SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY

Research for speech-language pathology

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• SLPMeta-Analysis2019Toddler Screening for Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Accuracy.Journal of autism and developmental disordersPooled toddler autism screening tools identified 0.72 of children with ASD and cleared 0.98 of children without ASD. A negative screen should not rule out autism.
• SLPSurvey2019Understanding the Reasons, Contexts and Costs of Camouflaging for Autistic Adults.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutistic adults who camouflaged in both formal and personal settings, or who switched between settings, reported more stress than those who camouflaged little. Those who camouflaged highly in both settings also reported more anxiety than those who camouflaged little. No depression difference was found.
• PTOTSLPRCT2019Ergometer cycling improves the ambulatory function and cardiovascular fitness of stroke patients-a randomized controlled trial.Journal of physical therapy scienceAdding ergometer cycling to standard physiotherapy improved walking speed, endurance, and blood pressure in sub-acute stroke patients compared to physiotherapy alone. The cycling group walked faster and covered more distance, but the study was small and short.
• SLPRCT2019Randomized Controlled Trial of an Online Problem-Solving Intervention Following Adolescent Traumatic Brain Injury: Family Outcomes.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitationOnline problem-solving after teen brain injury worked differently based on household size. Two-parent families did better with the family-based program, showing less depression. Single-parent families did better with the teen-only version, showing less conflict and better cohesion. Match the format to the family structure.
• SLPNarrative Review2018Understanding Dyslexia in the Context of Developmental Language Disorders.Language, speech, and hearing services in schoolsDyslexia and developmental language disorder are separate but often co-occur. Many children with dyslexia have language weaknesses beyond word reading. Speech-language pathologists should assess and monitor vocabulary, grammar and discourse, not only decoding.
• SLPQualitative2018Audiological follow-up in a risk-based newborn hearing screening programme: An exploratory study of the influencing factors.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir KommunikasieafwykingsTen caregivers who returned for infant hearing follow-up said friendly audiologists, clear communication, and reminders helped. Distance, transport, and unfamiliar facilities made return hard. They wanted hearing screening co-located with other child health visits.
• SLPQualitative2019Being a dad to a child with Down's syndrome: Overcoming the challenges to adjustment.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDFathers of children with Down's syndrome reported positive adjustment, described as changing over time. They highlighted birth involvement, adapting expectations, family and Down's syndrome community support, flexible work, and renegotiating partner roles. This is lived experience, not tested intervention.
• SLPOther2019Estimates of the Prevalence of Speech and Motor Speech Disorders in Youth With 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome.American journal of speech-language pathologyMost children and adolescents with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome were classified with a motor speech disorder: 82.4% of 17. Dysarthria was most common. Motor speech disorder rates were similar in comparison groups.
• SLPCohort2019Word-level prosodic measures and the differential diagnosis of apraxia of speech.Clinical linguistics & phoneticsWord syllable duration best separated apraxia of speech from aphasia and normal speech. Stress-based measures failed because intrinsic vowel length distorted results. Use simple timing metrics for diagnosis, not complex stress ratios.
• SLPCohort2019How Do You Deal With Uncertainty? Cochlear Implant Users Differ in the Dynamics of Lexical Processing of Noncanonical Inputs.Ear and hearingCochlear implant users were slower to recognize words but showed less early disruption from mispronunciations than normal-hearing listeners. This suggests they keep options open longer, potentially aiding flexibility in noisy environments, though overall accuracy remained lower.
• SLPOther2019Patterns of early conversational recovery for people with traumatic brain injury and their communication partners.Brain injuryIn 17 severe TBI and partner pairs, conversation ratings did not change between 3 and 6 months as a group. Rater notes showed some old problems eased while new partner habits appeared, such as testing questions.
• SLPProtocol2019Social cognition and emotion regulation: a multifaceted treatment (T-ScEmo) for patients with traumatic brain injury.Clinical rehabilitationA 20-session neuropsychologist-led T-ScEmo protocol targets emotion recognition, perspective taking and social behavior after traumatic brain injury, with a life partner involved. The article reports the protocol and a case report, not proof that it works.
• SLPOther2019Development of the Cochlear Implant Quality of Life Item Bank.Ear and hearingAdult cochlear implant users' reports shaped an 81-item quality-of-life bank covering communication, emotional well-being, entertainment, environment, listening effort, and social life. The independence questions were dropped. This is a source bank, not a finished clinic questionnaire.
• SLPOther2019Masking Release for Speech in Modulated Maskers: Electrophysiological and Behavioral Measures.Ear and hearingIn young normal-hearing adults, brain responses to a brief speech sound showed the same benefit from fluctuating noise as behavior. Thresholds were 13.5 dB lower in fast modulated noise than in steady high-level noise, matching the 13.3 dB behavioral release.
• SLPCohort2019Dyadic interactions in children exhibiting the broader autism phenotype: Is the broader autism phenotype distinguishable from typical development?Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchChildren with the broader autism phenotype showed lower scores on language and social measures by 24 months. Global play ratings detected these differences earlier than detailed second-by-second coding. These social markers emerged by 15 months, offering potential targets for early intervention.
• SLPOther2019Language-Independent Hearing Screening Based on Masked Recognition of Ecological Sounds.Trends in hearingThe language-independent Sound Ear Check detects moderate hearing loss well (sensitivity and specificity ≈80%) but misses mild loss in adults (≈70%). It is feasible in young children but requires training to prevent learning effects. The digit-based test remains more accurate for mild loss.
• SLPCohort2019Early Predictors of Later Expressive Language in Boys With Fragile X Syndrome.American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilitiesEarly consonant diversity predicted later vocabulary size in boys with Fragile X Syndrome, but this link depended heavily on autism symptom severity. Boys with high autism symptoms and low early consonant counts had the smallest later vocabularies, while high consonant counts buffered this effect.
• SLPCohort2018Visual-graphic symbol acquisition in school age children with developmental and language delays.Augmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985)Children with developmental and language delays learned both picture-like and abstract symbols after repeated computer exposure. Picture-like symbols helped comprehension overall, but not production, and gave no advantage for words the children did not yet understand.
• SLPOther2018Five Ways Speech-Language Pathologists Can Positively Impact Children With Dyslexia.Language, speech, and hearing services in schools
• PTOTSLPCohort2019Comorbid Conditions Among Adults 50 Years and Older With Traumatic Brain Injury: Examining Associations With Demographics, Healthcare Utilization, Institutionalization, and 1-Year Outcomes.The Journal of head trauma rehabilitationOlder adults with TBI and acute hospital complications had longer stays and higher rehospitalization rates. Those with chronic disease burdens also faced higher rehospitalization risks. Substance abuse clusters were linked to institutionalization but not 1-year functional outcomes. These patterns highlight distinct risk profiles for discharge planning.
• PTOTSLPOther2019International clinical practice recommendations on the definition, diagnosis, assessment, intervention, and psychosocial aspects of developmental coordination disorder.Developmental medicine and child neurologyDiagnose DCD only after age 5 unless severe. Use MABC-2 or BOT-2 with a 16th centile cut-off. Prioritize activity-oriented interventions like task-specific training. Sensory integration therapy lacks evidence. Screen for ADHD and anxiety, as co-occurrence is common and impacts outcomes.
• SLPOther2019Efficient Adaptive Speech Reception Threshold Measurements Using Stochastic Approximation Algorithms.Trends in hearingSimulations show word-scoring adaptive tests are more accurate than standard sentence-scoring methods for hearing-in-noise thresholds, especially in cochlear implant users. Clinicians should use at least 20 sentences and start the test below the patient's estimated threshold to avoid errors.
• PTOTSLPSurvey2019Temporomandibular disorder and headache in university professors.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn university professors, headache and temporomandibular disorder symptoms occurred independently, with no association found between the two. Males reported headaches more frequently, while females reported more intense symptoms. This small survey suggests these conditions may coexist without being causally linked in this group.
• OTSLPNarrative Review2019New and emerging access technologies for adults with complex communication needs and severe motor impairments: State of the science.Augmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985)For adults with severe motor impairments, new AAC access tools may reduce positioning, fatigue, or typing effort in reported cases, but evidence is too preliminary to show they work.
• SLPOther2019Statistical analysis in Small-N Designs: using linear mixed-effects modeling for evaluating intervention effectiveness.AphasiologyIn five adults with acquired dysgraphia, distributed spelling practice within spell-study-spell training produced greater accuracy than clustered practice. Reaction time improved, but schedules did not differ.
• SLPOther2019How effective is LENA in detecting speech vocalizations and language produced by children and adolescents with ASD in different contexts?Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchLENA did not reliably detect speech from children and adolescents with autism aged 5 to 18. It missed many child utterances and often labelled them as adult speech, especially in older participants and when the recorder was not worn.
• SLPCohort2019Social complexity and the early social environment affect visual social attention to faces.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchHigh-risk and low-risk infants did not differ overall in looking at faces. In the simple cartoon clip, higher parental autism-related traits were linked to slower increases in face-looking. More face-looking tracked lower later social symptoms in high-risk infants.
• SLPNarrative Review2019Telling tales: unlocking the potential of AAC technologies.International journal of language & communication disordersThis invited lecture and narrative review describes AAC technology, abandonment and design possibilities. It reports no new methods or outcomes, so there is no evidence here to change clinical practice.
• SLPOther2019Movement and Gaze Behavior in Virtual Audiovisual Listening Environments Resembling Everyday Life.Trends in hearingGaze often followed active talkers in simulated everyday listening scenes, but head and eye use differed by age and setting. This describes normal-hearing movement for hearing aid research, not tested therapy outcomes.
• SLPCohort2019A 20-year study of suicide death in a statewide autism population.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchSuicide deaths were more common among people with ASD than without in the most recent period, especially females. Earlier years showed no difference. People with ASD who died by suicide were younger.
• SLPCohort2019Remote microphone systems for preschool-age children who are hard of hearing: access and utilization.International journal of audiologyOnly 36% of 217 hard-of-hearing children had a personal remote microphone for home, and half of 168 preschool-enrolled children had remote microphone access at school. 95% of parents answering reported benefit, but 54% of toddler parents reported 0 hours of home use.
• OTSLPCohort2019Investigating the factors underlying adaptive functioning in autism in the EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchFor autistic people aged 6 to 31, parent-reported social difficulties were linked to poorer everyday adaptive skills and bigger gaps between IQ and daily functioning. Repetitive behaviours, sensory symptoms, anxiety, depression, and ADHD were not linked when other factors were considered.
• OTSLPCohort2019Fifteen-Year Prospective Follow-Up Study of Adult Outcomes of Autism Spectrum Disorders Among Children Attending Centers in Five Regional Departments in France: The EpiTED Cohort.Journal of autism and developmental disordersMost children with ASD in this French follow-up still had very slow growth in communication, socialization and daily living skills by young adulthood. Early autism severity and intellectual level predicted later adaptive outcomes, and language impairment was linked to self-injury.
• SLPOther2019The syntactic and semantic features of two-year-olds' verb vocabularies: a comparison of typically developing children and late talkers.Journal of child languageLate talkers produced 5.4 verbs versus 32.7 for typically developing two-year-olds, but their verb vocabularies mostly followed the same patterns. The clear difference was that late talkers seemed to know fewer manner verbs, such as walk and run, than expected from their total verb count.
• OTSLPOther2019Stop Making Noise! Auditory Sensitivity in Adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis: Physiological Habituation and Subjective Detection Thresholds.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAdults with autism and adults without autism did not differ in how their sweat response settled to repeated sounds or in hearing thresholds. Adults with autism reported more auditory sensitivity and rated sounds more arousing.
• SLPOther2019Effects of speaking rate, loudness, and clarity modifications on kinematic endpoint variability.Clinical linguistics & phoneticsIn 17 typical talkers, jaw endpoint variability was larger during loud speech than typical speech, while slow speech showed a similar trend but was not clearly different. Tongue endpoint variability did not change across rate, loudness, or clarity.
• SLPQualitative2019Acceptability and understanding of the Ages & Stages Questionnaires®, Third Edition, as part of the Healthy Child Programme 2-year health and development review in England: Parent and professional perspectives.Child: care, health and developmentParents and professionals generally accepted the ASQ-3 in the 2-year review as useful, but parents could become anxious when items felt like a test, and sites used and scored it inconsistently.
• SLPCohort2019A Comparative Analysis of Eating Behavior of School-Aged Children with Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Their Caregivers' Quality of Life: Perspectives of Caregivers.DysphagiaCaregivers of school-aged children with eosinophilic esophagitis did not report different eating behaviors than controls. However, they experienced significantly higher worry about choking and greater difficulty managing mealtimes, reducing their own quality of life.
• SLPOther2019Learning speech-internal cues to pronoun interpretation from co-speech gesture: a training study.Journal of child languageTraining with ambiguous pronouns and gestures increased 5-year-olds' first-mentioned pronoun choices. Gender or name training did not show this change, and no training was clearly better than the others.
• SLPSurvey2019Video Remote Interpreting Technology in Health Care: Cross-Sectional Study of Deaf Patients' Experiences.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesDeaf adults who used video remote interpreting mostly rated the service unsatisfactory. Those who felt it interfered with sharing health information were less likely to be satisfied.
• SLPOther2019The Role of Speech-Language Pathology in an Interdisciplinary Care Model for Persistent Symptomatology of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.Seminars in speech and languageThis is a service description of an interdisciplinary care model for mild traumatic brain injury, not a study. It details assessment tools and therapy approaches but reports no patient outcomes or evidence of effectiveness.
• SLPNarrative Review2019Designing effective AAC displays for individuals with developmental or acquired disabilities: State of the science and future research directions.Augmentative and alternative communication (Baltimore, Md. : 1985)How AAC displays are arranged changes what people look at and how quickly they find symbols. Cluster symbols by color or space, use photos of people in real activities, and pair adult scenes with text.
• SLPQualitative2019Design Requirements for a Digital Aid to Support Adults With Mild Learning Disabilities During Clinical Consultations: Qualitative Study With Experts.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologiesExperts said adults with mild learning disabilities need closed, one-at-a-time questions, avoiding jargon. They wanted symptoms shown by picture, text, and speech, with no more than four options, and clear skip and return buttons.
• PTOTSLPOther2019What Drives Detection and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder? Looking Under the Hood of a Multi-stage Screening Process in Early Intervention.Journal of autism and developmental disordersReferring children for autism assessment based on provider or parent concern, even when screening scores are negative, found more diagnoses per staff hour than relying on positive scores alone. Concern was the stronger driver of engagement and diagnosis than the test results.
• OTSLPCase-Control2019Exploring the cognitive phenotype of Kabuki (Niikawa-Kuroki) syndrome.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDRVisual construction and visual memory were weaker in people with Kabuki syndrome who completed detailed testing than in a control group with other genetic disorders. Immediate verbal recall was slightly higher, and planning and social cognition did not differ.
• SLPOther2019Development of a hearing help-seeking questionnaire based on the theory of planned behavior.International journal of audiologyA new 18-item questionnaire distinguishes older adults who seek hearing tests from those who do not. Scores on intentions, perceived control, and attitudes were significantly higher in those who followed up with a test. The tool relies on self-report and has not yet been tested for stability over time.
• SLPNarrative Review2019Cognitive predictors of sentence comprehension in children with and without developmental language disorder: Implications for assessment and treatment.International journal of speech-language pathologyChildren with developmental language disorder understood simple subject-object and reversed word-order sentences worse than matched peers. The model links comprehension to complex working memory, not one single ability. It does not show that training working memory helps.
• SLPCohort2019Autism With and Without Regression: A Two-Year Prospective Longitudinal Study in Two Population-Derived Swedish Cohorts.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAbout one in five children with autism had lost words they already used. These children had more severe language and thinking difficulties, so ask parents about earlier words and plan detailed follow-up.
• SLPCase-Control2019Auditory event-related potentials and function of the medial olivocochlear efferent system in children with auditory processing disorders.International journal of audiologyChildren with auditory processing disorder had slower brain responses to a speech sound even in quiet, and stronger cochlear feedback under both-ear noise. The slower responses were related to SCAN-3 and phonemic test scores, but the study does not show that any treatment works.
• SLPCohort2019Differences in the relation between temperament and vocabulary based on children's stuttering trajectories.Journal of communication disordersChildren who stutter had lower word-understanding scores when parents rated them as more emotionally negative. This link was not seen in children who did not stutter. It did not separate children who persisted from those who recovered.