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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• SLPOther2026Listening Effort in Complex Audiovisual Scenes Under Varying Simulated Room Acoustic Conditions.Trends in hearingReverberation in a virtual office reduced memory for spoken stories and increased listening effort compared to anechoic conditions, but reducing the reverberation time from 1.0 s to 0.5 s made no measurable difference. Within a realistic office range, the specific level may not matter.
• SLPOther2026Cross-cultural adaptation of the Escala De Fatigabilidad Vocal en Docentes (EFV-D) to brazilian portuguese.CoDASA Spanish vocal-fatigue questionnaire for teachers has been translated and culturally adapted into Brazilian Portuguese. The testing to confirm the scale actually works has not yet been done, so it is not ready for clinical use.
• SLPPilot2026The Right to Food for Children With Cerebral Palsy in South Africa: Examining Nutritional Access and Structural Barriers.Child: care, health and developmentIn 9 South African families with children with CP, caregivers reported that store-bought foods often didn't match their child's swallowing needs, and the disability grant fell short. Feeding plans should start from what the family can actually buy and prepare.
• SLPOther2026Perceptual Distortions in Aided Hearing-Impaired Listeners: Psychophysical Evidence of Excessive Loudness Growth and Altered Timbre Representation.Trends in hearingAided hearing-impaired listeners hear sounds as getting louder faster and as more different from each other than normal-hearing listeners do, especially for bright and sharp-onset sounds. A simulated hearing aid did not fully correct these perceptual distortions.
• SLPOther2026The Effect of Head Movements on Front-Back Discrimination and Sound Externalization With Hearing Aids.Trends in hearingHearing aids make it harder to tell if a sound is in front or behind you and to feel it as 'out there' rather than inside your head. Moving your head while listening helps a lot but does not fully fix either problem.
• SLPNarrative Review2026Bridging the policy-practice gap: A call for urgent early intervention and early education South African policy reform for children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsThis is a policy position paper, not a research study. It argues South African early intervention for deaf and hard-of-hearing children is fragmented across government departments, and calls for mandated national guidelines and intersectoral referral systems. It contains no original data.
• SLPOther2026Clinical characteristics and outcomes of referrals for speech and language delay to the Speech Therapy and Audiology department at a district hospital in Gauteng, South Africa.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsOf 150 children referred for speech and language delay at a South African district hospital, 49.2% never returned for follow-up. Autism was the most common specialist diagnosis (52%). Bilingualism and maternal pregnancy complications showed no link to greater delay.
• SLPOther2026Hearing Loss Is Reflected in Conversational Pupil Responses.Trends in hearingPupil size during conversation tracks hearing loss and background noise. People with hearing loss show greater pupil drift over a conversation and different pupil responses around turn-taking, meaning quiet conversation is already effortful for them beyond what a hearing test captures.
• SLPCase Report2026New patterns of pathological language mixing in bilingual aphasia.AphasiologyIn one woman with severe Broca's aphasia in both Spanish and English, Spanish words intruded more into her English grammar (articles, prepositions) than into her content words. The opposite of what most studies report. This is one person, not a pattern.
• SLPOther2026Phonological Awareness and Nonword Repetition in Children With and Without Speech Sound Disorders: A Comparative Analysis.International journal of language & communication disordersChildren with speech sound disorders scored lower than typically developing peers on phonological awareness and nonword repetition, even after accounting for language ability. Their speech difficulties appear to extend beyond motor production into how they process and hold sounds in memory.
• SLPOther2026Network Models for Assessing the Co-occurrence Between Stuttering and ADHD.International journal of language & communication disordersAttention, fluency, and phonological memory connect differently in adults who stutter versus those with ADHD or no condition. In stuttering, attention and phonological memory are not linked the same way, but fluency and phonological memory are more tightly connected. The formal test was not significant.
• SLPSystematic Review2026The Family History of Developmental Stuttering: A Scoping Review.International journal of language & communication disordersA scoping review found that published family history rates for stuttering range from 20.0% to 90.9% because studies count relatives differently. Family history remains a useful risk factor to ask about, but no single published rate should be treated as the definitive figure.
• SLPCohort2026Reliability and Concurrent Validity of the Likert-Type Stuttering Severity Scale and the Visual Analog Scale in Turkish-Speaking Adults Who Stutter.International journal of language & communication disordersTrained speech-therapy students rated stuttering severity on a brief numerical scale and a 100-mm line, and both closely matched clinician SSI-4 scores. These quick tools could supplement detailed assessments in screening or research settings where time is limited.
• SLPQualitative2026Exploring the Laryngectomy Pathway Experience-a Mixed-Method, Patient Journey Mapping Study of Two US Health Centres.International journal of language & communication disordersTwelve laryngectomy patients in one US health system saw a median of 13 different professions in their first year. Care was rated mostly positive, but patients flagged gaps in pre-surgery preparation, phone communication, and paying for voice supplies. Issues SLPs can address directly.
• SLPRCT2026Investigating the Effects of Adding Explicit Teaching and/or Signing to Story-Based Vocabulary Intervention for School-Aged Children With (Developmental) Language Disorder.International journal of language & communication disordersAdding explicit teaching or signing to story-based vocabulary lessons helped school-aged children with DLD learn more verbs and adjectives than stories alone. Combining both added no extra benefit and may have slightly hindered learning.
• SLPOther2026Voice Quality in Individuals With Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.International journal of language & communication disordersBlinded listeners could tell older adults with AIDS from controls almost every time, by tongue backing, pharyngeal narrowing and a harsh, creaky or whispery voice. Acoustic measures were weaker. Nothing here shows what causes the pattern.