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Tax-Exemption for Hearing Aids in Health Care Reform Under Fire
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Source: ASHA Action Alerts - March 18, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Source Type: organizations
Treatment of Chronic Aphasia: International PerspectivesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Semin Speech Lang 2010; 31: 003-004DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1244948© Thieme Medical PublishersGet connected:Table of contents | FREE: Full text (Source: Seminars in Speech and Language)
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The Neural Correlates of Semantic Feature Analysis in Chronic Aphasia: Discordant Patterns According to the EtiologyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Semin Speech Lang 2010; 31: 052-063DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1244953ABSTRACTThis event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study reports on the impact of semantic feature analysis (SFA) therapy on the neural substrate sustaining the recovery from severe anomia in two patients: one participant was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) 2 years before this study; the other participant acquired aphasia 8 years before this study. The participant with PPA showed severe progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA), the language profile being similar to a Broca's aphasia; the stroke patient presented with Broca's aph...
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Computers in the Treatment of Chronic AphasiaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Semin Speech Lang 2010; 31: 034-041DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1244951ABSTRACTComputers and related technology can increase the amount of treatment received by adults with chronic aphasia. Computers used in treatment, however, are only valuable to the patient if the intervention is efficacious. Real and potential applications of computer technology are discussed in the context of three roles of computerized aphasia treatment for adults with chronic aphasia. Pertinent studies regarding Phases 1 and 2 are briefly described. The only Phase 3 study of efficacy of computerized aphasia treatment is more fully described and its implicati...
Source: Seminars in Speech and Language - March 11, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: journals
Outcome of a One-Month Therapy Intensive for Chronic Aphasia: Variable Individual ResponsesEmail this article to a colleague.
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We examined the outcome of a 1-month intensive treatment block for people with chronic aphasia. The selected participants were eight chronically impaired people (mean months post-onset [MPO], 34). We conducted pre- and post-treatment assessments using the English-language version of the Aachen Aphasia Test (EAAT) and the Communicative Effectiveness Index (CETI). The group had significant overall improvement following treatment, which was maintained for 1 month, most significant changes seen on the EAAT were mainly in naming, comprehension, and reading and writing. Improvement was also observed on the CETI. Individual respo...
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Continuing education self-study programEmail this article to a colleague.
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Semin Speech Lang 2010; 31: C1-C8DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1244955© Thieme Medical PublishersGet connected:Table of contents (Source: Seminars in Speech and Language)
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Erratum to: Minimally Invasive Peroral Endoscopic Removal of a Regurgitated Giant Polysegmented Fibrovascular Polyp of the EsophagusEmail this article to a colleague.
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Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Retraction NoteDOI 10.1007/s00455-010-9277-1Authors
László Iván, University of Szeged Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Head and Neck Surgery H-6725 Szeged HungaryAttila Torkos, University of Szeged Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Head and Neck Surgery H-6725 Szeged HungaryRóbert Paczona, University of Szeged Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Head and Neck Surgery H-6725 Szeged HungaryKároly Szentpáli, University of Szeged Department of Surgery Szeged HungaryJózsef Jóri, University of Szeged Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Head and Neck Surgery H-...
Source: Dysphagia - March 11, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Dysphagia Source Type: journals
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Cognitive Linguistics 21 (1): 151-179 (Source: Cognitive Linguistics)
Source: Cognitive Linguistics - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: journals
Reviewing imagery in resemblance and non-resemblance metaphorsEmail this article to a colleague.
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This article analyses the nature of mental imagery in metaphoric thought as envisaged by the contemporary theory of metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics (Lakoff, Cambridge University Press, 1993). Our study of metaphor in the field of marine biology draws on two crucial aspects of mental imagery, namely dynamicity and pervasiveness. Image metaphors and behaviour-based metaphors have generally been regarded as two different types of resemblance metaphor. In our view, the dynamicity of certain mental images highlights inherent similarities between these two types of metaphor, and makes the differences between them more apparent...
Source: Cognitive Linguistics - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: journals
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Cognitive Linguistics 21 (1): 75-121 Abstract We propose a constructionist approach to the polyfunctionality of the Italian focus particle magari (roughly corresponding to ‘maybe’, but also ‘I wish’). The sheer syntactic versatility of this word leads us to detect its formal regularities at the level of discourse configurations. This level of analysis, identified within the French linguistic tradition, is defined by the maintenance of a predicate-argument-adjunct structure in discourse. The salient feature of discourse configurations is their shape, which can be described by referring to a number of topological pat...
Source: Cognitive Linguistics - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: journals
Grammatical weight and relative clause extraposition in EnglishEmail this article to a colleague.
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Cognitive Linguistics 21 (1): 35-74 Abstract In relative clause extraposition (RCE) in English, a noun is modified by a non-adjacent RC, resulting in a discontinuous dependency, as in: Three people arrived here yesterday who were from Chicago. Although discourse focus is known to influence the choice of RCE over truth-conditionally equivalent sentences with canonical structure (Rochemont and Culicover, English focus constructions and the theory of grammar, Cambridge University Press, 1990; Takami, A functional constraint on Extraposition from NP, John Benjamins, 1999), Hawkins (Efficiency and complexity in grammars, Oxford...
Source: Cognitive Linguistics - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: journals
Evaluation of Swallowing Using 320-detector-row Multislice CT. Part II: Kinematic Analysis of Laryngeal Closure during Normal SwallowingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Abstract The purpose of this study was to (1) depict normal dynamic swallowing and (2) measure (a) the temporal characteristics of
three components of laryngeal closure, i.e., true vocal cord (TVC) closure, closure of the laryngeal vestibule at the arytenoid
to epiglottic base, and epiglottic inversion, and (b) the temporal relationship between these levels of laryngeal closure
and other swallowing events, hyoid elevation, and the pharyngoesophageal segment (PES) using 320-detector-row multislice computed
tomography (320-MSCT). The swallowing of a 10-ml portion of honey-thick liquid (5% w/v) was examined in ...
Source: Dysphagia - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Dysphagia Source Type: journals
The Validation of the Chinese Version of the Swallow Quality-of-Life Questionnaire (SWAL-QOL) Using Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor AnalysisEmail this article to a colleague.
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Abstract The aim of this work was to study the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Swallow Quality-of-Life Questionnaire
(CSWAL-QOL) validated in the Hong Kong Chinese-speaking population. With convenience sampling, a cross-sectional survey was
launched to evaluate the validity and reliability of the CSWAL-QOL. One hundred subjects with swallowing problems were recruited
to evaluate the construct validity and internal consistency, and 20 subjects were recruited for the test–retest reliability.
Construct validity was validated through factor analysis (both exploratory and confirmatory) and...
Source: Dysphagia - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Dysphagia Source Type: journals
Unusual Location of Primary Hydatid Cyst: Soft Tissue Mass in the Parapharyngeal RegionEmail this article to a colleague.
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the case of a 17-year-old male patient presenting with a hydatid cyst in the parapharyngeal and neck region. There was no
pulmonary or hepatic involvement. The definitive therapy comprised excision of the cystic mass and postoperative medical treatment.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Case ReportDOI 10.1007/s00455-010-9278-0Authors
Emin Karaman, Cerrahpasa Medical School, Istanbul University Department of Otorhinolaryngology Istanbul TurkeyMehmet Yilmaz, Cerrahpasa Medical School, Istanbul University Department of Otorhinolaryngology Istanbul TurkeyMehmet Ada, Cerrahpasa Medical School, Istanbul Uni...
Source: Dysphagia - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Dysphagia Source Type: journals
Wide-mouthed Sacculation of the Esophagus: A Cause of Dysphagia after Radiation TherapyEmail this article to a colleague.
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We describe a patient who presented with dysphagia after radiation therapy for Hodgkin’s lymphoma secondary to wide-mouthed
sacculation of the upper esophagus on barium esophagography, most likely resulting from localized radiation necrosis of the
muscular layer of the esophageal wall. Despite its rarity, radiologists should be aware of this finding as a potential cause
of dysphagia after radiation therapy to the neck or chest. Unlike radiation strictures, radiation-induced sacculation of the
esophagus probably can be managed conservatively without need for endoscopic dilatation procedures.
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Source: Dysphagia - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Dysphagia Source Type: journals
Measuring Pragmatic Language in Speakers with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Comparing the CCC-2 and the TOPL.Email this article to a colleague.
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CONCLUSIONS: In these children with ASD, who displayed age-appropriate levels of structural language skills, the CCC-2 identified pragmatic language impairment better than the TOPL. Clinically, this can be useful in documenting the presence of language dysfunction when traditional standardized language assessments would not reveal communication problems.
PMID: 20220047 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology)
Source: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Volden J, Phillips L Tags: Am J Speech Lang Pathol Source Type: journals
Relationships between Speech Intelligibility and Word Articulation Scores in Children with Hearing Loss.Email this article to a colleague.
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PURPOSE: This investigation sought to determine whether scores from a commonly used word-based articulation test are closely associated with speech intelligibility in children with hearing loss. If the scores are closely related, articulation testing results might be used to estimate intelligibility. If not, the importance of direct assessment of intelligibility would be reinforced. Methods Forty-four children with hearing losses produced words from the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation-2 and sets of 10 short sentences. Correlation analyses were conducted between scores for seven word-based predictor variables and p...
Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Ertmer DJ Tags: J Speech Lang Hear Res Source Type: journals
Effects of Lips and Hands on Auditory Learning of Second Language Speech Sounds.Email this article to a colleague.
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CONCLUSIONS: Seeing lip movements during training significantly helps learners to perceive difficult second language phonemic contrasts, but seeing hand gestures does not. We discuss possible benefits and limitations of using multimodal information in second language phoneme learning.
PMID: 20220023 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR)
Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Hirata Y, Kelly SD Tags: J Speech Lang Hear Res Source Type: journals
Evidence That a Motor Timing Deficit Is a Factor in the Development of Stuttering.Email this article to a colleague.
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CONCLUSION: We infer that there is a subgroup of young stuttering children who exhibit a non-speech motor timing deficit and discuss this result as it pertains to recovery or persistence of stuttering.
PMID: 20220024 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR)
Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Olander L, Smith A, Zelaznik H Tags: J Speech Lang Hear Res Source Type: journals
An experimental investigation of the effect of AAF on the conversational speech of adults who stutter.Email this article to a colleague.
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CONCLUSIONS: Participants' varying responses to differing AAF settings is likely to have accounted for the failure to find group differences between conditions. These results suggest that studies that use standard DAF and FAF settings for all participants are likely to underestimate any AAF effect. It is not yet possible to predict who will benefit from AAF devices in everyday situations and the extent of those benefits.
PMID: 20220025 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR)
Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Lincoln M, Packman A, Onslow M, Jones M Tags: J Speech Lang Hear Res Source Type: journals
Perception of Acoustically Degraded Sentences in Bilingual Listeners Who Differ in Age of English Acquisition.Email this article to a colleague.
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CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest that linguistic background needs to be considered in the understanding of bilingual listeners' context use in acoustically degraded conditions. Direct comparison of early bilingual listeners' performance with monolingual norms may be inappropriate when speech is highly degraded.
PMID: 20220026 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR)
Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Shi LF Tags: J Speech Lang Hear Res Source Type: journals
Visual Influences on Alignment to Voice Onset Time.Email this article to a colleague.
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CONCLUSIONS: These results show that, like auditory speech, visual speech information can induce speech alignment to a phonetically-relevant property of an utterance.
PMID: 20220027 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR)
Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Sanchez K, Miller RM, Rosenblum LD Tags: J Speech Lang Hear Res Source Type: journals
Maternal interactions with a hearing and hearing impaired twin: Similarities and differences in speech input, interaction quality and word production.Email this article to a colleague.
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CONCLUSIONS: The mother appears more focused on maintaining the attention of the HI-infant using the typical ID exaggerations to prosody, and overlooking linguistic features such as the hyperarticulation of her vowels. The results have implications for early intervention strategies.
PMID: 20220028 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR)
Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Lam C, Kitamura C Tags: J Speech Lang Hear Res Source Type: journals
An imitative test of speech-pattern contrast perception (OlimSpac): developmental effects in normally hearing children.Email this article to a colleague.
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CONCLUSIONS: When evaluated on a pass/fail basis, normally hearing children aged 3 years or more are likely to demonstrate auditory perception of most phonemic contrasts using this imitative test. Phonological development and other task-related factors have only a modest effect on performance by normally hearing children after 3 years of age. The effects of hearing loss, hearing age, sensory assistance, and listening experience in children with hearing loss remain to be determined.
PMID: 20220029 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR)
Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Boothroyd A, Eisenberg LS, Martinez AS Tags: J Speech Lang Hear Res Source Type: journals
Maternal label and gesture use affects acquisition of specific object names.Email this article to a colleague.
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ABSTRACTTen mothers were observed prospectively, interacting with their infants aged 0 ; 10 in two contexts (picture description and noun description). Maternal communicative behaviours were coded for volubility, gestural production and labelling style. Verbal labelling events were categorized into three exclusive categories: label only; label plus deictic gesture; label plus iconic gesture. We evaluated the predictive relations between maternal communicative style and children's subsequent acquisition of ten target nouns. Strong relations were observed between maternal communicative style and children's acquisition of...
Source: Journal of Child Language - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Zammit M, Schafer G Tags: J Child Lang Source Type: journals
Phonological development of word-initial Korean obstruents in young Korean children.Email this article to a colleague.
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This study investigates the acquisition of word-initial Korean obstruents (i.e. stops, affricates and fricatives). Korean obstruents are characterized by a three-way contrast among stops and affricates (i.e. fortis, aspirated and lenis) and a two-way fricative contrast (i.e. fortis and lenis). All these obstruents are voiceless word-initially. Cross-sectional data were collected from forty Korean children aged 2 ; 6 (year;month), 3 ; 0, 3 ; 6 and 4 ; 0, and the acquisition patterns of Korean obstruents were explored based on productions of mono- and multisyllabic words. Results confirm the universal patterns: stops were ac...
Source: Journal of Child Language - March 10, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Kim M, Stoel-Gammon C Tags: J Child Lang Source Type: journals
Concurrent and predictive validity of the Galician CDI.Email this article to a colleague.
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ABSTRACTThis paper explores the concurrent and predictive validity of the long and short forms of the Galician version of the MacArthur-Bates CDI (IDHC). Forty-two Galician-speaking children were longitudinally evaluated at age 1 ; 6, 2 ; 0 and 4 ; 0. On the first two occasions, the subjects' vocabulary and grammar skills were assessed through the IDHC. Simultaneously, lexical and grammatical measures were obtained from spontaneous speech samples. Standardized measures of general cognitive abilities (WPPSI-R) and receptive and expressive language (RDLS-III) were obtained at age 4 ; 0. Results showed high and significan...
Source: Journal of Child Language - March 9, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Pérez-Pereira M, Resches M Tags: J Child Lang Source Type: journals
The input ambiguity hypothesis and case blindness: an account of cross-linguistic and intra-linguistic differences in case errors.Email this article to a colleague.
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ABSTRACTEnglish-acquiring children frequently make pronoun case errors, while German-acquiring children rarely do. Nonetheless, German-acquiring children frequently make article case errors. It is proposed that when child-directed speech contains a high percentage of case-ambiguous forms, case errors are common in child language; when percentages are low, case errors are rare. Input to English and German children was analyzed for percentage of case-ambiguous personal pronouns on adult tiers of corpora from 24 English-acquiring and 24 German-acquiring children. Also analyzed for German was the percentage of case-ambiguo...
Source: Journal of Child Language - March 5, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Pelham SD Tags: J Child Lang Source Type: journals
Children do not overcome lexical biases where adults do: the role of the referential scene in garden-path recovery.Email this article to a colleague.
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ABSTRACTIn this paper we report on a visual world eye-tracking experiment that investigated the differing abilities of adults and children to use referential scene information during reanalysis to overcome lexical biases during sentence processing. The results showed that adults incorporated aspects of the referential scene into their parse as soon as it became apparent that a test sentence was syntactically ambiguous, suggesting they considered the two alternative analyses in parallel. In contrast, the children appeared not to reanalyze their initial analysis, even over shorter distances than have been investigated in...
Source: Journal of Child Language - March 3, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Kidd E, Stewart AJ, Serratrice L Tags: J Child Lang Source Type: journals
Unusual Manifestations of Bilateral Carotid Artery Dissection: Dysphagia and HoarsenessEmail this article to a colleague.
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Abstract Dissection of the carotid artery can occur intracranially or extracranially, although dissections tend to affect extracranial
segments of the arteries much more commonly than intracranial segments. Carotid artery dissection (CAD) is most common in
middle-aged women. Although not completely known, the main risk factors related to carotid artery dissection are genetic and
environmental factors, traumatic events, cervical manipulation, migraine, recent infections, hyperhomocysteinemia, and hereditary
connective tissue disorders. Although some cases of bilateral internal CAD have been reported, spontane...
Source: Dysphagia - March 2, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Dysphagia Source Type: journals
Facilitating Children's Learning of Dynamic-Display AAC Devices: The Effect of two Instructional Methods on the Performance of 6- and 7-year-olds with Typical Development Using a Dual-Screen Prototype.Email this article to a colleague.
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This study compared the operation of a dynamic-display AAC device in two instructional conditions: corrective feedback (CF) and dual-screen guidance (DSG). In the CF condition prompts/feedback were provided for incorrect responses; the DSG condition used errorless guided instruction only. Twenty-one children with typical development - ten 6-year-olds and 11 7-year-olds - were randomly assigned to one instructional condition and completed five sessions: three learning/testing, one generalization, and one maintenance. The children were required to reproduce visual sentence stimuli on the AAC device. Differences were found in...
Source: Augmentative and Alternative Communication - March 1, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Quach W, Beukelman D Tags: Augment Altern Commun Source Type: journals
A Comparison of the Performance of 5-year-old Children with Typical Development using Iconic Encoding in AAC Systems with and without Icon Prediction on a Fixed Display.Email this article to a colleague.
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Iconic encoding, or the use of a sequence of icons to retrieve a word or phrase from augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technologies, has previously been shown to be challenging for young children to learn to use. It is possible that the use of icon prediction may facilitate learning in such systems by providing additional visual cues. The goal of the current study was to determine the effect of using icon prediction on the performance of 5-year-old children with typical development who were learning to locate and generalize vocabulary prestored in AAC technologies using iconic encoding. Twenty 5-year-old...
Source: Augmentative and Alternative Communication - March 1, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Drager KD, Light JC Tags: Augment Altern Commun Source Type: journals
Improving Web Access for Individuals who Rely on Augmentative and Alternative Communication.Email this article to a colleague.
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This study was designed to test the usability of WebAACcess, an accessibility enhancement tool designed to bypass some of the barriers to navigating the web. Using a repeated-measures research design, whereby subjects were their own controls, each of the 12 participants (7 with motor disabilities who used AAC and 5 peers without disabilities) navigated equivalent web pages using Internet Explorer alone and Internet Explorer with WebAACcess. Results consistently demonstrated that navigating using WebAACess with Internet Explorer was more efficient, easier, and equally effective for all of the participants than navigating wi...
Source: Augmentative and Alternative Communication - March 1, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Bryen DN, Heake G, Semenuk A, Segal M Tags: Augment Altern Commun Source Type: journals
Parents' Priorities for AAC and Related Instruction for their Children with Angelman Syndrome.Email this article to a colleague.
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This investigation examined the extent to which a set of 98 best practices in AAC, previously agreed upon by a panel of experts in AAC and inclusive education, reflected the actual preferences of 32 parents of children diagnosed with Angelman Syndrome. Parents' responses were examined in relation to whether their children were currently in mostly integrated (MI) settings with children without disabilities, or mostly segregated settings with other children with disabilities. With two exceptions, both groups, regardless of their children's current placements, viewed the practices favorably. When asked to prioritize the m...
Source: Augmentative and Alternative Communication - March 1, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Calculator SN, Black T Tags: Augment Altern Commun Source Type: journals
The effect of sequential exposure of color conditions on time and accuracy of graphic symbol location.Email this article to a colleague.
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This study examined the role of color on rate and accuracy of identifying symbols on an 8-location overlay through the use of 3 color conditions (same, mixed and unique). Sixty typically developing preschool children were exposed to two different sequential exposures (Set 1 and Set 2). Participants searched for a target stimulus (either meaningful symbols or arbitrary forms) in a stimuli array. Findings indicated that the sequential exposures (orderings) impacted both time and accuracy for both types of symbols within specific instances.
PMID: 20196703 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Augmentative and Alternative Communication)
Source: Augmentative and Alternative Communication - March 1, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Alant E, Kolatsis A, Lilienfeld M Tags: Augment Altern Commun Source Type: journals
Exploring Communication Assistants as an Option for Increasing Communication Access to Communities for People who use Augmentative Communication.Email this article to a colleague.
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This paper describes the results of a one-year intervention project that aimed to (a) learn about the communication supports required by people who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) when accessing their communities, (b) develop and implement a funded communication assistant service as an accessibility support option for people who use AAC when communicating in their communities, (c) evaluate the impact of the communication assistant service on community access for people who use AAC, and (d) make recommendations relating to the role of communication assistants as an option for increasing communicatio...
Source: Augmentative and Alternative Communication - March 1, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Collier B, McGhie-Richmond D, Self H Tags: Augment Altern Commun Source Type: journals
Help Oppose Elimination of Medicaid Rehab ServicesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: ASHA Action Alerts - March 1, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Source Type: organizations
Book Review: Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole Routes to Language: Studies in Honor of Melissa Bowerman (London and New York: Psychology Press, 2008). pp. 480. ISBN 978-1-84169-716-1Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: First Language - February 24, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Ninio, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Book Review: C. Frazier Norbury, J.B. Tomlin, and D. V. M. Bishop (Eds.) Understanding Developmental Language Disorders: From Theory to Practice (Oxford: Psychology Press, 2008). pp. 248. ISBN 978-1-84169-666-9 (hbk); ISBN 978-1-84169-667-6 (pbk)Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: First Language - February 24, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Riches, N. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Book Review: B. Haznedar and E. Gavruseva Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2008). pp 363. ISBN 978-90-272-5307-1Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: First Language - February 24, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Bernardini, P. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Translation Equivalents and the Emergence of Multiple Lexicons in Early Trilingual DevelopmentEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study examines lexical differentiation in early trilingual development through an analysis of the translation equivalents (TEs) produced by a Tagalog—Spanish—English trilingual child. The child’s cumulative vocabulary between 1;4 and 2;0 was reconstructed through diary records and audio-recordings, and the extent to which phonetically distinct equivalent doublets and triplets were represented in her cumulative lexicon was examined. The results indicate that TEs were produced from early on, similarly to bilingual children. However, the amount of input heard in each language determined the number and t...
Source: First Language - February 24, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Montanari, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
The Influence of Frequency and Semantic Similarity on How Children Learn GrammarEmail this article to a colleague.
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Lexically based learning and semantic analogy may both play a role in the learning of grammar. To investigate this, 5-year-old German children were trained on a miniature language (nominally English) involving two grammatical constructions, each of which was associated with a different semantic verb class.Training was followed by elicited production and grammaticality judgement tests with ‘trained verbs’ and a ‘generalization’ test, involving untrained verbs. In the ‘trained verbs’ judgement test the children were above chance at associating particular verbs with the constructions in whi...
Source: First Language - February 24, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Abbot-Smith, K., Tomasello, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Learning the Meaning of Verbs: Insights from QuechuaEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study presents experimental evidence corroborating the author’s earlier finding that Quechua-speaking children’s overgeneralization errors observe the same asymmetry. The transitive variants of change-of-state verbs were elicited from 30 Peruvian children, aged 2;8—4;11. The ensuing discussion considers how Quechua-speaking children recover from this pattern of overgeneralization in light of constraints that have been proposed for children acquiring English, which is typologically very different from Quechua. (Source: First Language)
Source: First Language - February 24, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Courtney, E. H. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Hebrew Adjectives in Later Language Text ProductionEmail this article to a colleague.
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The study investigates the distribution and use of adjectives in 252 texts produced by 63 Hebrew-speaking children, adolescents, and adults who were asked to tell and write a story about a personal fight or a quarrel, and to present a talk and write an expository text on the topic of school violence. All adjective types and tokens in each text were identified, counted, classified, and analyzed using semantic, morphological, and syntactic criteria. Findings show that the adjective class grows larger, richer, and more diverse with age and schooling — in lexicon, morpho-semantics, and syntax. Also, adjectives configure ...
Source: First Language - February 24, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Ravid, D., Levie, R. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Developing Noun Phrase Complexity at School Age: A Text-Embedded Cross-Linguistic AnalysisEmail this article to a colleague.
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Development of noun phrase structure and use is analyzed as an important facet of syntactic acquisition from middle childhood to adolescence. Noun phrases occurring in narrative and expository texts produced in both speech and writing by 96 native speakers of English and Hebrew were identified and examined by a set of specially devised criteria including length in words, syntactic depth, abstractness of head nouns, and nature of modifiers. Results reveal a clear and consistent developmental increment in NP complexity from age 9 to 12, and particularly from age 16 years; written expository texts emerge as a favored site for...
Source: First Language - February 24, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Ravid, D., Berman, R. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Effectiveness of the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) on Communication & Speech for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Metanalysis.Email this article to a colleague.
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CONCLUSIONS: This metanalysis synthesizes gains in communication and relative lack of gains made in speech across the PECS literature for children with ASD. Concerns about maintenance and generalization are identified. Emerging evidence of potential pre-intervention child characteristics are discussed. Phase IV was identified as a possibly influential program characteristic for speech outcomes.
PMID: 20181849 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology)
Source: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology - February 24, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Flippin M, Reszka S, Watson LR Tags: Am J Speech Lang Pathol Source Type: journals
Effects of Parent Instruction on the Symbolic Communication of Children using AAC during Storybook Reading.Email this article to a colleague.
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CONCLUSIONS: Results provide evidence that the communication partner instruction program applied within storybook reading contexts holds significant promise in improving parent-child interaction patterns and facilitating communicative expression and turn taking in children who use AAC.
PMID: 20181850 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology)
Source: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology - February 24, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Kent-Walsh J, Binger C, Hasham Z Tags: Am J Speech Lang Pathol Source Type: journals
Discourse coherence and cognition after stroke: A dual task study.Email this article to a colleague.
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This study directly tests this hypothesis by examining the relationship between cognitive variables and coherence in narrative discourse produced by mobility-impaired stroke survivors under single (talking) and dual (talking and walking) task conditions. Although there were no effects of the dual task on coherence, global coherence was significantly disrupted regardless of the single or dual task condition. Moreover, global coherence strongly correlated with cognitive function measures, whereas local coherence did not. Findings are consistent with two interpretations: (1) that global and local coherence may be subserved by...
Source: Journal of Communication Disorders - February 20, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Rogalski Y, Altmann LJ, Plummer-D'Amato P, Behrman AL, Marsiske M Tags: J Commun Disord Source Type: journals
Medicare Therapy Caps and Pending Payment ReductionsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: ASHA Action Alerts - February 19, 2010 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Source Type: organizations
