Aspects of voice quality: display, measurement and therapy.

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is well-known that people lose friends after a stroke; what is less well understood is why this occurs. AIMS:This study explored why people lose contact with their friends, and whether there are any protective factors. It also examined how friendship loss and change is perceived by the individual. METHO...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Northcott S,Hilari K

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Speech and language therapy (SLT) for aphasia can be difficult to access in the later stages of stroke recovery, despite evidence of continued improvement with sufficient therapeutic intensity. Computerized aphasia therapy has been reported to be useful for independent language practice, providing new opport...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Palmer R,Enderby P,Paterson G

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:Speech and language therapists (SLTs) are increasingly engaging in school-based interventions targeting children with language difficulties. Collaborative work between teachers and SLTs has shown to be beneficial in fostering language development in all children. Both groups of professionals have different b...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Kouba Hreich E,Moitel Messarra C,Martinez-Perez T,Richa S,Maillart C

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The speech intelligibility of children with dysarthria and cerebral palsy has been observed to increase following therapy focusing on respiration and phonation. AIMS:To determine if speech intelligibility change following intervention is associated with change in acoustic measures of voice. METHODS & PROCE...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Pennington L,Lombardo E,Steen N,Miller N

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Given the integral role that verbs play in sentence production, understanding verb deficits is critical to clinical practice. Difficulties in sentence production are often directly related to an inability to retrieve argument structure information which, according to most theoretical accounts, is specified a...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Caley S,Whitworth A,Claessen M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and specific language impairment (SLI) have traditionally been conceptualized as distinct disorders, recent findings indicate that the boundaries between these two conditions are not clear-cut. While considerable research has investigated overlap in the linguistic charact...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Taylor LJ,Maybery MT,Grayndler L,Whitehouse AJ

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical teaching of students is a requirement of the majority of practicing therapists in the UK and yet there is little guidance as to the nature of the placement which needs to be offered. As models of service delivery change, placements must change to prepare the student for working life whilst also meeting the ne...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Pickstone C,Gray C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A subset of children with Developmental Language Delay (DLD) encountered difficulties with the regulation of spoken discourse. In the conversations of caretakers with DLD children, several studies report difficulties with turn-taking, a proneness to use the non-verbal register, child and caretaker problems w...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： van Balkom H,Verhoeven L,van Weerdenburg M

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Impaired phonology is reported to be the most salient characteristic of the communication profiles of twin children. However, little is known about the phonological development of twins speaking languages other than English. This case study described the phonological systems of a set of Putonghua-speaking twins, using...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Hua Z,Dodd B

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments examined the time course of lexical information availability in 20 adults, 20 children (8;0-10;0) with typical language development, and in 20 children (8;0-10;0) with specific language impairment. A cross-modal picture-word interference paradigm was used in which participants named the pictures as qui...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Seiger-Gardner L,Schwartz RG

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability to make inferences plays a crucial role in reading comprehension and the educational success of school-aged children. However, it starts to unfold much earlier than school entry and literacy. Given that it is likely to be targeted in speech language therapy, it would be useful for clinicians to h...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Filiatrault-Veilleux P,Bouchard C,Trudeau N,Desmarais C

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Overt stuttering is inhibited by approximately 80% when people who stutter read aloud as they hear an altered form of their speech feedback to them. However, levels of stuttering inhibition vary from 60% to 100% depending on speaking situation and signal presentation. For example, binaural presentations of d...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Hudock D,Kalinowski J

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Inter-professional collaboration (IPC) has been recommended for many years as a means by which the needs of children with developmental language disorders (DLD) can be met at school. However, effective IPC remains difficult to achieve and our knowledge of how to support it is limited. A shared understanding ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Gallagher AL,Murphy CA,Conway P,Perry A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Language impairment (LI) in the preschool years is known to vary over time. Stability in the diagnosis of LI may be influenced by children’s individual variability, the measurement error of commonly used assessment instruments and the cut-points used to define impairment. AIMS:To investigate the agreement b...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Eadie P,Nguyen C,Carlin J,Bavin E,Bretherton L,Reilly S

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk of developing a negative attitude to communication as a consequence of having a speech disorder has been in focus for decades in research concerning fluency disorders in relation to both children and adults. The Communication Attitude Test (CAT), which was created to measure children's attitudes tow...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Johannisson TB,Wennerfeldt S,Havstam C,Naeslund M,Jacobson K,Lohmander A

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In an initial validation study, the Unhelpful Thoughts and Beliefs About Stuttering (UTBAS I) scale, demonstrated excellent psychometric properties as a self-report measure of the frequency of unhelpful cognitions associated with social anxiety for adults who stutter. AIMS:The aim was to further validate th...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Iverach L,Menzies R,Jones M,O'Brian S,Packman A,Onslow M

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:The following report describes a three year project to develop, implement and evaluate a specialised speech and language therapy (SLT) service to children with specific language impairment (SLI) who attend mainstream schools and nurseries. The report describes how the service was set up and the package of care offered...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Hirst E,Britton L

更新日期：1998-01-01 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:Communication training for parents of young children with neurodisability is often delivered in groups and includes video coaching. Group teaching is problematic when there is wide variation in the characteristics and needs amongst participants. AIMS:To assess the potential feasibility and acceptability of ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Stockwell K,Alabdulqader E,Jackson D,Basu A,Olivier P,Pennington L

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper overviews a detailed study of a consultation service for children with severe and/or intractable speech and language difficulties. The Speech Therapy Clinical Unit at the University of Central England in Birmingham (UCE) offered multidisciplinary, in-depth assessment of such children to speech and language ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： David R,Whitehouse J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children who show disproportionate difficulty with the pragmatic as compared with the structural aspects of language are described as having pragmatic language impairment (PLI) or social communication disorder (SCD). Some children who have PLI also show mild social impairments associated with high-functionin...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Adams C,Lockton E,Freed J,Gaile J,Earl G,McBean K,Nash M,Green J,Vail A,Law J

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Numerous studies have demonstrated the benefit of devices delivering altered auditory feedback (AAF) as a therapeutic alternative for those who stutter. AIMS:The effectiveness of a device delivering AAF (SpeechEasy®) was compared with behavioural techniques in the treatment of stuttering in a randomized cli...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Ritto AP,Juste FS,Stuart A,Kalinowski J,de Andrade CR

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:People experiencing homelessness are at increased risk of neurological disorder due to multiple factors such as substance abuse, infection, and higher rates of serious mental illness and traumatic brain injury. This could affect cognitive and language skills. Indeed, past research has suggested that certain ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Pluck G,Barajas BM,Hernandez-Rodriguez JL,Martínez MA

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the literature on children with specific language impairment (SLI) is centred on the study of cross-sectional samples and little is known on how language develops in these children--that is, whether it occurs along steps and modes analogous to those observed in normal acquisition, the only difference being sig...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Cipriani P,Bottari P,Chilosi AM,Pfanner L

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Around one-quarter of children attending language support services have difficulty in retrieving words. Therapy studies with such children have shown that both semantic and phonological techniques can improve word finding. A new approach to intervention is described using a computerized aid that converts let...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Best W

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00