Clinical teaching and mentoring: vital in the development of competent therapists.

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: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：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：: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：:Inappropriate sexual behaviour by clients or patients of health professionals has been noted as a considerable problem in a number of professions. Similarly, sexual harassment by colleagues or employers has been identified as causing stress and harm. The primary objective of this study was to investigate the experienc...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Williams TH,de Seriere J,Boddington L

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:A group of eight right hemisphere brain damaged (RHBD) individuals' use of gesture during discourse was explored at two points post stroke. Three topic structured conversational and three procedural discourse samples were elicited at one and six months post stroke. Gestures were analysed in terms of communicative gest...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Brady M,Mackenzie C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Considerable evidence suggests that performance across a variety of cognitive tasks is effectively supported by the use of verbal and nonverbal strategies. Studies exploring the usefulness of such strategies in children with specific language impairment (SLI) are scarce and report inconsistent findings. AIM...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Eichorn N,Marton K,Campanelli L,Scheuer J

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study details the first ever investigation of narrative skills in a group of 17 deaf signing children who have been diagnosed with disorders in their British Sign Language development compared with a control group of 17 deaf child signers matched for age, gender, education, quantity, and quality of language expos...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Herman R,Rowley K,Mason K,Morgan G

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

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:Along with the severity of the disorder, the motivation of the children and their parents is an important element in explaining the extensive variance in therapeutic success. There is consensus that parental cooperation and homework are important for successful therapy. Systematic investigation into the effe...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Günther T,Hautvast S

更新日期：2010-05-01 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: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：: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：: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：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：: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:Late language emergence is a risk indicator for developmental language disorder. Parent-implemented early language intervention programmes (parent programmes) have been shown to have positive effects on children's receptive and expressive language skills. However, long-term effectiveness has rarely been stud...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Kruythoff-Broekman A,Wiefferink C,Rieffe C,Uilenburg N

更新日期：2019-05-01 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 primary aim of western-trained speech and language therapists (SLTs) working in the 'South' is not to train further SLTs but to transfer a range of practical skills to carers, health and education workers working directly with under-served populations. Considering current areas of service need in the UK, a model o...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Morris T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bloodstein reviewed hundreds of studies that investigated the efficacy of therapeutic protocols for ameliorating the stuttering syndrome. Surprisingly, almost all were effective in significantly reducing overtly perceptible behaviours such as repetitions and prolongations of speech sounds. These results seem...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Guntupalli VK,Kalinowski J,Saltuklaroglu T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In young, typically developing children, some word production variability is expected, but highly inconsistent speech is considered a clinical marker for disorder. Speech-language pathologists need to identify variability versus inconsistency, yet these terms are not clearly differentiated. Not only is it im...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Holm A,Crosbie S,Dodd B

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study investigated the relationship between phonological and syntactic disorders of French-speaking children with specific language impairment in production. AIMS:To compare three theories (pure phonological theory, surface theory, and mapping theory) of language developmental disorders, all of which v...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Parisse C,Maillart C

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented that immature perceptual strategies are a contributory factor to developmental phonological disorder. The findings endorse the current re-focusing of attention on the role of perception in disordered speech and language acquisition and also highlight the need for more precise assessment and remed...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Watson J,Hewlett N

更新日期：1998-01-01 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:Worldwide speech-language therapy (SLT) students are educated in evidence-based practice (EBP). For students to use EBP in their future day-to-day clinical practice, they must value EBP as positive and must feel confident in using it. For curricula developers it is therefore important to know the impact thei...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Spek B,Wieringa-de Waard M,Lucas C,van Dijk N

更新日期：2013-07-01 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: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:At least two-thirds of the world's children grow up in environments where more than one language is spoken. Despite the global predominance of multilingualism, much remains unknown regarding the language acquisition of children acquiring multiple languages compared with monolingual children. A greater unders...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Nicholls RJ,Eadie PA,Reilly S

更新日期：2011-07-01 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