Using Virtual Technology to Promote Functional Communication in Aphasia: Preliminary Evidence From Interactive Dialogues With Human and Virtual Clinicians.

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to determine whether citizens with language impairment understand legal rights as conveyed in Miranda warnings. METHOD:Grisso's Instruments for Assessing Understanding and Appreciation of Miranda Rights (1998) was administered to 34 young adults, half of whom met the diagnostic cr...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Rost GC,McGregor KK

更新日期：2012-05-01 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:This study investigated the effects of a communication partner instruction strategy for parents of children using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) on the communicative turn taking of their children. Instruction was provided within storybook-reading contexts. METHOD:Two single-subject multiple-p...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Kent-Walsh J,Binger C,Hasham Z

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose The purpose of this article was to examine the current state of counseling education and to present examples of strategies for teaching counseling based on the author's 40 years of university teaching. Conclusion Current research suggests that students and clinicians are not getting sufficient training in pers...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Luterman D

更新日期：2020-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Measuring Rehabilitation Outcomes and Effectiveness along with academic, professional, provider, and accreditor organizations sponsored a symposium with the aim of serving as a catalyst for expanded research on postacute care (PAC) rehabilitation. The goals wer...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Heinemann AW

更新日期：2007-11-01 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: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:The major purpose of this study was to provide information about expected spoken language skills of preschool-age children who are deaf and who use a cochlear implant. A goal was to provide "benchmarks" against which those skills could be compared, for a given age at implantation. We also examined whether paren...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Nicholas JG,Geers AE

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:This study investigated the acoustic properties of 6 Taiwan Southern Min vowels produced by 10 laryngeal speakers (LA), 10 speakers with a pneumatic artificial larynx (PA), and 8 esophageal speakers (ES). Method:Each of the 6 monophthongs of Taiwan Southern Min (/i, e, a, ɔ, u, ə/) was represented by a Taiwan ...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Liao JS

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between vocabulary knowledge and word retrieval in younger and older adults. METHOD:Three tests of word retrieval and 2 tests of word knowledge were administered to 140 Hebrew-speaking adults, half of whom were younger (M(age) = 24.20 years) and half of...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Kavé G,Yafé R

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose The purposes of this longitudinal study were to (a) examine the impact of Parkinson's disease (PD) progression on breath pause patterns and speech and linguistic errors and (b) determine the extent to which breath pauses and speech and linguistic errors contribute to speech impairment. Method Eight individuals...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Darling-White M,Huber JE

更新日期：2020-11-12 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 Discourse analysis is commonly used to assess language ability and to evaluate language change following intervention in aphasia. The purpose of this study was to identify differences in language produced during different discourse tasks in a large aphasia group and an age- and education-matched control group....

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Stark BC

更新日期：2019-08-09 00:00:00

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:This study sought to expand understanding of the impact of cochlear implantation on grammatical acquisition by comparing young children who have vocabularies of comparable size. Two research questions were investigated: (a) Do young cochlear implant (CI) recipients have grammatical skills comparable to those of...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Jung J,Ertmer DJ

更新日期：2018-05-03 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

abstract：Purpose:The aim of this study was to investigate the typical disfluency rates at 30 months old in a large group of simultaneous bilingual children and also investigate the relationships between disfluency rates and linguistic complexity (mean length of utterance in words [MLU-W]), vocabulary diversity (VocD), and speak...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Brundage SB,Rowe H

更新日期：2018-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study tested the milk flow rates and variability in flow of currently available nipples used for bottle-feeding infants who are hospitalized. METHOD:Clinicians in 3 countries were surveyed regarding nipples available to them for feeding infants who are hospitalized. Twenty-nine nipple types were identifie...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Pados BF,Park J,Thoyre SM,Estrem H,Nix WB

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:The Communication Complexity Scale (CCS; Brady et al., 2012) was created to fill a void in measures of expressive communication skills in individuals who communicate primarily with presymbolic or early symbolic means. CCS scores reflect expressive communication observed during interactive communication contexts...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Brady NC,Fleming K,Romine RS,Holbrook A,Muller K,Kasari C

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:The aim of this article was to identify what school-aged children who stutter consider to be the most important outcomes from therapy. Method:A Delphi approach was employed for the study. Eighteen participants aged 9-13 years completed a survey, generating 90 statements that would constitute successful therapy...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Cooke K,Millard SK

更新日期：2018-10-19 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:The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes, feelings, and practice characteristics of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in Israel regarding the subject of delivering bad news. Method:One hundred and seventy-three Israeli SLPs answered an online survey. Respondents represented SLPs in Israel in al...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Gold R,Gold A

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Background Down syndrome (DS) is a disorder characterized by impairments in global cognitive abilities and adaptive function. In addition, individuals with DS demonstrate pronounced speech and language deficits. However, little is known about the linguistic correlates of impaired adaptive functioning in DS. Method Usi...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Stephan C,Clasen L,Adeyemi E,Lee NR

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and Purpose The severity of aphasic impairment in chronic stroke survivors is typically thought to be stable by 6 months postonset. However, a recent study showed that stroke survivors with aphasia experience language improvement or decline in the chronic phase, years beyond onset. Little is known about why...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Johnson L,Basilakos A,Yourganov G,Cai B,Bonilha L,Rorden C,Fridriksson J

更新日期：2019-05-27 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 Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) often receive speech-language therapy services starting in infancy or toddlerhood. When providing speech-language therapy services for children with DS, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) need to consider the impact of other developmental and comorbid disorders that can aff...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Versaci TM,Mattie LJ,Imming LJ

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study examined the test-retest reliability of select measures of word-retrieval errors in narrative discourses of individuals with aphasia assessed with the AphasiaBank stimuli. METHOD:Ten participants with aphasia were video recorded during 2 sessions producing narratives elicited with pictures. Discours...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Boyle M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose This investigation was designed to provide interrater reliability data for the Apraxia of Speech Rating Scale 3.0 (ASRS 3.0; Strand, Duffy, Clark, & Josephs, 2014 ). Importantly, ratings were completed by investigators who were not involved with the ASRS development. Another aim was to evaluate the relationshi...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Wambaugh JL,Bailey DJ,Mauszycki SC,Bunker LD

更新日期：2019-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Background People with chronic aphasia often exhibit a decrease in social engagement and reading ability that negatively influences quality of life. Book clubs can provide a supportive environment that facilitates both socialization and reading. However, limited data exist examining the use of book clubs for individua...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Knollman-Porter K,Julian SK

更新日期：2019-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the clinical utility of the narrative scoring scheme (NSS) as an index of narrative macrostructure for young school-age children. METHOD:Oral retells of a wordless picture book were elicited from 129 typically developing children, ages 5-7. A series of correlations and hierarchical regression equat...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Heilmann J,Miller JF,Nockerts A,Dunaway C

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00