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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• SLPOther2019Achieved Gain and Subjective Outcomes for a Wide-Bandwidth Contact Hearing Aid Fitted Using CAM2.Ear and hearingParticipants with hearing loss reported better communication and satisfaction with a contact hearing aid that amplified up to 10 kHz than with unaided listening. Because the studies were unblinded and had no control, these ratings cannot prove the device worked.
• SLPOther2019Parent-Reported Communication Abilities of Children with Sotos Syndrome: Evidence from the Children's Communication Checklist-2.Journal of autism and developmental disordersParents reported marked communication difficulties in most children with Sotos syndrome, similar overall to children with Williams syndrome. Language structure and pragmatic skills were both impaired, with particular problems in context use and nonverbal communication.
• SLPCohort2019Intracochlear Electrocochleography: Response Patterns During Cochlear Implantation and Hearing Preservation.Ear and hearingDrops in electrical cochlear responses during cochlear implant insertion did not reliably predict hearing loss. Recordings succeeded in 28 of 36 subjects, and waveform phase or nerve and hair cell changes helped explain drops in preserved hearing.
• PTOTSLPCohort2019Use of Hospital-Based Rehabilitation Services and Hospital Readmission Following Ischemic Stroke in the United States.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitationIn Medicare claims for 88,826 older adults after ischemic stroke, more hospital physical therapy was linked to lower 30-day readmission. Occupational therapy and speech-language therapy showed no such link, so this does not prove these treatments prevent readmission.
• SLPOther2019Bimodal Hearing or Bilateral Cochlear Implants? Ask the Patient.Ear and hearingStandard clinic tests failed to distinguish between bimodal hearing and bilateral implants, but a complex noise test showed bilateral users performed better. Asking patients if they need a second implant predicted their performance in this noise accurately, with no false positives.
• SLPOther2019Atypicalities of Gesture Form and Function in Autistic Adults.Journal of autism and developmental disordersVerbally fluent autistic adults used co-speech gestures differently from controls: more turn-taking gestures, more gestures coders interpreted less confidently, and more single-handed gestures. Gesture size and added information did not differ.
• SLPNarrative Review2019The World Health Organization's hearing-impairment grading system: an evaluation for unaided communication in age-related hearing loss.International journal of audiologyAcross five large datasets, older adults' self-reported and unaided speech-recognition scores got worse as WHO-proposed hearing grades moved from slight/mild to severe. The normal and slight/mild grades often looked similar.
• SLPCohort2019A population-based examination of maltreatment referrals and substantiation for children with autism spectrum disorder.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceSubstantiated maltreatment was similar overall: 3.9% of children with autism and 3.4% of controls. Referrals were higher: 17.3% versus 7.4%. Many autism referrals were screened out before further action.
• SLPCohort2019Brief Report: Challenging Behaviors in Toddlers and Preschoolers with Angelman, Prader-Willi, and Williams Syndromes.Journal of autism and developmental disordersParents reported toddlers and preschoolers with Angelman or Williams syndromes had more overall behavior concerns than comparison children, especially attention, withdrawal, and autism spectrum problems. Prader-Willi toddlers looked similar to comparison children overall.
• SLPCase Report2019The impact of morphophonological patterns on verb production: evidence from acquired morphological impairment.Clinical linguistics & phoneticsIn one person with aphasia, past-tense verb errors varied with how common the verb's sound-change pattern was. Regular verbs were easier when their pattern matched common English patterns. Irregular verb accuracy did not show this pattern, but more typical regular errors were more likely.
• SLPOther2018Gestational age and birth weight variations in young children with language impairment at an early communication intervention clinic.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsAt an early communication clinic, almost 40% of children assessed for language concerns were born preterm or with low birth weight. Most were late preterm. Their language delay was no worse than full-term referred peers, but genetic conditions and global developmental delay were more common.
• SLPOther2019PAC1R Genotype to Phenotype Correlations in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchIn children with ASD, the CC genotype was linked to more ADI-R reciprocal-social difficulty than GC. In a small brain-scan subset, CC showed stronger connectivity between the amygdala and a motion-processing region. This is an exploratory genetic finding, not a treatment result.
• SLPOther2019The use of demonstratives and personal pronouns in fragile X syndrome and autism spectrum disorder.Clinical linguistics & phoneticsBoys with fragile X and autism used more words like this and that in concrete and appropriate ways than boys with idiopathic autism, but pronoun use did not differ. Grammar and autism severity related differently to these words in each group.
• SLPOther2019Developmental Effects in Children's Ability to Benefit From F0 Differences Between Target and Masker Speech.Ear and hearingVoice-pitch differences helped adults and 13- to 15-year-olds separate target words from competing speech, but 5- to 7-year-olds gained little. A 9-semitone shift gave adults 10.8 dB and 13- to 15-year-olds 8.7 dB benefit, but 5- to 7-year-olds only 2.1 dB.
• SLPOther2019Beyond pass-fail: Examining the potential utility of two thresholds in the autism screening process.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchUsing two STAT thresholds in a risk-score model sorted 54% of referred toddlers into very likely or very unlikely ASD groups, but overall three scoring methods performed similarly.
• SLPRCT2019Efficacy and Effectiveness of Advanced Hearing Aid Directional and Noise Reduction Technologies for Older Adults With Mild to Moderate Hearing Loss.Ear and hearingPremium directional and noise reduction hearing aid features improved laboratory speech test scores but did not produce clear real-world benefit over basic features in older adults with mild-to-moderate hearing loss.
• PTOTSLPPilot2019The effect of the Hambisela programme on stress levels and quality of life of primary caregivers of children with cerebral palsy: A pilot study.The South African journal of physiotherapyCaregiver stress and total quality of life did not significantly change after Hambisela. Daily activities became more stressful. This underpowered pilot cannot show whether the programme helps.
• SLPCase Series2019Acquiring a first language in adolescence: the case of basic word order in American Sign Language.Journal of child languageDeaf adolescents learning ASL after early language deprivation gradually preferred basic word order, like young children, but took longer. Their varied orders mostly followed specific verbs, and topic markers were often missing.
• SLPOther2019Online Machine Learning Audiometry.Ear and hearingOnline machine learning audiometry gave hearing threshold estimates close to online Hughson-Westlake audiometry, but repeat results were less consistent. In about 10% of ears, 49 tones were too few for reliable extreme-frequency estimates.
• PTOTSLPOther2019Validation of the Simplified Chinese Psychoeducational Profile Third Edition in Mainland China.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAfter Mandarin and everyday-item changes, the Simplified Chinese PEP-3 gave stable scores and was related to other child-development measures, so it can help therapists profile strengths and weaknesses in Mandarin-speaking children with ASD in mainland China. It does not prove treatment works.
• SLPRCT2018Learning new words from an interactive electronic storybook intervention.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsGrade 1 children learned new words and kept them for 8 weeks after using an interactive e-book for two hours total. The control group also improved once they used the e-book. This shows short, independent digital exposure can build vocabulary in low-resource settings.
• SLPPilot2018Assessing speech correction abilities with acoustic analyses: Evidence of preserved online correction in persons with aphasia.International journal of speech-language pathologyEvery participant in this small study showed within-syllable speech correction. Their vowel sounds moved closer to their own average target by mid-word. In this small sample, online correction appeared to remain working even when speech errors were frequent.
• SLPCohort2019Biomarkers of Systemic Inflammation and Risk of Incident Hearing Loss.Ear and hearingIn 9,079 women followed prospectively, plasma CRP, IL-6, and TNFR-2 were not associated with incident self-reported moderate or worse hearing loss. Some age-specific TNFR-2 findings appeared, but authors said they could be chance.
• SLPOther2019Compensatory and Serial Processing Models for Relating Electrophysiology, Speech Understanding, and Cognition.Ear and hearingIn 33 people, the data did not favor either a compensatory or serial model of how cognition and auditory coding shape speech understanding in noise. The two models received nearly equal support, so no clear account was established.
• SLPOther2019Cochlear Reflectance and Otoacoustic Emission Predictions of Hearing Loss.Ear and hearingDPOAEs outperformed cochlear reflectance when each used one frequency. Cochlear reflectance improved with multiple frequencies and separate sex criteria, but took longer. A single DPOAE at 6 kHz was fast and accurate for overall hearing screening.
• SLPSystematic Review2019Systematic Review of the Relationship Between Autism Stigma and Informal Caregiver Mental Health.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAcross twelve studies, autism stigma was consistently linked to depression, anxiety and poor wellbeing in caregivers. Rejection from family and friends hurt more than public judgement. Mindfulness and self-compassion buffered these effects.
• SLPQualitative2019SLP-Perceived Technical and Patient-Centered Factors Associated with Pharyngeal High-Resolution Manometry.DysphagiaSLPs saw pharyngeal manometry as an objective add-on to videofluoroscopy or FEES, especially for unclear cases, treatment planning, progress tracking, and biofeedback. They disagreed on which patients should get it and when.
• SLPOther2019A Novel Three-Dimensional Analysis of Tongue Movement During Water and Saliva Deglutition: A Preliminary Study on Swallowing Patterns.DysphagiaHealthy adults moved the back of the tongue more than the front up and down when swallowing saliva or water. Larger water volumes produced wider tongue movement on the up-down and front-back axes. Side-to-side motion changed little.
• SLPRCT2019Evaluation of a New Algorithm to Optimize Audibility in Cochlear Implant Recipients.Ear and hearingThe SoftVoice algorithm improved hearing of soft speech in quiet for cochlear implant users without harming normal conversation. However, it made environmental noises bothersome for some. Lowering sensitivity thresholds to reduce this noise also reduced the benefit for soft speech, requiring a trade-off in programming.
• SLPCase Report2019Electroencephalography-based endogenous brain-computer interface for online communication with a completely locked-in patient.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationIn a single patient with completely locked-in ALS, an EEG-based mental-imagery BCI classified yes/no answers online with 87.5% average accuracy across four runs, but this case cannot prove the method works for other patients.
• OTSLPSurvey2019Treatment patterns in children with autism in the United States.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchMost US children with autism received several non-drug therapies, with speech therapy the most common and usually school-based. Rural residence was linked to less therapy and lower intensity; insurance type was not consistently linked to therapy.
• SLPCohort2019Shifting Preferences for Primate Faces in Neurotypical Infants and Infants Later Diagnosed With ASD.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchInfants later diagnosed with ASD looked longer at human faces than non-faces at 6 months, unlike neurotypical infants, who also looked longer at monkey faces. The ASD group's preference for primate faces declined by 18 months. This is an eye-tracking pattern, not a clinical screen.
• PTOTSLPOther2019Altered muscle activation patterns (AMAP): an analytical tool to compare muscle activity patterns of hemiparetic gait with a normative profile.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationA new muscle activity analysis tool identified specific timing and amplitude deviations in stroke survivors' walking. Plantarflexor abnormalities correlated with reduced propulsion and slower walking speeds, offering a way to target gait rehabilitation based on individual muscle coordination deficits.
• SLPCohort2018Inherited and multiple de novo mutations in autism/developmental delay risk genes suggest a multifactorial model.Molecular autismMany autism risk genes were identified, multiple new mutations occurred in some patients, and inherited mutations had milder parent traits. This supports a multifactorial model, not one-gene explanations, and gives no tested therapy change.
• SLPOther2018Automatic prediction of intelligible speaking rate for individuals with ALS from speech acoustic and articulatory samples.International journal of speech-language pathologyA model estimated intelligible speaking rate from a single short speech sample. Combining sound with lip and tongue movement gave the closest estimates, but it was tested in only 12 people with ALS and 2 controls.
• SLPCohort2019Speech-in-Noise and Quality-of-Life Measures in School-Aged Children With Normal Hearing and With Unilateral Hearing Loss.Ear and hearingSchool-aged children with unilateral hearing loss needed speech to be louder relative to background noise than normal-hearing peers, especially when noise came from the normal ear. They also reported poorer hearing-related quality of life.
• SLPCase-Control2019Maternal Pre-pregnancy Body Mass Index and Gestational Weight Gain in Relation to Autism Spectrum Disorder and other Developmental Disorders in Offspring.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchHigher gestational weight gain was linked to ASD, while pre-pregnancy obesity showed no clear link after accounting for other factors. Maternal overweight or obesity was linked to developmental delay, a group that included speech delay.
• SLPOther2019Reconceptualizing developmental language disorder as a spectrum disorder: issues and evidence.International journal of language & communication disordersIn a kindergarten DLD sample, children did not form clear diagnostic subtypes; language and performance IQ scores varied along a shared continuum. The results support a spectrum model rather than subtype labels.
• SLPOther2019Measuring word retrieval in narrative discourse: core lexicon in aphasia.International journal of language & communication disordersVerb words from age-matched picture-book lists tracked aphasia severity, while noun, adjective and adverb lists did not. With only 11 people with aphasia, this is an early measure check, not proof verb counts diagnose severity.
• OTSLPNarrative Review2018Changing Developmental Trajectories of Toddlers With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Strategies for Bridging Research to Community Practice.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHRIn toddlers with autism, a parent-implemented model combining coaching, routines, communication targets, and instruction produced greater gains in engagement and communication than weekly group support. The paper did not isolate which parts mattered.
• SLPCase-Control2018Functional MRI connectivity of children with autism and low verbal and cognitive performance.Molecular autismChildren with autism and very low verbal and cognitive performance can complete MRI scanning without sedation using video, noise reduction, comfort items, and parent contact. Their scans showed lower connections inside some networks than higher-functioning autistic children, and higher between some networks than typical children.
• SLPOther2018Normative Data for a Rapid, Automated Test of Spatial Release From Masking.American journal of audiologyFor normal-hearing adults, age predicts how well you hear one voice in noise, but hearing loss predicts how much benefit you get from spatial separation. These norms let clinicians compare a patient's score to expected values for their age and hearing level.
• SLPOther2019Cross-Cultural Content Validity of the Autism Program Environment Rating Scale in Sweden.Journal of autism and developmental disordersNine Swedish experts rated the adapted APERS-P-SE as clear, comprehensive and relevant for assessing preschool program quality for children with ASD. Practical use scored lowest, and further work is needed to see how it performs in use.
• SLPOther2019The stability of joint engagement states in infant siblings of children with and without ASD: Implications for measurement practices.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchMeasuring joint engagement depends on group and state. In siblings of children with ASD, more reciprocal play needed 4 sessions; less needed 1. In other siblings, more needed 2 sessions and less needed 7 sessions and 2 coders.
• SLPCase Series2019Deciphering the mechanisms of phonological therapy in jargon aphasia.International journal of language & communication disordersFor a man with severe jargon aphasia, phonological therapy improved naming on two trained word lists, but gains did not last and did not spread to untrained words.
• SLPOther2019A novel method for measuring learning opportunities provided by parents to young children with autism spectrum disorder.Autism : the international journal of research and practiceA new video coding method counts how often parents turn play into teaching moments. Higher counts correlated with better child language and cognition scores 12 weeks later, but not with autism symptom severity. The study shows the method works; it does not prove that more teaching moments cause progress.
• PTOTSLPCohort2019Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with Spinal Cord Injuries: A Population-Based Study.PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitationMothers with spinal cord injury, paralysis, or spina bifida faced high risks of infection, blood clots, and preterm birth. Infants were often born early or small. However, these babies did not have higher rates of hospitalization or death in their first two years compared to other infants.
• PTOTSLPNarrative Review2019Questioning the "SPIN and SNOUT" rule in clinical testing.Archives of physiotherapyThe common SPIN and SNOUT rules for interpreting diagnostic tests are unreliable because they ignore disease prevalence. Clinicians should instead use likelihood ratios combined with a patient-specific pre-test probability to determine the true chance of a condition.
• SLPCohort2019Medical Referral Patterns and Etiologies for Children With Mild-to-Severe Hearing Loss.Ear and hearingChildren with mild-to-severe hearing loss received very different medical workups. In this cohort, 26.4% had no documented referral in five categories, but 34.2% of those imaged had abnormalities. NICU stay, oxygen, ventilator use, aminoglycosides, and family history were more common than in normal-hearing children.
• SLPCase-Control2019Mathematical thinking in children with developmental language disorder: The roles of pattern skills and verbal working memory.Journal of communication disordersChildren with developmental language disorder had weaker math and verbal working memory than matched peers, but similar pattern skills. Pattern skill predicted calculation in both groups, while verbal working memory partly accounted for calculation differences.