SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY

Research for speech-language pathology

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• SLPOther2020Impact of Aging and the Electrode-to-Neural Interface on Temporal Processing Ability in Cochlear-Implant Users: Gap Detection Thresholds.Trends in hearingIn cochlear implant users, higher stimulation rates significantly improved gap detection thresholds. Steeper neural response slopes predicted better gap detection in younger adults, but this association disappeared in middle-aged and older groups, likely because their neural slopes were uniformly shallow.
• SLPRCT2020Effect of (Mis)Matched Compression Speed on Speech Recognition in Bimodal Listeners.Trends in hearingMatching compression settings between a cochlear implant and hearing aid did not improve speech recognition in quiet or noise. Both experimental configurations outperformed the participants' own devices, suggesting that re-fitting with standard clinical rules may offer more benefit than complex matching algorithms.
• SLPOther2020A Danish Sentence Corpus for Assessing Speech Recognition in Noise in School-Age Children.Trends in hearingSix new Danish sentence lists allow reliable speech-in-noise testing for children aged 6 to 12. Four other lists are better suited for practice because they are slightly harder. The material is ready for research but needs age-specific norms before clinical use.
• PTOTSLPOther2020Self-management and independence guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicineStart building self-management and independence in infancy through small daily choices, chores, and condition-care tasks, increasing gradually with family support. These spina bifida guidelines offer practical steps, not proof that any single approach works.
• SLPCase-Control2020Neuroanatomical underpinnings of autism symptomatology in carriers and non-carriers of the 22q11.2 microdeletion.Molecular autismBrain scans showed autism symptoms in 22q11.2 deletion carriers related to different brain structure patterns than autism without deletion. The same symptoms did not map onto the same anatomy.
• SLPOther2020Hearing-Impaired Listeners Show Reduced Attention to High-Frequency Information in the Presence of Low-Frequency Information.Trends in hearingCompared with normal-hearing young adults, those with hearing loss showed a larger drop in accuracy for high-frequency tone sequences when low-frequency sequences played at the same time. This drop remained when they were told to focus on the high tones.
• SLPOther2020Spectrotemporal Modulation Sensitivity in Cochlear-Implant and Normal-Hearing Listeners: Is the Performance Driven by Temporal or Spectral Modulation Sensitivity?Trends in hearingCochlear implant users rely on timing cues, not spectral resolution, to discriminate complex sounds. Better detection of amplitude modulation predicted both spectrotemporal discrimination and speech-in-noise performance. Static spectral ripple sensitivity did not explain these outcomes. This suggests temporal cue salience drives listening success.
• OTSLPCase-Control2020Sex differences in the first impressions made by girls and boys with autism.Molecular autismAutistic boys made significantly worse first impressions than autistic girls, who were rated similarly to typically developing peers. Clinician ratings of social impairment correlated with first impressions in boys but not girls, suggesting girls may camouflage symptoms during brief interactions.
• PTOTSLPCase Report2020A Strength-Based Intervention to Increase Participation in Leisure Activities in Children with Neuropsychiatric Disabilities: A Pilot Study.Occupational therapy internationalTwo boys with autism and ADHD set their own leisure goals. They reached these goals and rated their own ability higher. However, the intervention was time-consuming for staff, and the small number of participants means we cannot know if this works for others.
• OTSLPOther2020Defining clusters of young autistic and typically developing children based on loudness-dependent auditory electrophysiological responses.Molecular autismBrain responses to sound loudness clustered 213 children into four groups. Autistic children with hyper-responsive brains to loud sounds had more caregiver-reported distractibility. However, clusters overlapped heavily with typically developing peers, so neural patterns do not clearly separate diagnoses.
• SLPNarrative Review2020Sound Externalization: A Review of Recent Research.Trends in hearingHearing aids often make sounds feel inside the head because they block the ear or distort timing and level cues between the ears. This review explains why that happens and notes that patients may adapt over time, but rigorous evidence on how to fix it is still missing.
• SLPNarrative Review2020The sociability spectrum: evidence from reciprocal genetic copy number variations.Molecular autismGenetic deletions and duplications at specific chromosomal sites cause opposite social outcomes. Deletion of 7q11.23 causes Williams syndrome, marked by hypersociability with preserved language skills. Duplication of the same region causes autism-like traits with severe speech impairment. These findings describe genetic mechanisms, not treatment effects.
• PTOTSLPOther2020Health promotion and preventive health care service guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicineSpina bifida preventive care guidelines rest mostly on expert consensus and general screening, not proof of tested interventions. They flag mobility, daily activity, bowel/bladder, pain, and swallowing changes as conditions to monitor across ages.
• PTOTSLPOther2020Attenuation of core temperature elevation and interleukin-6 excretion during head-out hot water immersion in elderly people.Journal of physical therapy scienceHead-out hot water immersion failed to raise IL-6 in elderly men, unlike in young men. Core temperature also rose less in the elderly. This method does not replicate the exercise-induced IL-6 response in older adults.
• SLPOther2020Effects of executive attention on sentence processing in aphasia.AphasiologyGreek-speaking men with agrammatic aphasia struggled to revise misleading sentences and showed a specific attention shifting problem: moving from global to local detail was harder than moving from local to global. Attention shifting performance was linked to sentence judgment performance.
• SLPCase-Control2020Evidence against the "normalization" prediction of the early brain overgrowth hypothesis of autism.Molecular autismIn autism, total brain volume stayed larger than controls across childhood, adolescence and early adulthood, and did not shrink toward typical size with age. Larger brain size did not track symptom severity.
• SLPCase-Control2020Can You Hear Out the Melody? Testing Musical Scene Perception in Young Normal-Hearing and Older Hearing-Impaired Listeners.Trends in hearingOlder adults with moderate hearing loss struggled significantly more than younger normal-hearing adults to identify melodies or instruments in musical mixtures. Their average signal-to-masker threshold was 10 dB higher. Musical training helped, but did not fully overcome the deficit.
• SLPOther2020Perceptual span in individuals with aphasia.AphasiologyPeople with aphasia had a smaller visual span while reading. Their reading speed matched full text only when they could see the fixated word plus one word to the right; controls needed at least two words to the right.
• SLPOther2020Individual Aided Speech-Recognition Performance and Predictions of Benefit for Listeners With Impaired Hearing Employing FADE.Trends in hearingSimulating hearing aid benefit is more accurate when tone-in-noise tests are used to measure distortion, not just hearing loss. This method predicted individual speech recognition in noise better than standard audiograms, though it remains a laboratory model not yet ready for clinical fitting.
• PTOTSLPNarrative Review2020Neuropsychological care guidelines for people with spina bifida.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicineSpina bifida affects the brain, not just the spine. Children often have strong rote skills but struggle with comprehension, math, and attention. Use rule-based instruction and repetition. Treat attention issues as neurological, not behavioral, and expect poor response to standard stimulants.
• PTOTSLPNarrative Review2020Care coordination guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicineThese are expert recommendations for coordinating lifelong spina bifida care, not tested interventions. They outline age-specific goals from newborn support to adult transition, but the authors state there is very little database evidence proving these coordination programs improve health outcomes.
• SLPOther2020Main concepts for two picture description tasks: An addition to.AphasiologyChecklists now exist for two AphasiaBank picture tasks used to assess aphasia discourse, each with 10 main concepts at a 33% threshold. Healthy controls could score up to 30, and no age-group differences were found.
• SLPOther2020The relationship between trained ratings and untrained listeners' judgments of global coherence in extended monologues.AphasiologyFor attention, low and medium samples held interest similarly; high samples held interest better. Listeners still separated all topic coherence levels for focus and unnecessary information.
• SLPOther2020Effect of lexical accessibility on syntactic production in aphasia: An eyetracking study.AphasiologyHearing the person receiving the action first helped people with aphasia produce passives in a lab task, but the effect was smaller than in healthy adults and did not appear in their earliest eye fixations.
• SLPCase-Control2020A Metabolomics Approach to Screening for Autism Risk in the Children's Autism Metabolome Project.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchA blood metabolite test battery detected 53% of autistic toddlers and left 91% of typically developing toddlers negative. It is a research screening approach, not a clinical test, and needs prospective validation.
• SLPOther2020Estimating Hearing Thresholds From Stimulus-Frequency Otoacoustic Emissions.Trends in hearingSFOAEs could estimate hearing thresholds and identify normal versus impaired hearing with high accuracy, especially at 0.5 to 4 kHz. Accuracy was poorer for mild and severe losses and at 8 kHz. Testing still took several minutes per frequency.
• PTOTSLPCohort2020Predictors for the academic success of first-year physiotherapy students at a South African university.The South African journal of physiotherapyAdmission test scores in academic literacy and physical sciences predicted first-year success in a physiotherapy programme. Most students scored below proficient in mathematics, suggesting that support in physics and chemistry may need to be compulsory rather than optional.
• PTOTSLPCase Report2020Effect of cold oral stimulation on orthostatic hypotension in multiple system atrophy: a case study.Journal of physical therapy scienceHolding an ice cube in the mouth while standing did not prevent blood pressure from dropping in a woman with multiple system atrophy. It changed heart rate variability markers but did not alter blood pressure or heart rate compared to standing without stimulation.
• SLPCase Report2020Efficacy of therapeutic exercise for temporomandibular disorders as assessed by magnetic resonance imaging: a case report.Journal of physical therapy scienceIn one woman with acute jaw locking, four months of passive and active stretching increased mouth opening and allowed the jaw bone to move past a blockage seen on MRI. The disc remained dislocated, but function improved.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2020Quality of life: Guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicineBowel incontinence and pain consistently lower quality of life in spina bifida, while physical function often does not. Prioritize bowel program effectiveness and pain management. Use perception-based measures, not function-based tests, to avoid scoring disability as poor quality of life.
• SLPQualitative2020INSAR Special Interest Group Report: Stakeholder Perspectives on Priorities for Future Research on Autism, Sexuality, and Intimate Relationships.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchStakeholders prioritized research on supporting healthy relationships, comprehensive sexuality education, and preventing victimization. Autistic participants ranked understanding lived experience and identity higher than non-autistic stakeholders, who focused more on risk prevention. No interventions were tested.
• SLPOther2020Application of Bayesian Active Learning to the Estimation of Auditory Filter Shapes Using the Notched-Noise Method.Trends in hearingA new Bayesian active learning test estimated auditory filter shapes in hearing-impaired adults in under 30 minutes. It matched the accuracy of standard adaptive procedures across a wide frequency range, offering a faster way to measure individual hearing characteristics.
• PTOTSLPCase Report2020Verbal Semantics and the Left Dorsolateral Anterior Temporal Lobe: A Longitudinal Case of Bilateral Temporal Degeneration.AphasiologyA woman with right-sided brain degeneration initially lost the meaning of faces and places but kept her word knowledge. This suggests checking non-verbal semantics and social behavior early, even when standard language tests look normal.
• PTOTSLPOther2020Nutrition, metabolic syndrome, and obesity: Guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicineExpert consensus guidelines for nutrition in spina bifida advise against using standard BMI charts due to altered body composition. Clinicians should monitor growth trajectories instead and focus on bowel health and strengths-based weight conversations rather than weight loss alone.
• SLPOther2020Stability of Variables Derived From Measures of Multisensory Function in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder.American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilitiesEye tracking measures of where children with autism look during speech tasks were highly stable. However, brain response measures and listening-in-noise scores varied greatly between sessions. Single-session data from these latter tasks may not reliably reflect a child's true multisensory processing.
• PTOTSLPOther2020Neurosurgery guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicineMost neurosurgical care for spina bifida relies on expert consensus rather than high-quality evidence. Therapists should monitor for shunt failure and tethered cord signs like pain or lost milestones, as clinical decline can occur even when brain imaging looks stable.
• SLPOther2020Investigating the Effects of Four Auditory Profiles on Speech Recognition, Overall Quality, and Noise Annoyance With Simulated Hearing-Aid Processing Strategies.Trends in hearingThe auditory profiles had little effect on the simulated hearing-aid outcomes, but they differed in aided speech-in-noise thresholds, and aggressive settings often lowered speech scores.
• SLPOther2020Audiovisual Speech Recognition With a Cochlear Implant and Increased Perceptual and Cognitive Demands.Trends in hearingCochlear implant users struggled more than matched normal-hearing listeners with accented speech, but visual distractions did not hurt either group. Dividing attention with a secondary task reduced speech recognition for both. Executive control, not age, predicted better listening performance.
• SLPOther2020Modeling Binaural Unmasking of Speech Using a Blind Binaural Processing Stage.Trends in hearingA new computer model predicts speech-in-noise performance by switching between two processing strategies based on signal modulation. It accurately matches human data at both negative and positive signal-to-noise ratios, offering a tool to simulate hearing aid algorithms without needing prior knowledge of noise location.
• SLPCohort2020Visuomotor Figure Construction and Visual Figure Delayed Recall and Recognition in Primary Progressive Aphasia.AphasiologyIn primary progressive aphasia, delayed figure recall differed by variant: nonfluent/agrammatic participants remembered drawings better than logopenic or semantic participants. Recognition and decline over time did not differ.
• SLPOther2020Pupil Dilation Is Sensitive to Semantic Ambiguity and Acoustic Degradation.Trends in hearingPupil size grew in students with normal hearing when sentences had background noise or words with more than one meaning. This happened even when sentences were clear, and pupil size did not match comprehension scores.
• SLPOther2020Speech Audiometry at Home: Automated Listening Tests via Smart Speakers With Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Listeners.Trends in hearingAn Amazon Echo skill accurately detected hearing loss in most users, with an AUC of 0.95 for clinical thresholds. However, it overestimated hearing thresholds by up to 2.2 dB in normal-hearing listeners and showed higher error rates in older adults.
• OTSLPQualitative2020"Having All of Your Internal Resources Exhausted Beyond Measure and Being Left with No Clean-Up Crew": Defining Autistic Burnout.Autism in adulthoodAutistic adults described burnout as long-lasting exhaustion, lost skills, and lower sensory tolerance after chronic stress and unsupported expectations. They named relief in accepting support, breaks, reduced masking, and accommodations.
• PTOTSLPOther2020Sexual health and education guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicinePeople with spina bifida often lack specific sexual health education and face higher risks of abuse. Guidelines advise clinicians to discuss sexuality routinely, teach consent and safety skills early, and address bowel or bladder continence to support healthy relationships.
• SLPOther2020Extended High Frequencies Provide Both Spectral and Temporal Information to Improve Speech-in-Speech Recognition.Trends in hearingYoung normal-hearing adults recognized target speech better when extended high frequencies were available, and when competing talkers were turned slightly away. Temporal high-frequency cues helped, and adding spectral detail helped further.
• SLPOther2020Robust Data-Driven Auditory Profiling Towards Precision Audiology.Trends in hearingFour auditory profiles emerged from 75 older listeners' test scores. The profiles differed in speech-in-noise and loudness processing beyond audiogram. This is method development, not evidence that tailored hearing aids help.
• SLPOther2020The Effect of Free-Field Presentation and Processing Strategy on a Measure of Spectro-Temporal Processing by Cochlear-Implant Listeners.Trends in hearingChanging STRIPES from direct input on a research processor to loudspeaker presentation on a clinical Naida device with Optima-S processing did not change average cochlear-implant listener scores. One listener performed markedly better, but group scores did not differ across conditions.
• PTOTSLPSurvey2020What's in a Building? A Descriptive Survey of Adult Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Buildings in Victoria, Australia.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationMost Victorian inpatient rehabilitation buildings are not purpose-built, with half originally designed for acute care or other uses. Newer and private facilities have more single-bed rooms, while gym locations vary widely from the ward, potentially affecting patient movement.
• SLPNarrative Review2019Resonance Effects and the Vocalization of Speech.Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groupsNo new patient results or tested treatment outcomes are reported. The paper reviews resonance concepts in voice, nasalization, and performer projection.
• SLPOther2020The Role of the Clinically Obtained Acoustic Reflex as a Research Tool for Subclinical Hearing Pathologies.Trends in hearingThe clinical acoustic reflex test did not detect subclinical hearing damage from noise exposure in young adults with normal hearing. Reflex strength varied significantly with middle-ear compliance and sex, making it unreliable as a standalone measure of hidden hearing loss.