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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• SLPOther2017A Path Model of Expressive Vocabulary Skills in Initially Preverbal Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn preverbal preschool children with ASD, intentional communication, diversity of key consonants, and parent responses to the child's focus predicted later expressive vocabulary. Receptive vocabulary did not explain these links.
• SLPCohort2017Dichotic Digits Test Performance Across the Ages: Results From Two Large Epidemiologic Cohort Studies.Ear and hearingAcross 3655 adults, free recall Dichotic Digits Test scores varied widely and were lower with older age, male sex, lower education, worse hearing and cognitive impairment; right ear directed recall was often 100% correct.
• SLPCohort2017Birth outcomes among US women with intellectual and developmental disabilities.Disability and health journalWomen with intellectual and developmental disabilities had significantly higher odds of preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirth compared to other women. This risk persisted even after adjusting for age, race, income, and comorbidities. Clinicians should anticipate these adverse outcomes in this population.
• SLPCase-Control2017Atypical Processing of Gaze Cues and Faces Explains Comorbidity between Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).Journal of autism and developmental disordersChildren with autism, with or without ADHD, had atypical brain responses to faces and gaze cues. ADHD alone did not change these brain responses, but children with ADHD were slower to respond, especially when the cue did not point to the target.
• SLPSurvey2017Behavioral Profiles of Children With Williams Syndrome From Spain and the United States: Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences.American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilitiesWhen compared with children in their own country, Spanish and US children with Williams syndrome showed similar behavioral problem patterns. Spanish parents reported higher raw problem scores, and social problems remained the main elevated difference after country norms.
• SLPOther2017Development of International Terminology and Definitions for Texture-Modified Foods and Thickened Fluids Used in Dysphagia Management: The IDDSI Framework.DysphagiaA shared IDDSI framework gives texture-modified foods and thickened drinks common names, colors, and simple syringe and fork tests. Use it to reduce label confusion, not because each level has proven therapeutic thickness.
• SLPCase-Control2017A Retrospective Video Analysis of Canonical Babbling and Volubility in Infants with Fragile X Syndrome at 9-12 Months of Age.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn home videos at 9 to 12 months, none of 10 infants later diagnosed with fragile X met the usual babbling stage, while 8 of 14 typical infants did. They also vocalized less. This may help flag early language risk, but it does not diagnose.
• OTSLPOther2017Emotion Perception Mediates the Predictive Relationship Between Verbal Ability and Functional Outcome in High-Functioning Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn high-functioning adults with autism, better emotion perception and verbal fluency were linked with better adaptive functioning. Emotion perception was part of the link between verbal ability and everyday functioning.
• SLPRCT2017Parent-delivered early intervention in infants at risk for ASD: Effects on electrophysiological and habituation measures of social attention.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchInfants at high familial risk for autism who received 10 weekly parent-mediated interaction visits showed faster habituation to faces and greater frontal brain activity than infants who only received monitoring. These were brain and attention measures, not clinical symptoms.
• SLPOther2017Using the Borg CR10 Physical Exertion Scale to Measure Patient-perceived Vocal Effort Pre and Post Treatment.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice FoundationIn 36 adults with phonotraumatic voice disorders, an anchored Borg CR10 captured lower perceived vocal effort after four resonant voice therapy sessions, and it matched VHI item 14 weakly before therapy and moderately after therapy.
• SLPOther2017The comprehension of sentences with unaccusative verbs in aphasia: a test of the intervener hypothesis.AphasiologyPeople with agrammatic Broca's aphasia understood simple sentences with unaccusative verbs well, but failed to understand the same verbs when they appeared inside subject relative clauses. This suggests that an intervening noun phrase blocks their ability to link the verb to its object.
• SLPCohort2016Evidence for a Right-Ear Advantage in Newborn Hearing Screening Results.Trends in hearingNewborns who failed one ear first passed the right ear more often (235 of 387) than the left (152 of 387), especially when the right ear was tested first.
• SLPPilot2016A Flexible Question-and-Answer Task for Measuring Speech Understanding.Trends in hearingA new question-answer speech test performed well in young adults with normal hearing, even with multiple talkers and competing conversations. It may help assess real-world listening, but it was not tested in patients.
• PTOTSLPCohort2017Rehabilitation in a convalescent rehabilitation ward following an acute ward improves functional recovery and mortality for hip fracture patients: a sequence in a single hospital.Journal of physical therapy scienceHip fracture patients who moved to a convalescent rehabilitation ward within the same hospital had higher discharge independence scores and home discharge rates than those discharged directly from the acute ward. One-year mortality did not differ significantly between the two groups.
• SLPPilot2017An exploratory study of the influence of load and practice on segmental and articulatory variability in children with speech sound disorders.Clinical linguistics & phoneticsRetrieval made lip and jaw movement more variable than imitation in all nine children. Imitation practice over five sessions did not clearly reduce movement variability, but retrieval practice reduced it for some children with speech sound disorder.
• SLPOther2017Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) in Phelan-McDermid Syndrome: Validity and Suggestions for Use in Minimally Verbal Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn 18 minimally verbal children with Phelan-McDermid syndrome, LENA often missed child speech. Its speech/non-speech ratio matched human coding and related to a caregiver language score. Use LENA cautiously in older children or children with high repetitive speech.
• SLPCohort2017Unilateral Hearing Loss: Understanding Speech Recognition and Localization Variability-Implications for Cochlear Implant Candidacy.Ear and hearingAdults with one deaf ear struggled with speech in noise and localization compared to two-eared listeners. However, those deaf since birth localized better than those who lost hearing recently. Better-ear hearing levels predicted speech difficulties, suggesting candidacy for cochlear implants depends on specific functional deficits rather than just the presence of unilateral loss.
• SLPOther2017Going wireless and booth-less for hearing testing in industry.International journal of audiologyIn brewery workers tested in ordinary rooms by untrained operators, the wireless headset gave repeatable hearing thresholds close to those from a mobile sound booth. The rooms did not meet stricter ambient noise standards.
• SLPCase Report2017Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptoms in Infants with Fragile X Syndrome: A Prospective Case Series.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn a small series of infants with fragile X syndrome, early autism features were common in infancy, but by the second year they were mainly seen in those later diagnosed with autism. Social communication differences were noted in the case summaries.
• PTOTSLPNarrative Review2017Virtual Reality and Serious Games in Neurorehabilitation of Children and Adults: Prevention, Plasticity, and Participation.Pediatric physical therapy : the official publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy AssociationVirtual reality and serious games improve balance and motor function in children and adults with neurological conditions, but evidence for participation and fitness gains is mixed. Dose and system type matter, yet clinical adoption is hindered by lack of training and clear guidelines.
• SLPOther2017A Causal and Mediation Analysis of the Comorbidity Between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn children and young people with ASD or ADHD, social communication difficulties linked directly to inattention and impulsivity, while repetitive behaviour linked to hyperactivity. These are exploratory associations, not evidence that treating one symptom will improve the other.
• SLPOther2017Assessment of Autistic Traits in Children Aged 2 to 4½ Years With the Preschool Version of the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS-P): Findings from Japan.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchMother ratings did not separate autism from other clinical problems well, but the SRS-P gave stable parent and teacher ratings of autistic traits in Japanese preschoolers. Use it as a trait measure, not a diagnosis.
• SLPCohort2017Auditory Brainstem Response Altered in Humans With Noise Exposure Despite Normal Outer Hair Cell Function.Ear and hearingYoung Veterans reporting the highest lifetime noise exposure and non Veterans reporting firearm use had smaller earliest ABR wave I responses than lower exposure groups, despite normal pure-tone hearing and outer hair cell function. Later ABR waves were unchanged.
• SLPOther2017Acoustic Measures of Voice and Physiologic Measures of Autonomic Arousal during Speech as a Function of Cognitive Load.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice FoundationWhen healthy speakers named colour words that conflicted with their font colour, sweat-gland activity increased and voice quality measures changed slightly. Pitch and sound level did not change, and the overall pattern was weak.
• SLPCohort2017Predicting Intentional Communication in Preverbal Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersMotor imitation at study entry was linked to more intentional communication 12 months later in preverbal preschoolers with autism, after initial communication was considered. Parent physical play and spoken replies were not linked to later intentional communication.
• SLPSurvey2017"They must understand we are people": Pregnancy and maternity service use among signing Deaf women in Cape Town.Disability and health journalMost signing Deaf women in Cape Town attended antenatal care, but many could not understand staff. They described writing and family interpreting as inadequate, and asked for professional sign language interpreters.
• SLPOther2017The influence of scale structure and sex on parental reports of children's social (pragmatic) communication symptoms.Clinical linguistics & phoneticsParent-reported pragmatic scores did not form a separate communication profile. They aligned with language or behaviour problems differently for boys and girls, so CCC-2 scores alone do not clearly distinguish social communication disorder.
• SLPOther2016Acquisition, retention, and generalization of rhotics with and without ultrasound visual feedback.Journal of communication disordersNo consistent advantage emerged for ultrasound visual feedback in children with rhotic distortions. Only one of four improved more within session with ultrasound, and ultrasound did not show better retention or generalization between sessions.
• SLPOther2017Brief Report: Examining Executive and Social Functioning in Elementary-Aged Children with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn 23 elementary-aged children with autism, teacher-rated poorer initiation and working memory related to more solitary play, and better planning related to more joint play; better test-based switching and inhibition also related to more solitary play.
• SLPOther2017A Formant Range Profile for Singers.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice FoundationSingers could map their own vowel space with vocal-fry recordings, but the method did not produce a maximum vowel-space chart; the measured space varied widely.
• SLPOther2017Autism spectrum disorder in sub-saharan africa: A comprehensive scoping review.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchASD evidence in sub-Saharan Africa is thin and clinic-based. Intervention studies were too small to show whether any treatment works, and many tools were not tested in local languages and settings.
• SLPOther2017Corpus-Based Transitivity Biases in Individuals with Aphasia.AphasiologyPeople with aphasia use verbs in the expected transitive or intransitive ways, like controls. They also produce more intransitively biased verbs overall and make more errors when a verb's usual structure conflicts with the sentence.
• SLPOther2017Speech Adjustments for Room Acoustics and Their Effects on Vocal Effort.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice FoundationPeople spoke longer in more reverberant rooms, but at a lower pitch. Loud speech raised pitch and voicing time, and both rose across tasks. Sound level change was the strongest predictor of reported vocal effort.
• SLPOther2017Measuring Theory of Mind in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAdults with autism scored lower than matched controls on a new video test of understanding social interactions. The difference was seen only when groups were compared, and some adults with autism performed in the typical range, so it is not a diagnostic or severity marker.
• SLPNarrative Review2017On the Etiology of Listening Difficulties in Noise Despite Clinically Normal Audiograms.Ear and hearingA normal audiogram does not rule out hidden cochlear or nerve damage, binaural processing deficits, or language and attention problems as causes of trouble hearing in noise. Test beyond the audiogram before assuming central auditory processing disorder.
• SLPOther2017The Relationship Between Baseline Volume in Temporal Areas and Post-Treatment Naming Accuracy in Primary Progressive Aphasia.AphasiologyPre-treatment temporal lobe volume was not linked to naming accuracy after anomia treatment for trained words. Both phonological and orthographic treatment produced better naming for practiced words than unpracticed words, but this study does not support using scan volume alone to guide treatment choice.
• SLPOther2017Using Neural Response Telemetry to Monitor Physiological Responses to Acoustic Stimulation in Hybrid Cochlear Implant Users.Ear and hearingCochlear implant telemetry can record acoustic responses from an electrode inside the cochlea in Hybrid cochlear implant users. The recorded thresholds tracked measured hearing, and responses changed when hearing declined. The method is time consuming and separates hair cell and nerve signals only partially.
• SLPCohort2017Childhood predictors of written expression in late adolescents with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: a longitudinal study.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDRYouth with 22q11DS had written expression scores far below average. Girls with 22q11DS scored higher than boys. Childhood verbal IQ, executive function, and language predicted later writing; verbal IQ decline did not.
• SLPOther2017Individual differences in language and working memory affect children's speech recognition in noise.International journal of audiologyIn children with normal hearing, higher working memory was associated with better speech recognition in noise across all stimuli. Higher vocabulary was associated with better recognition only for sentences and word sequences, not isolated words, so interpret poor scores cautiously.
• SLPOther2017Validating the Communicative Participation Item Bank (CPIB) for use with people with aphasia: an analysis of Differential Item Function (DIF).AphasiologyThe CPIB appears usable with people with aphasia without needing different scoring, but family proxy ratings do not match self-report. Clinicians may need to provide communication support.
• SLPOther2017Daily Couple Experiences and Parent Affect in Families of Children with Versus Without Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disordersParents of children with autism reported less daily time with their partner and fewer positive couple interactions. Fathers felt less close. Partner support and negative interactions did not differ. They also began the diary with lower positive and higher negative affect.
• SLPCohort2017Response to changing contingencies in infants at high and low risk for autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchAt 10 months, high-risk infants shook a silent rattle less at first than low-risk infants, showing weaker expectation that shaking will make sound. They learned the sounding-rattle contingency at a similar rate, so this is not a simple learning deficit.
• SLPCohort2017Neural circuitry at age 6 months associated with later repetitive behavior and sensory responsiveness in autism.Molecular autismIn infants later diagnosed with autism, brain wiring at six months predicted repetitive behaviors and sensory responses at age two. Higher white matter integrity was linked to more severe symptoms. This association was specific to these behaviors and not seen in unaffected siblings.
• SLPOther2017Are we slipping them through the cracks? The insufficiency of norm-referenced assessments for identifying language weaknesses in children with hearing loss.Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groupsStandard test scores did not flag language weakness in 13 preschoolers with hearing loss, but spontaneous language samples showed fewer different words and more omissions than matched peers. Use language samples before deciding services.
• SLPOther2017Short-Term and Working Memory Treatments for Improving Sentence Comprehension in Aphasia: A Review and a Replication Study.Seminars in speech and languageIn five people with chronic aphasia, computerised short-term memory training showed no clear gain in sentence comprehension. Across reviewed studies, four of 11 people showed some gain, so evidence remains limited.
• SLPCohort2017Shorter sleep duration is associated with social impairment and comorbidities in ASD.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchIn 2,714 children with autism spectrum disorder, shorter parent-reported sleep was associated with more severe social impairment, repetitive behaviors, lower IQ, and more ADD, depressive disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder reports. It does not show that sleep causes symptoms or that treating sleep improves them.
• SLPCohort2017Some Neurocognitive Correlates of Noise-Vocoded Speech Perception in Children With Normal Hearing: A Replication and Extension of ).Ear and hearingChildren with normal hearing who have better auditory attention and verbal short-term memory recognize spectrally degraded speech more accurately. This suggests that cognitive skills, not just hearing, drive speech perception when the signal is poor.
• SLPOther2017Effects of Stimulus Polarity and Artifact Reduction Method on the Electrically Evoked Compound Action Potential.Ear and hearingCochlear implant nerve response measurements changed with the artifact-reduction method. The anodic forward-masking method gave fastest timing and largest response size, while alternating polarity gave higher thresholds. Advanced Bionics ears showed no size, slope or threshold differences.
• SLPNarrative Review2017Advances with Neonatal Aerodigestive Science in the Pursuit of Safe Swallowing in Infants: Invited Review.DysphagiaInfant feeding problems involve immature swallowing, airway protection and reflux. In the authors' own experience, 51% of 100 infants referred for long-term gastrostomy avoided tube placement at discharge, and 84% fed orally by 1 year. This is reported experience, not tested evidence.
• SLPOther2017Psychosexual Functioning of Cognitively-able Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder Compared to Typically Developing Peers: The Development and Testing of the Teen Transition Inventory- a Self- and Parent Report Questionnaire on Psychosexual Functioning.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAdolescents with autism reported more difficulty making and being accepted by friends and lower self-esteem and social competence. Parents also reported less sexual experience and more inappropriate sexualized behavior than typically developing peers.