Challenging communication: people with learning disabilities who challenge services.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical services in the UK are increasingly delivering 'consultative' methods of intervention rather than 'direct' intensive input for children with receptive and expressive language difficulties, yet there has been little systematic evaluation of these different intervention models. AIMS:To investigate th...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Gallagher AL,Chiat S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oropharyngeal dysphagia post-stroke is well known, with its presence increasing the risk of poor outcomes in particular aspiration and aspiration pneumonia. Management to minimize the risk of aspiration and improve swallow safety post-stroke includes the treatment of thickened liquids (TL), an established bo...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： McCurtin A,Healy C,Kelly L,Murphy F,Ryan J,Walsh J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Those who stutter have a proclivity to social anxiety. Yet, to date, there is no comprehensive measure of thoughts and beliefs about stuttering that represent the cognitions associated with that anxiety. AIMS:The present paper describes the development of a measure to assess unhelpful thoughts and beliefs a...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： St Clare T,Menzies RG,Onslow M,Packman A,Thompson R,Block S

更新日期：2009-05-01 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 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：BACKGROUND:Mechanical ventilatory support seriously affects speaking and communication, and earlier studies show that many ventilator-supported patients experience difficulties and frustration with their speech and voice production. Since there is a growing number of individuals who require mechanical ventilatory suppo...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Laakso K,Markström A,Idvall M,Havstam C,Hartelius L

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:People who stutter produce speech that is characterized by intermittent, involuntary part-word repetitions and prolongations. In addition to these signature acoustic manifestations, those who stutter often display repetitive and fixated behaviours outside the speech producing mechanism (e.g. in the head, arm...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Guntupalli VK,Everhart DE,Kalinowski J,Nanjundeswaran C,Saltuklaroglu T

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computerized airflow/air pressure analysis system, the Aerophone II Model 6800 (Kay Elemetrics Corp.), was used to assess the effects of age and gender on laryngeal aerodynamics. A sample of 56 male and 53 female normal speaking subjects was divided into six age groups (20-30; 31-40; 41-50; 51-60; 61-70 and 71-80 ye...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Goozée JV,Murdoch BE,Theodoros DG,Thompson EC

更新日期：1998-04-01 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: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:People with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PMLD) have communication impairments as one defining characteristic. AIMS:To explore speech and language therapists' (SLTs) decision making in communication interventions for people with PMLD, in terms of the intervention approaches used, the fact...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Goldbart J,Chadwick D,Buell S

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：:This paper reports on a range of tests and assessments given to a group of six fluent aphasic speakers. Diverse profiles emerged with dissociations between the ability to name action pictures or construct sentences and the ability to produce grammatically well-formed spontaneous speech. ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Edwards S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Across the world, research has shown that intervention for children with phonological impairment can be both effective and efficient. However, it has also raised concerns about the translation of this evidence to practice, highlighting questions around clinician knowledge and the understanding of approaches,...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Hegarty N,Titterington J,McLeod S,Taggart L

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent project entitled CATALISE used the Delphi method to reach a consensus on terminology for unexplained language problems in children. 'Developmental language disorder' (DLD) was the term agreed by a panel of 57 experts. Here I reflect on points of difficulty that arose when attempting to reach a consensus, usin...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Bishop DVM

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite initial underreporting of language dysfunctions in corticobasal syndrome (CBS), aphasia is now recognized as a frequent feature of this disease. Aphasia in CBS seems clinically overlying to a non-fluent/agrammatic primary progressive aphasia (nfaPPA), which is also a clinical phenotype associated wit...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Ruggeri M,Biagioli C,Ricci M,Gerace C,Blundo C

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to provide speech-language pathologists and educators with a method for identifying children at risk for reading failure. The Early Reading Screening Instrument (ERSI) was given to 149 end-of-the-year kindergarten children. Half of the sample was tested 1 year later with standardized reading me...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Lombardino LJ,Morris D,Mercado L,DeFillipo F,Sarisky C,Montgomery A

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of phonological awareness intervention for children at risk for reading disorder has received increasing attention in the literature. This paper reports the follow-up data for participants in the Gillon (2000a) intervention study. The performance of twenty, 5-7-year-old New Zealand children with spoken la...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Gillon GT

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intelligibility is a speaker's ability to convey a message to a listener. Including an assessment of intelligibility is essential in both research and clinical work relating to individuals with communication disorders due to speech impairment. Assessment of the intelligibility of spontaneous speech can be us...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Lagerberg TB,Åsberg J,Hartelius L,Persson C

更新日期：2014-03-01 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:In the Lidcombe Program of Early Stuttering Intervention, parents present verbal contingencies for stutter-free and stuttered speech in everyday situations. A previous randomized controlled trial of the programme with preschool-age children from 2005, conducted in two public speech clinics in New Zealand, sh...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Jones M,Onslow M,Packman A,O'Brian S,Hearne A,Williams S,Ormond T,Schwarz I

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The modifications of fluid viscosity and/or volume are common strategies in dysphagia management, with increased viscosity or reduced volume intended to reduce aspiration. Little attention has been given to whether cough response to aspiration varies across different viscosities and volumes. AIMS:This prosp...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Miles A,McFarlane M,Scott S,Hunting A

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability to repair communicative breakdown is an important pragmatic language skill, yet very little is known about it in the population of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Previous investigations have shown that people with ASD, across a variety of ages and language levels, recognized commun...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Volden J

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：:Morphosyntax constitutes one of the most complex areas of language. It takes into account the structure of the word and that of the sentence, and its development allows one to establish adequately agreements both within the nominal phrase and in the rest of the sentence. Morphosyntax is particularly impaired in indivi...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Sepúlveda EM,López-Villaseñor ML,Heinze EG

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：: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: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: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：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