SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY

Research for speech-language pathology

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• SLPOther2025The influence of hearing loss and hearing aid use on experienced emotion in everyday listening situations.Clinical rehabilitationAdults with hearing loss wearing hearing aids did not differ from adults with normal hearing in momentary emotional pleasantness, but they reported more pleasant emotions on aided days than unaided days.
• OTSLPCase-Control2025Real-Life Functioning in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome in Relation to Neurocognitive Abilities and Psychotic Symptoms: A Comparison With Idiopathic Schizophrenia.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDRAdults with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and psychosis have similar social functioning to those with idiopathic schizophrenia. Negative symptoms, specifically asociality, predicted poor interpersonal relationships regardless of genetic cause, suggesting social rehabilitation should target these symptoms directly.
• SLPCase Series2024Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Speech Therapy for /ɹ/: A Single-Case Experimental Study.American journal of speech-language pathologyIn five children and young adults with speech sound errors, adding AI-assisted practice to clinician-led therapy improved /ɹ/ production. Three of five showed clear treatment response on unpracticed words, though results varied by individual.
• SLPOther2024The Inter-Phase Gap Offset Effect as a Measure of Neural Health in Cochlear Implant Users With Residual Acoustic Hearing.Ear and hearingThe inter-phase gap offset effect did not correlate with ECAP thresholds or residual hearing, so it failed to indicate neural health in these cochlear implant users. Instead, the effect changed with electrode impedance and hair cell function, limiting its clinical utility.
• PTOTSLPOther2024Associations Between Childcare Physical Activity and Sedentary Time and Early Childhood Developmental Outcomes: A Compositional and Isotemporal Substitution Analysis.Child: care, health and developmentPreschoolers who spent more time in energetic play during childcare had fewer internalising symptoms and better movement skills. Replacing light activity with energetic play or sitting was linked to fewer symptoms. No links were found for cognitive scores. These are cross-sectional associations, not proof that play prevents mental health issues.
• PTOTSLPPilot2024Motion capture-based evaluation of lower chopstick stability.Journal of physical therapy scienceTen sessions of chopstick training with the non-dominant hand improved grip stability in healthy adults. Most gains appeared after five days, with no further improvement by day ten. This offers a short, measurable protocol for therapists working on hand dexterity.
• SLPQualitative2025'I'm sick of being the problem': Autistic mothers' experiences of interacting with schools for their autistic children.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic mothers described schools treating them as the problem and the enemy, and advocacy as traumatic and stressful, with mental health, family, and financial strain. Positive experiences were described when teachers were flexible, valued parent expertise, and created safe, connected classrooms.
• PTOTSLPOther2025Estimation of elbow flexion torque using equilibrium optimizer on feature selection of NMES MMG signals and hyperparameter tuning of random forest regression.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesA new algorithm estimates elbow flexion torque from muscle vibration signals in healthy young men. It reduced the number of features needed by 33% and improved prediction accuracy on unseen data, but has not yet been tested in patients with muscle weakness.
• SLPCohort2025Do Orally Disintegrating Tablets Facilitate Medical Adherence and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Post-stroke Dysphagia?DysphagiaOlder post-stroke patients with swallowing rehabilitation who took orally disintegrating tablets did not have better medication adherence, fewer cardiovascular events, or fewer aspiration pneumonia admissions than those taking other tablets. Both groups had adherence above 80%.
• SLPCohort2025Longitudinal associations between autistic children's anxiety and social communication differences: The moderating role of executive function behaviours.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic preadolescents' anxiety and social communication differences did not predict each other over time. Among children with clinically elevated behavioural regulation difficulties, higher anxiety was associated with fewer teacher-reported social communication differences one year later.
• OTSLPCohort2025Children's social preference for teachers versus peers in autism inclusion classrooms: An objective perspective.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchChildren with autism moved faster toward teachers and were approached faster by teachers than peers were. They also spent less time in social contact with peers. Teachers did not replace peer interaction, but peer engagement remained lower for children with autism.
• SLPOther2025Sensory Changes Related to Swallowing in Motor Neurone Disease.DysphagiaMost studies found reduced taste, smell, and laryngeal sensation in motor neurone disease, but evidence quality was low and findings were contradictory. Clinicians should consider sensory changes when assessing swallowing safety, particularly silent aspiration risk, despite limited high-quality proof.
• SLPOther2025Efficacy and Safety of "Vacuum Swallowing" Based on a Strong Negative Esophageal Pressure in Healthy Individuals.DysphagiaHealthy adults successfully reproduced vacuum swallowing, generating strong negative pressure in the esophagus. While no choking occurred, inspiration during swallowing was frequent. This technique remains untested in dysphagia patients, so clinical application requires further study.
• PTOTSLPOther2025Adults With Intellectual Disabilities and Incontinence: Assessment and Toileting Issues.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDRStandard incontinence questionnaires are often unusable for adults with intellectual disabilities due to complex wording and high rates of 'don't know' responses. Open-ended questions and accessible tools are needed to accurately identify toileting issues and avoid diagnostic overshadowing.
• SLPNarrative Review2024Deaf role-models for Deaf children in hearing families: a scoping review.Journal of deaf studies and deaf educationDeaf role-models in early intervention improve communication and social development for Deaf children in hearing families. Parents gain confidence and shift from viewing deafness as a deficit to a cultural identity. Formal programs are rare, and evidence is mostly qualitative.
• SLPOther2024Harmonizing two measures of adaptive functioning using computational approaches: prediction of vineland adaptive behavior scales II (VABS-II) from the adaptive behavior assessment system II (ABAS-II) scores.Molecular autismABAS scores can predict VABS scores with an error of about 5 points, but this exceeds the 2–3.75 point clinical significance threshold. The conversion is most accurate when using age, diagnosis, and ABAS raw scores alongside the composite.
• SLPOther2024Outcomes Using the Optimized Pitch and Language Strategy Versus the Advanced Combination Encoder Strategy in Mandarin-Speaking Cochlear Implant Recipients.Ear and hearingFor Mandarin-speaking cochlear implant users, OPAL did not improve sentence-in-noise recognition. It improved tone recognition, improved single-word recognition in quiet, and was preferred in noise.
• SLPOther2024Neural Decoding of Spontaneous Overt and Intended Speech.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHRNoninvasive brain scans accurately decoded when healthy adults spoke yes or no, and also detected the intention to speak before the words were heard. This confirms brain-computer interface potential for speech, but the small sample and simple vocabulary mean it is not yet clinical evidence.
• SLPOther2024Understanding cognitive flexibility in emotional evaluation in autistic males and females: the social context matters.Molecular autismAutistic adults were slower when revising emotion judgements about social scenes whose context contradicted their first impression. For non-social scenes, the difference was smaller. This points to difficulty with unpredictable social context, not a general flexibility deficit.
• SLPCohort2024Speech Recognition and Spatial Hearing in Young Adults With Down Syndrome: Relationships With Hearing Thresholds and Auditory Working Memory.Ear and hearingYoung adults with Down syndrome localized sound as accurately as typical peers, but struggled to understand speech in noise. Their speech recognition difficulties were linked to hearing thresholds and auditory working memory, not general intelligence or vocabulary.
• PTOTSLPCase Report2024Complex Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in a 4-Year-Old With Repaired Critical Congenital Heart Disease and Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPIn a 4-year-old with repaired heart disease and autism, guanfacine worsened aggression, but clonidine plus stimulant medication reduced elopement and meltdowns. Cardiac monitoring was essential. This single case shows how to manage complex symptoms, not that these drugs work for everyone.
• SLPOther2025The relationship and interdependence of auditory thresholds, proposed behavioural measures of hidden hearing loss, and physiological measures of auditory function.International journal of audiologyAfter accounting for hearing thresholds, tests of outer hair cell and auditory nerve function did not predict thresholds in noise, frequency modulation detection, or speech recognition in 224 adults. These behavioral tests are not useful proxies for hidden cochlear or neural damage.
• PTOTSLPCohort2025Impact of Frailty on Post-Treatment Dysphagia in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer.DysphagiaPatients with head and neck cancer who were frail before treatment had worse swallowing quality of life and higher toxicity-related dysphagia scores at every check up to 24 months after treatment. Frailty status was associated with worse outcomes, but both frail and non-frail patients deteriorated significantly.
• PTOTSLPCohort2025To Identify and Compare ActivPAL Objectively Measured Activity Levels With Self-Reported Activity From the International Physical Activity Questionnaire in Older Adults With Intellectual Disability.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDSelf-reported activity questionnaires badly misrepresent real movement in older adults with intellectual disability. They overestimate vigorous activity by 93% and underestimate mild activity by 57% compared to wearable sensors. Use objective measures, not patient recall, to assess baseline fitness.
• PTOTSLPOther2025The REAsmash serious game for the post-stroke diagnosis of distractor inhibition: contrast between immersive and non-immersive virtual reality test versions.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicinePost-stroke participants were slower than healthy controls on a serious game testing distractor inhibition. Immersive VR caused slower responses than non-immersive screens. However, the pattern of errors remained consistent across both VR types and groups, suggesting the test measures the same cognitive skill regardless of the device used.
• PTOTSLPCohort2025Submovements in manual tracking: people with Parkinson's disease produce more submovements than age-matched controls.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationPeople with Parkinson's made more small corrective movements and had larger timing and position errors than controls during manual tracking. This held true across all tested speeds. Older adults without Parkinson's showed similar error patterns to younger adults regarding movement smoothness.
• PTOTSLPMeta-Analysis2025Non-invasive cerebral and spinal cord stimulation for motor and gait recovery in incomplete spinal cord injury: systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationPooled non-invasive brain and spinal stimulation improved lower limb strength and gait, but this benefit vanished when broken down by technique. rTMS helped strength more than walking; tDCS effects were small. Spinal stimulation data was too sparse to conclude anything.
• SLPOther2025Cochlear-implant simulated spectral degradation attenuates emotional responses to environmental sounds.International journal of audiologyNormal-hearing listeners rated environmental sounds processed like a cochlear implant as closer to neutral and less exciting than natural sounds.
• PTOTSLPCohort2025Health service utilization among autistic youth in Aotearoa New Zealand: A nationwide cross-sectional study.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceAutistic youth in New Zealand used mental health services, psychotropic medication and hospital care at much higher rates than matched non-autistic peers, but used accident compensation services less. Those with intellectual disability had even higher non-psychiatric hospital use.
• PTOTSLPRCT2024Effects of simultaneous neuromuscular electrical stimulation and static stretching on flexibility and strength: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of physical therapy scienceCombining electrical stimulation with stretching improved forward bending distance more than stimulation alone, but it did not improve ankle flexibility or strength. The added stretch helped hamstring range of motion immediately, with no adverse events reported.
• SLPOther2024Reading metacomprehension of Spanish deaf and hard-of-hearing students.Journal of deaf studies and deaf educationDeaf and hard-of-hearing students judged their reading as accurately as hearing peers matched on reading score. They still struggled to use context clues to work out unknown words and rated their understanding inaccurately more often than age-matched peers.
• SLPCohort2024Barriers to Early Progress in Adult Cochlear Implant Outcomes.Ear and hearingAdult cochlear implant users who understood fewer than 90% of words in sentences at 1 month were more likely to have detectable thinking or peripheral limiting factors. Early scores may flag who needs closer follow-up.
• SLPCohort2024Hearing Loss and Annual Earnings Over a 20-Year Period: The HUNT Cohort Study.Ear and hearingAdults with hearing loss had slower annual earnings growth over the follow-up than adults with normal hearing. The gap widened over time, and disabling loss showed the largest difference.
• SLPCohort2024Association between participation restriction due to hearing loss and self-perception of health, social support, and quality of life in elderly people: a cross-sectional study.CoDASPoorer self-perception of health is associated with hearing handicap in older adults. Quality of life and social support did not independently predict participation restriction, suggesting clinicians should assess how patients view their own health rather than relying solely on standard quality-of-life metrics.
• SLPPilot2025The Effects of Adding Particles in Texture Modified Food on Tongue Strength and Swallowing Function in Patients with Oropharyngeal Dysphagia: A Proof of Concept Study.DysphagiaSwallowing safety did not differ when pureed food contained small or large carrot particles, and tongue strength did not change, in 10 patients with dysphagia.
• PTOTSLPCohort2025Contextual Determinants of Health Disparities in Utilization of Community-Based Rehabilitation Services Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries With Traumatic Brain Injury.The Journal of head trauma rehabilitationWhere older TBI patients live shapes whether they get home or clinic rehab. High unemployment and rural living linked to less home care and less outpatient care respectively. Severe housing problems linked to more outpatient care. Context matters for access.
• SLPOther2025Analysis of Patients' Dietary Status/Restrictions Following Instrumental Swallow Evaluations in Skilled Nursing Facilities.DysphagiaAfter mobile swallow evaluations in skilled nursing facilities, many residents were recommended less restrictive diets and liquids. Thin liquids were recommended for 651 residents after the evaluation, compared with 301 before. The paper did not confirm that residents tolerated these changes.
• PTOTSLPQualitative2025'Who Listens to the Listener, Who Cares for the Carer?' A Cross-Sectional Study of Social Connectedness and Sleep Experiences of Young Siblings of Neurodivergent People.Child: care, health and developmentYoung siblings of neurodivergent people describe loneliness as having no one who understands their caring role. They carry anxiety about the future and fear burdening parents, so they rarely seek help. Most report sleep problems stem from worry, not their sibling's night waking.
• SLPOther2025Reliability and Confidence of Dynamic Imaging Grade of Swallowing Toxicity (DIGEST) Rating Among Research and Clinical Speech Pathologists Before and After Implementation of a Training Manual: A Multi-site Study.DysphagiaAfter a written training manual for DIGEST, a swallowing grading method, 23 speech pathologists' video ratings matched the lab standard a median 84% of the time, compared with a median 76% among 32 raters at baseline. Confidence rose, but confidence did not track accuracy.
• PTOTSLPCohort2025Environmental Barriers are Associated With Rehabilitation Needs 10 to 15 Years After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Veterans Affairs TBI Model Systems Study.The Journal of head trauma rehabilitationVeterans with traumatic brain injury reported more unmet rehabilitation needs 10 to 15 years later when they faced environmental barriers. Attitudes of others, discrimination, and lack of accessible services were the strongest links, even after accounting for cognitive disability.
• SLPRCT2025Reverse transcriptase inhibitors in Aicardi-Goutières syndrome: A crossover clinical trial.Developmental medicine and child neurologyReverse transcriptase inhibitors did not significantly lower interferon scores after 6 weeks in children with Aicardi-Goutières syndrome. Single-drug arms showed no effect. Triple therapy lowered scores at 3 weeks but not 6, and the finding failed sensitivity checks. Poor adherence limited the trial.
• OTSLPQualitative2025'It depends entirely on the nature of those supports': Community perceptions of the appropriateness of early support services for autistic children.Autism : the international journal of research and practice50.2% said early supports are okay, and 48.2% said it depends. Participants said supports should respect childhood, affirm autism and fit families.
• PTOTSLPOther2025Emergency department utilization by spina bifida patients in Florida 2016-2020.Journal of rehabilitation medicineYoung adults with spina bifida in Florida used the emergency department most, especially those aged 20 to 29. Common reasons included infections, seizures, and bowel issues. These presentations suggest gaps in routine outpatient care during the transition from paediatric to adult services.
• SLPCase Series2024Effects of subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation on the speech of Spanish-speaking Parkinson's disease patients during the first year of treatment.CoDASAcross the group, speech measures did not show confirmed change during the first year after STN-DBS. Individual patients varied, with some increases and some decreases in specific measures, so no uniform speech effect can be assumed.
• PTOTSLPCohort2024Cognitive Changes Up to 4 Years After Cochlear Implantation in Older Adults: A Prospective Longitudinal Study Using the RBANS-H.Ear and hearingCognitive scores improved significantly one year after cochlear implantation but returned to baseline levels by four years. Quality of life and hearing gains persisted longer. Without a control group, practice effects from repeated testing may explain the early cognitive rise, so do not assume the implant caused lasting cognitive improvement.
• OTSLPSystematic Review2024Effectiveness of Distance Educational Programs for parents of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder: an integrative review.CoDASParent education programs using distance delivery reported gains in communication, routines, and behavior for children with autism, but evidence came from six small, mixed studies. Treat this as promising, not proven.
• OTSLPOther2025Structure and dynamics of anxiety in people with ASD and ID: A network analysis.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchIn adults with autism and intellectual disability, anxiety and autism symptoms formed a single mixed network rather than separate clusters. Fear of being touched or pushed acted as a central bridge, linking social behaviors like smiling or being friendly to anxiety symptoms.
• SLPCase-Control2025Exploration of working memory retrieval stage for mild cognitive impairment: time-varying causality analysis of electroencephalogram based on dynamic brain networks.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationPeople with mild cognitive impairment performed worse on a four-item memory task than controls. Their brain networks showed disordered activity in the left frontal and right occipital regions during retrieval. This suggests low-load tasks may help distinguish MCI.
• SLPCohort2025Influence of Carnatic Vocal Training on Voice Measures in Males.Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)Male Carnatic singers with 6–10 years of training showed lower pitch measures in the low and middle registers during a humming task, suggesting improved control in these ranges. However, they also exhibited increased noise in the middle register and no significant differences in most other acoustic or aerodynamic voice measures compared to less trained singers.
• SLPCase-Control2025Associations of maternal peripregnancy cannabis use with behavioral and developmental outcomes in children with and without symptoms of autism spectrum disorder: Study to Explore Early Development.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchMaternal cannabis use around pregnancy was linked to higher aggressive behavior, attention problems and sleep problems in children with ASD symptoms, but not in children without ASD symptoms. Cognitive scores did not differ.