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: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:Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is associated with phonological awareness, reading, and spelling deficits. Comparing literacy skills in CAS with other developmental speech disorders is critical for understanding the complexity of the disorder. AIMS:This study compared the phonological awareness and readin...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： McNeill BC,Gillon GT,Dodd B

更新日期：2009-03-01 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 & 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：: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: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: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: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: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：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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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：BACKGROUND:Around one-quarter of children attending language support services have difficulty in retrieving words. Therapy studies with such children have shown that both semantic and phonological techniques can improve word finding. A new approach to intervention is described using a computerized aid that converts let...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Best W

更新日期：2005-07-01 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: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:The construction of therapy protocols for a large-scale randomized controlled trial comparing speech and language therapists and assistants, and group and individual therapy approaches for children aged 6-11 in mainstream schools is outlined. AIMS:The aim was to outline the decision-making processes that le...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： McCartney E,Boyle J,Bannatyne S,Jessiman E,Campbell C,Kelsey C,Smith J,O'Hare A

更新日期：2004-01-01 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: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：:Approximately 7% of young school-aged children have specific language impairments. Many such children are now being educated in mainstream settings. However, there is a dearth of up-to-date and valid research that considers UK (student) teachers' attitudes towards such children. This study aimed to investigate trainee...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Marshall J,Stojanovik V,Ralph S

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of phonological awareness intervention for children at risk for reading disorder has received increasing attention in the literature. This paper reports the follow-up data for participants in the Gillon (2000a) intervention study. The performance of twenty, 5-7-year-old New Zealand children with spoken la...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Gillon GT

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：: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：:In the past decade, there has been growing recognition of the need to involve clients in decisions about the healthcare they receive and in the evaluation of services offered. In health services research, survey and scaling methods have become important tools for research into 'consumer views' and the perspectives of ...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

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

更新日期：2001-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The potential value of a framework enabling practitioners to conceptualise speech and language therapy from a range of perspectives engendered by different theories about disability is explored. Four disability research paradigms are used to categorise professional activities, whilst the 'individual' and 'social' mode...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Jordan L,Bryan K

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Care aims are a means of defining the purpose of intervention of health care. The Malcomess care aims model uses these labels to guide the planning, delivery and outcome measurement of care. Within speech and language therapy (SLT) this involves the use of one of seven labels which clarify and make explicit the purpos...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： McCarthy C,Lacey R,Malcomess K

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Impaired phonology is reported to be the most salient characteristic of the communication profiles of twin children. However, little is known about the phonological development of twins speaking languages other than English. This case study described the phonological systems of a set of Putonghua-speaking twins, using...

journal_title：International journal of language & communication disorders

authors： Hua Z,Dodd B

更新日期：2000-10-01 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