Running a randomised controlled trial in a service setting: a progress report.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although it is well-established that children with language impairment (LI) and children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) both show elevated levels of emotional and behavioural problems, the level and types of difficulties across the two groups have not previously been directly compared. AIMS:To compare...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Charman T,Ricketts J,Dockrell JE,Lindsay G,Palikara O

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Language treatment for children with specific language impairment (SLI) often takes months to achieve moderate results. Interventions often do not incorporate the principles that are known to affect learning in unimpaired learners. AIMS:To outline some key findings about learning in typical populations and ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Alt M,Meyers C,Ancharski A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is associated with phonological awareness, reading, and spelling deficits. Comparing literacy skills in CAS with other developmental speech disorders is critical for understanding the complexity of the disorder. AIMS:This study compared the phonological awareness and readin...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： McNeill BC,Gillon GT,Dodd B

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aphasia is an acquired language disorder that occurs secondary to brain injury, such as stroke. It causes communication difficulties that have a significant impact on quality of life and social relationships. Although the efficacy of speech-language therapy has been clearly demonstrated in this population, l...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Lavoie M,Bier N,Macoir J

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deafness has an adverse impact on children's ability to acquire spoken languages. Signed languages offer a more accessible input for deaf children, but because the vast majority are born to hearing parents who do not sign, their early exposure to sign language is limited. Deaf children as a whole are therefo...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Marshall CR,Jones A,Fastelli A,Atkinson J,Botting N,Morgan G

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Both direct (clinician to child) and indirect (clinician to carer) approaches are currently used in the management of children with language delay, but there is as yet little evidence about their relative effects or resource implications. AIMS:This research project compared the Hanen Parent Programme (HPP) ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Baxendale J,Hesketh A

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Discourse in adults with aphasia is increasingly the focus of assessment and therapy research. A broad range of measures is available to describe discourse, but very limited information is available on their psychometric properties. As a result, the quality of these measures is unknown, and there is very lit...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Pritchard M,Hilari K,Cocks N,Dipper L

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In domains other than language, there is fairly consistent diagnostic terminology to refer to children's developmental difficulties. For instance, the terms 'dyslexia', 'attention deficit hyperactivity disorder' and 'autistic spectrum disorder' are used for difficulties with reading, attention or social cogn...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Bishop DV

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prognostication is a complex clinical task that involves forming a prediction about recovery and communicating prognostic information to patients and families. In aphasia, recovery is difficult to predict and evidence-based guidance on prognosis delivery is lacking. Questions about aphasia prognosis commonly...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Cheng BBY,Worrall LE,Copland DA,Wallace SJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dysphagia is common after stroke, affecting up to 50% of patients initially. It can lead to post-stroke pneumonia, which causes 30% of stroke-related deaths, a longer hospital stay and poorer health outcomes. Dysphagia care post-stroke generally focuses on the management of symptoms, via modified oral intake...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Sproson L,Pownall S,Enderby P,Freeman J

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical observation that people with Parkinson's disease (PD) seem to have different training needs from other adult client-groups in developing effective use of aided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) was the catalyst for this study. There is little good-quality research evidence available on the effe...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Armstrong L,Jans D,MacDonald A

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children were selected from schools for pupils with learning difficulties. Non-verbal ability measures classified them with what was previously termed moderate learning difficulties (MLD). A Surrey Speech, Language and Communication Profile (Surrey Profile) (Cave and McGregor 1996) was completed for each child and the...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Winter P

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children with Down's syndrome seem to show a preference for the use of gestural rather than vocal productions during the first stages of language development. This 'gestural advantage' could actually be due to a developmental strategy used to compensate the difficulties in verbal production that are typical ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Zampini L,D'Odorico L

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A manualized language therapy developed via a randomized controlled trial had proved efficacious in the short-term in developing expressive language for mainstream primary school children with persistent language impairment. This therapy had been delivered to a predetermined schedule by speech and language t...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： McCartney E,Boyle J,Ellis S,Bannatyne S,Turnbull M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Earlier research and clinical practice show that specific language impairment (SLI) is often associated with nonverbal cognitive deficits and weakened skills in executive functions (EFs). Executive deficits may have a remarkable influence on a child's everyday activities in the home and school environments. ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Kuusisto MA,Nieminen PE,Helminen MT,Kleemola L

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence and the natural history of primary speech and language delays were two of four domains covered in a systematic review of the literature related to screening for speech and language delay carried out for the NHS in the UK. The structure and process of the full literature review is introduced and criteria...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Law J,Boyle J,Harris F,Harkness A,Nye C

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The psychosocial impact of acquired dysarthria on the speaker is well recognized. To date, speech-and-language therapists have no instrument available to measure this construct. This has implications for outcome measurement and for planning intervention. This paper describes the Dysarthria Impact Profile (DI...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Walshe M,Peach RK,Miller N

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In general, children with specific language impairment (SLI) tend to fall behind their typically developing (TD) peers in educational attainment. Less is known about how children with SLI fare in particular areas of the curriculum and what predicts their levels of performance. AIMS:To compare the distributi...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Durkin K,Mok PL,Conti-Ramsden G

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Word-finding difficulties (WFDs) in children have been hypothesized to be caused at least partly by poor semantic knowledge. Therefore, improving semantic knowledge should decrease word-finding errors. Previous studies of semantic therapy for WFDs are inconclusive. AIMS:To investigate the effectiveness of s...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Ebbels SH,Nicoll H,Clark B,Eachus B,Gallagher AL,Horniman K,Jennings M,McEvoy K,Nimmo L,Turner G

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of qualitative methodologies in speech and language therapy has grown over the past two decades, and there is now a body of literature, both generally describing qualitative research, and detailing its applicability to health practice(s). However, there has been only limited profession-specific discu...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Skeat J,Perry A

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The metalinguistic ability to cope with homonyms, that is, words having multiple unrelated meanings, emerges rather late in the course child language development. It is associated with specific neural activity and related to academic achievement and second language learning. This study is about homonyms that...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Corthals P

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One approach to outcome measures for speech and language therapy is to display measures of the physical, acoustic, correlates of the perceptually salient features of the structure of speech. A difficulty with this approach is that there is no simple mapping of physical correlates onto speech percepts. In this workshop...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Carlson E,Miller D

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Spelling difficulty is a common symptom of aphasia and can entail editing difficulties. Previous research has shown that extensive editing is related to a lower production rate in text writing for persons with aphasia, yet editing difficulty is not commonly examined. It is not known if editing difficulty i...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Johansson-Malmeling C,Wengelin Å,Henriksson I

更新日期：2020-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:The Ward Infant Language Screening Test, Assessment, Acceleration and Remediation (WILSTAAR) comprises a programme for identifying and helping 8-10-month-old infants showing early signs of language and communication difficulty. The study addresses one of the queries raised by critics of the programm...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Alston E,James-Roberts IS

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonword repetition and phoneme elision represent the combined influence of several speech and language processes. In the present study we investigated nonword repetition and phoneme elision performance in school-age children who stutter (CWS) and children who do not stutter (CNS). Participants were 14 CWS (mean = 11.7...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Sasisekaran J,Byrd C

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing health related quality of life (HRQOL) in people with communication disabilities is a challenge in health related research. Materials used to assess HRQOL are often linguistically complex and their mode of administration usually does not facilitate people with communication disabilities to give their experie...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Hilari K,Byng S

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The needs of under-graduate students and newly qualified speech and language therapists (SLTs) are discussed. The results of a small-scale survey of final year SLT students and one of newly qualified therapists are presented. Similarities between clinical teaching of under-graduates and mentoring of newly qualified th...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Anderson H

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) frequently have difficulties with word learning and understanding vocabulary. For these children, this can significantly impact on social interactions, daily activities and academic progress. Although there is literature providing a rationale for targeting ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Wright L,Pring T,Ebbels S

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Care aims are a means of defining the purpose of intervention of health care. The Malcomess care aims model uses these labels to guide the planning, delivery and outcome measurement of care. Within speech and language therapy (SLT) this involves the use of one of seven labels which clarify and make explicit the purpos...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： McCarthy C,Lacey R,Malcomess K

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research has shown that early identification of children with language issues is critical for effective intervention, and yet many children are not identified until school age. The use of parent-completed rating scales, especially in urban, minority populations, might improve early identification if parent r...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Massa J,Gomes H,Tartter V,Wolfson V,Halperin JM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00