SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY

Research for speech-language pathology

Papers a speech-language pathologist can act on — aphasia, dysphagia, developmental language, fluency, voice and augmentative communication — read in full and summarised plainly.

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• SLPCohort2024Trajectories of Hearing From Childhood to Adulthood.Ear and hearingBetter mid-frequency hearing at ages 7 to 11 was linked to better mid- and high-frequency hearing at age 45. Childhood ear fluid history was also linked to worse high-frequency hearing and spatial cue use in noise.
• SLPNarrative Review2024Uses of Linguistic Context in Speech Listening: Does Acquired Hearing Loss Lead to Reduced Engagement of Prediction?Ear and hearingPeople with hearing loss may struggle to predict upcoming words because generating these predictions demands cognitive resources they are already spending on decoding degraded sound. Instead, they likely rely more on filling in gaps after the fact or processing words as they arrive.
• SLPSystematic Review2024A Multimodal Approach to Measuring Listening Effort: A Systematic Review on the Effects of Auditory Task Demand on Physiological Measures and Their Relationship.Ear and hearingPupil dilation and skin conductance tracked listening demand most consistently, but no single physiological measure was a reliable marker. Measures rarely correlated with each other or with patients' own effort ratings, so one reading does not stand in for another.
• OTSLPOther2024Multilingualism impacts children's executive function and core autism symptoms.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchMultilingual children with autism showed better parent-reported inhibition and perspective-taking than monolingual peers. These skills were linked to fewer social and repetitive symptoms. The study is cross-sectional, so it cannot prove that speaking multiple languages causes these improvements.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2024Ethics of research engagement with Deaf people. A qualitative evidence synthesis.Journal of deaf studies and deaf educationDeaf participants and researchers described academic settings as hostile, hearing-centered spaces that generate deep distrust. They reported that meaningful engagement requires sign language competence, Deaf leadership, and proactive community relationship-building before research begins, rather than relying on standard consent forms or interpreters.
• SLPCohort2024Electrocochleography-Based Tonotopic Map: II. Frequency-to-Place Mismatch Impacts Speech-Perception Outcomes in Cochlear Implant Recipients.Ear and hearingFor cochlear implant users, mismatch between the device's frequency map and the patient's actual cochlear tuning affected speech scores only at higher frequencies. Basal shifts at 1000 and 2000 Hz correlated with better performance, while 500 Hz mismatch did not.
• OTSLPSurvey2024Inner experiences, mental health, and well-being in autistic and non-autistic adults.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchAutistic adults reported significantly more frequent self-talk for social assessment, self-criticism, and self-management than non-autistic adults. This self-talk correlated with higher anxiety and depression. Inner experience patterns were otherwise similar between groups.
• SLPCohort2025Change on the Revised Hearing Handicap Inventory and associated factors: results from a longitudinal cohort study.International journal of audiologyOver a mean of 7.6 years, most people’s self-reported hearing difficulty stayed stable. Hearing aid users showed more change than non-users. Baseline hearing loss predicted worsening in non-users, but did not predict change in hearing aid users.
• PTOTSLPCase-Control2025Quantifying neurobehavioral profiles across neurodevelopmental genetic syndromes and idiopathic neurodevelopmental disorders.Developmental medicine and child neurologyCaregiver ratings showed people with PHTS, NFIX and SYNGAP1 had very low motor, daily living and processing speed scores. Each syndrome also had distinct symptoms, such as panic anxiety in NFIX and self-injury in SYNGAP1.
• SLPCase Series2025Using language sample analyses across English dialects: A case-based approach for preschoolers.Clinical linguistics & phoneticsThree typically developing preschoolers spoke different English dialects. Scores varied across language analysis methods, but no differences reached statistical significance. These cases show how dialects affect test scores, but do not prove which method is best.
• PTOTSLPRCT2025Effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on paroxysmal sympathetic hyperexcitability with acquired brain injury and cortical excitability: a randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled pilot study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationPatients receiving tDCS plus medication showed a 19.8-point drop in PSH severity scores, compared to 6.9 points with sham plus medication. This pilot study suggests tDCS may help reduce sympathetic hyperexcitability and medication needs in acquired brain injury.
• SLPOther2025Clinical Implementation of DIGEST as an Evidence-Based Practice Tool for Videofluoroscopy in Oncology: A Six-Year Single Institution Implementation Evaluation.DysphagiaA new swallowing severity tool was used in 93% of over 13,000 videofluoroscopy exams at a cancer center. Clinicians recorded it accurately in almost all cases. It fits easily into existing workflows, though it cannot be used for patients with total laryngectomies or fistulas.
• SLPOther2025Investigating visual perspective taking and belief reasoning in autistic adults: A pre-registered online study.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic adults were not slower or less accurate than non-autistic adults when reasoning about others' beliefs. They showed a steeper slowdown when switching visual perspectives but made fewer errors when ignoring irrelevant beliefs. This points to differences in self-other control, not mentalizing deficits.
• SLPCohort2025Fiberoptic Endoscopy Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) Findings Associated with High Pneumonia Risk in a Cohort of Patients at Risk of Dysphagia.DysphagiaAspiration seen on swallowing endoscopy (FEES) was independently linked to pneumonia in patients at risk of dysphagia. Penetration and residue were associated only when aspiration was also present, so aspiration is the key finding for pneumonia risk.
• SLPQualitative2025An 'explosion in the mouth': The oral health experiences of autistic children.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic children described toothpaste as an 'explosion in the mouth' and dental tools as 'weird' due to sensory overload. They preferred non-foaming, flavourless options and consistent dentists who explained procedures. Parents and familiar adults were key to establishing routines and managing anxiety.
• SLPOther2024Emotion dysregulation in autism: Severity and correlates in early childhood.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research58% of autistic preschoolers exceeded a cutoff for fast, intense emotional reactions, and 46% for low positive affect. Sleep problems, speaking ability, autism traits, and parent depression were associated. No treatment was tested.
• SLPOther2024International Consensus Statements on Intraoperative Testing for Cochlear Implantation Surgery.Ear and hearingExpert panels agreed on 24 statements regarding intraoperative testing for cochlear implants, covering imaging and electrophysiology. These are recommendations for standardization, not evidence that the tests improve patient outcomes or hearing recovery.
• SLPMeta-Analysis2024A Scoping Review and Meta-Analysis of the Relations Between Cognition and Cochlear Implant Outcomes and the Effect of Quiet Versus Noise Testing Conditions.Ear and hearingCognitive screening and attention tasks correlate with how well adults understand speech after cochlear implantation, especially in quiet. However, results vary widely across studies, and noise testing is underpowered. Do not use these scores alone to predict outcomes or select candidates.
• SLPPilot2024Listening Effort Measured With Pupillometry in Cochlear Implant Users Depends on Sound Level, But Not on the Signal to Noise Ratio When Using the Matrix Test.Ear and hearingFor cochlear implant users, pupil dilation did not change with speech difficulty, making this physiological measure unreliable for assessing listening effort in this group. Subjective ratings did change with difficulty, but likely reflected performance rather than effort alone.
• OTSLPSystematic Review2025Disability barriers autistic girls face in secondary education: A systematic review.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic girls often mask difficulties to fit in, leading teachers to miss their need for support. They face barriers like sensory overload, exclusion, and gendered assumptions. Clinicians should advocate for quiet spaces, explicit social coaching, and recognizing that quiet compliance may hide significant struggle.
• SLPRCT2025Cortical Activation during Swallowing Exercise Tasks: an fNIRS Pilot Study.DysphagiaEffortful saliva swallowing produced the strongest left motor cortex activation in healthy young adults, higher than normal swallowing or tongue pressing. Tongue pressing did not produce greater motor activation than normal swallowing, and sensory-region changes did not separate the tasks.
• PTOTSLPRCT2025Analgesic efficacy of transcranial combined peripheral magnetic stimulation in chronic nonspecific low back pain: a fNIRS study.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicineAdding brain stimulation to peripheral magnetic stimulation did not reduce pain more than peripheral stimulation alone. Both groups improved similarly on pain and disability scores after two weeks of treatment.
• SLPOther2025Who am I now? A scoping review on identity changes in post-stroke aphasia.Disability and rehabilitationIdentity in post-stroke aphasia was described as changing through stories, roles, stigma and social interaction in 20 reports. Speech-language pathologists can support story sharing and ask about identity.
• PTOTSLPCohort2025Prevalence of function-limiting late effects in survivors of head and neck cancer.PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitationSurvivors of head and neck cancer referred to rehabilitation had high rates of complex late effects. Ninety-two percent had swallowing difficulty, eighty-six percent had facial or neck lymphedema, and seventy-eight percent had cranial nerve dysfunction, indicating a need for comprehensive multidisciplinary assessment.
• SLPOther2024Investigating frank autism: clinician initial impressions and autism characteristics.Molecular autismFive-minute clinician reviews of autism evaluations matched the final diagnosis 79% of the time. Clinicians were better at identifying non-autistic people, and roughly 33% of autistic participants did not receive an initial impression of autism.
• SLPQualitative2024How People Living With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Use Personalized Automatic Speech Recognition Technology to Support Communication.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHRPersonalized speech recognition captions were often inaccurate during everyday conversations. Three people with ALS used them selectively, sometimes preferred writing or typing, and partners sometimes got hints but not reliable understanding.
• SLPCohort2024Extended High-Frequency Thresholds: Associations With Demographic and Risk Factors, Cognitive Ability, and Hearing Outcomes in Middle-Aged and Older Adults.Ear and hearingExtended high-frequency hearing loss correlates with age, sex, and race. It explains some self-reported hearing difficulty in older adults but adds no predictive value for speech-in-noise scores or for people with normal conventional hearing.
• SLPCohort2024Long-Term Outcomes of Cochlear Implantation in Usher Syndrome.Ear and hearingEarly cochlear implantation in Usher syndrome yields excellent long-term speech recognition, especially in children implanted before age 8. Adults implanted later gain sound awareness but not oral communication skills. Outcomes are stable for USH2 and USH3, though variable in USH3.
• SLPCohort2024The Lifelines Cohort Study: Prevalence of Tinnitus Associated Suffering and Behavioral Outcomes in Children and Adolescents.Ear and hearingReported suffering from ringing ears was more common in adolescents than children and was linked to anxiety, depression, somatic complaints, attention problems, fatigue and poorer peer relationships.
• SLPNarrative Review2024Implementing Ecological Momentary Assessment in Audiological Research: Opportunities and Challenges.American journal of audiologyEcological Momentary Assessment captures hearing experiences in real life via smartphone prompts, avoiding memory bias. It faces challenges with participant burden and older adults' tech skills. Clinicians should note it is currently a research tool, not a clinical intervention.
• SLPOther2024Automatic Speech Recognition of Conversational Speech in Individuals With Disordered Speech.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHRPersonalized speech recognition made fewer recognition errors than the unadapted model for adults with disordered speech, but conversational speech was still harder to recognize than read speech.
• OTSLPOther2025The Oxford Visual Perception Screen: Development and normative data of a standardised assessment for visual perception difficulties.Clinical rehabilitationOxford Visual Perception Screen now has 107 healthy older participants' scores that set normal score thresholds. It can flag possible visual perception problems after stroke, but has not yet been validated against a gold standard.
• SLPCohort2025Narrative abilities of autistic and non-autistic adolescents: The role of mentalising and executive function.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchAdolescents with weaker mentalising skills produced less structured and coherent narratives, regardless of autism diagnosis. Autistic adolescents scored lower on narrative structure, but diagnostic status did not predict narrative coherence once mentalising and language skills were accounted for.
• SLPNarrative Review2025Informed consent in assisted reproductive technology: Implications for pediatric clinicians.Developmental medicine and child neurologyThis review urges clinicians to recognize the emotional and financial burden of assisted reproduction. When assessing developmentally delayed children, understanding the parents' journey and the limitations of pre-implantation genetic testing can improve communication and trust.
• SLPOther2025Validation of the European Portuguese Version of the Yale Pharyngeal Severity Rating Scale.DysphagiaThe European Portuguese Yale Pharyngeal Severity Rating Scale shows excellent agreement when the same expert rates the same images twice. Agreement between different raters is moderate overall but high among those with experience using the scale. New users need training before relying on it.
• SLPOther2025"You should smile more": Population-level sex differences in smiling also exist in autistic people.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic girls and women smiled more than autistic boys and men, looking more like neurotypical boys than neurotypical girls. This sex-based difference persisted in autism, meaning autistic females may present with fewer obvious social traits and risk being missed by standard male-referenced assessments.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2025A review of concurrent sonified biofeedback in balance and gait training.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationMost studies testing sound-based balance feedback reported improvements, but many were small and short-term. Clinicians should view this as promising research rather than established practice, as evidence for long-term skill transfer is currently lacking.
• SLPCohort2024Child and family characteristics associated with verbal communication difficulties in adolescents with autism and other developmental disabilities.Research in developmental disabilitiesAdolescents with autism had verbal communication difficulty more often than adolescents with other developmental disabilities (47.4% vs 14.6%). Lower early expressive language was associated with later difficulty. Maternal education, race, insurance, and sex showed mixed links.
• SLPOther2024Evaluating Changes in Adult Cochlear Implant Users' Brain and Behavior Following Auditory Training.Ear and hearingAuditory training improved pitch discrimination in cochlear implant users, but gains did not generalize to understanding speech in noise. Brainwave measures failed to detect these behavioral improvements, so objective electrophysiological testing is not yet a reliable way to track training progress.
• SLPOther2024Chronic Electro-Acoustic Stimulation May Interfere With Electric Threshold Recovery After Cochlear Implantation in the Aged Guinea Pig.Ear and hearingIn aged guinea pigs, chronic electro-acoustic stimulation did not cause greater acoustic hearing loss than surgery alone. However, it appeared to block the normal recovery of electric thresholds, suggesting stimulation might interfere with neural healing after implantation.
• SLPCohort2024Comprehension of Miranda warnings in adults with chronic, moderate-severe traumatic brain injury.Journal of communication disordersAdults with chronic moderate-to-severe TBI understood Miranda warnings less accurately than non-injured peers. SLPs should evaluate legal comprehension for individuals with TBI interacting with the justice system, as complex language and stress may further impair their ability to exercise rights.
• SLPCohort2024Exploring cross-linguistic differences in parental input and their associations with child expressive language in ASD: Bulgarian versus English comparison.International journal of language & communication disordersBulgarian parents of children with ASD used fewer words but more verbs and statements than English parents, who used twice as many questions. However, parental question use predicted child expressive vocabulary equally well in both language groups.
• PTOTSLPNarrative Review2024Multimodal Technologies for Remote Assessment of Neurological and Mental Health.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHRCombining speech, video, and text data in remote assessment platforms improves diagnostic accuracy and robustness compared to using any single data source alone. Multimodal analysis provides a more holistic view of neurological and mental health status for clinicians.
• SLPCohort2024Electrocochleography in Cochlear Implant Recipients: Correlating Maximum Response With Residual Hearing.Ear and hearingIn cochlear implant recipients, larger intraoperative electrical responses and less spatial shift of these responses were associated with better preoperative hearing. This suggests these measures can objectively track residual cochlear health, potentially replacing subjective visual interpretation of the signals.
• OTSLPNarrative Review2024How auditory processing influences the autistic profile: A review.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchAutistic people’s auditory challenges are heterogeneous and linked to reduced filtering, adaptation, and increased distress in noisy settings. Noise-canceling headphones may increase participation. Music and repetitive behaviors can be pleasurable, so avoid assuming all sensory reactivity is negative.
• SLPOther2025Validity and Reliability of Dysphagia Outcome Severity Scale (DOSS) When Used to Rate Flexible Endoscopic Evaluations of Swallowing (FEES).DysphagiaExperienced speech pathologists using the Swedish Dysphagia Outcome Severity Scale to rate silent endoscopic videos agreed strongly with each other and with the gold standard assessment. The scale appears valid and reliable for use with FEES, even without audio or patient history.
• SLPSurvey2025Speech and Language Therapists' Perspectives of Virtual Reality as a Clinical Tool for Autism: Cross-Sectional Survey.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesMost surveyed speech and language therapists had not used VR. They named workplace support, guidelines and speech therapy VR software as barriers, and many wanted training.
• SLPOther2025Adapting measures of motor imitation for use by caregivers in virtual contexts: Reliability, validity, and sensitivity to change.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchCaregivers could reliably administer two imitation assessments at home over Zoom while a virtual assessor coached them for children with early signs of autism. Scores tracked with parent-reported imitation and language, and predicted expressive language growth over 9 months.
• PTOTSLPOther2025Elevated parkinsonism symptoms in autism during middle and older adulthood are linked with psychosocial, physical health, and mental health outcomes.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchAutistic adults aged 40-83 who screened positive for parkinsonism reported lower physical, environmental, and autism-specific quality of life, plus more memory, sleep, and depression issues. These links persisted when excluding those on antipsychotics, but daily living skills findings did not.
• SLPOther2025Relationship between International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative Flow Test and Consistometric Measures for Consistency Classification: An Examination of Thickened Liquids Prepared Using Starch-Based and Xanthan Gum-Based Thickening Agents.Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)For water thickened with starch or xanthan gum, IDDSI syringe readings and Bostwick distances moved together. Starch followed a straight-line equation; xanthan gum curved. Use the equations only for IDDSI levels 1 to 3.