SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY

Research for speech-language pathology

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• SLPCase-Control2023Are autistic people disadvantaged by the criminal justice system? A case comparison.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic adults reported worse experiences with police than non-autistic peers, citing stress and noise. They were five times more likely to feel they needed an appropriate adult during questioning but did not receive one. Both groups struggled to access support.
• PTOTSLPCase Report2023The treatment and rationale for the correction of a cervical kyphosis spinal deformity in a cervical asymptomatic young female: a Chiropractic BioPhysics® case report with follow-up.Journal of physical therapy scienceA single asymptomatic patient received chiropractic traction and exercises for 59 weeks. Imaging showed a 40-degree correction of cervical kyphosis, but the curve partially relapsed after 3.5 years of minimal follow-up care. This describes one person's radiographic change, not proof that treatment prevents future symptoms.
• SLPOther2023Differences in Glottal Closure and Visibility of the Anterior Commissure during Rigid-90°, Rigid-70°, and Flexible Laryngostroboscopy.Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)Flexible endoscopy showed better vocal fold closure and anterior commissure visibility than rigid scopes in healthy adults. Rigid 70-degree scopes offered slightly better anterior visibility than 90-degree scopes but similar closure findings. Technique choice directly affects diagnostic interpretation.
• PTOTSLPOther2023The Oxford Cognitive Screen for use with Australian people after stroke (OCS-AU): The adaptation process and determining cut scores for cognitive impairment using a cross-sectional normative study.Australian occupational therapy journalThe Oxford Cognitive Screen was adapted for Australian English. Normative data showed that Australian scores matched the original UK cut scores for almost all items, meaning clinicians can use the existing thresholds to identify specific cognitive deficits after stroke.
• SLPPilot2023Predicting Hearing aid Benefit Using Speech-Evoked Envelope Following Responses in Children With Hearing Loss.Trends in hearingHearing aids improved audibility and speech discrimination in 18 children with hearing loss. More detected speech-evoked brain responses were linked to better aided discrimination, but this small pilot does not prove the test replaces behavioral assessment.
• PTOTSLPCohort2023FMR1 CGG Repeats and Stress Influence Self-Reported Cognitive Functioning in Mothers.American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilitiesMothers of children with disabilities and those facing recent life events reported more executive function and memory difficulties. These stress effects were independent of FMR1 CGG repeat length. Clinicians should address maternal cognitive load regardless of genetic status.
• SLPRCT2023Changing the Paradigm for School Hearing Screening Globally: Evaluation of Screening Protocols From Two Randomized Trials in Rural Alaska.Ear and hearingAdding tympanometry to school hearing screening identified more children with hearing loss or middle ear disease. For ages 3 to 6, OAE plus tympanometry performed best; for ages 7 and up, high-frequency pure-tone plus tympanometry was top, but not clearly better.
• SLPCohort2023Theory of Mind and Parental Mental-State Talk in Children with CIs.Journal of deaf studies and deaf educationParents of children with cochlear implants used more literal talk and similar amounts of mental-state talk compared to parents of hearing children. More emotional talk predicted better theory of mind in the implant group, while more literal talk predicted worse.
• PTOTSLPCohort2023Adherence to Guidelines for Acute Rehabilitation in the Norwegian Trauma Plan.Journal of rehabilitation medicineAdherence to Norwegian trauma rehabilitation guidelines was poor. Only 18% of ICU patients stayed 3+ days received a specialist assessment within 72 hours. Just 22% of all patients transferred directly to specialized rehabilitation, leaving many with severe injuries without timely acute care.
• SLPOther2023Are prosodic effects on sentence comprehension dependent on age?CoDASBrazilian Portuguese adults and children used prosodic cues differently to understand ambiguous sentences. Children relied on single strong cues, while adults integrated multiple boundaries. Neither group's performance matched existing theoretical predictions, suggesting clinical interpretation of prosodic processing must account for language-specific and developmental differences.
• SLPOther2023Hearing Thresholds for Unscreened U.S. Adults: Data From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011-2012, 2015-2016, and 2017-2020.Trends in hearingCurrent hearing norms for U.S. adults are slightly better than the ISO 1999 standard used in noise-induced hearing loss claims. Men and older adults have worse hearing, and Black adults have better hearing than White adults. Use these updated values for accurate assessment.
• PTOTSLPCohort2023Fine motor skill and expressive language in minimally verbal and verbal school-aged autistic children.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchIn autistic children aged 4 to 7, better fine motor skills linked to clearer speech only in minimally verbal children. For all children, fine motor skills and adaptive behavior predicted longer utterances. Conversational turns depended on adaptive behavior alone, not motor skill.
• SLPOther2023Time-specific Components of Pupil Responses Reveal Alternations in Effort Allocation Caused by Memory Task Demands During Speech Identification in Noise.Trends in hearingAdding a memory task to speech-in-noise testing reduced word identification scores but increased pupil baseline dilation. This suggests listeners reallocate mental effort from listening to memorizing, rather than simply working harder overall. Clinical tests should distinguish acoustic difficulty from cognitive load.
• SLPNarrative Review2023Combining observational and experimental approaches to the development of language and communication in rural samples: Opportunities and challenges.Journal of child languageNo clinical finding is reported. This paper reviews child language research methods in rural communities and discusses study challenges, not patient outcomes or tested interventions.
• PTSLPSurvey2023Effects of Occupation-Specific Vocal Stress on the Mental Health of Day Care Teachers.Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)Day care teachers who felt speaking was exhausting, had headaches or neck pain, or were exhausted after work reported greater mental health impairment and burnout risk. Speaking louder alone was not linked to mental health or burnout.
• PTOTSLPSurvey2023U.S. Population Data on Self-Reported Trouble Hearing and Hearing-Aid Use in Adults: National Health Interview Survey, 2007-2018.Trends in hearingSelf-reported trouble hearing is common, affecting 18.5% of men and 13.1% of women, yet only about 20% to 25% of these adults have ever used hearing aids. This leaves roughly 80% of those with perceived hearing loss with unmet needs.
• PTOTSLPOther2023Models of Telehealth Service Delivery in Adults With Spinal Cord Injuries: Scoping Review.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesTelehealth and telerehabilitation services for adults with spinal cord injury showed inconsistent effectiveness. While some studies reported improved physical activity, pain, and wound care outcomes, others showed no benefit for psychosocial health or quality of life.
• SLPPilot2023Comparing outcomes of ultra-low-cost hearing aids to programmable, refurbished hearing aids for adults with high frequency hearing loss in Malawi: a feasibility study.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesBoth devices improved hearing similarly. Refurbished aids scored better on sound quality and dependability. LoCHAid users reported internal noise and low volume. Small sample and qualitative feedback indicate need for device refinement before efficacy conclusions.
• SLPOther2023Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the therapeutic intervention manual Rapid Syllable Transition Treatment (ReST) into brazilian portuguese.CoDASThe ReST speech motor disorder therapy manual is now available in Brazilian Portuguese after translation, cultural adaptation, and a two-child pilot. The pilot showed acceptance and progress, but it does not prove the method works.
• PTOTSLPQualitative2023Indicators of health in Down syndrome: A virtual focus group study with patients and their parents.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDParents and teens with Down syndrome defined health through movement, happiness, and social connection. Parents uniquely highlighted behavior and language as signs of health, noting that communication struggles often manifest as emotional outbursts or withdrawal rather than verbal complaints.
• OTSLPOther2022Personal victimization experiences of autistic and non-autistic children.Molecular autismAutistic children were 7.77 times more likely to report bullying than non-autistic peers. Counterintuitively, autistic children with fewer social difficulties reported more bullying. Boys and girls experienced similar rates, but girls cited trouble with flexibility and emotions as causes, while boys cited social interaction challenges.
• OTSLPCase-Control2022Autism spectrum disorder symptom expression in individuals with 3q29 deletion syndrome.Molecular autismPeople with 3q29 deletion and autism had similar overall social and repetitive behavior scores to non-syndromic autism, but people without autism had more social disability than typical controls. Social disability can be present without an autism diagnosis in this syndrome.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2023Assessment by proxy of the SF-36 and WHO-DAS 2.0. A systematic review.Journal of rehabilitation medicineProxy reports on the SF-36 and WHO-DAS 2.0 match patient reports well for physical function but poorly for social and emotional domains. Use proxy data for physical status, but do not rely on it to judge a patient's mental health or social participation.
• PTOTSLPCohort2023Comparing autism phenotypes in children born extremely preterm and born at term.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchChildren born extremely preterm with autism showed similar core symptoms to term-born children when observed directly. However, parents of preterm children reported fewer repetitive behaviors and stereotyped speech, a difference likely driven by lower rates of prior autism diagnosis in the preterm group.
• SLPCase-Control2023Spoken Sentence Complexity and Grammar Use in Children with CIs.Journal of deaf studies and deaf educationWhen children with cochlear implants and children with typical hearing have similar scores on standard grammar and vocabulary tests, their spoken sentences look the same. They use similar sentence lengths, complexity, and error types.
• OTSLPCohort2023Psychosocial Factors Associated with Prolonged Length of Stay in Acquired Brain Injury Rehabilitation: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of rehabilitation medicinePatients living in communal settings before admission were 14 times more likely to stay beyond their target discharge date. Not having a driver's licence also predicted longer stays. These social factors blocked discharge logistics rather than reflecting poor rehabilitation progress.
• SLPCohort2023Writing Development in DHH Students: A Bimodal Bilingual Approach.Journal of deaf studies and deaf educationDHH children's writing developed along the same path as hearing peers, but with a one-year delay in complexity. Sign language proficiency showed a non-significant trend toward richer descriptions, while early language access had no measurable effect.
• SLPCohort2023Longitudinal relations between autistic-like features and functional somatic symptoms in adolescence.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceA rise in autistic-like features did not predict a later rise in unexplained body symptoms, and vice versa. Still, adolescents with higher autistic-like features also reported more body symptoms.
• SLPOther2023Behavioral and cognitive-affective features of stuttering in preschool-age children: Regression and exploratory cluster analyses.Journal of fluency disordersIn preschoolers who stutter, overt speech behaviors are highly intercorrelated, but child-reported negative attitudes often lack significant links to specific behavioral measures. Cluster analysis identified a smaller subgroup with more severe behavioral and affective features.
• PTOTSLPCohort2023Measurement Properties of the Patient-Specific Functional Scale in Rehabilitation for Patients With Stroke: A Prospective Observational Study.Physical therapyThe Patient-Specific Functional Scale works well for tracking patient goals during inpatient stroke rehabilitation, even when patients have cognitive or language impairments. A change of at least 2 points indicates real improvement beyond measurement error. However, the scale becomes less useful after discharge as patients hit a ceiling.
• SLPOther2023Learning a Sign Language Does Not Hinder Acquisition of a Spoken Language.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHRFor deaf or hard-of-hearing children with hearing parents, learning sign language did not hinder spoken English. Higher sign language scores predicted better spoken English vocabulary. Families should not be advised to avoid sign language to protect spoken language.
• SLPCohort2022Patterns of connectome variability in autism across five functional activation tasks: findings from the LEAP project.Molecular autismAutistic individuals showed greater brain connectivity atypicality across five cognitive tasks compared to controls. This atypicality was consistent across tasks and linked to speech and auditory networks. It correlated with behavioral measures of autism severity, suggesting a common neural pattern underlying diverse cognitive demands.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2022What are the common areas of risk and their characteristics found in intermediate care from an occupational therapy perspective? A scoping review.The British journal of occupational therapyFalls, discharge planning, and practice errors were the most common risk areas for occupational therapists in intermediate care. The review found no evidence on how therapists explicitly assess the severity or likelihood of these risks.
• SLPCase-Control2023Clustering and switching analysis of verb fluency in individuals with Alzheimer's disease.CoDASOlder adults with Alzheimer's disease named fewer action words and shifted between groups of related verbs less often than healthy adults. The size and number of verb groups did not differ.
• PTOTSLPCohort2023U.S. Population Data on Hearing Loss, Trouble Hearing, and Hearing-Device Use in Adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011-12, 2015-16, and 2017-20.Trends in hearingAbout 85% of US adults with hearing difficulties have unmet needs. Self-reported trouble hearing predicts device use far better than audiograms. Older adults under-report hearing loss compared to their actual audiometric impairment, while younger adults over-report it.
• OTSLPSurvey2023Development of stigma-related support for autistic adults: Insights from the autism community.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceMost autistic adults and caregivers who responded supported stigma help, but many warned it must not blame autistic people. They wanted flexible, positive support focused on self-acceptance, disclosure choices, and practical strategies.
• SLPSystematic Review2023Dysphagia and pill swallowing in HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Results of a scoping review.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsAcross three included articles, South African adults with HIV/AIDS described difficulty swallowing antiretroviral pills due to side effects, mouth and throat pain, dry mouth, other illnesses, stress and stigma, which reduced adherence. Speech-language pathology involvement was rare and late.
• PTOTSLPSurvey2023Everyday life during the childhood cancer trajectory-childhood cancer survivors' descriptions of the role of caring support.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesChildhood cancer survivors rated emotional presence as the most significant aspect of care. Older survivors valued this more. Men and those treated with radiation reported lower confidence in their ability to cope. This highlights the need for tailored long-term psychosocial support.
• PTOTSLPCohort2022Racial/Ethnic Differences in Psychiatric and Medical Diagnoses Among Autistic Adults.Autism in adulthoodAutistic adults had more psychiatric and medical diagnoses than non-autistic adults, but Black, Hispanic, and Asian autistic adults received fewer psychiatric diagnoses than White autistic adults. These gaps likely reflect under-detection and access barriers rather than lower actual need.
• PTOTSLPOther2022Cross-Cultural Validation of Health and Quality of Life Measures for Children in Hong Kong.Occupational therapy internationalChildren with special educational needs reported lower quality of life than peers, particularly in physical and social functioning. Parents generally agreed with their children's views, except for school performance, where parents rated it lower.
• SLPOther2023Web version of the protocol of the orofacial myofunctional evaluation with scores: usability and learning.CoDASSpeech-language pathologists rated a new web-based orofacial myofunctional evaluation tool as highly usable and easy to learn. Experienced clinicians took longer to adapt than novices, but overall satisfaction was high regardless of prior experience with the paper version.
• SLPOther2023Temporal Cues in the Judgment of Music Emotion for Normal and Cochlear Implant Listeners.Trends in hearingNormal-hearing listeners judged happy or sad music emotion from congas alone, without pitch or melody. The speed they tapped to the beat predicted their emotion judgments better than the tempo written in the score. These temporal cues may explain how cochlear implant users perceive music emotion.
• SLPOther2023Hearing Through Bone Conduction Headsets.Trends in hearingBone conduction headsets worn in front of the ear canal work by vibrating the ear canal walls, not the skull bone. This makes them 15 to 35 dB more sensitive than traditional mastoid placement in healthy ears, but useless for patients with conductive hearing loss.
• SLPOther2023Cognitive flexibility assessment in youth with Down syndrome: Reliability, practice effects, and validity.Research in developmental disabilitiesThe Weigl Sorting task was the only one of three cognitive flexibility tests feasible for youth with Down syndrome, though it showed practice effects and moderate reliability. The Rule-Shift test worked only for those with higher IQs, and the computerized KiTAP Flexibility test was unusable for nearly all participants.
• SLPSurvey2023Standardized Measures Used Regularly by Speech-Language Pathologists when Assessing the Language Abilities of School-Aged Children: A Survey.Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)Most Australian SLPs use just five standardized language tests. However, many use the CELF and RAPT to judge social and discourse skills, which those tests do not measure. The RAPT is often used for screening despite having outdated norms and no evidence of diagnostic accuracy.
• SLPNarrative Review2023Theory-driven treatment modifications: A discussion on meeting the linguistic, cognitive, and psychosocial needs of individual clients with aphasia.Journal of communication disordersThis paper discusses theoretical ways to adapt aphasia naming therapy based on learning mechanisms like errorless learning and retrieval practice. It does not test these adaptations or report patient outcomes, so it offers ideas for clinical reasoning rather than evidence for what works.
• SLPCohort2023Effects of lingual frenotomy on breastfeeding and electrical activity of the masseter and suprahyoid muscles.CoDASSeven days after surgical release of the tongue tie, infants showed fewer signs of difficulty with latch and positioning. Electrical activity in the jaw muscle dropped, but muscle activity in the floor of the mouth did not change.
• SLPCase-Control2023Oropharyngeal geometry and acoustic parameters of voice in healthy and Parkinson's disease subjects.CoDASPeople with Parkinson's disease had smaller oropharyngeal areas than healthy adults, but standard voice tests showed no group differences. Acoustic measures varied by sex and age, suggesting anatomy changes before voice quality does.
• SLPSystematic Review2023Language and communication skills in multilingual children on the autism spectrum: A systematic review.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceMultilingual autistic children showed no evidence of language disadvantage from multilingual exposure, but vocabulary findings were mixed. Twelve studies reported scores for only one language, so scores may miss words known across both languages.
• OTSLPSystematic Review2023Brain correlates of declarative memory atypicalities in autism: a systematic review of functional neuroimaging findings.Molecular autismBrain scans show autistic people often use different neural routes for memory, relying more on posterior and left-hemisphere areas than frontal ones. This explains why they may struggle with complex visual or social memory tasks while preserving verbal memory, suggesting therapy should leverage verbal supports.