SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY

Research for speech-language pathology

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• SLPOther2023Matricial support for community health agents on the auditory and language development milestones in early childhood.CoDASCommunity health agents had fragile knowledge of hearing and language milestones, with only 22% using the health record to track them. A workshop improved their reporting of milestone knowledge and home visit questioning, though they still did not report changes in hearing-specific practices.
• PTOTSLPPilot2023Nonlinear, Multicomponent Physical Exercise With Heart Rate Variability-Guided Prescription in Women With Breast Cancer During Treatment: Feasibility and Preliminary Results (ATOPE Study).Physical therapyHeart-rate-guided exercise was feasible and safe for women with breast cancer during treatment. Retention was 73.68%, slightly below the 75% threshold. While radiotherapy patients improved walking distance, chemotherapy patients lost lower limb strength and gained body fat, suggesting the program needs adjustment for this group.
• SLPOther2023Audiological findings of family farmers exposed to pesticides.CoDASFamily farmers exposed to pesticides had poorer hearing than unexposed people. They needed louder sounds to hear, had more missing middle-ear reflexes, and weaker inner-ear sound responses. This links exposure to hearing problems but does not prove cause.
• SLPCase-Control2023Evaluation of Asymmetries in Speech-in Noise Abilities in Audiologic Screening for Vestibular Schwannoma.Ear and hearingSpeech-in-noise asymmetry between ears was a more accurate screen for vestibular schwannoma than word-recognition or pure-tone asymmetry, but the difference was small and MRI remains the gold standard.
• SLPPilot2023Effect of an online Workplace Vocal Health and Low Stress Levels Promotion Program implemented in a Colombian university during COVID-19 pandemic.CoDASThe online program did not significantly reduce stress levels. However, it was associated with improved maximum phonation time and a trend toward reduced vocal fatigue perception. These findings suggest potential benefits for voice endurance and self-awareness, but the small sample size limits certainty.
• PTOTSLPCohort2023Early Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity After Concussion Is Associated With Faster Symptom Resolution Time.Journal of sport rehabilitationAdolescents recovering from concussion who engaged in more than 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity daily resolved symptoms faster than those who did less. This association persisted even after adjusting for initial symptom severity and sex.
• SLPSurvey2023Exploring the attitudes and practices among student clinicians in India on multilingual issues in the field of speech-language pathology.CoDASStudent speech therapists in India often lack shared language with patients, relying on family or co-clinicians as translators. Most felt unprepared for multilingual cases, with graduates reporting better readiness than undergraduates due to clinical experience.
• SLPOther2023The Korean Speech Recognition Sentences: A Large Corpus for Evaluating Semantic Context and Language Experience in Speech Perception.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHRKorean sentences with strong semantic context were understood more easily than neutral ones by both native and non-native speakers. Late learners benefited from context just as much as natives, but struggled more as background noise increased.
• OTSLPOther2024"He Sees his Autism as a Strength, Not a Deficit Now": A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study Investigating the Impact of Strengths-Based Programs on Autistic Adolescents.Journal of autism and developmental disordersParents reported high satisfaction with community coding and STEAM programs for autistic teens, but outcomes remained stable over three years rather than improving. Only community participation increased significantly in the final year, while confidence dipped in the second year.
• SLPOther2024The Social Shapes Test as a Self-Administered, Online Measure of Social Intelligence: Two Studies with Typically Developing Adults and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAdults with autism scored lower on an online animated-shape test than adults without autism, and the test worked similarly across groups. The test is suited for research, not diagnosis.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2024Current learning strategies in fire evacuation for seniors and people with disabilities in private seniors' residences and long-term care homes: a scoping review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesFire drills often cause injury and stress for seniors, yet verbal instructions alone are ineffective. Safe evacuation requires combining drills with multi-sensory staff training, clear environmental signage, and equipment adapted for mobility and cognitive impairments.
• PTOTSLPPilot2024Community-based exercise program, self-reported health-related symptoms, and quality of life in persons with traumatic brain injury 45 + years old.NeuroRehabilitationIn 20 adults with moderate-to-severe brain injury, a 12-week community-based aerobic program improved self-reported cognitive health and sleep quality compared to stretching. Global quality of life, emotional health, and social health showed no significant difference between groups.
• SLPQualitative2024The Interactional Structure of Accounts During Small Group Discussions Among Autistic Children Receiving Special Education Support in Finland.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn small-group diary discussions, autistic children explained their drawings without words like because. The analysis found open questions and children's control of the topic alongside their accounts and participation.
• OTSLPQualitative2024Self-reported Everyday Sources of Happiness and Unhappiness in Autistic Adults.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutistic adults most often cited social partners and activities as sources of happiness. They cited social partners and interactions, job difficulties, and current events as sources of unhappiness. Themes were similar for those with and without a depression history.
• PTOTSLPOther2024The reliability, validity and clinical utility of the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation - ten-item version (CORE-10) in post-acute patients with stroke.Clinical rehabilitationThe CORE-10 is a valid, free, and quick mood screen for post-acute stroke inpatients. A change of 9 points indicates 90% confidence in real clinical improvement or deterioration, while a score of 12 or higher marks clinically significant distress.
• PTOTSLPSurvey2024The Well-being and Support Needs of Australian Caregivers of Neurodiverse Children.Journal of autism and developmental disordersCaregivers of neurodiverse children reported clinically significant stress and lower well-being than national averages. They identified major unmet needs for respite, support groups, and funding, with many facing financial hardship and social isolation due to stigma and lack of accessible services.
• SLPCase-Control2024Dissociation Between Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Statistical Learning in Children with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disordersChildren with autism learned speech and letter patterns more slowly and remembered them less well than typical peers, but showed no such difficulty with nonlinguistic tones or images. This linguistic-specific gap was larger in older children and correlated with poorer sentence repetition skills.
• SLPCohort2023Maternal and child predictors associated with loss to follow-up in the newborn hearing screening program: a cohort study in maternity hospitals in northeastern Brazil.CoDASMothers with five or fewer prenatal visits were 2.3 times more likely to be lost to follow-up after newborn hearing screening. Infants with a family history of hearing loss were 2.1 times more likely to be lost to follow-up.
• SLPOther2023Word Learning in Deaf Adults Who Use Cochlear Implants: The Role of Talker Variability and Attention to the Mouth.Ear and hearingAdults with cochlear implants focused almost exclusively on the talker's mouth when learning new words, unlike normal-hearing adults who split attention between eyes and mouth. However, hearing the words from multiple talkers did not improve learning accuracy compared to a single talker.
• SLPPilot2023Feasibility of the HEAR-aware App for Hearing Loss Self-Management: A Nonrandomized Intervention Study to Examine Intervention Acceptability and the Stages-of-Change Concept.Ear and hearingAdults declining hearing aids found this app generally usable but struggled to log daily listening situations. Most said the surveys gave them insight into their hearing, though many found the educational snippets unhelpful for the specific situations they reported.
• SLPCohort2023Language sample analysis of conversation samples from school-age children who stutter: The role of syntactic factors in stuttering.Journal of communication disordersSchool-age children who stutter used more complex sentence structures in shorter conversation samples than fluent peers. Higher syntactic complexity was associated with more stuttering. This suggests clinicians should assess language ability with caution, as stuttering itself may limit the sample size and complexity observed.
• SLPCohort2023Preservation of Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions in OTOF -Related Hearing Impairment.Ear and hearingMany children and adults with OTOF hearing loss still showed DPOAE responses for years, sometimes into adulthood. Apparent loss in some cases coincided with middle ear effusion, so check middle ear status before assuming outer hair cells are gone.
• SLPSurvey2024Language Preferences in the Dutch Autism Community: A Social Psychological Approach.Journal of autism and developmental disordersDutch autistic adults overall preferred person-first language, but identity-first language was not rejected and preferences varied widely. Ask each client which wording they prefer rather than assuming one term fits all.
• OTSLPSurvey2024Urban and rural differences in needs, service use and satisfaction among caregivers of autistic children in Morocco.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceRural caregivers reported far less non-medication intervention and school enrolment for their children than urban caregivers, despite similar verbal ability and satisfaction. Priorities were similar, but challenges differed.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2024Evidence-based position paper on Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) professional practice on telerehabilitation. The European PRM position (UEMS PRM Section).European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicineTelerehabilitation outcomes often match in-person care for stroke, COPD, and knee pain, but evidence is low-certainty for shoulder pain and low vision. Remote exams miss manual findings, so use it when in-person is unavailable, not as a full replacement.
• SLPOther2024Ensuring treatment fidelity in intervention studies: Developing a checklist and scoring system within a behaviour change paradigm.International journal of language & communication disordersTrainees delivering a modified Derbyshire Language Scheme often missed or changed key steps. Clear plans and checking delivery are needed. A checklist was developed to score correct delivery and added steps that drift from the manual.
• PTOTSLPOther2024Revision of the brief international classification of functioning, disability and health core set for multiple sclerosis: a study of the comprehensive icf core set for multiple sclerosis with participants referred for work ability assessment.Journal of rehabilitation medicineIn people with MS referred for work ability assessment, memory and temperament impairments were common but missed by the current Brief ICF Core Set. The study suggests replacing higher-level cognitive and emotional categories with memory and temperament to better capture disability.
• SLPOther2023Hearing Loss Prevalence, Years Lived With Disability, and Hearing Aid Use in the United States From 1990 to 2019: Findings From the Global Burden of Disease Study.Ear and hearingIn 2019, an estimated 22.2% of US residents had hearing loss, mostly mild. Only 9.7% of people with mild to profound hearing loss used a hearing aid. Most cases were in people over 50.
• SLPCase Report2023Dynamic vocal analysis: vocal functionality evaluation.CoDASThis paper demonstrates how to use Dynamic Vocal Analysis (DVA) to assess voice functionality. It shows examples of spectrograms for healthy and disordered voices but does not test whether the method improves patient outcomes or works better than other assessments.
• PTOTSLPProtocol2023Content validation of the decannulation protocol for adult tracheostomized patients.CoDASExperts validated a decannulation protocol for adults, removing the blue-dye test and oral diet as prerequisites. They agreed that patients with dysphagia can still be decannulated if they can protect their airways, shifting focus to secretion management and clinical assessment.
• SLPRCT2023Efficacy in the use of gamification strategy in phonological therapy.CoDASIn children with phonological disorder, adding a computer game to phonological therapy did not improve target sound accuracy or reduce sessions compared with traditional therapy. Both groups improved, but the traditional group started with higher consonant scores.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2023Cognitive-motor dual-task interference in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and prodromal neurodegeneration: A scoping review.Gait & postureWalking while doing a mental task causes bigger drops in gait and thinking speed for people with Alzheimer's or Parkinson's than for healthy adults. This interference worsens as disease progresses, but no single test predicts it reliably yet.
• SLPOther2023Characterization of the phonological system in low-income Brazilian preschoolers.CoDASLow-income preschoolers in Northeast Brazil showed typical phonological development, with consonant accuracy above diagnostic cutoffs. However, five children displayed liquid simplification, which is atypical for this age. Regional dialect variations in consonant production were common and should not be mistaken for speech sound disorders.
• SLPOther2023Usability evaluation of the Agente Escuta application: translational research.CoDASCommunity health workers rated the Agente Escuta app as having good usability, though they scored it lower than expert judges. The app effectively supported hearing monitoring tasks, but technical barriers and work overload limited its routine use.
• SLPCohort2023Preliminary Guidelines for Replacing Word-Recognition in Quiet With Speech in Noise Assessment in the Routine Audiologic Test Battery.Ear and hearingSpeech-in-noise scores and high-frequency hearing thresholds accurately predict word-recognition in quiet. For patients with high-frequency thresholds under 40 dB and speech-in-noise loss under 7 dB, word-recognition in quiet is almost always excellent, so it may not need to be tested.
• SLPCohort2023Associations between autism traits and family functioning over time in autistic and non-autistic children.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceIn clinically referred children, lower autism traits at the start were associated with better family functioning about 13 months later. When split by diagnosis, this was found only in non-autistic children with high traits, not autistic children. It does not prove cause.
• SLPQualitative2024South African adolescents' lived experiences of acquired hearing loss following multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesSix adolescents with hearing loss from MDR-TB treatment described a triple burden: poverty, life-threatening TB, and permanent hearing damage. They faced stigma, unemployment, and isolation. Hearing aids were provided but unused due to cost, embarrassment, and fear of theft.
• SLPQualitative2024Evaluation of a pilot to introduce simulated learning activities to support speech and language therapy students' clinical development.International journal of language & communication disordersSecond-year speech and language therapy students valued simulation as a safe space to practise clinical reasoning and communication, but wanted stronger facilitator training, clearer feedback, and simulations after lectures.
• SLPOther2024The effect of liquid consistency on penetration-aspiration: a Bayesian analysis of two large datasets.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesThickened liquids had less airway invasion than thin liquids across 678 participants at risk for dysphagia and 177 participants including healthy adults. A few people had worse airway protection on thicker liquids, so thickening needs assessment and monitoring.
• SLPOther2024Esophageal Infusion of Menthol Does Not Affect Esophageal Motility in Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease.DysphagiaInfusing menthol directly into the esophagus caused heartburn in all GERD patients but did not change how the esophagus squeezed or how tight the valve to the stomach remained. The burning sensation comes from nerve stimulation, not from muscle relaxation or reflux mechanics.
• SLPQualitative2024Stakeholder Perceptions of the Acceptability of Peer-Mediated Intervention for Minimally Speaking Preschoolers on the Autism Spectrum.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutistic adults, parents, educators and speech and language pathologists saw peer-mediated support for minimally speaking autistic preschoolers as acceptable if it becomes everyday preschool practice, not a singled-out activity. They did not test whether it works.
• PTOTSLPCohort2024Prevalence and trajectories of neuropsychological post-COVID-19 symptoms in initially hospitalized patients.Journal of rehabilitation medicineMost hospitalized COVID-19 survivors had persistent cognitive complaints or severe fatigue at 9 and 15 months. About one in three developed new symptoms later. These symptoms did not significantly change in prevalence over time, though depression scores rose slightly while remaining below clinical thresholds.
• SLPRCT2024Examining the Relationship Between Anxiety Severity and Autism-Related Challenges During Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn children with autism and anxiety who received CBT, drops in anxiety tracked with drops in repetitive behaviors and social communication difficulties. The analysis did not prove anxiety caused these changes.
• SLPQualitative2024Collaborative working in speech and language therapy for children with DLD-What are parents' needs?International journal of language & communication disordersParents of children with DLD described current speech therapy as one-way, with therapists deciding goals and assigning homework. They want clarity on progress, emotional support, and dedicated time to ask questions, rather than just instructions for home practice.
• SLPOther2023Effect of perceptive-auditory training on the classification of speech hypernasality.CoDASTraining did not improve overall correct hypernasality ratings by inexperienced speech-language pathologists. Only one evaluator's agreement with the gold standard improved, and the change was not enough to show the training worked.
• SLPPilot2023A Sentence Repetition Task in Spanish language: a valid tool for early language assessment.CoDASTwenty Spanish-speaking toddlers aged 2 to 4 repeated sentences more accurately six months later. Early scores predicted later language test results, suggesting this sentence repetition task can track development in young children, though the small sample limits certainty.
• SLPOther2023Objective and Subjective Clustering Methods for Verb Fluency Responses From Individuals With Alzheimer's Dementia and Cognitively Healthy Older Adults.American journal of speech-language pathologyPeople with Alzheimer's dementia produced significantly fewer verbs and fewer switches between action categories than healthy adults, while cluster size did not differ. An automated database matched human raters well enough to offer a replicable way to score verb fluency.
• OTSLPCohort2023Associations between executive function and attention abilities and language and social communication skills in young autistic children.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceIn young autistic children, weaker working memory and planning were linked to poorer social communication, and poorer inhibition and shifting were linked to more social pragmatic problems. Stronger expressive vocabulary was linked to better sustained attention during a video.
• SLPCohort2023Hearing performance of individuals with minimal hearing loss in complex and realistic communication experiences.CoDASAdults with minimal hearing loss reported significant difficulty in noisy environments and high expectations for hearing aids. Older participants held higher expectations for positive effects. The study was too small to confirm if age or hearing loss severity drives these struggles.
• SLPOther2023Passaggio on chorists' voice range profile: preliminary study of frequency and intensity.CoDASPassaggio breaks were visible or audible in no more than 30% of 67 trained choir singers. They appeared more often in sopranos and tenors than contraltos and basses. The chart can locate breaks, but the study did not set standard values.