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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• PTOTSLPCohort2025Early Employment Outcomes in Autistic and Non-autistic Youth: Challenges and Opportunities.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutistic youth secured fewer first jobs, especially paid ones, and were concentrated in entry-level retail roles. They rarely received workplace support despite high need. Executive functioning difficulties predicted poorer employment outcomes, while personal networks helped both groups find work.
• SLPCase-Control2025Associations of Characteristics of Parental Country of Birth with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Early Learning Delay Among Immigrant Populations in the US: Findings from the Study to Explore Early Development.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAmong 1088 children with at least one non-US-born parent, autism plus early learning delay was linked to parents from countries with lower human development or greater gender inequality. No clear link was found for autism alone or delay alone.
• SLPCohort2025Testing Very Preterm Black Children to Examine Potential Assessment Bias in Two Language Tests.Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groupsVery preterm Black toddlers scored similarly to White toddlers on two early language tests. Parent reports of vocabulary showed no significant difference, though Black children had lower mean scores. Use both direct observation and parent report to capture nonverbal communication styles.
• SLPPilot2025Digits-In-Noise Hearing Test Using Text-to-Speech and Automatic Speech Recognition: Proof-of-Concept Study.Trends in hearingA self-supervised hearing test using AI to generate and recognise speech worked as well as standard tests only for participants with clear accents. The system failed to reliably score responses for several people, meaning it cannot yet replace clinician-administered testing for diverse populations.
• PTOTSLPOther2025International Standards for Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury: Classification Questions and Cases.Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitationConsensus guidance clarifies how to classify spinal cord injuries when patients have had tendon transfers, use spinal cord stimulation, or have nontraumatic causes. It specifies when to mark exams as intact or incomplete and how to document prior levels.
• SLPOther2025Parents' Emotional Journey Throughout Their Participation in a Well-Being Support Group Intervention.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDParents completing an eight-session well-being support group reported more comfortable and fewer uncomfortable emotions by the end. The most pronounced shifts occurred after the first two sessions, which focused on navigating services and prioritising self-care.
• SLPOther2025Prediction efficiency and incremental processing strategy during spoken language comprehension in autistic children: an eye-tracking study.Molecular autismAutistic children predicted upcoming spoken words, but less efficiently than matched neurotypical children. They looked later and less strongly toward the expected object. Speech therapists may consider extra processing time and clearer cues.
• SLPOther2025The neural bases of language processing during social and non-social contexts: a fNIRS study of autistic and neurotypical preschool-aged children.Molecular autismNeurotypical preschoolers showed stronger brain response to live language than recorded language in the right TPJ. Autistic children showed no group-level difference. However, within the autistic group, children with higher language skills showed a greater neural difference between live and recorded language.
• SLPCase-Control2025Social orienting in prematurely born preschoolers: a case control study showing altered neural tuning towards voices, not faces.Molecular autism5.5-year-old preterm children showed weaker brain responses to voices than full-term children. Their responses to faces were similar. Voice responses were related to verbal comprehension across groups.
• SLPQualitative2025Pragmatics: Exploring language use by younger generations in Pedi families.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsPedi younger generations showed respect through clapping, kneeling, plural forms, indirect eye contact, silence and requests relayed through mothers. For SLPs, these are cultural communication patterns, not pragmatic impairment.
• SLPOther2025Externalization of Virtual Sound Sources With Bone and Air Conduction Stimulation.Trends in hearingBone conduction headphones externalized virtual sounds as well as air conduction when reverberation was present. Contralateral ear reverberation drove this effect more than the ipsilateral ear. This supports bone conduction for spatial audio in VR, though the study used only nine listeners.
• PTOTSLPPilot2025Dual-Task Predictors in Graduate Healthcare Students with Athletic Backgrounds.International journal of sports physical therapyConcussion history did not predict worse dual-task performance or academic scores in 32 graduate students. Unexpectedly, those with no reported concussion history had higher dual-task costs. More years in contact sports predicted lower undergraduate GPA, but the study was underpowered and relied on self-report.
• OTSLPSystematic Review2025Effectiveness of Sound-Based Interventions for Improving Functional Outcomes in Children: A Systematic Review of the Evidence.Occupational therapy internationalSound-based music therapies, including Safe and Sound Protocol, were reported to improve children's language, listening, behaviour and emotional regulation, but the evidence was small, mixed and too limited to prove benefit.
• PTOTSLPCohort2025Healthcare Access, Satisfaction, and Affordability: Experiences and Barriers of People with Aphasia.AphasiologyStroke survivors with aphasia reported more difficulty contacting providers after hours and higher rates of bill payment problems than those without aphasia. Black and Hispanic participants with aphasia faced significantly worse access, satisfaction, and affordability outcomes compared to White participants.
• SLPPilot2025Psycholinguistic Variables and Spelling Accuracy for People with Logopenic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia: A Cross-Sectional Study.AphasiologyIn 16 people with logopenic primary progressive aphasia, spelling accuracy varied by word features, not by age, education, or disease duration. Regular words were spelled more accurately than irregular words, and early-acquired, emotionally positive, and orthographically dense words were easier.
• PTOTSLPQualitative2025Transportation Access in the Transition to Adulthood: Navigating a Neurotypical World on the Autism Spectrum.Journal of autism and developmental disordersCaregivers and providers describe autistic youth hitting barriers in transit, driving tests, and school travel training. Sensory overload, stigma, and poor coordination with schools block independence. Low-income families face higher costs and fewer options, deepening inequities in adult outcomes.
• SLPOther2025Bimodal Cochlear Implants: Measurement of the Localization Performance as a Function of Device Latency Difference.Trends in hearingAdjusting the cochlear implant's latency improved sound localization in bimodal users, reducing error from 39° to 32°. The optimal setting was rarely zero mismatch, often requiring the implant to be 2–5 ms faster than the hearing aid side for best results.
• SLPOther2025Release from Speech-on-Speech Masking: Additivity of Segregation Cues and Build-Up of Segregation.Trends in hearingWith competing talkers, more cues made target speech easier to hear, and reporting one word was easier than reporting four. The cue benefit changed with the reporting task.
• SLPOther2025Audio Quality Perception of Hearing-Impaired Listeners in Complex Acoustic Environments.Trends in hearingListeners with moderate hearing loss struggled to detect audio distortions only when background maskers were present, not in quiet rooms. Very mild hearing loss listeners rated distorted audio as higher quality when maskers were present, while moderate loss listeners rated it lower.
• SLPCohort2025Minimum Audible Angle and the Acoustic Change Complex Elicited by Azimuthal Shifts in Low-Frequency Sounds: Effects of Age.Trends in hearingOlder adults had worse behavioral spatial hearing than younger adults, but a brain-wave measure of the same ability did not predict individual behavioral scores. The brain-wave test is not yet a reliable proxy for behavioral spatial hearing in this context.
• PTOTSLPCohort2025The Caregiver Concerns Questionnaire: A Tool to Target Care for Children on the Autism Spectrum.Journal of autism and developmental disordersCaregivers of autistic children rated moderate or severe problems in 7 of 19 areas on average. Language and attention concerns dropped with age, while anxiety and social interaction concerns rose. Sleep and gut issues tracked with behavioral problems.
• PTOTSLPCohort2025Application of Sensory Subtypes: Understanding Core Autism Features, Adaptive Behaviors, and Motor Skills in Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutistic children classified as having extreme-mixed sensory differences showed significantly lower motor skills, adaptive behavior, and higher repetitive behaviors compared to those with mild sensory differences. Children with attenuated-preoccupied sensory profiles demonstrated notably higher motor skills than the extreme-mixed and sensitive-distressed groups.
• OTSLPSystematic Review2025Using photovoice to engage underserved children with neurodevelopmental disorders and their caregivers in health research: a mixed methods systematic review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesPhotovoice is a feasible research method for engaging children with neurodevelopmental disorders and their caregivers, but it requires significant adaptation. Clinicians should expect to modify consent, group sizes, and discussion formats to accommodate communication and sensory needs, as standard protocols often fail.
• PTOTSLPQualitative2025Qualitative insights from an online community-based exercise intervention for persons living with HIV.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesParticipants living with HIV valued online exercise for avoiding stigma and gym costs, but found the technology burdensome and the weekly surveys exhausting. They preferred home-based comfort over public gyms, yet struggled with webcam privacy concerns and the pressure of constant data collection.
• SLPOther2025At-Home Auditory Assessment Using Portable Automated Rapid Testing (PART) to Understand Self-Reported Hearing Difficulties.Trends in hearingRemote hearing tests on personal devices worked for basic sound detection but failed to identify who self-reports hearing difficulties. A computer model using these tests missed more than half of people with hearing trouble. Self-report remains the only reliable way to catch those cases.
• PTOTSLPCase-Control2025Associations of Adaptive Behavior and Wandering with Serious Injuries in Young Children with Autism: Study to Explore Early Development.Journal of autism and developmental disordersFor preschoolers with autism and significant early learning delays, wandering is associated with higher rates of serious injury. Conversely, those with learning delays but normal adaptive behavior skills had higher injury rates than those with delays in both areas, possibly due to caregiver overestimation of safety awareness.
• SLPOther2025Effectiveness and cost savings of employing speech therapists in a home artificial nutrition unit.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesIn 149 patients in a home artificial nutrition service, the unit recorded annual savings of €30,278.67 after personalized prescriptions from a speech therapist. The study had no control group.
• OTSLPOther2025Psychometric Properties of the Questionnaire Epistemic Trust in People With Mild to Moderate Intellectual Disabilities or Borderline Intellectual Functioning.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDThe adapted Questionnaire Epistemic Trust shows promise for assessing curiosity and openness to help, but the hypervigilance subscale is unreliable and the test does not measure one single ability. Use only the three stable subscales for now.
• PTOTSLPCohort2025The impact of inpatient and community stroke rehabilitation on health-related quality of life in New Zealand.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicineStroke survivors who received community rehabilitation reported better quality of life at 12 months than those who did not. Inpatient rehabilitation was linked to lower quality of life overall, likely because those patients had more severe strokes, though the most severely impaired saw benefits.
• SLPPilot2025Yoga as a Fatigue Intervention for Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing.Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groupsFive of nine children with hearing loss reported less fatigue after a single 20-minute restorative yoga session. Sight word reading did not improve. The study was too small and lacked a control group to confirm yoga caused the change.
• PTOTSLPCase-Control2025Correlation study between lower limb muscle function and hemodynamics in hemiplegic patients after stroke: a prospective controlled study.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicineIn 20 people with stroke hemiplegia, the affected leg showed weaker muscle signals and poorer blood flow than the unaffected leg. Only on the less affected side did muscle signal frequency correlate with artery diameter. This describes impairment patterns, not treatment effects.
• SLPOther2025Objective Evaluation of a Deep Learning-Based Noise Reduction Algorithm for Hearing Aids Under Diverse Fitting and Listening Conditions.Trends in hearingDeep learning noise reduction in hearing aids significantly improved predicted speech intelligibility compared to traditional methods, especially when combined with beamforming. These benefits were strongest in steady noise and for side-coming speech, but the study used computer models rather than human listeners.
• SLPOther2025Unaided and Aided Speech Intelligibility in a Real and Virtual Acoustic Environment.Trends in hearingHearing aid benefit measured in a simulated living room matched that of standard clinical tests, suggesting current lab assessments are accurate for sentence recognition. However, hearing aid users with mild, sloping hearing loss showed little to no measurable benefit.
• SLPOther2025Masked-speech Recognition Using Human and Synthetic Cloned Speech.Trends in hearingOverall, synthetic voice clones were understood about as well as the human voices they copied, and listeners often could not tell them apart. Some individual voices differed, and nonsense sentences were harder than meaningful ones.
• PTOTSLPRCT2025Impact of positive expiratory pressure buddy during exercise on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients' functional performance, lung function, and sleep quality: a randomized controlled trial.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicineAdding a hands-free expiratory pressure device to treadmill training for eight weeks improved breathlessness, lung function, walking distance, and sleep quality more than exercise alone. Both groups took prescribed medications, so the device's specific contribution is mixed with standard care and exercise.
• SLPOther2025Influence of lexical and phonological variables on the production of verb tense in agrammatism.AphasiologyFor people with agrammatic aphasia, producing verb tenses is harder when the word has more sounds or is less common. Verbs that also exist as nouns (like 'walk') are produced more accurately. This suggests therapy should prioritize short, frequent, homonymous verbs.
• OTSLPOther2025Elevated Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Autistic Youth and Adults: A Multinational Study.Autism in adulthoodIn this suicide-enriched sample of autistic people, many reported lifetime suicidal thoughts, self-harm, or attempts, and ideation increased through adolescence and early adulthood. The youngest reported attempt was at age 7.
• PTOTSLPCohort2025Quality of life in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis: A cross-sectional comparison.The South African journal of physiotherapyAdolescent girls with scoliosis reported quality of life scores similar to healthy peers. The primary comparison found no significant difference in physical, psychological, or social well-being between the two groups.
• PTOTSLPOther2025What are the evidence-based medical management approaches for the concussed youth athlete? A scoping review.Archives of physiotherapySub-threshold aerobic exercise helps youth athletes recover faster than strict rest or stretching. Early exercise testing is safe and does not delay recovery. Head and neck cooling may reduce symptoms sooner, but overall recovery time is similar. Evidence for other treatments is weak.
• PTOTSLPSurvey2026Chores Participation, Self-Efficacy, and Transition Readiness in Youths With Diabetes: Preliminary Results.OTJR : occupation, participation and healthYouths with diabetes who did more household chores independently reported higher readiness to manage their own healthcare. Self-efficacy fully or partially explained this link, suggesting chores build the confidence needed for the transition to adult care.
• SLPOther2025Caregiver-Child Interactions: Utilizing an Ecobehavioral Model to Investigate the Effect of Activity Contexts on African American English Use.Seminars in speech and languageCaregivers used less African American English when reading books compared to free play, but children's use remained consistent. Children were more likely to use the dialect after a caregiver did, but not vice versa. This suggests reading cues suppress dialect use in adults, not children.
• PTOTSLPOther2025Mental Health as a Key Mediator for Outcomes in Postsecondary Education, Employment, and Everyday Living in Autistic Adults.Autism in adulthoodIn 140 autistic adults, higher anxiety and depression scores predicted better employment and education outcomes. This contradicts general population trends where better mental health predicts success. The authors suggest that maintaining this level of functioning requires intense masking, which exhausts the individual and worsens mental health.
• SLPOther2025Voice Familiarization Training Improves Speech Intelligibility and Reduces Listening Effort.Trends in hearingTraining normal-hearing adults to recognize unfamiliar voices for 10 to 60 minutes improved speech-in-noise accuracy by 13-15% and lowered self-reported effort. Pupillary responses only decreased after 60 minutes of training. These findings apply to healthy young adults, not hearing-impaired patients.
• SLPQualitative2025Examining aphasia rehabilitation in Colombia from the perspective of speech-language pathologists and neuropsychologists: a pilot study.AphasiologyClinicians in Colombia describe aphasia training as theoretical and lacking practical depth. They report using mixed assessment methods but face barriers including outdated tools, administrative delays in healthcare access, and limited interdisciplinary collaboration.
• PTOTSLPQualitative2025A qualitative follow-up on perceptions of energy management education and daily life by individuals with fatigue undergoing hemodialysis treatment.The British journal of occupational therapyPeople on dialysis described fatigue as making daily life unpredictable and guilt-inducing. They valued energy management strategies that allowed them to break tasks into smaller steps, prioritize valued activities, and accept support, helping them move from merely coping to actively rebuilding their lives.
• PTOTSLPNarrative Review2025What Is Known About Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating in Individuals With Physical Disabilities? A Narrative Review.Child: care, health and developmentPeople with physical disabilities may restrict food or pursue weight loss to manage incontinence, ease mobility, or cope with stigma, rather than due to typical body image concerns. Clinicians must assess these disability-specific motivations before assuming standard eating disorder presentations.
• PTOTSLPNarrative Review2026Weathering the storms of climate change: Preparing persons with disabilities and the physiatrists who provide their care for extreme hurricanes.PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitationPhysiatrists should assess patients' disaster needs at their lowest functional level, not their best. Create individualized plans covering backup caregivers, 7-day supply stockpiles, and priority utility registration for those dependent on electricity or life-support devices.
• PTOTSLPRCT2025Return to Work Trajectories of Swedish Employees on Sick-Leave Due to Common Mental Disorders.Journal of occupational rehabilitationEmployees on sick-leave for mental disorders followed five distinct return-to-work paths over 12 months. Baseline factors like previous sick-leave length, exhaustion disorder, and work environment support predicted which path a person took, suggesting interventions should be tailored to these specific risk profiles.
• PTOTSLPRCT2025Satisfaction, user experiences, and initial efficacy of a technology-supported self-management intervention (iSMART) to improve post-stroke functioning: a remoted randomized controlled trial.Topics in stroke rehabilitationStroke survivors found this remote self-management program satisfying and helpful, especially the coaching and goal-setting. They improved on hand function and participation measures, but the small sample meant no significant differences versus controls. Text messages were often rated as too frequent.
• PTOTSLPNarrative Review2026Weathering the storm: Effect of climate change on acute stroke care and stroke rehabilitation.PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitationThis review links climate change factors like poor air quality and lack of greenspaces to higher stroke risks and worse outcomes. It suggests therapists discuss environmental barriers and connect patients to community resources, but offers no tested interventions or data on what works.