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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• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2026Delivering Health Education to Children With Chronic Conditions: A Scoping Review and Evidence and Gap Map.Child: care, health and developmentOnly 16 of 118 studies of health education for children with chronic conditions described any adaptation for children with disabilities, mostly for cognition. Most education taught disease facts face to face in hospital clinics, and few programmes were individualised or designed with children.
• SLPOther2026Glottal Area Waveform Measurements for Healthy Female and Male Speakers in Typical, High-Frequency, and Soft Phonation.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHRTo raise pitch, healthy adults mainly stretched the vocal folds with the cricothyroid muscle. Soft voice needed that plus less firm closure of the folds. Men and women started from different baselines, so normal values differ by sex.
• SLPCohort2026Turn-Taking and Vocal Coordination in Mother-Child Mixed-Hearing Dyads and the Effect of Home Music Engagement: A Longitudinal Study on Italian Children With Cochlear Implants.International journal of language & communication disordersMothers of children with cochlear implants responded to them less often than mothers of hearing children, and the implanted children overlapped their mothers' speech more, before and a year after implantation. In that group, more music at home went with shorter, steadier pauses between turns.
• SLPPilot2026Co-Design and Feasibility Testing of an AI-Based Virtual Reality Application to Prepare People With Intellectual Disability for Healthcare Visits.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDPeople with intellectual disability rehearsed a GP visit in AI-driven virtual reality and described the avatars as patient and easy to understand. Speech recognition errors and microphone delays meant the researcher had to step in repeatedly for most participants.
• SLPCohort2026Functioning, temporal resolution, and functional health literacy in children aged nine to twelve years.CoDASChildren whose caregivers reported trouble with conversation were more likely to struggle with health information (p = 0.012). A test of how quickly they noticed changes in sound found no such link. This is an association, not proof of cause.
• SLPOther2026Assessing Inpatient Rehabilitation Outcomes for Pediatric Dysphagia with the PEDI-EAT-10.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationIn 23 children on one inpatient rehab unit, a caregiver questionnaire about swallowing fell from a mean of 15.26 at admission to 8.30 at discharge. With no control group, some of that may be ordinary recovery.
• SLPOther2026Benefit of Amplification at Low Input Levels in Normal-Hearing Listeners.Trends in hearingA 15 dB hearing-aid boost let young adults with normal hearing follow soft speech with less effort than listening with the open ear, although it never improved how much they understood. Hearing aids set to no gain made thresholds, understanding and effort worse.
• SLPQualitative2026Multilingual Parents' Experiences of an Early Language and Literacy Intervention: A Qualitative Study Using the Behaviour Change Wheel.Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)Gift packs and home visits from a library 'language starter' showed parents who spoke another language at home how to start reading, singing and playing with their child earlier. They valued being told their child could learn both languages. Parents' accounts only.
• SLPQualitative2026Sources of perceived stress in people with aphasia: a qualitative study.AphasiologyPeople with chronic aphasia described stress that begins with communication breakdowns and spreads: losing the ability to do former tasks, losing work and social roles, and being treated as incompetent in public. Several described a loop where avoiding conversation deepens isolation and stress.
• SLPOther2026Behavioral tests of auditory processing: a study on reference values for normal-hearing adults.CoDASHealthy adults' scores on gap detection, pitch and duration patterns, and dichotic digits all fall as they get older, while the masking level difference test stays steady from 18 to 59. The authors propose separate cut-offs by age instead of one adult norm.
• SLPCohort2026Development and validation of the Brazilian voice bank for various emotions (EMOVOX-BR).CoDASTen experienced voice therapists correctly identified the intended emotion in more than 70% of the clips in a new Brazilian Portuguese audio bank of 39 recordings. They relied on pitch for every emotion, and on loudness only for anger.
• PTOTSLPOther2026Associations Between Comorbidities, Developmental Status, and Disease Severity in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study in China.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchIn this Chinese cohort, 96.6% of 1279 autistic children had at least one other diagnosed condition: 87.3% intellectual or developmental disability, 45.3% food refusal, 16.9% insomnia. Children with these conditions tended to score higher for autism severity.
• SLPOther2026Reliability between measurements obtained by caliper and digital photography in facial anthropometry.CoDASFacial measurements taken from 2D photographs came out smaller than the same points measured with calipers, and the two free programs agreed only partly, depending on the point and the person's sex. The authors advise measuring directly where possible.
• SLPCohort2026Hearing assessment of infants with congenital syphilis.CoDASNo hearing loss was found in infants treated for congenital syphilis. Sixty-one of 65 passed newborn screening and none of the 23 seen at 3 months had abnormal brainstem responses. Most did not return for that check.
• SLPPilot2026Exploratory study on the effect of orofacial myofunctional therapy on habitual tongue resting position in people with obstructive sleep apnea.CoDASTwelve weeks of orofacial myofunctional therapy in ten adults with obstructive sleep apnea came with fewer oxygen desaturation events and better reported sleep, but the tongue's resting position moved less than a millimetre and there was no control group.
• SLPOther2026A novel context-discrepancy assessment of impression management facets in autistic and non-autistic adults: an initial validation.Molecular autismWhen social demands rose to a mock job interview, autistic adults reported more inauthenticity and self-monitoring; non-autistic adults did not. Effort and anxiety rose for both groups, with anxiety rising more steeply in autistic adults.
• SLPSurvey2026The Signposting Questionnaire for Autism-2 (SQ-A-2): using input from autistic adults to inform questionnaire development.Molecular autismRewriting autism questionnaire items with autistic adults' input made them work better: the adapted wording separated autistic adults from non-autistic adults more sharply than the original wording, and autistic participants preferred it. No cut-off score or accuracy testing yet.
• PTOTSLPOther2026Maternal Responsiveness, Parenting Self-efficacy, and Economic Empowerment: Determinants of Infant Development in Pakistan.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPMore responsive, more confident mothers had lower odds of their baby showing developmental delay at six weeks, in communication, problem solving and personal-social skills. One check-up of 400 Pakistani mothers and babies, so it cannot show which came first.
• SLPSurvey2026How Do Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) Know? A Survey of SLPs' Disciplinary Epistemology.International journal of language & communication disordersCanadian SLPs rated all seven proposed ways of knowing as important, most often naming relationships with clients and learning by doing. They valued research evidence but adapted it, and rejected the idea that quantitative research beats qualitative. Time and journal access were barriers.
• SLPOther2026Interrater reliability in the application of the VPAS-PB: analysis among experienced judges.CoDASThree experienced raters scored voice qualities consistently across most VPAS-PB adjustments in 10 vocally healthy men, but lip stretching and falsetto did not reach the same standard. Disordered voices and less experienced raters were not tested.
• SLPOther2026Evaluation of the Context-Based Prospective Memory (CBPM) task in neurotypical middle-aged and older adults: psychometric properties and sensitivity to age-related cognitive changes.CoDASA new shopping-mall memory test gave consistent scores when repeated and when rated by two assessors, and flagged the same problems as an established memory test. Middle-aged and older adults scored lower than younger adults, but not differently from each other.
• SLPCohort2026Multicenter Natural History Study and Long-Term Cochlear Implant Outcomes in Usher Syndrome Subtypes.Ear and hearingEvery implanted ear in this cohort of 33 people with genetically confirmed Usher syndrome gained hearing, and hearing aids lifted thresholds by about 20 dB. Hearing still worsened with age despite treatment.
• OTSLPCohort2026Feeding Therapy and its Relationship to Timing of Independent Oral Feeding for Preterm Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.Physical & occupational therapy in pediatricsPreterm infants referred to feeding therapy reached independent oral feeding 1.5 weeks later than those not referred, but they were also sicker and born earlier. Starting therapy earlier was linked to reaching full oral feeding slightly sooner. How often therapy happened made no difference.
• SLPOther2026Visual Communication Supports for the Assessment of Swallowing and Somatosensation in Adults With Down Syndrome.Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groupsA clinical focus article, not a research study. A speech-language pathology team describes the visual and AAC supports it built to help 14 adults with Down syndrome take part in swallowing and oral sensation assessments. No data were collected on whether the supports worked.
• SLPCohort2025Parental Cognitive Stimulation of Young Children Before and After the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPLow-income parents reported more talking and play with their young children after the pandemic began. Overall stimulation rose 9 percentage points and verbal responsivity 14 to 20. The quality of shared reading fell 14 points. Most families were not followed across the change.
• SLPQualitative2026An Australian Co-Designed Template for Accessible Medicines Information for People With Intellectual Disability.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDMedicine leaflets only work, people with intellectual disability said, if they match the Easy Read documents they use: plain words, real photos not cartoons, a picture for every sentence. They wanted their own medicine details filled in, and only common and serious side effects.
• OTSLPQualitative2026Exploring the Experiences of Caring for a Family Member With Intellectual Disabilities Displaying Behaviours That Challenge and/or Mental Health Difficulties Within the United Kingdom: A Meta-Ethnographic Review.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDFamily carers of people with intellectual disabilities described years of fighting for support, being left out of decisions about their relative, and reaching crisis before help arrived. They wanted professionals who listen, share their knowledge and build on strengths, not just problems.
• PTOTSLPSurvey2026Exploring Health Care Providers, Families and Educators' Perceptions of an Online Self-Paced F-Words for Child Development Foundations Course.Child: care, health and developmentPeople who took the free, self-paced F-words course rated it highly (mean satisfaction 8.5 out of 10) and said they used the F-words in goal-setting and family conversations. Families, health care providers and educators asked for shorter videos and more interaction.
• SLPCohort2026Narrative Ability in Swedish Children Treated for Posterior Fossa Tumours: Macro- and Microstructural Performance Before and 1-4 Weeks After Surgery.International journal of language & communication disordersChildren with posterior fossa tumours told less complete stories and made more grammatical errors than typically developing peers, before surgery and again 1-4 weeks after it. Average change across surgery was not significant.
• SLPPilot2026Evaluation of the SWAN Game-Based Approach to Re-Building Numeracy Skills in Aphasia: Feasibility and Preliminary Findings.International journal of language & communication disordersA home tablet game for number skills in aphasia was easy to stick with and most people enjoyed it, but gains on number reading and writing began before the game started and a non-numerical control task also improved. Everyday number tasks did not improve.
• SLPCohort2026Combined effect of self-perceived voice disorders and hearing loss on social acts in older adults: a 1-year longitudinal study.Journal of physical therapy scienceOlder adults who reported voice problems went out less over a year, from 4.1 to 3.2 days a week. Those with hearing problems alone showed no significant change. People with both declined too, but that combined result was only marginally significant.
• SLPOther2026When the First Pulse Fades: 75% Reduction in Precedence Effect in Cochlear Implanted Rats.Trends in hearingCochlear-implanted rats still gave the first pulse in a burst extra weight for judging sound direction, but about 75% less than hearing rats, and this did not grow as pulses came faster. Deafening early or in adulthood made no difference.
• SLPOther2026Identifying Hearing Difficulty Moments in Conversational Audio.Trends in hearingSoftware can flag the moments in ordinary conversation when a listener signals they missed what was just said, using sound alone. Reading a transcript instead does not work: that scored no better than spotting "what" and "huh".
• SLPCohort2026Brainstem Correlates of Tinnitus and Hyperacusis in Normal-Hearing Listeners: Distinct Neural Signatures Linked to Cochlear Nerve Degeneration.Ear and hearingPeople with normal hearing tests but tinnitus or sound sensitivity had weaker auditory nerve responses. Tinnitus, not sound sensitivity, tracked boosted early brainstem activity; sound sensitivity, not tinnitus, tracked boosted later responses. The two symptoms appear to arise from different brain changes.
• OTSLPQualitative2026'I Know Death': Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Death Among Middle-Aged Adults With Intellectual Disabilities in South Korea.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDBereaved middle-aged South Korean adults with intellectual disabilities described death as frightening, and as a move to an afterlife where their parents watch over them. Most wanted to live long and stay healthy; some said they would accept death calmly.
• SLPCohort2026Developmental Trajectories and Influencing Factors of Aural/Oral Performance in Mandarin-Speaking Children with Cochlear Implants Using the PEACH Scale.Trends in hearingChildren implanted before 18 months caught up with normal-hearing peers fastest, while those implanted after 42 months plateaued far below them. Better scores went with younger implantation, longer implant use, higher pre-implant development scores, and better residual hearing.
• SLPOther2026The Relation Between Sustained Listening Under Difficult Conditions and Behavioral, Subjective, and Physiological Indicators of Fatigue.Trends in hearingHard speech-in-noise listening for about 75 minutes left young, normal-hearing adults reporting more tiredness and showing a bigger rise in spontaneous pupil wobble, a sleepiness marker, largest in the hardest condition. Responses got faster, not slower.
• OTSLPSystematic Review2026Priorities and Perspectives Regarding Goals and Outcomes of Support for Autistic Children Under 12 Years: A Systematic Review.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceThe goals that autistic adults, families and professionals ranked highest for autistic children were communication, mental well-being, autonomy and community inclusion. Reducing autistic traits, neurotypical social skills training and academic targets ranked lowest. Professionals still leaned towards social skills and spoken language.
• SLPSystematic Review2026Behavioral and electrophysiological findings of central auditory processing in children and adolescents undergoing musical training.CoDASMusic training in children was mostly linked to better sound discrimination, better speech understanding in noise and changes in brain responses to sound. One two-week programme for 11 adolescent cochlear implant users changed nothing. Only seven studies, all observational.
• SLPPilot2026Respiratory-Swallow Training and Variable Practice in Parkinson's Disease: A Clinical Trial Pilot Study.Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)Four weekly sessions teaching people with Parkinson's to breathe out before and after swallowing raised the proportion of swallows with that pattern from 38.4% to 71.7%, with less residue and less material entering the airway. There was no untreated control group.
• PTSLPCohort2026Relationship between vestibular alterations and cognitive performance in adults and older adults.CoDASPeople with abnormal vestibular test results scored worse on attention, perception, arithmetic and verbal memory. Everyone was tested once, so the study cannot show whether the vestibular problem or the cognitive problem came first, and older age was itself linked to poorer memory.
• SLPMeta-Analysis2026Autistic Traits and Camouflaging: A Meta-Analysis.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceThe more autistic traits someone reports, the more they report camouflaging to fit in. That link was moderate, held across ages and genders, and was even stronger in people without a diagnosis. Clinicians who rely on what they observe may miss it.
• PTSLPOther2026Clinical investigation protocol for tinnitus (CIP-t): development and validation of an instrument.CoDASHearing loss (70 of 83) and emotional factors (71) were the commonest causes this new tinnitus protocol flagged. Applying it took about 90 minutes; somatosensory and metabolic causes were less frequent. It maps likely causes; it does not test whether treatment works.
• SLPCohort2026Prevalence and characterization of tinnitus in patients with mental disorders in the context of primary health care.CoDASNearly half (70 of 153) of patients on a primary-care mental health programme reported tinnitus, mostly an intermittent high-pitched ringing with moderate discomfort. Anxiety and depression scores averaged higher than in patients without tinnitus, but not by a margin that rules out chance.
• PTOTSLPPilot2026Exploring Treatment Expectations and Clinical Meaningfulness in Spinal Muscular Atrophy Using the Goal Attainment Scale.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationPeople with SMA asked to set their own goals most often chose independence in movement, upper limb strength and daily activities. Most of those goals matched items on the motor scales already in use.
• SLPOther2026Forming a choir with total laryngectomized patients.CoDASNot a study: this describes how one university clinic formed a choir with total laryngectomy patients, with no outcome measures and no comparison group, so it does not show the choir works.
• SLPOther2026Localization and validation of the "Growing Up With Hearing Loss" tool for Brazilian Portuguese.CoDASThe Growing Up With Hearing Loss counselling tool translated well into Brazilian Portuguese: children, parents and speech-language pathologists agreed the content was clear and useful. Young adults rated it slightly below the acceptance cut-off and children struggled with the video subtitles.
• SLPSystematic Review2026Indicators for evaluating public speaking in adults: a scoping review.CoDASThe rating scales used to judge adult public speaking are mostly homemade: 26 of 35 studies used indicators the researchers wrote themselves rather than a validated tool. Four areas recur anyway: how the talk is structured, nonverbal behaviour, voice, and language.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2026Neonatal Therapy Interventions Supporting Oral Feeding Skills in Preterm Infants: A Systematic Review.Physical & occupational therapy in pediatricsPreterm infants given oral motor stimulation, non-nutritive sucking, swallowing exercises or sensory-based therapy reached full oral feeding sooner than controls, by 4 to 9 days in the studies that found a difference. Effects on weight gain and length of stay were inconsistent.
• SLPQualitative2026Community Perceptions of the Causes of Autism and Help-Seeking Responses: A Multi-Site Qualitative Study Across Northern Uganda.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceMost people in three Northern Ugandan districts could not say what causes autism, and many attributed it to witchcraft, curses or God's punishment, with mothers blamed. Families tried prayer and traditional healers before hospital, and some children were abused, neglected or killed.