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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• PTOTSLPCohort2017Focused and divided attention abilities in the acute phase of recovery from moderate to severe traumatic brain injury.Brain injuryPeople with moderate-to-severe TBI in acute recovery struggle to search visually when distracted, but can filter out irrelevant info if first given a spatial cue. They are also slower to confirm when a target is absent. Use location cues and allow extra time.
• SLPOther2017Benefits of Music Training for Perception of Emotional Speech Prosody in Deaf Children With Cochlear Implants.Ear and hearingThe emotion improvement in children with cochlear implants who received piano training was not clearly different from painting, though the piano group improved on voice-only emotion scores. The piano group also improved rhythm, melody contour, and incidental memory scores. Nine children were in each group.
• SLPCase-Control2017Glutathione metabolism in the prefrontal brain of adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder: an MRS study.Molecular autismAdults with high-functioning autism had no significant difference in prefrontal glutathione compared with controls. A lower anterior cingulate glutathione trend was not stable. The study does not provide evidence for brain antioxidant differences to guide therapy.
• SLPOther2017Quantitative Evaluation of the In Vivo Vocal Fold Medial Surface Shape.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice FoundationIn one dog larynx, activating the thyroarytenoid muscle quickly bulged the vocal fold inward and downward, while the lateral cricoarytenoid adducted it from above and behind. Together they made a thicker, more rectangular glottis.
• PTOTSLPCohort2017A Short and Distinct Time Window for Recovery of Arm Motor Control Early After Stroke Revealed With a Global Measure of Trajectory Kinematics.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairArm motor control recovery plateaued by 5 weeks post-stroke, while strength and clinical scores continued improving through one year. This suggests spontaneous biological recovery is largely complete early, whereas later gains likely reflect strength or compensation.
• SLPCohort2017Neural correlates of language variability in preschool-aged boys with autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchPreschool boys with autism and more developed language had different white matter wiring in major brain pathways, and the strongest links were to language scores rather than autism severity.
• SLPOther2017Signaling of noncomprehension in communication breakdowns in fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome, and autism spectrum disorder.Journal of communication disordersBoys and girls with fragile X syndrome plus autism and those with Down syndrome signaled confusion less often than typical peers in a structured task. Boys with fragile X alone or autism alone performed like typical peers. Autism severity predicted fewer signals in boys with fragile X.
• OTSLPCohort2017Autism Spectrum Disorder in Males with Sex Chromosome Aneuploidy: XXY/Klinefelter Syndrome, XYY, and XXYY.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPASD was much more common in males with XYY or XXYY than in XXY/KS, reaching 43% and 52% under DSM-5. Updating from DSM-IV to DSM-5 raised the overall rate slightly, but the study did not show a clear change.
• SLPOther2017Multitasking During Degraded Speech Recognition in School-Age Children.Trends in hearingWhen children listened to degraded speech, their accuracy on a visual monitoring task fell. Reaction time did not slow. Children who were better at the visual task alone held up better.
• SLPOther2017Clinical evaluation of autistic symptoms in women with anorexia nervosa.Molecular autismTwenty-three percent of women hospitalized for anorexia nervosa scored above the autism cutoff on direct observation. Their symptoms involved social difficulties and speech oddities, but rarely repetitive behaviors. These traits linked to anxiety and emotional processing issues, not starvation or eating disorder severity.
• SLPSystematic Review2017Environmental risk factors for autism: an evidence-based review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.Molecular autismIncluded reviews found no evidence that vaccination or maternal smoking raises autism risk, while maternal valproate use and higher parental age were linked to higher risk. The evidence does not prove cause.
• SLPPilot2017Preliminary psychometric performance of the Neonatal Feeding Assessment Scale.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsIn 20 high-risk neonates, a new feeding assessment flagged all babies with oral-pharyngeal swallowing problems on modified barium swallow, but also flagged three babies whose modified barium swallow did not show this problem. It looks promising for clinical assessment, not proof it works.
• SLPNarrative Review2017Animal Models for Dysphagia Studies: What Have We Learnt So Far.DysphagiaNo patient outcomes are reported. This is a conceptual review of animal models for swallowing research, so it does not change therapy practice.
• SLPNarrative Review2017Behavioral Assessment of Listening Effort Using a Dual-Task Paradigm.Trends in hearingDual-task tests often show older adults and people with hearing loss use more listening effort in noise. But methods vary widely, and these lab measures do not match patients' own effort ratings.
• SLPOther2017Phonemic awareness of English second language learners.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsSetswana-speaking Grade 3 learners given a combined vowel, segmentation and literacy programme improved word discrimination and segmentation, but the no-training control group also improved, and blending did not change.
• SLPSurvey2017Poor consistency in evaluating South African adults with neurogenic dysphagia.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsSouth African speech-language therapists often used history, oral motor, voice and swallow safety checks, but sensation, medication review and social background were often skipped, and many instruments were rarely available. This describes uneven practice, not patient outcomes.
• SLPOther2017Evaluating Multipulse Integration as a Neural-Health Correlate in Human Cochlear-Implant Users: Relationship to Psychometric Functions for Detection.Trends in hearingIn cochlear implant users, the drop in threshold as pulse rate rose was linked to how widely electrical stimulation spread, not to detection sensitivity. Broader activation meant a steeper threshold drop.
• SLPCase Report2016Effect of voice therapy in sulcus vocalis: A single case study.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsA man with bilateral sulcus vocalis changed after voice therapy: average pitch fell, objective voice quality moved from negative to positive, and self-rated handicap fell. This is one case, so it cannot show the therapy works for sulcus vocalis.
• SLPRCT2016Culturally sensitive adaptation of the concept of relational communication therapy as a support to language development: An exploratory study in collaboration with a Tanzanian orphanage.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsTwelve Tanzanian orphanage caregiver students scored higher on a competency test after a four-module communication training. The study did not test children's language outcomes, so it cannot show that caregiver training helps children.
• SLPSystematic Review2017Effects of Hearing Impairment and Hearing Aid Amplification on Listening Effort: A Systematic Review.Ear and hearingHearing loss may increase effort for understanding speech, but only brain-wave studies showed this consistently. Hearing aids did not show a reliable reduction in effort.
• SLPOther2017Oscillatory Onset and Offset in Young Vocally Healthy Adults Across Various Measurement Methods.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice FoundationDifferent ways of timing vocal fold vibration onset gave partly overlapping values in healthy young adults, and onset timing did not track offset timing. Choose the measurement based on whether the question is about onset or offset.
• SLPCase-Control2017Formal Thought Disorder and Executive Functioning in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Old Leads and New Avenues.Journal of autism and developmental disordersChildren and adolescents with high-functioning autism showed more disorganized speech on a story task and reported more odd speech than matched controls. Within the autism group, weaker verbal working memory was linked to more disorganized speech, not response inhibition.
• SLPCohort2017A Longitudinal Investigation of the Home Literacy Environment and Shared Book Reading in Young Children With Hearing Loss.Ear and hearingParents of children with hearing loss found shared book reading harder at 24 months, and those children had lower language scores. For children with hearing loss, early interactive reading and child enjoyment linked to later language, but causation is not shown.
• SLPRCT2017The Effects of Service-Delivery Model and Purchase Price on Hearing-Aid Outcomes in Older Adults: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial.American journal of audiologyOlder adults who had never used hearing aids improved more on self-reported benefit with audiologist fitting or self-selected devices than with placebo devices. The two fitting methods did not differ on that outcome. Price did not change self-reported benefit.
• SLPOther2017Attempting to "Increase Intake from the Input": Attention and Word Learning in Children with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disordersPointing to the mouth did not help children learn a new word in the first experiment. Children with autism looked more at the target when the object was held next to the mouth in the second experiment.
• SLPOther2017Effects of Long-Term Musical Training on Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials.Ear and hearingAdults with long-term musical training told apart small pitch and sound-quality changes better than non-musicians, and their brain responses to those changes were larger. The study included adults described as normal hearing, not a training trial, so it does not prove music improves hearing.
• SLPCohort2017Acquisition of voice onset time in toddlers at high and low risk for autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchToddlers at high risk for autism produced similar words, errors, and speech timing as controls. At 36 months, children with autism were less likely to make measurably separate /b/ and /p/ sounds. This was a small speech difference, not a tested treatment effect.
• SLPOther2017Multisensory speech perception in autism spectrum disorder: From phoneme to whole-word perception.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchAutistic children recognized speech less accurately than peers, especially whole words in noise. Seeing the mouth still helped identify individual speech sounds, but whole-word benefit was smaller at the hardest noise level.
• SLPSurvey2016Ototoxicity management: An investigation into doctors' knowledge and practices, and the roles of audiologists in a tertiary hospital.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsMost doctors in one South African tertiary hospital did not routinely disclose ototoxicity risks or refer patients to audiologists, while strongly agreeing audiologists should monitor hearing and support patients.
• SLPOther2017The effect of methylphenidate-OROS® on the narrative ability of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsMethylphenidate-OROS did not improve word output, vocabulary variety or sentence complexity in 12 children with ADHD and language impairment who were also receiving speech-language therapy. It did improve overall story quality and event linking.
• SLPOther2017The diagnosis of autism and autism spectrum disorder in low- and middle-income countries: Experience from Jamaica.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceJamaican children already classified as having autism by the CARS all matched ADOS, and most matched ADI-R and ADOS-2. The study did not include children without autism or milder symptoms, so it cannot show the CARS is accurate for all diagnoses.
• SLPCase-Control2017No evidence of early head circumference enlargements in children later diagnosed with autism in Israel.Molecular autismIn children later diagnosed with autism, head circumference did not show early overgrowth compared with matched controls. Controls had larger head circumference and weight at birth and 3 months, and head size did not relate to autism severity or verbal status.
• SLPRCT2017Effects of lingual strength training on lingual strength and articulator function in stroke patients with dysarthria.Journal of physical therapy scienceStroke patients with dysarthria who added tongue strength training to usual physical and occupational therapy improved tongue pressure and the /tə/ syllable rate more than usual therapy alone. Only 16 patients were studied, and other speech measures did not differ.
• SLPOther2017Infants' and Adults' Use of Temporal Cues in Consonant Discrimination.Ear and hearingThree-month-olds could discriminate consonant categories using only slow temporal cues, but only 13 of 26 did in quiet. Adults did so in quiet, and fewer adults passed in noise.
• SLPNarrative Review2017Short-Term Memory and Aphasia: From Theory to Treatment.Seminars in speech and languageVerbal short-term memory is commonly impaired in aphasia and may help characterize semantic versus phonological deficits. Treatment evidence is from case studies, so larger studies are needed.
• SLPOther2017Leveraging blood serotonin as an endophenotype to identify de novo and rare variants involved in autism.Molecular autismWhen autism families were split by blood serotonin, genes hit by new variants in probands with normal serotonin lined up with known autism risk genes; genes in high-serotonin probands lined up with a different biological group. No treatment or clinical test was studied.
• SLPPilot2017Parents are aware of the ototoxic effects of chemotherapy in paediatrics undergoing cancer treatment - Professional versus parental views: A pilot study.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir Kommunikasieafwykings71% of parents were informed about possible negative effects of chemotherapy, but only 55% of oncologists reported informing parents about hearing impact, and 45% never referred for audiology.
• SLPSurvey2017Perceptions of public primary school teachers regarding noise-induced hearing loss in South Africa.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir Kommunikasieafwykings98% of Pretoria public primary teachers agreed loud noise can damage hearing, but 87% had no noise-induced hearing loss training and only 13% of schools had hearing screening programmes.
• SLPCase-Control2017I tawt i taw a puddy tat: Gestures in canary row narrations by high-functioning youth with autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchHigh-functioning youth with ASD produced fewer gestures while retelling a cartoon, and their gestures were harder to read as gestures or as meaningful messages. The same range of gesture types appeared, so the concern was clarity and amount, not repertoire.
• SLPCohort2017Quantifying Neonatal Sucking Performance: Promise of New Methods.Seminars in speech and languageHigher-risk preterm newborns showed changing suck movement patterns over time, while lower-risk preterm newborns looked similar to full-term newborns. The method separated groups, but no later developmental outcomes were reported.
• SLPQualitative2017Designing a Mobile Health App for Patients With Dysphagia Following Head and Neck Cancer: A Qualitative Study.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesPatients said fatigue, memory problems, treatment side effects and unclear progress made home swallowing exercises hard. They wanted immediate, simple feedback, progress tracking, and no peer competition.
• SLPCase-Control2017Brainstem Evoked Potential Indices of Subcortical Auditory Processing After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.Ear and hearingBrainstem auditory responses did not differ overall between 32 people with mild traumatic brain injury and 32 controls. Differences appeared only in the subgroup with abnormal auditory test performance, who were older and had slightly worse hearing thresholds.
• SLPCase-Control2017Auditory spatial attention to speech and complex non-speech sounds in children with autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchWhen listening to sounds straight ahead, children with autism responded more to nearby non-target sounds than controls, even when detecting the target sound was similar. The study did not show a speech-specific difficulty.
• SLPSurvey2017Brief Report: Examining the Association of Autism and Adverse Childhood Experiences in the National Survey of Children's Health: The Important Role of Income and Co-occurring Mental Health Conditions.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutism alone did not stay linked to more adverse childhood experiences once co-occurring anxiety, depression, attention, or behavior problems were considered. Before that, children with autism had more reported adversity, especially in lower-income families.
• SLPSurvey2017Self-Reported Usage, Functional Benefit, and Audiologic Characteristics of Cochlear Implant Patients Who Use a Contralateral Hearing Aid.Trends in hearingEighty of ninety-four unilateral cochlear implant users kept using a contralateral hearing aid daily, and most reported better hearing with both devices in quiet and noise.
• SLPNarrative Review2017A Review of Hyaluronic Acid and Hyaluronic Acid-based Hydrogels for Vocal Fold Tissue Engineering.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice FoundationNo clinical finding to act on.
• SLPCohort2017Effects of Esophageal Acidification on Troublesome Symptoms: An Approach to Characterize True Acid GERD in Dysphagic Neonates.DysphagiaAmong 53 dysphagic neonates, acid reflux that rose to the middle or upper esophagus was linked with coughing, sneezing, grunting and grimacing more often than reflux that stayed low. Only 20% of reflux events were associated with any symptom.
• OTSLPSurvey2017Priority service needs and receipt across the lifespan for individuals with autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchCaregivers reported that people with autism across Canada rarely received services matching their top needs, and priority services were received less often after early childhood.
• SLPNarrative Review2017The Use of Brain Stimulation in Dysphagia Management.DysphagiaNon-invasive brain stimulation for swallowing after stroke is not yet established. Some magnetic stimulation trials report improvement; direct-current stimulation has not shown a clear benefit, and the trials are small.
• PTOTSLPCohort2017Occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech-language pathology in the neonatal intensive care unit: Patterns of therapy usage in a level IV NICU.Research in developmental disabilitiesMore therapy was not associated with better neurobehavior, though earlier SLP initiation was related to better self-regulation. 100% of infants received OT and PT, and 51% had an SLP evaluation.