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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• SLPOther2019The games they play: Observations of children with autism spectrum disorder on the school playground.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceFifty-five children with ASD spent 25% of observed recess and lunch time alone and 30% with peers. Most initiations and responses were successful. Self-stimulation was infrequent, mainly when alone.
• OTSLPOther2019ASD Comorbidity in Fragile X Syndrome: Symptom Profile and Predictors of Symptom Severity in Adolescent and Young Adult Males.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn adolescent and young adult males with fragile X syndrome, weaker sentence construction was associated with more severe autism symptoms, especially social communication symptoms. Repetitive behaviors were associated with nonverbal IQ and anxiety, avoidance, or hyperactivity.
• SLPOther2019Perceptual Discrimination of Speaking Style Under Cochlear Implant Simulation.Ear and hearingNormal-hearing Dutch listeners could tell careful read, retold story and casual conversation speech apart without cochlear implant simulation. With simulated implant hearing, style discrimination was less reliable, and word recognition fell as the simulation became more degraded.
• SLPOther2018Swallow Event Sequencing: Comparing Healthy Older and Younger Adults.DysphagiaHealthy older adults showed less variation in the order of swallow events than healthy young adults, and some timing differences appeared. These are healthy norms, not evidence that aging causes a swallowing disorder.
• SLPOther2018Pink1 -/- Rats Show Early-Onset Swallowing Deficits and Correlative Brainstem Pathology.DysphagiaRats with a Parkinson-related gene deletion swallowed larger boluses and moved them faster through the throat than normal rats. Chewing slowed with age but did not differ between groups. These are rat findings, not human swallowing evidence.
• SLPCase-Control2018Lingual and Jaw Kinematic Abnormalities Precede Speech and Swallowing Impairments in ALS.DysphagiaPeople with ALS who had no speech or swallowing symptoms moved their tongue differently during water drinking than controls. Their posterior tongue moved less and more slowly, and their jaw moved more and faster.
• SLPCohort2018Coordination of Pharyngeal and Laryngeal Swallowing Events During Single Liquid Swallows After Oral Endotracheal Intubation for Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.DysphagiaIn 11 ARDS patients after intubation, the time the larynx stayed closed was unchanged compared with healthy volunteers, but time to close the larynx was longer and the whole swallow took longer; only one aspirated.
• SLPOther2018Head Movements Allow Listeners Bilaterally Implanted With Cochlear Implants to Resolve Front-Back Confusions.Ear and hearingBilaterally implanted cochlear implant users improved front-back localization when allowed to turn their heads. In the lab, head movement raised correct responses from 49.4% to 81.7% and reduced front-back reversals from 41.9% to 6.7%.
• SLPOther2018Comparison of orbicularis oris muscle strength and endurance in young and elderly adults.Journal of physical therapy scienceOlder adults pressed their lips to 9.3 kPa on the pressure sensor and held for 13.3 seconds, compared with 15.5 kPa and 38.5 seconds in young adults. Reduced lip closure may matter for swallowing, but the study measured healthy people.
• SLPCohort2019Facial emotion recognition of older adults with traumatic brain injury.Brain injuryThirteen older adults with traumatic brain injury had the lowest emotion recognition scores, but only showed a clear difference from younger uninjured adults. TBI and older age were each linked to poorer recognition, especially for anger and sadness.
• PTOTSLPCohort2019Associations of Participation-Focused Strategies and Rehabilitation Service Use With Caregiver Stress After Pediatric Critical Illness.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitationAfter PICU discharge, caregivers whose children received PICU rehabilitation and reported home participation strategies had stress that declined over 6 months. Strategies alone were not shown to lower stress. This is not proof that rehabilitation caused the change.
• SLPOther2019Air-Conducted Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potential Testing in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: Thresholds, Frequency Tuning, and Effects of Sound Exposure.Ear and hearing500 Hz and 750 Hz VEMP gave the same responses in 10 children, 10 adolescents, and 10 young adults; thresholds were lower in children than young adults, and testing did not change hearing, hair-cell function, or symptoms.
• PTOTSLPMeta-Analysis2019Goal-setting in geriatric rehabilitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical rehabilitationGoal-setting did not improve physical functioning, quality of life, or reduce rehabilitation duration in older adults compared to usual care. The evidence was low quality, and usual care often already included some form of goal-setting, making it hard to see a benefit from standardized methods.
• SLPOther2019Effects of Additional Low-Pass-Filtered Speech on Listening Effort for Noise-Band-Vocoded Speech in Quiet and in Noise.Ear and hearingAdding low-frequency acoustic speech to degraded speech sometimes made a secondary visual task faster, especially in quiet and at 50% intelligibility in noise. The effect was small and inconsistent. Self-reported effort did not improve. It is not yet evidence for clinical use.
• SLPOther2019Thinking Ahead: Incremental Language Processing is Associated with Receptive Language Abilities in Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersPreschoolers with autism who had stronger receptive language looked to the named picture earlier when a verb hinted what noun was coming. The link was twice as strong when the verb gave a clue than when it did not.
• SLPOther2019Modelling category goodness judgments in children with residual sound errors.Clinical linguistics & phoneticsChildren with residual sound errors judge the goodness of /r/ sounds just like typically developing peers. Both groups are less sensitive to acoustic cues than adults, accepting a wider range of errors. This suggests perception lags behind production in children.
• SLPOther2019A "Goldilocks" Approach to Hearing Aid Self-Fitting: Ear-Canal Output and Speech Intelligibility Index.Ear and hearingA generic starting setting for hearing aids provided adequate speech audibility for 65% of users. Self-adjustment increased this to 88%, matching the accuracy of a customized clinical prescription. Users without prior experience achieved similar results to experienced users.
• SLPOther2019Effects of Amplification and Hearing Aid Experience on the Contribution of Specific Frequency Bands to Loudness.Ear and hearingAmplification shifted loudness judgments toward high-frequency bands, but did not make them match normal hearing. Hearing aid experience did not change the pattern.
• SLPCohort2019Parental criticism and behavior problems in children with autism spectrum disorder.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceParental criticism linked to behavior problems in children with autism, but the effect depended on context. Criticism predicted internalizing issues only when parental warmth was moderate, not high. It predicted externalizing issues only in children with moderate or high physiological stress reactivity.
• SLPOther2018How repetition influences speech understanding by younger, middle-aged and older adults.International journal of audiologyRepeating a sentence helped adults understand it better in noisy speech, with gains of about 9 to 29 percentage points in words understood. Repeating only the message, not the background talker, helped most, especially older listeners.
• SLPOther2018Sex differences in social attention in autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchSchool-aged girls with autism looked at faces more than boys with autism when trains and other objects were shown. Reduced looking at faces in autism may describe boys more than girls.
• SLPOther2019The Emotional Communication in Hearing Questionnaire (EMO-CHeQ): Development and Evaluation.Ear and hearingPeople with hearing loss reported more trouble understanding emotion in voices than people with normal hearing, and hearing aid users reported similar trouble to those not using aids. The EMO-CHeQ captures this voice-emotion handicap.
• SLPCohort2019Medically Unexplained Oropharyngeal Dysphagia at the University Hospital ENT Outpatient Clinic for Dysphagia: A Cross-Sectional Cohort Study.DysphagiaIn 14 adults with swallowing complaints but no detectible abnormality on swallowing examination, 6 had clinically relevant anxiety and 3 had depression. Self-rated swallowing severity did not match these symptoms. Ask about anxiety and depression in these patients.
• SLPQualitative2019Parent and professional perspectives on behavioral inflexibility in autism spectrum disorders: A qualitative study.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceParents and clinicians described behavioral inflexibility in children with autism as changing with context and age. They said routines, advance planning, and family flexibility helped, while unexpected changes could trigger distress.
• SLPOther2019Refinement and Validation of the Social Participation Restrictions Questionnaire: An Application of Rasch Analysis and Traditional Psychometric Analysis Techniques.Ear and hearingA 19-item questionnaire for adults with hearing loss measures social behavior problems and social perception feelings as two separate subscales. It is not yet tested for tracking change after rehabilitation.
• SLPOther2019Perceptual Doping: An Audiovisual Facilitation Effect on Auditory Speech Processing, From Phonetic Feature Extraction to Sentence Identification in Noise.Ear and hearingSeeing and hearing Swedish speech made later listening-only speech tasks easier for adults with hearing loss. Seeing and hearing also improved sentence identification in noise. In the sentence task, listening-only exposure also helped later seeing and hearing.
• SLPOther2019Motion-Capture Patterns of Voluntarily Mimicked Dynamic Facial Expressions in Children and Adolescents With and Without ASD.Journal of autism and developmental disordersChildren with ASD copied positive and negative faces with similar overall facial movement, while children without ASD moved more for positive faces. In the ASD group, high-intensity copies often peaked briefly rather than being sustained.
• OTSLPQualitative2019'I kind of figured it out': the views and experiences of people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in using social media-self-determination for participation and inclusion online.International journal of language & communication disordersPeople with TBI used social media to stay connected, but many lurked, felt overwhelmed or fatigued, and learned platforms by trial and error. They lacked direct support and needed prompt, relevant help.
• SLPOther2019Anxiety and Interpretation of Ambiguity in Autistic Children, Typical Children and Their Mothers.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutistic children and typical children reported similar anxiety and similar interpretations of ambiguous situations. Mothers of autistic children reported more anxiety in themselves and in their children than mothers of typical children did, and saw their children as more threatened, distressed and avoidant.
• SLPCohort2019Effects of Delay, Question Type, and Socioemotional Support on Episodic Memory Retrieval by Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersChildren with autism produced fewer details than peers when asked open-ended questions but remained highly accurate. Cued invitations, which refocus on details the child already mentioned, elicited the most information. Supportive comments increased details at the two-week interview but not at two months.
• SLPOther2018A cross-cultural study of autistic traits across India, Japan and the UK.Molecular autismFive social communication items identified children with autism from typically developing controls across India, Japan and the UK. Four items about spontaneity, talking over others, jokes and social occasions varied by country, so translated screening questions may need checking.
• OTSLPOther2018Capturing Expert Knowledge for the Personalization of Cognitive Rehabilitation: Study Combining Computational Modeling and a Participatory Design Strategy.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesA free web tool can generate personalized paper-and-pencil cognitive tasks for people after stroke. It uses expert ratings of task demands, not patient outcomes, so it may help therapists choose tasks but does not show improved recovery.
• SLPOther2019Recommendations on Collecting and Storing Samples for Genetic Studies in Hearing and Tinnitus Research.Ear and hearingNo patient outcomes are reported. This is a recommendations paper on collecting and storing samples for genetic studies in tinnitus and hearing loss, not a study of treatment.
• SLPOther2019Hearing in Real-Life Environments (HERE): Structure and Reliability of a Questionnaire on Perceived Hearing for Older Adults.Ear and hearingScores from the HERE questionnaire were similar across Finnish and UK older adults, stable when repeated in the UK sample, and related to measured hearing and speech-in-noise performance. It may help clinicians ask about everyday hearing difficulty without specialist testing.
• SLPOther2019Reducing Simulated Channel Interaction Reveals Differences in Phoneme Identification Between Children and Adults With Normal Hearing.Ear and hearingChildren with normal hearing needed both more channels and less simulated overlap to identify vowels, while adults plateaued earlier. A small cochlear implant comparison suggested first-implanted child ears performed like children in conditions with less simulated overlap.
• SLPOther2019Prevalence and Predictors of Anxiety Disorders in Adolescent and Adult Males with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Fragile X Syndrome.Journal of autism and developmental disordersOverall anxiety disorder rates did not differ significantly between males with non-syndromic ASD and males with FXS. The rate was 51.6% in FXS and 50.0% in ASD. Nonverbal ability and ASD severity did not help identify who had anxiety.
• SLPSurvey2019A Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study of Tinnitus Awareness and Impact in a Population of Adult Cochlear Implant Users.Ear and hearingTinnitus remains a real concern for some adult cochlear implant users: 13% ranked it their top difficulty among six areas, and 28% ranked it first or second. Many others had little or no tinnitus impact.
• SLPOther2019Establishing a Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Clinical Pathway: An Implementation Evaluation and Audit of Dysphagia-Related Services and Outcomes.DysphagiaA head and neck cancer pathway kept speech and dietetic appointments running, and swallowing outcomes mostly matched a prior research cohort. Complexity was the main staff barrier; the audit cannot show the pathway caused outcomes.
• SLPOther2019Sensitivity to Melody, Rhythm, and Beat in Supporting Speech-in-Noise Perception in Young Adults.Ear and hearingSensitivity to musical beat, but not melody or rhythm, strongly predicted better speech-in-noise perception in young adults. This link remained significant even after accounting for working memory and frequency discrimination.
• SLPOther2019In a Concurrent Memory and Auditory Perception Task, the Pupil Dilation Response Is More Sensitive to Memory Load Than to Auditory Stimulus Characteristics.Ear and hearingWhen people memorize words while listening, pupil dilation stops tracking how hard the speech is to hear. It tracks memory load instead. Semantic cues help hearing but confuse recall, as people mix up the cue words with the sentence they just heard.
• SLPOther2019Social Conformity in Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutistic adults conformed to incorrect group answers just as often as neurotypical adults. They also maintained these false beliefs after learning the group was wrong, showing no difference in susceptibility to social influence.
• PTOTSLPCohort2018Associations Between Medical History, Cognition, and Behavior in Youth With Down Syndrome: A Report From the Down Syndrome Cognition Project.American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilitiesSevere birth defects like heart and gut surgeries did not predict worse cognition or behavior in 234 youths with Down syndrome. Lower income and later early intervention did predict poorer outcomes. Parents of children with gut defects reported unexpectedly better executive function skills.
• SLPOther2019Characterizing the Flow of Thickened Barium and Non-barium Liquid Recipes Using the IDDSI Flow Test.DysphagiaTested barium recipes could be made to match IDDSI slightly to moderately thick levels and stay stable over time, but adding barium often thickened liquids more than the same non-barium recipe.
• SLPSurvey2019Approaches to communication assessment with children and adults with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDSpeech and language therapists working with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities in the UK commonly mixed published and unpublished assessments, adapting or creating tools because published ones did not fully capture early communication.
• SLPOther2019Cochlear Mechanisms and Otoacoustic Emission Test Performance.Ear and hearingReducing the reflection source in DPOAE screening did not improve hearing loss identification overall. In selected ears with fine structure, it improved mild loss detection at lower levels, while stimulus-frequency emissions were less accurate.
• SLPCohort2019Resource use and cost of annual health checks in primary care for people with intellectual disabilities.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDRAnnual health checks for adults with intellectual disability cost £142.57 each, and the study estimated healthcare costs were 56% higher for people who had a check. People without a check had increases in unplanned admissions and outpatient contacts after the start date.
• SLPCohort2019General Cognitive Ability as an Early Indicator of Problem Behavior Among Toddlers in Foster Care.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPToddlers entering foster care who had lower general cognitive ability showed more problem behavior six months later, even after accounting for behavior at placement. Parenting stress, routines, and harsh discipline did not predict change.
• SLPOther2019Assessing Hyolaryngeal Excursion: Comparing Quantitative Methods to Palpation at the Bedside and Visualization During Videofluoroscopy.DysphagiaBedside palpation judgments of reduced versus normal hyoid movement differed by measured forward position only, and videofluoroscopy judgments did not differ by any measured position.
• SLPOther2018Conversation-based intervention for adolescents using augmentative and alternative communication.Augmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985)In conversations that combined several supports, including a personal collage, recasts, prompts, and vocabulary targets, four adolescents using speech-generating devices increased some verbs, pronouns, bound morphemes, or clauses, but no target improved consistently across all four. Peer conversations did not show clear improvement.
• SLPOther2018SES effects on the use of variation sets in child-directed speech.Journal of child languageHigh-SES mothers used more variation sets than lower-SES mothers in both English and Hebrew. This means children from higher socioeconomic backgrounds heard more repetitions of phrases with slight variations, a structure linked to faster language learning.