Gesture use following right hemisphere brain damage.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Efforts to increase the evidence base in speech and language therapy are often limited by methodological factors that have restricted the strength of the evidence to the lower levels of the evidence hierarchy. Where higher graded studies, such as randomized controlled trials, have been carried out, it has so...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Wren Y,Humphries K,Stock NM,Rumsey N,Lewis S,Davies A,Bennett R,Sandy J

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Narrative assessment is sensitive to the communication impairments of children with specific language impairment and those with autistic spectrum disorders. Although both groups of children tend to show deficits in narrative, it is unclear whether these deficits are qualitatively different and how language a...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Norbury CF,Bishop DV

更新日期：2003-07-01 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:According to the 'Simple View of Reading', reading comprehension requires some abilities such as reading skill and listening comprehension. Individuals with Down's syndrome show relative strengths in reading skills, mainly in word recognition, where they attain a reading age of about 7-8 years. Compared with...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Roch M,Florit E,Levorato C

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:This retrospective study analyses data collected on an information system developed specifically for the use of speech and language therapists in the management of their services. Eleven healthcare providers have used the system since 1985. This paper reflects data on 73,000 clients referred to these speech and langua...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Enderby P,Petheram B

更新日期：2000-01-01 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:Although some investigations of phonological development have found that segmental accuracy is comparable in monolingual children and their bilingual peers, there is evidence that language use affects segmental accuracy in both languages. AIMS:To investigate the influence of age of first exposure to English...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Ruiz-Felter R,Cooperson SJ,Bedore LM,Peña ED

更新日期：2016-07-01 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: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: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：: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:Listening to how people talk about the consequences of acquired aphasia helps one gain insight into how people construe disability and communication disability in particular. It has been found that some of these construals can be more of a disabling barrier in re-engaging with life than the communication imp...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Barrow R

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reflective learning approach for clinical training with final year students is described. The training programme aims to promote the development of independent and reflective practitioners. The theories and ideas that have influenced the structure of the programme are described and an outline of the programme is pro...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Bruce C,Parker A,Herbert R

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：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：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

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 & AIMS:Preschool and early school-aged children with specific language impairment not only have spoken language difficulties, but also are at risk of future literacy problems. Effective interventions targeting both spoken language and emergent literacy skills for this population are limited. This paper repor...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Munro N,Lee K,Baker E

更新日期：2008-11-01 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: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: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: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：: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：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：:A systems approach is used to examine the barriers to collaboration found in the working practices of speech and language therapists and teachers. Functional, structural and systems-environment barriers are found, but few process barriers, which may explain why good collaborative practice can be found in the field. Th...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： McCartney E

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Speaking rate has implications for both clinical practice and an understanding of normal and disordered communication processes. Fundamental information on speaking rate is required by the clinician for the appropriate management of those disorders with disturbances of rate or those in which rate modificatio...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Walker JF,Archibald LM

更新日期：2006-09-01 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: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:Speech and language therapy (SLT) managers are expected to ensure that there are appropriate services available for bilingual and multilingual clients in order to ensure an equitable service to all clients. However, there is a paucity of data available to inform service planning. AIMS:To identify the level ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Mennen I,Stansfield J

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00