Strategies for achieving joint attention when signing to children with Down's syndrome.

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: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: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：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：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: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: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：BACKGROUND:Stuttering is prone to strike during speech initiation more so than at any other point in an utterance. The use of auditory feedback (AAF) has been found to produce robust decreases in the stuttering frequency by creating an electronic rendition of choral speech (i.e., speaking in unison). However, AAF requi...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Saltuklaroglu T,Kalinowski J,Robbins M,Crawcour S,Bowers A

更新日期：2009-11-01 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: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：: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: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: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：: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: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：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

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：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:Fluent speakers and people who stutter manifest alterations in autonomic and emotional responses as they view stuttered relative to fluent speech samples. These reactions are indicative of an aroused autonomic state and are hypothesized to be triggered by the abrupt breakdown in fluency exemplified in stutte...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Guntupalli VK,Nanjundeswaran C,Dayalu VN,Kalinowski J

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：: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: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：: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:Difficulties experienced by novices in clinical reasoning have been well documented in many professions, especially medicine (Boshuizen and Schmidt 1992, 2000; Elstein, Shulman and Sprafka 1978; Patel and Groen 1986; Rikers, Loyens and Schmidt 2004). These studies have shown that novice clinicians have diffi...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Hoben K,Varley R,Cox R

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：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: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：:Twenty-six speech and language therapy (SLT) clinical files, in which patients presented with a medical diagnosis of bilateral or unilateral vocal fold nodule(s), were audited retrospectively over a six year period (1992-1998). The objective of the study was to evaluate current practice within our trust in the managem...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： McCrory E

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children with dyslexia and/or developmental language disorder (hereafter children with DDLD) have been reported to retrieve fewer words than their typically developing (TD) peers in semantic fluency tasks. It is not known whether this retrieval difficulty can be attributed to the semantic structure of their ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Mengisidou M,Marshall CR,Stavrakaki S

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00