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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• SLPOther2018The parents' perspective of the early diagnostic period of their child with hearing loss: information and support.International journal of audiologyMost parents of newly diagnosed children with hearing loss were satisfied with support and information, but comments and interviews described shock, delays, confusing service roles, and pressure to choose early intervention quickly.
• SLPOther2017Brief Report: Relationship Between ADOS-2, Module 4 Calibrated Severity Scores (CSS) and Social and Non-Social Standardized Assessment Measures in Adult Males with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn 40 adult males with autism, ADOS-2 severity scores did not line up with self or parent reports of social difficulties. They did line up with IQ, especially verbal ability, so higher social affect scores went with lower verbal IQ.
• OTSLPCohort2017Academic Achievement Deficits and Their Neuropsychological Correlates in Children Born Extremely Preterm.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPAt school age, children born extremely preterm whose IQ scores were above the impaired range had more low math scores than low reading scores. Language and naming speed tracked reading. Working memory, inhibition and visual skills tracked math.
• SLPOther2017Human Frequency Following Responses to Vocoded Speech.Ear and hearingBrainstem pitch responses in normal-hearing adults were stronger with 500-Hz amplitude cues, increased from 1 to 4 channels, plateaued at 8 and 16 channels, fell at 32 channels, and sine and noise carriers made no difference.
• SLPCohort2017Language Outcomes in Deaf or Hard of Hearing Teenagers Who Are Spoken Language Users: Effects of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Early Confirmation.Ear and hearingOverall teenage spoken language scores were not better with newborn hearing screening or confirmation by 9 months. Early confirmation was linked to better receptive language in teenagers without cochlear implants.
• SLPCohort2017Responding to Other People's Direct Gaze: Alterations in Gaze Behavior in Infants at Risk for Autism Occur on Very Short Timescales.Journal of autism and developmental disordersInfants at risk for autism looked less at an adult's face for 300 to 1000 ms after the adult made direct eye contact. This brief drop in response was specific to direct gaze, as overall face looking times did not differ between groups.
• OTSLPOther2018The Influence of task Demands, Verbal Ability and Executive Functions on Item and Source Memory in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAdults with autism showed impaired memory for both single objects and their locations, contrary to the expectation that item memory is spared. Source memory difficulties worsened when more locations were added, and verbal ability predicted memory performance in both groups.
• SLPOther2018Effects of chin tuck exercise using neckline slimmer device on suprahyoid and sternocleidomastoid muscle activation in healthy adults.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn 20 healthy adults, chin tuck with a neckline slimmer device produced greater suprahyoid activation and lower sternocleidomastoid activation than head lift. It suggests a cheaper training option, but no swallowing outcomes were tested.
• SLPOther2018Preposition accuracy on a sentence repetition task in school age Spanish-English bilinguals.Journal of child languageEnglish preposition repetition was less accurate than Spanish in typically developing Spanish-English bilingual children. English accuracy tracked how much English they heard and used, not their Spanish preposition score.
• PTOTSLPOther2018A scoping review of the needs of children and other family members after a child's traumatic injury.Clinical rehabilitationAfter traumatic injury in children, families and children often struggled to get information, emotional help, and school or community support. Four studies identified needs for physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and audiology, but evidence on measuring needs was absent.
• SLPOther2018Needs of Adolescents and Young Adults with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Comparisons of Young People and Parent Perspectives.Journal of autism and developmental disordersParents reported more needs than young people with ADHD or ASD, especially in self-care, looking after home, money budgeting and exploitation risk. Young people with ADHD reported more eyesight/hearing, mental health and safety-to-others needs. Record both perspectives.
• SLPNarrative Review2017Multisensory Integration in Cochlear Implant Recipients.Ear and hearingCochlear implant users often understand speech better when they can see and hear it, especially words and phonemes. Gains vary with age at implantation, experience, and task; emotion and pitch benefits are less reliable.
• SLPSurvey2017Reporting Newborn Audiologic Results to State EHDI Programs.Ear and hearingMost surveyed audiology facilities reported newborn hearing results to state EHDI programs, but some did not know how to report and some omitted normal or updated results. Audiologists should check local reporting rules and send results that may otherwise be missed.
• SLPOther2017Wideband acoustic immittance in children with Down syndrome: prediction of middle-ear dysfunction, conductive hearing loss and patent PE tubes.International journal of audiologyWideband absorbance separated normal ears, conductive loss, and patent PE tubes in children with Down syndrome and typical development. Absorbance was lower from 1 to 4 kHz with conductive loss and higher below 1 kHz with tubes. Reflex thresholds did not separate groups.
• SLPOther2017Acute Nanoparticle Exposure to Vocal Folds: A Laboratory Study.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice FoundationAcute exposure to carbon nanotubes did not damage vocal fold epithelial barriers in lab tissue. However, direct exposure caused fibroblasts to increase expression of fibrosis-related genes. This suggests potential long-term scarring risk despite immediate barrier preservation.
• SLPNarrative Review2017The Advances in Hearing Rehabilitation and Cochlear Implants in China.Ear and hearingChina's hearing rehabilitation and cochlear implant programs have expanded, but newborn screening reaches only 2 to 5% of all newborn infants and 20% of NICU patients. Mandarin tone perception remains a challenge for implant users.
• PTOTSLPRCT2017Effects of Training Intensity on Locomotor Performance in Individuals With Chronic Spinal Cord Injury: A Randomized Crossover Study.Neurorehabilitation and neural repairHigh-intensity stepping training improved peak treadmill speed and fastest walking speed more than low-intensity training in chronic spinal cord injury. Changes in the standard six-minute walk test did not significantly differ between the two intensities.
• SLPNarrative Review2017Insights Into the Role of Collagen in Vocal Fold Health and Disease.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice FoundationNo patient outcomes or tested treatment effects are reported. This review explains collagen's role in vocal fold tissue, wound healing, and experimental biomaterial ideas.
• SLPCase-Control2018Acoustic Perturbation Measures Improve with Increasing Vocal Intensity in Individuals With and Without Voice Disorders.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice FoundationIn women with and without voice disorders, jitter, shimmer, and HNR changed with loudness. Louder voice lowered jitter and shimmer and raised HNR. Loudness affected these measures, and pathology did not consistently separate groups.
• PTOTSLPPilot2018The feasibility of an acute high-intensity exercise bout to promote locomotor learning after stroke.Topics in stroke rehabilitationA five-minute high-intensity exercise session before gait practice is feasible for people with chronic stroke. Both treadmill and seated arm-leg cycling raised lactate levels without causing fatigue or interfering with subsequent practice, though the seated ergometer allowed longer time at target intensity.
• SLPCohort2018Early Gesture and Vocabulary Development in Infant Siblings of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersInfants with an older sibling with autism who were later diagnosed themselves looked similar to low-risk infants at 8 months, but their gesture and word growth slowed and fell behind by 9 to 11 months. A single early check can miss this.
• SLPCohort2018Health Concerns and Health Service Utilization in a Population Cohort of Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersYoung adults with autism spectrum disorder were more likely than peers without developmental disability to have psychiatric diagnoses and mental health service use. Compared with peers with other developmental disabilities, they had more psychiatric diagnoses and psychiatrist visits, but not more hospitalizations.
• SLPCohort2018Factors influencing speech perception in noise for 5-year-old children using hearing aids or cochlear implants.International journal of audiologyChildren with hearing aids and cochlear implants showed a similar spatial listening benefit, but both needed louder target speech relative to noise than typical peers. Age at cochlear implant activation and language ability were associated with speech perception scores.
• SLPCohort2018What will my child's future hold? phenotypes of intellectual development in 2-8-year-olds with autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchSome young children with autism showed large gains in intellectual ability between ages 2 and 8, while others stayed stable or lost ground. The amount of therapy received did not differ between these groups.
• SLPOther2017Dynamics of the Driving Force During the Normal Vocal Fold Vibration Cycle.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice FoundationIn one trained vocalist, computed pressure inside the vocal folds was higher while the folds opened than while they closed. The pressure ratio between opening and closing rose with loudness up to about 76.5 dB, then fell.
• SLPNarrative Review2017Reflections on Clinical and Statistical Use of the Penetration-Aspiration Scale.DysphagiaAveraging PAS scores to decimal places can misrepresent patients. Levels 4 and 6 are rare. The authors recommend frequency patterns or ordered categories, not proof that a treatment works.
• SLPOther2017Within-Bolus Variability of the Penetration-Aspiration Scale Across Two Subsequent Swallows in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer.DysphagiaSwallowing scores in head and neck cancer patients varied widely between two attempts of the same bolus. Clinicians should not rely on a single swallow or an average score, as this misses unsafe events. Report the worst score to accurately assess aspiration risk.
• SLPRCT2017Change in Excitability of Cortical Projection After Modified Catheter Balloon Dilatation Therapy in Brainstem Stroke Patients with Dysphagia: A Prospective Controlled Study.DysphagiaBalloon dilatation added to conventional swallowing exercises and budesonide inhalation increased affected-side muscle responses after brain stimulation and improved tube feeding and hyoid movement more than conventional exercises alone in 30 brainstem stroke patients.
• SLPOther2017Effects of Stimulus Duration on Event-Related Potentials Recorded From Cochlear-Implant Users.Ear and hearingUsing short 170-ms speech sounds to record brain responses in cochlear implant users distorts the P2 wave. The artifact removal process creates a false spike at the sound's offset, which overlaps with the P2 peak. Longer 400-ms sounds preserve the wave shape.
• SLPOther2017What Type of Food Can Older Adults Masticate?: Evaluation of Mastication Performance Using Color-Changeable Chewing Gum.DysphagiaGum color after chewing tracked whether older adults made food ready to swallow for boiled rice, ginger-fried pork loin, boiled fish-paste, and rice cracker; sliced white bread did not follow this pattern.
• OTSLPOther2018Adaptive behavior in autism: Minimal clinically important differences on the Vineland-II.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchA change of 2.44 to 3.76 points on the Vineland-II Adaptive Behavior Composite score may be clinically meaningful for autistic people, but the needed change depends on age and IQ. This is a benchmark, not proof a treatment works.
• SLPCohort2018Language Underperformance in Young Children Who Are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing: Are the Expectations Too Low?Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPAmong 149 young children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, 61 (41.5%) had receptive language below 85% of nonverbal IQ. Higher nonverbal IQ was associated with greater odds of language underperformance, so average scores may hide a gap.
• SLPOther2018Utility of Laryngeal High-speed Videoendoscopy in Clinical Voice Assessment.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice FoundationAdding high-speed videoendoscopy changed vocal fold vibration ratings, most often mucosal wave (74%) and amplitude of vibration (53%), and changed the initial diagnosis in 11 patients (7%), mostly in moderate to severe dysphonia.
• SLPCohort2018Planum temporale asymmetry in people who stutter.Journal of fluency disordersBrain scans of 130 people showed no difference in the size or left-right asymmetry of a speech-processing brain region between those who stutter and those who do not. This finding does not support the theory that atypical brain structure causes stuttering.
• OTSLPCase-Control2018Association Between Air Pollution Exposure, Cognitive and Adaptive Function, and ASD Severity Among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersHigher nitrogen dioxide exposure during pregnancy and the first year was linked to lower cognitive and adaptive scores in children with autism. It was not linked to autism severity. It is not proof pollution caused the deficits.
• SLPSurvey2018Autism Spectrum Disorder and School Bullying: Who is the Victim? Who is the Perpetrator?Journal of autism and developmental disordersChildren with autism spectrum disorder were more often bullied as victims, even after accounting for other behavioral problems. They were not more often perpetrators once hyperactivity, attention problems, aggression, and conduct problems were considered.
• OTSLPSurvey2018Latent Class Analysis of ADHD Neurodevelopmental and Mental Health Comorbidities.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPAmong 2,495 children with current parent-reported ADHD, 61.3% had another diagnosed condition. Four groups emerged: low comorbidity, internalizing disorders, developmental disorders, and high comorbidity, with different school-service patterns.
• SLPOther2017Age-Related Differences in the Processing of Temporal Envelope and Spectral Cues in a Speech Segment.Ear and hearingOlder adults with normal hearing needed longer silent gaps to tell Dish and Ditch apart than younger adults. Simulating cochlear implant processing made the contrast harder, especially when timing cues were reduced. Actual implant users were not tested.
• SLPOther2017Difference in tongue strength using visual feedback in healthy adults.Journal of physical therapy scienceHealthy adults pressed their tongue harder against a pressure sensor when they could see the force in real time. Scores were 45.5 kPa with visual feedback versus 41.1 kPa without. This shows feedback boosts effort in healthy people, not that it improves swallowing function.
• SLPOther2017The Effect of Hearing Loss on Novel Word Learning in Infant- and Adult-Directed Speech.Ear and hearingChildren with hearing loss learned new word-object pairs in both infant-directed and adult-directed speech, but less reliably than age-matched normal-hearing children. Looking patterns suggest infant-directed speech may still support their learning.
• PTOTSLPSurvey2017Evaluation of spina bifida transitional care practices in the United States.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicineSpina bifida clinics vary widely in transition care. Most discuss transition with patients, but few have written protocols or confirm adult provider visits. Readiness assessments are rare, and communication between pediatric and adult teams is inconsistent.
• SLPCase Report2018Pharyngeal Dystonia Mimicking Spasmodic Dysphonia.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice FoundationVoice breaks that looked like spasmodic dysphonia came from pharyngeal muscle spasms on laryngoscopy. In four patients, voice improvement was reported after injections that included pharyngeal folds, while laryngeal injections had not helped in some cases. This case series cannot prove treatment works.
• SLPOther2018Responsiveness of the Electrically Stimulated Cochlear Nerve in Children With Cochlear Nerve Deficiency.Ear and hearingIn children with cochlear nerve deficiency, implant-evoked nerve responses were often absent, especially toward the cochlea's apex, and were weaker than in children with normal nerves. This may guide expectations about variability in implant outcomes, but speech outcomes were not tested.
• SLPRCT2018Distance delivery of a spoken language intervention for school-aged and adolescent boys with fragile X syndrome.Developmental neurorehabilitationAfter 12 weeks, boys in the treatment group stayed engaged longer than comparison boys and used more different words than before with their mothers at home. Mothers used story prompts more. No gains appeared in grammar or with an unfamiliar examiner.
• SLPOther2018Supra-Segmental Changes in Speech Production as a Result of Spectral Feedback Degradation: Comparison with Lombard Speech.Language and speechNormal-hearing speakers slowed down, raised pitch and loudness, then became quieter and lower-pitched when hearing simulated cochlear implant feedback. Listeners preferred their baseline speech and recognized feedback-altered speech more slowly.
• SLPOther2018Temporal Segmentation for Laryngeal High-Speed Videoendoscopy in Connected Speech.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice FoundationAn automated method matched a trained rater's manual segmentation of voicing and epiglottic obstruction in one healthy speaker's high-speed laryngeal video during connected speech. It is a technical validation, not evidence of improved patient care.
• SLPOther2017Trends in Research Literature Describing Dysphagia in Motor Neuron Diseases (MND): A Scoping Review.DysphagiaMost research on swallowing in motor neuron disease focuses on aspiration, ignoring post-swallow residue which causes malnutrition. Few studies test treatments directly; most recommendations rely on secondary sources or clinical observation. Instrumental assessment is needed to guide management effectively.
• SLPOther2017The Effect of Aging and Priming on Same/Different Judgments Between Text and Partially Masked Speech.Ear and hearingReading the sentence before hearing it made it easier to tell whether a printed sentence matched heard speech. The benefit was smaller in older adults when background talkers were present, but not when background noise was used.
• SLPOther2017Auditory Brainstem Implant Array Position Varies Widely Among Adult and Pediatric Patients and Is Associated With Perception.Ear and hearingABI electrode position varied widely among 11 patients. Specific orientations were associated with lower hearing thresholds and fewer side effects. Arrays tilted medially or laterally often caused non-auditory sensations like facial twitching or gagging.
• SLPCohort2018Cerebellar pilocytic astrocytoma in childhood: Investigating the long-term impact of surgery on cognitive performance and functional outcome.Developmental neurorehabilitationChildhood cerebellar tumor survivors scored near average against healthy norms, but against high-achieving peers they showed lower verbal memory, processing speed, executive function, and language scores. Good quality of life did not rule out these differences.