Randomized clinical trial: the use of SpeechEasy® in stuttering treatment.

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：: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:Nonverbal communication abilities, including gesture use, are impaired in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, little is known about how common gestures may influence or be influenced by other areas of development. AIMS:To examine the relationships between gesture, fine motor and language in young child...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Manwaring SS,Mead DL,Swineford L,Thurm A

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：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:It has been suggested that one way to increase speech pathologists' confidence in working with people who stutter is to provide them with relevant and stimulating clinical experiences during their professional preparation. This paper describes a treatment programme for adults who stutter that is conducted by...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Block S,Onslow M,Packman A,Gray B,Dacakis G

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improvement or maintenance of speech intelligibility is a central aim in a whole range of conditions in speech-language therapy, both developmental and acquired. Best clinical practice and pursuance of the evidence base for interventions would suggest measurement of intelligibility forms a vital role in clinical decis...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Miller N

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven non-speaking preschool children with severe cerebral palsy, 5-7 years of age, were studied with respect to the amount of prelinguistic versus linguistic modes of communication used in communicative interaction with a previously unknown adult. An attempt was also made to analyse this in relation to the childrens'...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Falkman KW,Sandberg AD,Hjelmquist E

更新日期：2002-01-01 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: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：: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：BACKGROUND:A survey of clinicians made by Joffe and Pring in 2008 revealed that different approaches exist between researchers and clinicians in the treatment of children with phonological problems. Researchers have examined specific approaches to treatment often giving substantial amounts of therapy and have obtained ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Lancaster G,Keusch S,Levin A,Pring T,Martin S

更新日期：2010-03-01 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: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:Oesophageal abnormalities are common findings in a speech-language therapy videofluoroscopy clinic. Fluoroscopic screening involving oropharynx alone fails to identify these patients. Oesophageal screening as an adjunct to videofluoroscopy is gaining popularity. Yet currently, little is known about the relia...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Miles A

更新日期：2017-07-01 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: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：:This paper will give a progress report on a randomised controlled trial which is currently underway in the Bristol area. Some of the key influencing literature will be summarised, followed by an overview of the study design. The paper will also highlight some of the methodological and practical advantages and disadvan...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Roulstone S,Glogowska M,Enderby P,Peters TJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:The metalinguistic ability to cope with homonyms, that is, words having multiple unrelated meanings, emerges rather late in the course child language development. It is associated with specific neural activity and related to academic achievement and second language learning. This study is about homonyms that...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Corthals P

更新日期：2010-01-01 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:Language treatment for children with specific language impairment (SLI) often takes months to achieve moderate results. Interventions often do not incorporate the principles that are known to affect learning in unimpaired learners. AIMS:To outline some key findings about learning in typical populations and ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Alt M,Meyers C,Ancharski A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children with specific language impairment (SLI) have problems not only with language performance but also with sustained attention, which is the ability to maintain alertness over an extended period of time. Although there is consensus that this ability is impaired with respect to processing stimuli in the ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Jongman SR,Roelofs A,Scheper AR,Meyer AS

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：:Research indicates that joint attention is an important factor in determining the rate and nature of early vocabulary development in typically developing children. Studies conducted with deaf children acquiring sign language indicate that caregivers adopt special strategies for achieving joint attention with this grou...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Clibbens J,Powell GG,Atkinson E

更新日期：2002-07-01 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：: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:Prognostication is a complex clinical task that involves forming a prediction about recovery and communicating prognostic information to patients and families. In aphasia, recovery is difficult to predict and evidence-based guidance on prognosis delivery is lacking. Questions about aphasia prognosis commonly...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Cheng BBY,Worrall LE,Copland DA,Wallace SJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：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