What do certified nurse assistants actually know about dysphagia and feeding nursing home residents?

abstract：:Purpose The swallowing motor system and, specifically, its cortical substrates appear to have certain unique properties that make it highly susceptible to brain plasticity, both driven and following injury. Furthermore, neurogenic dysphagia is a common complication of brain disease, associated with poor outcomes, and ...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Sasegbon A,Cheng I,Zhang M,Hamdy S

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose We report on a study that replicates previous treatment studies using Abstract Semantic Associative Network Training (AbSANT), which was developed to help persons with aphasia improve their ability to retrieve abstract words, as well as thematically related concrete words. We hypothesized that previous results...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Sandberg CW,Gray T

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Voluntary stuttering is a strategy that has been suggested for use in the clinical literature but has minimal empirical data regarding treatment outcomes. The purpose of the present study is to explore client perspectives regarding the impact of the use of this strategy on the affective, behavioral, and cogniti...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Byrd CT,Gkalitsiou Z,Donaher J,Stergiou E

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study explores the importance of production frequency during speech therapy to determine whether more practice of speech targets leads to increased performance within a treatment session, as well as to motor learning, in the form of generalization to untrained words. METHOD:Two children with childhood apr...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Edeal DM,Gildersleeve-Neumann CE

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study investigated consonant cluster acquisition in Chinese-influenced Malaysian English (ChME)-speaking children. METHOD:This cross-sectional study involved 262 typically developing ChME-speaking children (138 girls, 124 boys) ages 3 to 7 years old. A single-word picture-naming task, which contained 66 w...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Phoon HS,Maclagan M,Abdullah AC

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The effects of intention gesture treatment (IGT) and pantomime gesture treatment (PGT) on word retrieval were compared in people with aphasia. METHOD:Four individuals with aphasia and word retrieval impairments subsequent to left-hemisphere stroke participated in a single-participant crossover treatment design...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Ferguson NF,Evans K,Raymer AM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose Every adult with aphasia displays a unique constellation of language comprehension skills and varies in the benefit derived from different content presentation formats. For many, multiple modality presentation enhances comprehension. This study's purpose was to determine the comprehension benefits for people w...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Brown JA,Wallace SE,Knollman-Porter K,Hux K

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Background In 2014, Kraft et al. assessed the temperament, home environment, and significant life events of 69 North American children who stutter to examine the combined and compounded effects of these individualized factors on mediating overt stuttering severity. The temperament domain of effortful control was singu...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Kraft SJ,Lowther E,Beilby J

更新日期：2019-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with Down syndrome (DS) have cognitive disabilities resulting from trisomy 21. Language-learning difficulties, especially expressive language problems, are an important component of the phenotype of this population. Many individuals with DS are born into bilingual environments. To date, however, there is almo...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Bird EK,Cleave P,Trudeau N,Thordardottir E,Sutton A,Thorpe A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Although conversational recasting has been a generally successful treatment approach, the precise factors that influence children's learning through recasts are not yet understood. In this study, we examined details of the relationship between child utterance and clinician utterance that seemed likely to influe...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Hassink JM,Leonard LB

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Ambulatory voice biofeedback (AVB) has the potential to significantly improve voice therapy effectiveness by targeting one of the most challenging aspects of rehabilitation: carryover of desired behaviors outside of the therapy session. Although initial evidence indicates that AVB can alter vocal behavior in da...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Van Stan JH,Mehta DD,Petit RJ,Sternad D,Muise J,Burns JA,Hillman RE

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose The purpose of this cross-sectional investigation was to expand the comparative database of pediatric tongue strength for children and adolescents with typical development, ages 3-17 years, and compare tongue strength among children with typical development, speech sound delay/disorders (SD), and motor speech ...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Potter NL,Nievergelt Y,VanDam M

更新日期：2019-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Visuographic supports in the form of images are utilized during assessment and treatment for individuals with aphasia to supplement speech, language, and cognitive losses limiting communication. Clinicians rely on prior experience and intuition to make decisions regarding image-based support design and selectio...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Brown J,Thiessen A

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:The purposes of this investigation were to determine if measures such as mean length of utterance (MLU) and percentage of comprehensible words can be derived reliably from language samples of children with severe speech impairments and if such measures correlate with tools that measure constructs assumed to be ...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Binger C,Ragsdale J,Bustos A

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal elderly and mildly aphasic individuals may exhibit similar impairments in comprehension and expression. The discriminative validity between normal and aphasic performance on most standardized measures of aphasia has not been reported. The authors compared the performance of 18 aphasic and 18 normal adults to de...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Ross KB,Wertz RT

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose The purpose of this study was to provide preliminary data on differences in lexical diversity and lexical-semantic errors in the language samples of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) and children with typical language development (TLD) of the same age. Method We analyzed word use in the narra...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Charest M,Skoczylas MJ

更新日期：2019-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To introduce a Clinical Forum focused on the Complexity Account of Treatment Efficacy (C. K. Thompson, L. P. Shapiro, S. Kiran, & J. Sobecks, 2003), a counterintuitive but effective approach for treating language disorders. This approach espouses training complex structures to promote generalized improvement of...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Thompson CK

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose Taxonomic awareness is central to vocabulary development and assessment. While taxonomic development appears largely unaffected by environmental factors, the impact of divided language input on distinct levels of the taxonomic hierarchy is unclear. The influence of scoring method on tasks that target distinct ...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Lam BPW,Sheng L

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Three children ages 3;6 to 5;3 with developmental and language delays were provided experience with a traditional grid-based display and a contextually organized visual scene display on a speech-generating device to illustrate considerations for practice and future research in augmentative and alternative commu...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Barton-Hulsey A,Wegner J,Brady NC,Bunce BH,Sevcik RA

更新日期：2017-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This article critically reviews evidence to determine whether the use of disfluency typologies, such as syllable repetitions or prolongations, has assisted the understanding or treatment of developmental stuttering. Consideration is given to whether there is a need for a fundamental shift in the basis for const...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Einarsdóttir J,Ingham RJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The goal of this study was to evaluate a key word signing (KWS) program in which adults with mild to severe intellectual disability (ID) were taught manual signs through their support staff. Our hypothesis was that spontaneous manual sign production of participants would increase significantly after 12 months o...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Meuris K,Maes B,Zink I

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Single-subject experimental designs (SSEDs) represent an important tool in the development and implementation of evidence-based practice in communication sciences and disorders. The purpose of this article is to review the strategies and tactics of SSEDs and their application in speech-language pathology resear...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Byiers BJ,Reichle J,Symons FJ

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to investigate how maternal gesture relates to speech production by children with fragile X syndrome (FXS). METHOD:Participants were 27 young children with FXS (23 boys, 4 girls) and their mothers. Videotaped home observations were conducted between the ages of 25 and 37 months (t...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Hahn LJ,Zimmer BJ,Brady NC,Swinburne Romine RE,Fleming KK

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the kinds of explicit and implicit statements generated by school-age children with and without language impairments during comprehension of expository texts and to determine the relationship of these statements to comprehension performance. METHOD:Forty 4th-grade children with and without language ...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Laing Gillam S,Fargo JD,St Clair Robertson K

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose In 2004, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association established its position statement on evidence-based practice (EBP). Since 2008, the Council on Academic Accreditation has required accredited graduate education programs in speech-language pathology to incorporate research methodology and EBP principles in...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Greenwell T,Walsh B

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve school-age children with language-learning disabilities (LLD) participated in a study comparing the effects of two reading feedback strategies for improving their oral and written language performance. Children were matched for age, disability, gender, and general reading performance. Participants were assigned...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Crowe LK

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study compared a new adult stuttering treatment program (Modifying Phonation Intervals, or MPI) with the standard of care for reducing stuttered speech in adults (prolonged speech). METHOD:Twenty-seven adults who stutter were assigned to either MPI or prolonged speech treatment, both of which used similar...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Ingham RJ,Ingham JC,Bothe AK,Wang Y,Kilgo M

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Based on visual inspection, prior research documented increased movement of the posterior pharyngeal wall in healthy volunteers during tongue-hold swallows. This manometric study investigated the immediate effects of the tongue-hold maneuver on pharyngeal peak pressure generation, duration of pressure generatio...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Doeltgen SH,Witte U,Gumbley F,Huckabee ML

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study investigated classroom differences in the narrative performance of school-age African American English (AAE)-speaking children in gifted and general education classrooms. METHOD:Forty-three children, Grades 2-5, each generated fictional narratives in response to the book Frog, Where Are You? (Mayer,...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Mills MT

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:This article introduces and provides initial data supporting "The Early Development of Emotional Competence (EDEC): A tool for children with complex communication needs (CCNs)." The EDEC was developed to raise awareness about the relation of language and emotional competence and to maximize the likelihood that ...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Na JY,Wilkinson K,Liang J

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00