Ann Dhondt, Ines Van keer, Annette van der Putten, Bea Maes
Introduction This study examines longitudinal changes in communicative behavior of young children with significant cognitive and motor developmental delays (SDD) and determines their individual communicative trajectories. A second focus of this study is the relation of changes in communicative behavior with motor skills. Methods Data consists of codes resulting from a self-developed coding scheme used
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Descriptive discourse in fluent aphasia: The predictive role of attention, phonology, lexical retrieval and semantics J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Narcisa Pérez Naranjo, David del Río, Silvia Nieva, Carlos González Alted
Aims To study the relationship between cognitive and linguistic skills (as measured through standardized tasks) over spontaneous speech elicited during a picture description task. Methods & procedures 21 controls and 19 people with fluent aphasia matched by age and sex were evaluated using transcripts made from a picture description task coded using the CHAT format and analyzed using Computerized Language
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Why and how to publish aphasia-friendly research summaries J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Jacqueline Hinckley, Clarisse El-Khouri
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“Early detection of Spanish-speaking children with developmental language disorders: Concurrent validity of a short questionnaire and a screening test” J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Alejandra Auza B, Chiharu Murata, Christian Peñaloza
Background . Under-identification of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a significant problem in monolingual Latin American Spanish-speaking children. We evaluated the identification utility of the sequential use of two screening tools, the "Parental Questionnaire (PQ)" and the "Screening for Language Problems (TPL)", to identify children who require confirmatory diagnosis of DLD. Methods : Parents
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Effects of behavior inhibition on stuttering severity and adverse consequences of stuttering in 3–6-year-old children who stutter J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Victoria Tumanova, Dahye Choi, Qiu Wang
Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate whether 3- to-6-year-old children who stutter and exhibit a higher degree of behavioral inhibition (BI), a correlate of shyness, stutter more frequently and experience greater negative consequences of stuttering (per parent-report) than their peers who stutter but have lower BI. Method Forty-six children who stutter (CWS; 35 boys & 11 girls; mean
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“You got an instant conversation”: Goal progress and perceptions following an e-mentoring social media intervention for young people who use augmentative and alternative communication J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Emma Grace, Jessica Shipman, Parimala Raghavendra, Julie M. McMillan
Introduction Persons with communication disability are at increased risk of social isolation due to multiple societal barriers. Young people with communication disability are not using social media to the same extent as the general population, limiting their access to social networks. The aim of this research was to investigate an e-mentoring intervention to progress the goal attainment of online conversation
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Impact of self-disclosure and communication competence on perceived listener distraction J. Commun. Disord. (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Danielle Werle, Courtney T. Byrd, Geoffrey A. Coalson
Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the distraction reported by unfamiliar adults when listening to a speaker who stutters, and whether listener distraction is influenced by two factors: self-disclosure and communication competence. Method Two hundred seventy-five adults watched a video vignette and were asked to rate their level of distraction when observing an adult Latinx male producing