Comparing the Effects of Speech-Generating Device Display Organization on Symbol Comprehension and Use by Three Children With Developmental Delays.

abstract：:Purpose Macrostructural narrative analyses are important clinical measures, revealing age-related declines and disorder-related impairments in the accuracy, completeness, logical sequencing, and organization of content. The current study aims to provide preliminary data on typical aging and psychometric evidence suppo...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Greenslade KJ,Stuart JEB,Richardson JD,Dalton SG,Ramage AE

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：:Best practice in speech-language pathology should be informed by current research findings. Traditional research methods are not always geared to address some of the complex, individual questions that arise in clinical intervention, however. Qualitative research methods may provide useful tools for bridging the gap fr...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Brinton B,Fujiki M

更新日期：2003-05-01 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：: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：: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 Weaknesses in the use of grammatical forms may reduce the functional use of language for verbally expressive children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and exacerbate difficulties with academic and social skill development. This early efficacy study evaluated a combined explicit-implicit instructional approa...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Bangert KJ,Halverson DM,Finestack LH

更新日期：2019-05-27 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 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: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:This clinical focus article describes an exploratory case study addressing reduction of vocal loudness in a young adult with a history of autism spectrum disorder and developmental delay. The need for a short-term pullout individual intervention arose from his participation in the Advancing Language and Literac...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Pack A,Colozzo P,Bernhardt BM,Radanov B,Rosebush R,Marinova-Todd SH

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Evidence supports using visual scene displays (VSDs) with young children using speech-generating devices. This study examined initial and subsequent performance during VSD use by children age 24-27 and 33-36 months to explore child characteristics that may relate to navigational skill differences. METHOD:Child...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Olin AR,Reichle J,Johnson L,Monn E

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To explore the similarities and differences in self-reported restrictions in communicative participation across different communication disorders in community-dwelling adults. METHOD:Interviews were conducted with 44 adults representing 7 different medical conditions: spasmodic dysphonia, multiple sclerosis, s...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Baylor C,Burns M,Eadie T,Britton D,Yorkston K

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose This research aims to examine the effects of error experience when learning to speak with lowered nasalance level. Method A total of 45 typical speakers were instructed to learn to lower speech nasalance level in either an errorless (restricted possibility for committing errors) or an errorful (unrestricted po...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Lo ES,Wong AW,Tse AC,Ma EP,Whitehill TL,Masters R

更新日期：2019-05-27 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: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：: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：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: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 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:This study examined cross-sectional age-related trajectories of expressive language variables (syntactic complexity, lexical diversity, unintelligibility, dysfluency, and talkativeness) derived from a narrative language sampling procedure. Method:Narrative samples were analyzed from 103 typically developing in...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Channell MM,Loveall SJ,Conners FA,Harvey DJ,Abbeduto L

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose Parkinson's disease (PD) impacts language in multiple ways, though important questions remain. The current article explores 2 main issues: what type of everyday language difficulties (ELDs) are noted by care partners and how do ELDs relate to cognition, daily activities, and motor disability in PD. Method Care...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Wolff L,Benge J

更新日期：2019-02-21 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:This research investigated the use of a dynamic assessment (DA) to identify differences among young children with severe disabilities, which would predict progress in learning behaviors indicating coordinated joint attention (CJA). METHOD:Six children 10-24 months of age were enrolled in a 16-week treatment fo...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Olswang LB,Feuerstein JL,Pinder GL,Dowden P

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose The purpose of this clinical focus article is to describe the frequency, indications, and outcomes of fenestrated tracheostomy tube use in a large academic institution. Method A retrospective chart review was conducted to evaluate the use of fenestrated tracheostomy tubes between 2007 and 2017. Patients were i...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Pandian V,Boisen SE,Mathews S,Cole T

更新日期：2019-08-09 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: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 Researchers have identified features of successful aphasia conversation groups and clinician behaviors leading to engagement and group cohesion. There has been less focus in the literature on facilitator behaviors that hinder participation or result in disengagement. This study aims to explore the behaviors of...

journal_title：American journal of speech-language pathology

authors： Lee JB,Azios JH

更新日期：2020-02-21 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: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