Can individuals with Down syndrome improve their grammar?

abstract：BACKGROUND:Telerehabilitation may be a feasible solution to the current problems faced by people with Parkinson's disease in accessing speech pathology services. AIM:To investigate the validity and reliability of online delivery of the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT®) for the speech and voice disorder associated ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Constantinescu G,Theodoros D,Russell T,Ward E,Wilson S,Wootton R

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Both direct (clinician to child) and indirect (clinician to carer) approaches are currently used in the management of children with language delay, but there is as yet little evidence about their relative effects or resource implications. AIMS:This research project compared the Hanen Parent Programme (HPP) ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Baxendale J,Hesketh A

更新日期：2003-10-01 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: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：: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: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: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:More than 80% of people living with MND (plwMND) develop difficulties with their speech, affecting communication, self-identity and quality of life. Most plwMND eventually use an augmentative and alternative communication device (AAC) to communicate. Some AAC devices provide a synthesized voice for speech, h...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Cave R,Bloch S

更新日期：2020-12-22 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: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: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：BACKGROUND:The Swedish Program for health surveillance of preschool children includes screening of language and communication abilities. One important language screening is carried out at age 4 years as part of a general screening conducted by health nurses at child health centres. The instruments presently in use for ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Lavesson A,Lövdén M,Hansson K

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children who do not produce single words by the expected age have been described as 'late talkers' or as demonstrating 'late language emergence' (LLE). Although their short-term growth in vocabulary is often strong, longer-term consequences of LLE remain in dispute. It has been argued that the majority of sc...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Domsch C,Richels C,Saldana M,Coleman C,Wimberly C,Maxwell L

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this pilot study was to employ a qualitative research methodology to explore students' perceptions of learning and assessment of that learning whilst on clinical placement. The students' perceptions were sampled by questionnaire both pre- and post-placement (ten weeks block placement). The analysis of the d...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Nettleton J,Reilly O

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Posterior nasal fricatives are a learned compensatory articulation error and commonly substituted for oral fricatives. Treatment of such articulation errors requires the modification or teaching of skilled movements. A motor-based approach is designed to teach the complex motor skill movement sequences requi...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Mason KN,Pua E,Perry JL

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The needs of under-graduate students and newly qualified speech and language therapists (SLTs) are discussed. The results of a small-scale survey of final year SLT students and one of newly qualified therapists are presented. Similarities between clinical teaching of under-graduates and mentoring of newly qualified th...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Anderson H

更新日期：2001-01-01 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: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: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: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：: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: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: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:Dysarthria knowledge is predominantly impairment-based. As a result, speech and language therapists (SLTs) have traditionally adopted impairment-focused management practices. However, guidance for best practice suggests that SLTs should consider the client holistically, including the impact of dysarthria bey...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Collis J,Bloch S

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A high prevalence of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is reported in the population of Young Offenders (YO). However, little is known about the extent of the association between language and offending behaviour relative to social disadvantage, education attendance and non-verbal intelligence (IQ), and n...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Hopkins T,Clegg J,Stackhouse J

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：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：BACKGROUND:Children with specific speech and language difficulties (SSLD) pose a challenge to the education system, and to speech and language therapists who support them, as a result of their language needs and associated educational and social-behavioural difficulties. The development of inclusion raises questions re...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Dockrell JE,Lindsay G,Letchford B,Mackie C

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：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