SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY

Research for speech-language pathology

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• SLPRCT2024Effects of different types of high-definition transcranial electrical stimulation on visual working memory and contralateral delayed activity.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationIn healthy adults, one session of high-definition stimulation to the left prefrontal cortex improved visual working memory capacity compared to sham. Auditory working memory and reaction times did not change, and the benefit was measured immediately after stimulation in people without cognitive impairment.
• PTOTSLPCohort2024Mortality risk among Autistic children and young people: A nationwide birth cohort study.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic children and young people in this large New Zealand cohort faced more than double the mortality risk of their non-Autistic peers. The risk was substantially higher for females and for those with co-occurring intellectual disability, highlighting a critical need for targeted health and safety support.
• SLPQualitative2024Social media shaping autism perception and identity.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic adults found social media more helpful than official health sites for understanding their own experiences, especially women who lacked representation. However, they reported that online communities often felt unwelcoming due to aggressive debates over language and interventions.
• PTOTSLPQualitative2024Impact of disability-based discrimination in healthcare on parents of children with medical complexity.Developmental medicine and child neurologyParents of children with medical complexity reported that disability-based discrimination in healthcare erodes trust, increases caregiving burden through forced advocacy, and harms parental mental health. Racism and poverty-based discrimination compound these effects.
• OTSLPCohort2025Friendship in Autism Spectrum Disorder Is Related to Diverse Developmental Changes Between Toddlerhood and Adolescence.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAdolescents with ASD who had friends did not show worsening social communication severity and had larger gains in socialization and daily living skills. Those without friends showed worsening social communication severity. School setting, ADHD, and anxiety did not separate the groups.
• PTOTSLPQualitative2025Understanding factors influencing exercise program adherence for youth with persistent post-concussive symptoms (PPCS).Brain injuryYouth with persistent concussion symptoms identified four key drivers for sticking to exercise programs: social support, accountability, goal setting, and structure. Weekly check-ins and clear progression templates helped overcome fear of symptom exacerbation and prioritization barriers.
• SLPOther2025The Comprehension of Grammatical Structures in a Pediatric Population with ASD and Epilepsy: A Comparative Study.Journal of autism and developmental disordersSpanish-speaking children with both ASD and epilepsy had the lowest scores on grammar comprehension tests, scoring lower than children with ASD alone. Children with epilepsy alone scored the highest. This suggests that the combination of these conditions significantly impairs the ability to understand complex sentences and instructions.
• SLPCohort2025Foundations of Vocal Category Development in Autistic Infants.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutistic infants clustered their vocal play (squeals and growls) at the same rate as typically developing infants. The amount of clustering did not predict language skills or autism severity at age two, so this early vocal pattern is not a useful marker for diagnosis.
• PTOTSLPOther2025Medical Home Care and Educational Services for Children and Youth on the Autism Spectrum: A Scoping Review.Journal of autism and developmental disordersChildren on the autism spectrum often need both medical home care and school services, but only five studies linked them and the evidence was mixed. Barriers included provider time, screening gaps, coordination rules, and funding.
• SLPRCT2024Using music to assist language learning in autistic children with minimal verbal language: The MAP feasibility RCT.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceParents teaching songs via video helped autistic children produce more words and phrases than standard therapy, with no safety issues. This pilot suggests a larger trial is feasible, but the small sample means these gains are not yet proven.
• SLPPilot2024An Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention Tool for Memory in Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury: Development and Usability of Memory Ecological Momentary Intervention.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesFourteen adults with chronic brain injury used a text-message memory tool for a week. They completed almost every session and rated it highly usable. They found the tasks difficult but not burdensome, and liked tracking their own memory patterns.
• SLPCase Series2024A Technology System to Help People With Intellectual Disability and Blindness Find Room Destinations During Indoor Traveling: Case Series Study.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesSeven adults with severe intellectual disability and blindness completed nearly all indoor traveling trials correctly when guided by a smartphone and barcode system. Baseline correct trials ranged from zero to two per session. Intervention trials reached six to seven. This is a small case series, not proof of efficacy.
• PTOTSLPRCT2024Selective nociceptive modulation using a novel prototype of transcutaneous kilohertz high-frequency alternating current stimulation: a crossover double-blind randomized sham-controlled trial.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation40 kHz transcutaneous kilohertz stimulation raised pressure pain thresholds in healthy volunteers more than sham, with no effect on touch or strength. It was well tolerated. This is a physiological finding in pain-free people, not evidence it treats pain.
• PTOTSLPOther2024Embedding rehabilitation into cancer care continuum: an implementation study.Journal of rehabilitation medicineEmbedding a structured rehabilitation toolkit into routine cancer care improved patient function and quality of life scores from admission to discharge. Staff reported better communication and streamlined referrals, though time constraints and access to the electronic tool remained barriers.
• SLPCohort2024Expression and co-regulation of negative emotion in 18-month-olds at increased likelihood for autism with diverse developmental outcomes.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAt 18 months, toddlers later diagnosed with autism did not show more negative emotion overall than toddlers with no delay, but their negative emotion was more intense. Parent calming responses were common and linked to lower chance of distress continuing.
• OTSLPOther2025Intolerance of Uncertainty and Anxiety (but not Alexithymia) Mediate the Association Between Autistic Traits and Quality of Life.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIntolerance of uncertainty and anxiety, but not difficulty identifying emotions, explained the link between autistic traits and lower quality of life. This suggests therapists should target coping with uncertainty and anxiety management to improve wellbeing, rather than focusing solely on emotional awareness.
• SLPOther2025Investigating the Effects of Transdiagnostic Processes on Anxiety and Depression Symptoms in Autistic Young People: the Mediating Role of Emotion Dysregulation.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIntolerance of uncertainty strongly predicted anxiety and depression in autistic youth, largely independently of emotion dysregulation. Emotion dysregulation mediated links between cognitive inflexibility, alexithymia and depression only in non-autistic peers, suggesting distinct pathways to internalising symptoms.
• PTOTSLPOther2025Psychometric Assessment of the Rett Syndrome Caregiver Assessment of Symptom Severity (RCASS).Journal of autism and developmental disordersA new caregiver questionnaire for Rett Syndrome shows preliminary promise for tracking symptom severity across movement, communication, and behavior. It correlates with clinician ratings but has not yet been proven sensitive to change, so it cannot currently confirm if a treatment works.
• PTOTSLPOther2025Relationships Between Cognitive Impairments and Motor Learning After Stroke: A Scoping Review.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairCognitive deficits often limit motor learning after stroke, particularly with explicit tasks and movement-quality feedback. Patients with attention or memory issues may benefit more from implicit learning and result-focused feedback. Evidence is preliminary due to small studies and inconsistent testing methods.
• OTSLPOther2025The Validity and Reliability of the Turkish Version of the Autism Family Experience Questionnaire (AFEQ).Journal of autism and developmental disordersThe Turkish version of the Autism Family Experience Questionnaire is a valid and reliable tool for assessing parents of autistic children. It measures parenting experience, family life, child development, and symptoms consistently, and correlates appropriately with autism severity and family quality of life.
• SLPSurvey2025The Social Validity of Behavioral Interventions: Seeking Input from Autistic Adults.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutistic adults endorsed safety, communication, and quality-of-life goals, but rejected goals aimed at stopping stimming, fixations, or eye contact. They preferred any working communication method over speech alone and wanted autistic input in goal setting.
• PTOTSLPOther2025Assessing the generalizability of a National Burn Database to the United States pediatric burn injury population.PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitationPediatric burn data from U.S. hospitals mixes U.S. and Mexico residents, who have different burn causes and severity. Researchers must analyze these groups separately. Pooling them creates a distorted picture that does not represent the typical U.S. pediatric burn population.
• PTOTSLPOther2024Adverse childhood experiences, subsequent negative life events, and their impact on health in occupational rehabilitation patients: a mixed-methods study.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesHalf of occupational rehab patients reported childhood adversity. Those with past abuse faced more adult victimization, financial strain, and relationship conflicts. These patients reported higher anxiety and depression scores than those without childhood trauma, but physical pain complaints did not differ between the groups.
• SLPCohort2024Pediatric Brain Injuries Are Associated With Intimate Partner Violence-Related Brain Injuries Among Women in Adulthood.The Journal of head trauma rehabilitationWomen with intimate partner violence who had a childhood brain injury were significantly more likely to have sustained a brain injury from a partner in adulthood. This association held even after accounting for childhood trauma, age, and education. The study cannot prove causation due to its cross-sectional design.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2024How healthcare systems are experienced by autistic adults in the United Kingdom: A meta-ethnography.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic adults in the UK described healthcare professionals often misunderstanding their needs, leading to misdiagnosis or inadequate support. They reported that reducing processing demands through clear, written information, quiet environments, and predictable appointments helped them engage with services.
• PTOTSLPOther2024Variables included in cerebral palsy registries globally: A scoping review.Developmental medicine and child neurologyCerebral palsy registries worldwide collect very different variables. High-income registries focused on prenatal factors, while low- and middle-income registries focused more on maternal socioeconomic details and postnatal risks such as infection, jaundice, and head injury.
• SLPQualitative2024Revisiting the Link: A qualitative analysis of the diverse experiences of gender dysphoria as a subset of pervasive social dysphoria co-occurring with autism in Japan.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic transgender participants described gender distress as part of a wider burden from all social norms, not just gender incongruence. Five had no alternative gender identity, resisting the concept of gender itself. Clinicians should validate diverse experiences rather than assuming gender incongruence is required for a diagnosis.
• PTOTSLPCohort2024Developmental associations between motor and communication outcomes in Fragile X syndrome: Variation in the context of co-occurring autism.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceEarly fine motor skills predicted receptive communication in all children with Fragile X. However, the link between motor development and expressive communication differed by autism status. Children without autism relied on early motor levels, while those with autism relied on how quickly their motor skills improved.
• PTOTSLPCohort2025Relationship between characteristics of segmental phase angles and walking ability in patients with hemiplegia after stroke and traumatic brain injury in a convalescent rehabilitation ward.International journal of rehabilitation research. Internationale Zeitschrift fur Rehabilitationsforschung. Revue internationale de recherches de readaptationIn patients with hemiplegia, higher trunk phase angle at admission was associated with better walking ability at discharge, independent of paralysis severity and nutrition. Limb phase angles did not show this association.
• OTSLPOther2025K-12 Life Skills Education, Independence, and Employment of Autistic Individuals: Giving Voice to Autistic Adults.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutistic adults valued job site training and practicing real life skills. They wanted less academic work and more help with social skills, money, and finding jobs. They did not link specific school methods to getting hired. Their experiences highlight gaps in current education.
• PTOTSLPOther2025Validation of the Arabic Version of Feeding Handicap Index for Children with Developmental Disabilities (A-FHI-C).Journal of autism and developmental disordersParents of children with autism, cerebral palsy, or intellectual disability reported significantly more severe feeding problems on the new Arabic Feeding Handicap Index than parents of typically developing children. The questionnaire showed strong consistency and stability, making it a reliable tool for assessing feeding impacts in Arabic-speaking families.
• SLPOther2025The Connection Between Sleep Problems and Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties in Autistic Children: A Network Analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disordersDepression, anxiety and behavioural difficulties were the most connected symptoms in autistic children with sleep problems. The data were collected at one time point, so this does not show that treating these symptoms improves sleep.
• SLPRCT2025Rehabilitation of post-stroke aphasia by a single protocol targeting phonological, lexical, and semantic deficits with speech output tasks: a randomized controlled trial.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine2 weeks of PHOLEXSEM improved repetition, naming, fluency and sentence comprehension in people with post-stroke aphasia. PACE improved only noun fluency and word span. The paper did not compare change between groups.
• SLPSurvey2025Exploring Factors of Diagnostic Timing Among Black Autistic Youth.Journal of autism and developmental disordersBlack families whose autism diagnosis came later noticed signs much later, waited longer after noticing signs, and were more likely to report a misdiagnosis. Reported racial barriers did not differ by diagnosis timing.
• PTOTSLPCohort2025Continuation of Pediatric Care after Transfer to Adult Care Among Autistic Youth Overlap of Pediatric and Adult Care.Journal of autism and developmental disordersMost autistic young adults keep using pediatric services after starting adult primary care. Over half had direct pediatric visits, including therapy. Clinicians should expect ongoing pediatric involvement rather than assuming a clean break at the first adult appointment.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2024Social work practice and outcomes in rehabilitation: a scoping review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesSocial workers in rehabilitation primarily handle financial security, return-to-work coordination, and psychosocial assessments. Outcomes focus on participation and personal factors, but the review maps activities rather than proving efficacy, meaning these roles are documented but not tested for effectiveness.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2024Motivation to participate in structured physical activity for autistic youth: A systematic scoping review.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic youth are less motivated for structured physical activity when they feel incompetent, socially excluded, or overwhelmed by sensory noise. They participate more when given choices from known activities and explicit instructions. Mainstream group-based approaches often thwart these needs.
• SLPSurvey2024Exploring the association between social camouflaging and self- versus caregiver-report discrepancies in anxiety and depressive symptoms in autistic and non-autistic socially anxious adolescents.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceIn 82 socially anxious adolescents, camouflaging was linked to their own higher anxiety and depression reports, not to closer agreement with caregivers. Adolescents reported more symptoms than caregivers.
• PTOTSLPCohort2024Sub-acute stroke demonstrates altered beta oscillation and connectivity pattern in working memory.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationStroke patients with poor motor recovery showed slower reaction times and lower working memory accuracy than healthy controls. Their brain scans lacked the normal beta rebound and frontal-parietal connectivity seen in patients with good recovery, linking these neural patterns to cognitive deficits.
• OTSLPSurvey2024Exploring the 'EarSwitch' concept: a novel ear based control method for assistive technology.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationMost people with neurological disorders can still voluntarily rumble their ears. Self-reported ability matched observed eardrum movement in 80% of cases tested. This suggests ear rumbling is a viable, invisible switch for assistive technology, particularly for those with motor neurone disease.
• PTOTSLPSurvey2025Community Priorities for Outcomes Targeted During Professional Supports for Autistic Children and their Families.Journal of autism and developmental disordersCommunity priorities for autistic children focus on wellbeing and understanding, not changing autistic traits. Practitioners rated reducing sensory seeking and social skills training as inappropriate more often than parents did. All parent-focused outcomes were considered appropriate and medium-to-high priority.
• SLPSurvey2025Clinician Opinions Regarding the Usefulness of the BOSA for ASD Assessment in a Service for Children Aged Under 12 Years.Journal of autism and developmental disordersMost clinicians found the BOSA less helpful than the ADOS-2 for diagnosis, citing issues with parent administration. However, they valued observing parent-child interactions and noted the BOSA might help specific cases like selective mutism.
• SLPPilot2025EMT en Español Para Autismo: A Collaborative Communication Intervention Approach and Single Case Design Pilot Study.Journal of autism and developmental disordersTwo Spanish-speaking caregivers learned to coach their autistic toddlers using a home-based intervention. Both used the strategies more often after training. The children communicated more, though gains depended heavily on speech-generating devices and could not be separated from other supports.
• SLPOther2025The Knowledge of Autism Questionnaire-UK: Development and Initial Psychometric Evaluation.Journal of autism and developmental disordersThe KAQ-UK is a 14-item questionnaire measuring autism knowledge in the UK. It shows promise for distinguishing knowledge levels, particularly identifying parents of autistic people as having higher scores, but requires further validation before clinical use.
• PTOTSLPRCT2024Therapeutic singing and expiratory muscle strength training in Parkinson's disease: a mixed methods comparison.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesExpiratory muscle strength training and therapeutic singing produced no significant differences in quality of life, depression, or anxiety in people with Parkinson's disease. Both interventions were highly adhered to, but quality of life scores worsened over time regardless of treatment.
• PTOTSLPOther2024Barriers for work in people with multiple sclerosis: a Norwegian cultural adaptation and validation of the short version of the multiple sclerosis work difficulties questionnaire.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesThe Norwegian version of the MSWDQ-23 reliably measures work difficulties in people with multiple sclerosis. It distinguishes those who worked recently from those who did not, and separates relapsing-remitting from progressive MS based on physical barriers. Use it to identify specific employment obstacles during routine follow-up.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2024Building trust in long-term care settings using assistive technology: a systematic review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesIn long-term care, trust in assistive technology depends on reliable, useful, easy devices, privacy, caregiver support, and realistic expectations. Technical failures, stigma, and weakened contact can reduce trust and lead to abandonment.
• PTOTSLPOther2024Pharmacological and neurosurgical management of cerebral palsy and dystonia: Clinical practice guideline update.Developmental medicine and child neurologyFor dystonia in cerebral palsy, the guideline suggests considering oral/enteral baclofen, clonidine, gabapentin, botulinum toxin, intrathecal baclofen, or deep brain stimulation only after discussing benefits and harms with the family; it suggests against routine trihexyphenidyl and benzodiazepines, and against levodopa or medical cannabis.
• PTOTSLPCohort2024Fatigue among children and adolescents with acquired brain injury in a specialized neurorehabilitation setting.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesFatigue improved during intensive neurorehabilitation, but only self-reported changes in general and sleep fatigue were significant. Parents consistently rated their child's fatigue as more severe than the children did, particularly regarding cognitive difficulties.
• PTOTSLPOther2024Artificial intelligence tools for engagement prediction in neuromotor disorder patients during rehabilitation.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationAI models predicted patient engagement during robot-assisted gait rehab with high accuracy. Combining heart rate and sweat signals outperformed single signals. Data augmentation further improved prediction. This supports real-time monitoring to adapt therapy intensity, but clinical utility is not yet proven.