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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• SLPOther2018Hearing, Emotion, Amplification, Research, and Training Workshop: Current Understanding of Hearing Loss and Emotion Perception and Priorities for Future Research.Trends in hearingNo tested outcomes here: a consensus workshop article on hearing loss and emotion perception lists concepts, methods, and counseling ideas, not evidence to change practice.
• SLPNarrative Review2018An Integrative Model Accounting for the Symptom Cluster Triggered After an Acoustic Shock.Trends in hearingNo clinical finding is reported. The paper proposes a model of acoustic shock symptoms, so it does not change Monday practice.
• SLPRCT2018Identification of urinary metabolites that correlate with clinical improvements in children with autism treated with sulforaphane from broccoli.Molecular autismAfter 12 weeks of a broccoli-derived supplement, 15 children with autism had parent-rated social functioning scores that improved, while general behavior scores did not change clearly. Without a control group, this cannot prove the supplement helped.
• SLPCase-Control2018Abnormal coherence and sleep composition in children with Angelman syndrome: a retrospective EEG study.Molecular autismChildren with Angelman syndrome had stronger brain-wave links between distant electrodes during wakefulness and sleep, plus fewer and shorter sleep spindles, brief brain bursts in non-REM sleep. These exploratory markers may guide future trials, not Monday therapy.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2018Traumatic brain injury education for adult patients and families: a scoping review.Brain injuryEducation for brain injury varies widely. In mild cases, it can match intensive therapy for some symptoms. In moderate to severe cases, education alone rarely improves outcomes unless combined with problem-solving and support. Written materials are often ignored; patients need in-person explanation.
• SLPOther2018The Self-Assessed Békesy Procedure: Validation of a Method to Measure Intelligibility of Connected Discourse.Trends in hearingA self-rating adaptive test matched standard sentence thresholds for Matrix sentences, but not for context-rich LIST sentences. It also found stories were harder than sentences, especially with a competing talker.
• SLPCohort2018Prenatal mercury exposure and features of autism: a prospective population study.Molecular autismPrenatal mercury exposure was not associated with autism diagnosis or autistic traits in children. A possible adverse link appeared only among mothers who ate no fish.
• PTOTSLPMeta-Analysis2018Association Between Subjective Tinnitus and Cervical Spine or Temporomandibular Disorders: A Systematic Review.Trends in hearingPeople with subjective tinnitus are significantly more likely to have temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and cervical spine disorders (CSD) than those without tinnitus. This association is bidirectional for TMD, meaning jaw problems also predict tinnitus presence.
• PTOTSLPQualitative2018Everyday Activities for Children with Mitochondrial Disorder: A Retrospective Chart Review.Occupational therapy internationalChildren with mitochondrial disorders across all functioning levels engaged in the same nine activity categories, from self-care to leisure. The difference was not what they did, but how: varying levels of assistance, adaptive devices, and energy management were required for participation.
• SLPOther2018Vowel Formant Dispersion Reflects Severity of Apraxia of Speech.AphasiologyAfter stroke, greater variability in vowel sounds and voiced stop timing during picture description went with more severe apraxia of speech, but acoustic measures alone were not accurate enough for diagnosis.
• SLPCohort2018Early gesture use in fragile X syndrome.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDRAfter nonverbal skills were considered, infants with fragile X syndrome did not show a clear difference in gesture count from high-risk siblings or low-risk infants. Before that, they used fewer gestures at 24 months; growth rates were similar.
• SLPOther2018Objective Binaural Loudness Balancing Based on 40-Hz Auditory Steady-State Responses. Part II: Asymmetric and Bimodal Hearing.Trends in hearingBrain responses roughly matched loudness balance in asymmetric hearing, but errors were common; in bimodal users they were closer at 500 Hz and less accurate at 2000 Hz.
• SLPOther2018Effects of Slow- and Fast-Acting Compression on Hearing-Impaired Listeners' Consonant-Vowel Identification in Interrupted Noise.Trends in hearingFast compression improved consonant recognition by 8% to 9% at 55 and 65 dB SPL in nine older hearing-impaired listeners, but not at 45 or 75 dB SPL. No clear harm appeared at higher levels.
• SLPOther2018Evaluation of Noise Reduction Algorithms in Hearing Aids for Multiple Signals From Equal or Different Directions.Trends in hearingActivating both noise reduction and directional microphone raised the measured speech-to-noise balance by about 6 dB in a hearing aid bench test. No human listening tests were done, so it does not show better speech understanding or less listening effort.
• SLPCase-Control2018Speech Recognition in Noise by Children with and without Dyslexia: How is it Related to Reading?Research in developmental disabilitiesFlattened frequency speech did not explain hearing speech problems in children with dyslexia. They still recognized speech less accurately in noise and quiet than typical peers. Reading and listening in noise relied on different language skills.
• SLPOther2018The Noise Exposure Structured Interview (NESI): An Instrument for the Comprehensive Estimation of Lifetime Noise Exposure.Trends in hearingThe NESI is a structured interview for estimating lifetime noise exposure. It asks about noisy activities, life periods, duration, level, hearing protection, and firearm noise. It is mainly for research, not a validated clinical test.
• SLPCohort2018Challenging behaviours at early adulthood in autism spectrum disorders: topography, risk factors and evolution.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDRIn young adults with autism spectrum disorder, challenging behaviours mostly persisted from adolescence to early adulthood, except hyperactivity decreased. Greater autism severity and limited language were linked to more behaviours and self-injury; gastrointestinal problems were linked to stereotypy.
• SLPOther2018An mHealth Platform for Supporting Clinical Data Integration into Augmentative and Alternative Communication Service Delivery: User-Centered Design and Usability Evaluation.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesTen speech-language pathology participants rated a new AAC app and web portal 4.28 out of 5 for ease and efficiency, and 90% preferred it for clinical data collection. The study used simulated data, not patient outcomes.
• SLPMeta-Analysis2018Joint attention in Down syndrome: A meta-analysis.Research in developmental disabilitiesChildren with Down syndrome showed joint attention similar to typically developing peers matched on developmental level, and better than peers with other developmental disabilities or autism. This points to using joint attention as a platform for intervention, not evidence it improves language.
• SLPOther2018Listening in Naturalistic Scenes: What Can Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Intersubject Correlation Analysis Tell Us About the Underlying Brain Activity?Trends in hearingBrain scans showed common activity in auditory and frontal regions across listeners, but did not track reported effort or intelligibility. Normally hearing listeners judged speech fully intelligible before it felt effortless, and competing speech raised effort after signal-to-noise ratio was controlled.
• SLPOther2018An Extended Binaural Real-Time Auralization System With an Interface to Research Hearing Aids for Experiments on Subjects With Hearing Loss.Trends in hearingThis research system can simulate noisy rooms and present them through loudspeakers and research hearing aids. Measurements show spatial cues can be distorted, so it is a lab tool, not evidence that hearing aid fitting in virtual rooms helps patients.
• SLPOther2018A "Buildup" of Speech Intelligibility in Listeners With Normal Hearing and Hearing Loss.Trends in hearingThe improvement in identifying target digits was similar for normal-hearing adults and for hearing-loss adults who received individualized amplification. Listeners improved from the first to the second digit in a five-talker mixture, but hearing-loss listeners made more errors from competing talkers.
• SLPOther2018Turn an Ear to Hear: How Hearing-Impaired Listeners Can Exploit Head Orientation to Enhance Their Speech Intelligibility in Noisy Social Settings.Trends in hearingCochlear implant users made fewer spontaneous head turns than young normal-hearing listeners, and no more than age-matched normal-hearing listeners. Telling them to explore head turns improved speech understanding, but clinic and web advice usually says face the talker head-on.
• SLPRCT2018Robot-based intervention may reduce delay in the production of intransitive gestures in Chinese-speaking preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder.Molecular autismAfter a training package using a robot, stories, pictures, prompts, teacher and researcher support, and rewards, preschoolers with autism produced symbolic hand gestures more accurately than wait-list peers and matched typical development in new stories at 2 weeks.
• SLPCohort2018Childcare Type and Quality among Subsidy Recipients with and without Special Needs.Infants and young childrenSubsidies let families of children with special needs use more non-parental care and more hours, but did not consistently improve childcare quality. At age 4, fewer subsidized children had adequate overall quality than unsubsidized children, and more were in settings exceeding recommended child-to-caregiver ratios.
• PTOTSLPCohort2018Executive function in school-aged children with cerebral palsy: Relationship with speech and language.Research in developmental disabilitiesChildren with cerebral palsy showed elevated executive function difficulties regardless of their speech and language abilities. Parents reported significantly higher problem behaviors than expected in typical children. Clinicians should screen for executive function issues in all patients, even those with strong communication skills.
• SLPOther2018Objective Binaural Loudness Balancing Based on 40-Hz Auditory Steady-State Responses. Part I: Normal Hearing.Trends in hearingIn 38 normal-hearing young adults, evoked brain responses tracked loudness balance between ears. The predicted balance was within 5 dB of behavioral balance in 59% of cases and within 10 dB in 85%, but individual variability remained.
• SLPOther2018Multimodal and Spectral Degradation Effects on Speech and Emotion Recognition in Adult Listeners.Trends in hearingSeeing the talker's face helped normal-hearing adults repeat degraded speech and identify emotions, especially when the audio was very distorted. Emotion recognition stayed near perfect with visual cues.
• SLPMeta-Analysis2018Self-reported sex differences in high-functioning adults with autism: a meta-analysis.Molecular autismAutistic adults self-reported similar social, language and special-interest symptoms regardless of sex, but autistic women self-reported more sensory and motor symptoms than autistic men. Screening tools may miss these differences in women.
• SLPOther2018Pupillometry Reveals That Context Benefit in Speech Perception Can Be Disrupted by Later-Occurring Sounds, Especially in Listeners With Cochlear Implants.Trends in hearingContext reduced listening effort in quiet, especially before sentence end for normal-hearing listeners. For cochlear implant users, the effort benefit came late and was weakened by sounds after the sentence, so quiet tests may not reflect everyday listening.
• PTOTSLPQualitative2018Adoption of Stroke Rehabilitation Technologies by the User Community: Qualitative Study.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesStakeholders agreed 10 priorities for stroke rehabilitation technology and 3 steps to improve adoption: an annual exhibition, a stakeholder network, and a consumer rater website.
• SLPSurvey2018Risk markers for suicidality in autistic adults.Molecular autismAutistic adults had higher suicide risk scores than general population adults. Masking autism traits, unmet support needs, and non-suicidal self-injury were associated with higher risk after controlling for depression and anxiety.
• SLPOther2018Perceptual Differences Between Low-Frequency Analog and Pulsatile Stimulation as Shown by Single- and Multidimensional Scaling.Trends in hearingCochlear implant users perceive analog and pulsatile stimulation as having different sound qualities. The difference is not about pitch height. Raising the pulse rate does not make pulsatile sounds match analog ones, so the gap comes from something other than the gaps between pulses.
• SLPOther2018Potential Consequences of Spectral and Binaural Loudness Summation for Bilateral Hearing Aid Fitting.Trends in hearingHearing-impaired listeners perceived broad binaural sounds as louder than normal-hearing listeners after narrowband loudness normalization. Audiogram type and monaural tests did not predict individual loudness summation, so bilateral hearing aid fitting rules with fixed gain reductions may not capture individual loudness needs.
• PTOTSLPNarrative Review2018Designing robot-assisted neurorehabilitation strategies for people with both HIV and stroke.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationPeople with both HIV and stroke face overlapping cognitive and motor deficits that current assessments often miss. Robot-assisted systems offer a way to quantify these joint impairments and deliver consistent care in low-resource settings, though no specific protocol is yet proven.
• SLPOther2018Emotional Responses to Pleasant Sounds Are Related to Social Disconnectedness and Loneliness Independent of Hearing Loss.Trends in hearingHearing loss alone was not associated with social disconnectedness or loneliness. People who found pleasant sounds less pleasant reported more disconnectedness and loneliness.
• SLPOther2018Contrasting Effects of Pressure Compensation on TEOAE and DPOAE in Children With Negative Middle Ear Pressure.Trends in hearingPressure compensation helped TEOAE pass more often in children with negative middle ear pressure. It did not improve DPOAE pass rates in Study 1, though Study 2 found a 2 to 3 dB DPOAE gain in qualifying ears.
• SLPOther2018Pupil Responses of Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury During Processing of Speech in Noise.Trends in hearingAdults with brain injury but normal hearing scores understood speech in noise worse than age-matched normal-hearing adults. They reported more effort, but pupil measures did not show greater peak effort. Visual language scores were similar.
• SLPOther2018Response to text-based social cues in the formation of causal attributions in adults with traumatic brain injury.Brain injuryAdults with chronic TBI were less likely to match their reasons for a crime to the questionnaire letterhead than uninjured adults. Written materials may need to make context explicit.
• SLPOther2018Spatial Release From Informational Masking: Evidence From Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy.Trends in hearingSeparating target and masker speech did not change frontal oxygen responses overall, but right frontal responses were stronger in the separated condition. Actively listening to speech in a competing talker background raised frontal responses compared with passive listening.
• SLPOther2018Data-Driven Approach for Auditory Profiling and Characterization of Individual Hearing Loss.Trends in hearingPoor speech-in-noise performance may reflect more than high-frequency hearing loss. Temporal and binaural processing deficits can form separate profiles. This profiling method is not yet clinically validated.
• SLPOther2018What Keeps Older Adults With Hearing Impairment From Adopting Hearing Aids?Trends in hearingOlder adults with mild-to-moderate hearing loss who did not use hearing aids reported fewer hearing problems in quiet, less technology commitment, lower socioeconomic status, and slightly worse health than matched users. Self-reported hearing problems in quiet were most strongly linked to hearing aid use.
• SLPQualitative2018Why Is Tinnitus a Problem? A Qualitative Analysis of Problems Reported by Tinnitus Patients.Trends in hearingTinnitus patients gave 994 problem statements, grouped into 18 domains. Reduced quality of life and Fear were the largest domains, with 125 and 107 codes. Constant awareness, annoyance and inability to concentrate were also common.
• PTOTSLPCohort2018The role of biopsychosocial factors in the rehabilitation process of individuals with a stroke.Work (Reading, Mass.)Patients who started rehab more than 16 weeks after stroke, had no family care support, or were single or widowed showed significantly less improvement in mobility and daily activities. Depression and low self-efficacy at admission also predicted poor outcomes. Younger age under 55 was unexpectedly linked to lower efficacy.
• SLPCase-Control2018Symptom severity in autism spectrum disorder is related to the frequency and severity of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy: a retrospective case-control study.Molecular autismIn children with autism, more severe maternal nausea and vomiting during pregnancy was associated with more severe social and communication difficulties. Children of mothers who reported daily nausea and vomiting had the most severe symptoms. This retrospective report cannot show cause.
• SLPOther2018Dissociations in the neural substrates of language and social functioning in autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchAdults and adolescents with autism self-rated lower language and social communication than controls, especially social engagement, while self-rated language scores were within normal range. In autism, lower pragmatic language and social engagement were linked to thinner cortex in separate left frontal regions.
• SLPCohort2018Effect of Tinnitus and Duration of Deafness on Sound Localization and Speech Recognition in Noise in Patients With Single-Sided Deafness.Trends in hearingCompared with normal-hearing listeners, people with single-sided deafness had clearly worse localization and speech-in-noise scores. Tinnitus was associated with worse localization and some speech-in-noise scores. Longer deafness was associated with better localization, not better speech-in-noise.
• SLPOther2018Assessing the Acoustic Characteristics of Rooms: A Tutorial with Examples.Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groupsMeasured clinical therapy rooms met the 35 dBA classroom noise standard, but corridor gaps could make conversations audible. Check room reverberation, background noise, and door gaps before sessions.
• SLPOther2018The COMiT'ID Study: Developing Core Outcome Domains Sets for Clinical Trials of Sound-, Psychology-, and Pharmacology-Based Interventions for Chronic Subjective Tinnitus in Adults.Trends in hearingFor tinnitus trials, core outcomes differ by treatment. Sound trials: ability to ignore, concentration, sense of control, sleep, intrusiveness. Psychology trials: acceptance, mood, negative thoughts and beliefs, control, intrusiveness. Drug trials: intrusiveness, loudness. These are trial reporting standards, not proof treatments work.
• PTOTSLPQualitative2018Dynamics of an orthopaedic team: Insights to improve teamwork through a design thinking approach.Work (Reading, Mass.)Staff in one orthopaedic unit described fragmented handovers, hierarchy hindering nurse input, and stress from ward mergers. They suggested shared screens and empathy-building shadowing. These are proposed ideas, not tested interventions, so do not change practice based on this alone.