THE INDEX

Every paper we have read

Each one summarised from the full article, not its abstract, and kept only if it speaks to physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology or nursing. Newest first.

35,183 PAPERS · PAGE 518 OF 704 · NEWEST FIRST

• SLPCohort2024Brief report: bidirectional association of core autism features and cognitive abilities in early childhood.Journal of autism and developmental disordersHigher cognitive ability at age 2 predicted lower autism features one year later more strongly than autism features predicted later cognitive ability. This was an observational study, so it shows a link, not that improving cognition reduces autism symptoms.
• PTOTRCT2024Brain computer interface training with motor imagery and functional electrical stimulation for patients with severe upper limb paresis after stroke: a randomized controlled pilot trial.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationBrain-computer interface training did not improve arm function more than standard therapy in severely impaired stroke patients. The main driver of recovery was whether the motor pathway was intact, not the type of training. Patients with damaged pathways showed little improvement regardless of intervention.
• PTOTSLPOther2024Characterization of an Italian population with neurological disorders in a rehabilitation setting using ClinFIT.Journal of rehabilitation medicineIn 364 adults with neurological disorders, the ClinFIT Generic-30 tool identified severe problems in walking, moving around, and daily routines for over 30% of patients. It also captured issues like assisting others and intimate relationships that disease-specific core sets often miss.
• SLPCohort2024A Central Auditory Test reveals differences between drug treatment regimens in adults living with HIV.International journal of audiologyPeople living with HIV on a regimen containing zidovudine had worse speech-in-noise perception than those on tenofovir, even after adjusting for age and hearing loss. This suggests central auditory tests might help detect subtle cognitive effects of different HIV drug regimens.
• PTOTSLPCohort2024Post-polio syndrome is not a dysimmune condition.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicineBlood tests showed no immune system differences between people with post-polio syndrome and healthy controls. This challenges the theory that an ongoing immune attack causes new weakness and fatigue, suggesting symptoms may stem from nerve aging instead.
• PTOther2024Factors influencing caregiver buy-in to early intervention physical therapy.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicineCaregivers and therapists described buy-in as growing when therapists built rapport, explained why activities mattered, fit them into daily routines, and pointed out small progress. This study reports perceptions, not child outcomes.
• SLPOther2024Sociophonetic Variation and Change in Heritage Languages: Lexical Effects in Heritage Italian Aspiration of Voiceless Stops.Language and speechIn heritage Italian speech, English-like aspiration grew across generations and followed word frequency. Calabrian aspiration stayed common across generations but did not follow word frequency.
• SLPRCT2024The challenge of controlling an auditory BCI in the case of severe motor disability.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationAn auditory brain-computer interface allowed 17 of 18 healthy subjects to communicate, but only 2 of 7 patients with severe motor disability achieved control. This gap suggests tools validated in healthy users may not work for the intended patients without significant redesign.
• PTOTSurvey2024Utilization and Perception of Peer-Support After Lower Limb Loss in the United States: Potential Benefits on Mobility Outcomes.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitationMost lower-limb amputees in this survey viewed peer support positively, citing companionship and coping information. Mobility scores showed a non-significant trend toward improvement for those receiving support. Because participants were recruited via support groups, results may not apply to all patients.
• SLPNarrative Review2024Vocabulary changes in adulthood: Main findings and methodological considerations.International journal of language & communication disordersThis paper reviews how vocabulary knowledge changes with age and critiques the methods used to measure it. It finds no new clinical evidence but warns that using vocabulary scores to estimate pre-injury intelligence in dementia patients is unreliable.
• SLPOther2024Phonological Working Memory and Sentence Production in School-Age Children with Typical Language, Dyslexia, and Comorbid Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder.Journal of child languagePhonological working memory scores showed only weak links to novel sentence production in 289 school-age children. In matched comparisons, children with dyslexia plus developmental language disorder produced shorter, less varied, and less complex sentences than dyslexia-only peers.
• SLPPilot2023Development and Pilot Testing of Telesimulation for Pediatric Feeding: A Feasibility Study.DysphagiaSpeech pathologists found telesimulation feasible for pediatric feeding training. Key success factors were small groups of five to six, thorough pre-briefing to establish safety, and at least four hours to allow adequate time for debriefing and discussion.
• SLPCohort2023Parental Imitations and Expansions of Child Language Predict Later Language Outcomes of Autistic Preschoolers.Journal of autism and developmental disordersParents who repeated back their autistic child's sounds and words, then added one or two more, had children with better later language skills. Simple comments or questions did not predict progress. Focus on echoing and expanding your child's speech.
• SLPSystematic Review2023Factor associated with the occurrence of epilepsy in autism: a systematic review.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutistic people with intellectual disability or low cognitive ability were most consistently reported to have co-occurring epilepsy. Language and social difficulties also appeared often, but their link to epilepsy may reflect intellectual disability.
• SLPOther2023Phonetic Development of an L2 Vowel System and Tandem Drift in the L1: A Residence Abroad and L1 Re-Immersion Study.Language and speechLearners of French lowered their native English vowel space during a 6-month stay abroad, matching their French gains. These L1 changes were only partially reversed 10 months after returning home, while the French improvements remained. The distance between the two languages' vowel systems diminished.
• OTSLPCohort2023Structural Connectivity and Emotion Recognition Impairment in Children and Adolescents with Chromosome 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome.Journal of autism and developmental disordersChildren with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome struggled to identify angry and happy faces, especially when surrounded by fearful faces. Brain scans showed tighter wiring in the right amygdala-fusiform pathway, which partially explained these social and emotional recognition difficulties.
• SLPOther2023Task Effects in Irony Comprehension in English as a Foreign Language.Language and speechFor advanced Polish students reading English, the task changed irony processing. Truth/false judgments made irony slower than literal comments. Praise/criticism judgments made ironic praise slower than literal praise, and ironic criticism faster than literal criticism.
• SLPRCT2023Social Story Based Toothbrushing Education Versus Video-Modeling Based Toothbrushing Training on Oral Hygiene Status Among Male Students Aged 7-15 Years Old with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Tehran, Iran: A Quasi-Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of autism and developmental disordersVideo modeling improved oral hygiene scores more than social stories in boys with autism, but both methods helped. The video group also received extra school support, so the video alone may not be the reason for the bigger gain.
• SLPCohort2023School Social Capital Mediates Associations Between ASD Traits and Depression Among Adolescents in General Population.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAdolescents with more autism-like traits had lower school trust and cohesion and more depression. School trust and cohesion partly accounted for that association. The association was slightly stronger for girls.
• Other2023Neuromodulation to guide circuit reorganization with regenerative therapies in upper extremity rehabilitation following cervical spinal cord injury.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesNo patient outcomes are reported. This perspective article proposes combining regenerative therapies with neuromodulation and targeted rehabilitation after cervical spinal cord injury. It cannot guide clinical practice.
• SLPOther2023Speaking Rate, Oro-Laryngeal Timing, and Place of Articulation Effects on Burst Amplitude: Evidence From English and Tamil.Language and speechFaster speech reduces the loudness of consonant release bursts relative to the following vowel. This effect is stronger in English than in Tamil. The change in acoustic energy may make consonants sound weaker or harder to distinguish at high speeds.
• SLPOther2023The role of working memory in speech recognition by hearing-impaired older listeners: does the task matter?International journal of audiologyReading span scores linked to speech-in-noise ability in 19 older adults with hearing loss. An auditory selective attention task added some predictive value, but visual and divided attention tasks did not. Neither test should guide clinical decisions yet.
• Cohort2023Development and Parasympathetic Regulation in Male and Female Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Two-Timepoint Longitudinal Study.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAdolescents with autism had lower resting heart rate variability than their typically developing peers. Their levels failed to increase over the year as they matured, and psychotropic medication use was associated with even lower variability. BMI also predicted lower levels.
• OTOther2024Moving a missing hand: children born with below elbow deficiency can enact hand grasp patterns with their residual muscles.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitationChildren born without a hand produced distinct residual forearm muscle patterns when trying to move the missing hand. Ultrasound readings could tell apart five attempted grasp and wrist patterns in all six participants.
• OTSLPSurvey2024Autistic People's Perinatal Experiences I: A Survey of Pregnancy Experiences.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutistic people described pregnancy as more overwhelming and less supported. They were more likely to be overwhelmed by the sensory environments of appointments, to feel unheard by professionals, and to report all-day nausea, anxiety, depression, and pelvic girdle pain.
• SLPNarrative Review2024Naming as a window to word retrieval changes in healthy and pathological ageing: Methodological considerations.International journal of language & communication disordersNo new findings. This paper reviews methods for assessing word retrieval in ageing and pathology, arguing that no single test is sufficient and that clinicians should combine spontaneous speech analysis with structured naming tasks to get an accurate picture.
• SLPQualitative2024"Tremendous burdens often unveil enormous gifts": The experiences of South African caregivers implementing speech and language teletherapy for children with cerebral palsy during COVID-19.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicineCaregivers of children with cerebral palsy described speech teletherapy as a way to finally understand their non-verbal child's needs and build a stronger bond. However, they also reported feeling overwhelmed by having to act as therapists while managing work and household duties, often lacking the resources or employer support to cope.
• SLPOther2024Input-related demands: vocoded sentences evoke different pupillometrics and subjective listening effort than sentences in speech-shaped noise.International journal of audiologyWhen word recognition was similar, vocoded sentences felt more effortful than sentences in noise. People rated vocoded listening 12.3% more effortful on a 0 to 100 scale. This was a lab study of normal-hearing young adults.
• PTOther2024Alteration in Resting-State Brain Activity in Stroke Survivors After Repetitive Finger Stimulation.American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitationAfter finger stimulation, stroke survivors showed lower resting brain activity ratios, while controls did not change. The study did not show improved movement, and it was too small to guide treatment.
• Other2023Probabilistic Learning of Cue-Outcome Associations is not Influenced by Autistic Traits.Journal of autism and developmental disordersIn experiments with adults, autistic traits did not predict learning which spoken cues led to objects, whether participants were told to discover the pattern or not. A possible trait difference was not reliable.
• SLPSurvey2023Clinician Knowledge, Confidence, and Treatment Practices in Their Provision of Psychotherapy to Autistic Youth and Youth with ADHD.Journal of autism and developmental disordersClinicians used the same psychotherapy approaches for autistic youth and youth with ADHD, but rated them less helpful for autistic clients. They reported lower knowledge and confidence for autism across every item, despite high overall confidence.
• SLPCohort2023Differential Maturation of Auditory Cortex Activity in Young Children with Autism and Typical Development.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAn early auditory brain response did not differ between children with autism and typically developing children aged 6 to 9. Other auditory cortex activity differences faded by later follow-up, while one difference before the tone remained.
• SLPCase-Control2023Evidence of a reduced role for circumscribed interests in the social attention patterns of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disordersChildren with autism looked less at faces than typical peers. High-interest objects also pulled typical children's attention, so interests alone did not explain the lower face looking.
• SLPCohort2023Two-Year Outcomes of Cochlear Implant Use for Children With Unilateral Hearing Loss: Benefits and Comparison to Children With Normal Hearing.Ear and hearingCochlear implants significantly improved word recognition, listening in noise, and sound localization in children with single-sided deafness over two years. However, these children still performed worse than peers with normal hearing, especially when noise came from their better-hearing side.
• OTQualitative2023A Qualitative Study on Parental Experience of Involvement in the Transition from Kindergarten to Primary School for Chinese Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.Journal of autism and developmental disordersParents of children with intellectual disabilities often start the school transition by forcing intense academic training and strict obedience, driven by denial of the diagnosis. When children regressed or resisted, support from family and peers helped parents shift to slower, child-led routines focused on well-being rather than test scores.
• SLPSystematic Review2023Persistent Features of Laryngeal Injury Following Endotracheal Intubation: A Systematic Review.DysphagiaAfter ICU intubation, many patients still have voice and swallowing problems weeks later. This review found persistent issues in 23–33% of survivors, but the evidence is weak because studies used different tests and relied heavily on patient reports rather than scans.
• OTOther2023An Observed Assessment of Sensory Responsivity in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Associations with Diagnosis, Age, and Parent Report.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAn observed sensory test found children and adolescents with ASD showed more over-responsivity and sensory craving than typically developing peers. Scores did not match parent report, so both sources may add information.
• SLPOther2023Parent Implementation of DTT Following Telehealth Instruction.Journal of autism and developmental disordersTelehealth training taught three parents to deliver discrete trial training (DTT) with high accuracy, which children maintained for six weeks. As parents improved, children’s skill acquisition increased, though one nonverbal child did not reach mastery criteria.
• OTCase-Control2023Investigation of Frequency-Specific Loudness Discomfort Levels in Listeners With Migraine: A Case-Control Study.Ear and hearingListeners with migraine found sounds mildly uncomfortable at lower levels than controls across 12 of 13 tested frequencies, with mid-to-high frequencies most affected.
• SLPCohort2023Longitudinal Electrocochleography as an Objective Measure of Serial Behavioral Audiometry in Electro-Acoustic Stimulation Patients.Ear and hearingA response recorded through the implant stayed stable when hearing stayed stable, and thresholds rose while responses fell when hearing loss occurred. It tracked hearing-test results, but hair-cell and nerve measures fell together.
• PTOTPilot2023A Remotely Delivered Yoga Intervention for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Feasibility and Effectiveness for Improving Skills Related to Physical Activity.Journal of autism and developmental disordersA 12-week remote yoga program improved leg strength, flexibility, and balance in adolescents with autism, but daily physical activity measured by sensors actually decreased. The study lacked a control group, so these changes cannot be attributed to the yoga alone.
• OTProtocol2023Development of a goal setting and goal management system: Intervention Mapping.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciencesMyGoals is a new six-step system for goal setting in community rehabilitation. It was designed with clients and therapists to fix gaps in current practice, but it has not yet been tested to see if it actually improves patient outcomes.
• SLPSurvey2023Silver linings of the Covid-19 pandemic… for some! Comparing Experiences and Social demographic characteristics of autistic and non-autistic children with SEND in England.Journal of autism and developmental disordersParents did not report different lockdown effects on mental or physical health for autistic versus other SEND children. Some parents who reported no detrimental effect described reduced school stress, calmer children at home, and more family support.
• SLPOther2023Phonetic and Phono-Lexical Accuracy of Non-Native Tone Production by English-L1 and Mandarin-L1 Speakers.Language and speechSpeaking a tonal first language did not make learning a new tone system easier. Instead, accuracy depended on the specific tone shape. Mandarin speakers struggled to distinguish low and mid-level tones, while English speakers made errors across all tones.
• SLPQualitative2023Mapping the Dilemmas Parents Face with Disclosing Autism Diagnosis to their Child.Journal of autism and developmental disordersParents struggle to disclose autism to their children due to fears about stigma and the child’s understanding. Most believe the child should be told, but few have done so, citing a lack of practical guidance on how and when to start the conversation.
• SLPCohort2023Dysphagia After Esophageal Replacement and Its Treatment.DysphagiaDysphagia is common after esophageal replacement, driven by anastomotic stenosis and reflux. Cervical gastric anastomoses had 17.8% insufficiency and 5.6% stenosis, while thoracic and colonic replacements had lower rates. Treatment is primarily endoscopic.
• OTSLPQualitative2023Understanding the Use of the Term "Weaponized Autism" in An Alt-Right Social Media Platform.Journal of autism and developmental disordersAutistic people online describe the term "weaponized autism" as a badge of honour that offers identity and belonging, but it rests on a stereotype that devalues them as socially awkward tools. This acceptance can make hate groups more appealing than mainstream society.
• Pilot2023Adaptation and pilot implementation of the Psychosocial Assessment Tool for Autism Spectrum Disorders (PAT-ASD).Journal of autism and developmental disordersThe adapted PAT-ASD screener was accepted by families and completed by 59.1% of those invited. It reliably grouped nearly half of families into the targeted intervention tier, helping social workers match support to specific psychosocial risks.
• SLPSurvey2024Hearing healthcare utilisation among older adults with self-reported hearing loss during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.International journal of audiology40.1% of older adults delayed needed or planned medical care. Among those with self-reported hearing loss who delayed care, 19.6% delayed hearing appointments. Top reasons were waiting, provider cancellation, and fear.
• PTRCT2024Effects on temporomandibular disorder in the treatment of tension-type headache with acupuncture and therapeutic exercises. A secondary analysis from a randomized controlled trial.Clinical rehabilitationHeadache acupuncture, exercise, and their combination improved jaw symptoms at first follow-up against usual care, but only acupuncture showed improvement at six months. This is a secondary analysis, not proof that exercise treats temporomandibular disorder.