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Speech disorders in neurofibromatosis type 1: a sample survey.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: The results indicate that speech difficulties are an area of interest in the NF1 population. Further research to elucidate these findings is needed. PMID: 19900076 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - November 10, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Cosyns M, Vandeweghe L, Mortier G, Janssens S, Van Borsel J Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Procedural and declarative memory in children with and without specific language impairment.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: The results were interpreted to suggest an uneven profile of memory functioning in specific language impairment. On measures of declarative memory, specific language impairment appears to be associated with difficulties learning verbal information. At the same time, procedural memory is also appears to be impaired. Collectively, this study indicates multiple memory impairments in specific language impairment. PMID: 19900077 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - November 10, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Lum JA, Gelgic C, Conti-Ramsden G Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Self-esteem of adolescents with specific language impairment as they move from compulsory education.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: This study has provided evidence for improvements in self-esteem for young people with SLI after they leave school and enter the world of non-compulsory education (typically at a college), employment and training. The study has also indicated the importance of addressing self-esteem as a multi-dimensional construct and the consequent necessity to use instruments that assess different domains of self-esteem. PMID: 19886847 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - November 4, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Lindsay G, Dockrell J, Palikara O Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Reconciling the perspective of practitioner and service user: findings from The Aphasia in Scotland study.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: The findings from this study indicate that although there are clearly common perspectives, the views of people with aphasia about services do not necessarily coincide with those of service providers. This is an important consideration when initiating consultation and highlights the need for clarity on the part of practitioners in identifying the aims and objectives of their ervices as far as people with aphasia are concerned. PMID: 19886848 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - November 4, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Law J, Huby G, Irving AM, Pringle AM, Conochie D, Haworth C, Burston A Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Assessing early communication behaviours: structure and validity of the Communication and Symbolic Behaviour Scales-Developmental Profile (CSBS-DP) in 12-month-old infants.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: As measures of early communication skill for young infants, the CSBS-DP Behaviour Sample and the Infant-Toddler Checklist are valid clinical tools for measuring constructs broadly representing Social, Speech, and Symbolic communication skills. The Speech composite in particular emerged as a strong factor under the Behaviour Sample. PMID: 19886849 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - November 4, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Eadie PA, Ukoumunne O, Skeat J, Prior MR, Bavin E, Bretherton L, Reilly S Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

The Communication Attitude Test (CAT-S): normative values for 220 Swedish children.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: The norm values of CAT-S could be used for comparison of scores from Swedish children with speech disorders. The CAT-S is easy to administer and could be used either in a group setting for research purpose or individually at the clinic. PMID: 19874090 [PubMed - in process] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - November 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Johannisson TB, Wennerfeldt S, Havstam C, Naeslund M, Jacobson K, Lohmander A Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Comprehension of metaphor and metonymy in children with Williams syndrome.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: Metonyms may be part of vocabulary and treated as synonyms in Williams syndrome, while metaphor engages additional cognitive mechanisms outside language that develop atypically in this disorder. Despite earlier reports that emphasize good language skills, the Williams syndrome language system shows anomalies compared with typical development. PMID: 19874091 [PubMed - in process] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - November 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Annaz D, Van Herwegen J, Thomas M, Fishman R, Karmiloff-Smith A, Rundblad G Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Author and keywords indices.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - November 1, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Developmental Disorders of Language Learning and Cognition.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19860565 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - October 27, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Starling J Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Narrative-based intervention for word-finding difficulties: a case study.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: NBLI-WF was effective in improving naming accuracy in this single case, but there were limitations to the research. Further research is required to assess the changes that may occur in language production and word-finding characteristics in narrative. Community clinicians are encouraged to refine clinical practice to ensure clinical research meets quality indicators. PMID: 19857187 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - October 27, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Marks I, Stokes SF Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Social participation through the eyes of people with aphasia.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Social participation is a theoretical concept that people with aphasia do not use. Instead, people speak in terms of engagement, involvement, having a feeling of belonging. People with aphasia describe the degree of engagement in activities in social life domains (i.e. the quality of activities) as more important than the quantity of performing activities. PMID: 19839875 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - October 19, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Dalemans RJ, de Witte L, Wade D, van den Heuvel W Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Relationship between speech, oromotor, language and cognitive abilities in children with Down's syndrome.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: Children with Down's syndrome present with speech disorders characterized by atypical, and often unusual, errors alongside many developmental errors. A lack of correlation between speech and cognition or language measures suggests that the speech disorder in Down's syndrome is not simply due to cognitive delay. Better differential diagnosis of speech disorders in Down's syndrome is required, allowing interventions to target the specific disorder in each individual. PMID: 19821789 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - October 12, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Cleland J, Wood S, Hardcastle W, Wishart J, Timmins C Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Nine- to twelve-year olds' metalinguistic awareness of homonymy.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: Further research is needed to find out whether there actually is a genuine gender effect in the ability to reflect on words with multiple meanings. This ability is different from what is traditionally defined as active or passive vocabulary, because of the metalinguistic dimensions of the task. The findings in this study underpin the need for further exploration of metalinguistic aspects of vocabulary growth and language development in general, and for the development of appropriate test tools. A screening of multiple meaning mastery may be a valuable procedure to detect individuals in need ...
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - October 12, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Corthals P Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Pragmatics in pre-schoolers with language impairments.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: The instruments were not always converging, but when the instruments did converge the obtained results were valid. However, the obtained high specificity and relatively low sensitivity values for each of the instruments showed that better cut-off scores are needed. When only one of the instruments indicated the absence or presence of language impairments, one needs to be careful in concluding whether or not there are indeed language impairments. PMID: 19821791 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - October 12, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Geurts H, Embrechts M Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Knowledge is BLISS: an investigation into the transparency of BLISS symbol strings directed by a person with aphasia.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions and Implications: Individuals without aphasia are able to match symbol strings to pictures without teaching. Further research is required to establish whether people with aphasia can similarly match the adapted version of BLISS to pictures. This study provides further evidence that people with aphasia can engage productively in the research process, even when experimental methodologies are employed. PMID: 19821792 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - October 12, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: O'Donnell T, Bruce C, Black M, Clayton A Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Role of phonotactic frequency in nonword repetition by children with specific language impairments.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: While children with SLI were less accurate overall, non-significant interactions indicate that both groups of children were comparably affected by differences in consonant and diphone frequency. PMID: 19821795 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - October 12, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Coady J, Evans JL, Kluender KR Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Conversational behaviour of children with Developmental Language Delay and their caretakers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: Caretakers in DLD dyads appear to develop a less facilitative conversational style and a decrease of contingencies in initiations and responses over time. The result is little opportunity for the conversational and linguistic skills of the DLD children to develop. Parental guidance in the form of conversational training, child-adjusted register, contingent response behaviour and the provision of language materials which can help the child discover his or her role as a conversational partner and recognize the different perspectives of conversational partners is emphasized. PMID: 19724957 ...
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - August 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: van Balkom H, Verhoeven L, van Weerdenburg M Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Investigating children's ability to reflect on stored phonological representations: the Silent Deletion of Phonemes Task.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: The SDOP task appears to be a valid and reliable tool to assess the internal structure of a child's stored phonological representations. Profiling phonological representations allows clinicians to explore children's speech-processing skills which may be particularly useful with children with complex literacy difficulties. PMID: 19724958 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - August 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Claessen M, Leitao S, Barrett N Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Measuring verbal and non-verbal communication in aphasia: reliability, validity, and sensitivity to change of the Scenario Test.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: The data support the reliability and validity of the Scenario Test as an instrument for examining daily-life communication in aphasia. The test focuses on multimodal communication; its psychometric qualities enable future studies on the effect of Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) training in aphasia. PMID: 19724959 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - August 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: van der Meulen I, van de Sandt-Koenderman WM, Duivenvoorden HJ, Ribbers GM Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Pragmatic language and the child with emotional/behavioural difficulties (EBD): a pilot study exploring the interaction between behaviour and communication disability.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: The results of this pilot study have implications for how we view language and behaviour difficulties in primary schools. Future larger-scale research should consider the role of parenting factors, pragmatic language skills and literacy ability in the high co-existence rate of emotional/behavioural difficulties and language/communication needs. PMID: 19724960 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - August 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Mackie L, Law J Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

The use of facilitative vowel contexts in the treatment of post-alveolar fronting: a case study.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: Targeting facilitative vowel contexts was successful for this 7-year-old boy with persisting post-alveolar fronting which had been resistant to other therapy techniques. Speech and language therapists are encouraged to ensure that quality indicators for single-subject interventions are built into regular practice. PMID: 19724961 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - August 31, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Stokes SF, Griffiths R Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Integrated speech and phonological awareness intervention for pre-school children with Down syndrome.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions and Implications: The findings of this study suggest an intervention approach that integrates speech, letter knowledge, and phonological awareness targets is effective in remediating speech error patterns at the single-word level in young children with Down syndrome. Phonological awareness and letter knowledge appeared to be stimulated through the intervention, but significant improvement above chance levels on untrained phonological awareness tasks was not evident. Follow-up investigation is necessary to determine longer-term outcomes. PMID: 19662557 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Internation...
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - August 5, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: van Bysterveldt AK, Gillon G, Foster-Cohen S Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Communication and Huntington's disease: qualitative interviews and focus groups with persons with Huntington's disease, family members, and carers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: In brief, persons with Huntington's disease expressed a need for a richer social life and more (adjusting) conversation partners, family members expressed a need for more support and professional carers wanted more information about Huntington's disease. The triangular perspective utilized in the present study completed the picture of the communicative consequences of Huntington's disease. In particular, it became clear, that the insights of persons with Huntington's disease can and has to be included in communicative assessments and plans for intervention. PMID: 19657854 [PubMed - as su...
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - August 4, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Hartelius L, Jonsson M, Rickeberg A, Laakso K Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Gender differences in health-related quality of life following total laryngectomy.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: Following total laryngectomy, females appear to be worsely affected in aspects of quality of life than males. Emotional and social functioning are particularly vulnerable. The findings imply that rehabilitation programmes after total laryngectomy need to evaluate quality of life and address these specific areas in order to improve patient-reported long-term outcomes. PMID: 19657855 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - August 4, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Lee MT, Gibson S, Hilari K Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

An exploratory trial of the effectiveness of an enhanced consultative approach to delivering speech and language intervention in schools.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: This exploratory study demonstrates the benefit of an intensive therapy delivered by specialist teaching assistants for remediating speech and language difficulties experienced by young children in mainstream schools. The service delivery model was perceived by professionals as offering an inclusive and effective practice and provides empirical support for using both direct and indirect intervention in the school setting. PMID: 19657856 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - August 4, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Mecrow C, Beckwith J, Klee T Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Beginning to teach the end: the importance of including discharge from aphasia therapy in the curriculum.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: Bringing discharge practice from the realm of implicit knowledge to one that can be examined and discussed in an explicit manner should help reduce anxieties about discharge for new clinicians, help to clarify and improve the discharge approaches used by clinicians and lead to better discharge experiences for clients. PMID: 19657857 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - August 3, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Hersh D, Cruice M Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

How to distinguish normal from disordered children with poor language or motor skills.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: We conclude that relatively pervasive underachievement distinguishes disordered from normal low achievers. PMID: 19657858 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - August 3, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Dyck M, Piek J Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Addition of contingency management to increase home practice in young children with a speech sound disorder.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: Contingency management has a positive impact on therapeutic success and leads to an increase in the number of homework sessions. PMID: 19642047 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - July 28, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Gunther T, Hautvast S Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Effectiveness of Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT)((R)) on hypernasality in non-progressive dysarthria: the need for further research.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: Due to the small sample size in the present research and variability between participants, further exploration into the effects of LSVT((R)) on nasality with a larger population with different dysarthria types is essential. PMID: 19565392 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - June 27, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Wenke RJ, Theodoros D, Cornwell P Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Legal decision-making by people with aphasia: critical incidents for speech pathologists.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: & Implications: The findings indicate that speech pathologists are currently playing an active role when questions arise regarding capacity for legal and related decision-making by people with aphasia. At the same time, the findings support the need for further research to develop guidelines for practice and to build educational experiences for students and novice clinicians to assist them when they engage with the complex case management issues in this area. PMID: 19565393 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - June 27, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Ferguson A, Duffield G, Worrall L Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

The Voice Handicap Index with post-laryngectomy male voices.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: The data suggest that where patient-assessed quality of life is concerned, SVR and non-SVR outcomes are comparable. This is an important consideration when planning and carrying out treatment recommendations. The study has clear clinical implications; understanding the potential of all methods of post-laryngectomy communication is essential for holistic patient management. PMID: 19565394 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - June 27, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Evans E, Carding P, Drinnan M Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Aphasia and text writing.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: Aphasia appeared to influence text writing on different linguistic levels. The impact on overall structure and coherence was in line with earlier findings from the analysis of spoken and written discourse and the implication of this is that the written modality should also be included in language rehabilitation. PMID: 19565395 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - June 27, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Behrns I, Ahlsen E, Wengelin S Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Appraisal in student-supervisor conferencing: a linguistic analysis.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: The findings provide directions for clinical educators seeking to reflect on supervisory practice, and also highlight the need for further longitudinal research, and for further research into the interactive learning processes involved in current models of clinical education. PMID: 19565396 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - June 27, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Ferguson A Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Treatment generalization and executive control processes: Preliminary data from Chinese anomic individuals.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: The preliminary results not only converge on current findings of the role of executive functions in rehabilitation results, but also identify in particular how inhibitory control may affect the outcomes of anomia therapy. PMID: 19565397 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - June 27, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Yeung O, Law SP, Yau M Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Gaze aversion to stuttered speech: a pilot study investigating differential visual attention to stuttered and fluent speech.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: This laboratory study provides pilot data suggesting that gaze aversion is a salient response to the breakdown in communication that occurs during stuttering. This response may occur as a result of emotional, cognitive, and pragmatic factors in communication partners. Regardless of the factors contributing to the response, its primary importance may be that gaze aversion is a visible communication partner signal informing the person stuttering that something is amiss in the interaction and hence, may contribute to inducing negative emotions in the persons stuttering, via engagement of the mi...
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - June 27, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Bowers AL, Crawcour SC, Saltuklaroglu T, Kalinowski J Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Pragmatic language impairment and associated behavioural problems.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: Young children with PLI show a wide variety of behavioural problems. Early assessment of pragmatic competence may benefit early detection of children at risk of behavioural problems. Furthermore, due to the relationship between pragmatic competence, behavioural problems and possible underlying disorders such as autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), early assessment of pragmatic competence may also provide an early marker for the detection of autism or ADHD. PMID: 19565399 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - June 27, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Ketelaars MP, Cuperus J, Jansonius K, Verhoeven L Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Speech and language therapy in Sure Start Local Programmes: a survey-based analysis of practice and innovation.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: A categorized record of Sure Start speech and language therapist is presented that may contribute to establishing a broad curriculum of practice for speech and language therapist in the early years. The effectiveness of the practices is not investigated: suggestions are made for further research to develop the evidence base. PMID: 19544158 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - June 17, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Fuller A Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Speech perception and phonological short-term memory capacity in language impairment: preliminary evidence from adolescents with specific language impairment (SLI) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD).Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: Non-word discrimination suggests that there are similarities and differences between adolescents with SLI and ALI and their TD peers. Reaction times appear to be affected by increasing PSTM and speech perception loads in a similar way. However, there was some, albeit weaker, evidence that adolescents with SLI and ALI are less accurate than TD individuals, with both showing an effect of PSTM load. This may indicate, at some level, the processing substrate supporting both PSTM and speech perception is intact in adolescents with SLI and ALI, but also in both there may be impaired access to PSTM...
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - June 17, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Loucas T, Riches NG, Charman T, Pickles A, Simonoff E, Chandler S, Baird G Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Procedural and declarative memory in children with and without specific language impairment.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: The results were interpreted to suggest an uneven profile of memory functioning in specific language impairment. On measures of declarative memory, specific language impairment appears to be associated with difficulties learning verbal information. At the same time, procedural memory is also appears to be impaired. Collectively, this study indicates multiple memory impairments in specific language impairment. PMID: 19517280 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - June 10, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Lum JA, Gelgec C, Conti-Ramsden G Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Use of noun morphology by children with language impairment: the case of Hungarian.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: Much of the data were consistent with predictions of the morphological richness account. However, there was also evidence suggestive of differences between the language impairment and verbal control groups in their representations. In particular, the children with language impairment seemed to rely more (though not exclusively) on memorized items in the lexicon. PMID: 19424882 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - May 5, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Lukacs A, Leonard LB, Kas B Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Evaluation of speech and language therapy interventions for pre-school children with specific language impairment: a comparison of outcomes following specialist intensive, nursery-based and no intervention.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: The results of this small-scale study demonstrate that intensive direct speech and language therapy delivered by speech and language therapists was a more effective model of intervention for this clinical group with severe speech and language impairment. PMID: 19424890 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - May 5, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Gallagher AL, Chiat S Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Speech disruptions in the sentence formulation of school-age children with specific language impairment.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS: School-age children with specific language impairment appear to have difficulty with sentence formulation when compared with typically developing peers even when grammatical accuracy is high. We concluded that school-age children with specific language impairment may demonstrate subtle but persistent language formulation difficulties. PMID: 19424892 [PubMed - in process] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - April 30, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Finneran DA, Leonard LB, Miller CA Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Inference and sentence comprehension in children with specific or pragmatic language impairments.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS: Children with language impairments tend to perform like younger children with matched level of sentence comprehension ability on a verbal inference comprehension task. CwPLI have more difficulty with this task than CwSLI, but the distribution of scores shows considerable overlap exists between clinical groups. Sentence comprehension ability, age and, to a lesser extent, group status contribute to verbal inferencing ability in children with language impairments, but other factors may be important. The implications for assessment and intervention are discussed. PMID: 19424893 [PubMed - in ...
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - April 30, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Adams C, Clarke E, Haynes R Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Dysphagia Following Stroke.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19424883 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - April 29, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Need H Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Developmental complexity of the stimuli included in mispronunciation detection tasks.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: Mismatch type must be taken into account when designing mispronunciation detection tasks. Access to segmental phonological representations is related to speech, language, and letter knowledge in children from mainstream classrooms. PMID: 19424888 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - April 29, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: McNeill BC, Hesketh A Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Issues in developing valid assessments of speech pathology students' performance in the workplace.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: Through careful attention to conceptual and design issues in the development and trialling of workplace-based assessments, it has been possible to develop the world's first valid and reliable national assessment tool for the assessment of performance in speech pathology. PMID: 19424886 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - April 28, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: McAllister S, Lincoln M, Ferguson A, McAllister L Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Treating children with phonological problems: does an eclectic approach to therapy work?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: The findings offer encouragement to clinicians who use an eclectic approach and who are only able to offer limited amounts of therapy. They also suggest that parental involvement is helpful. However, we find the current incompatibility of research and clinical work worrying and a hindrance to our efforts to understand and treat these children. PMID: 19424891 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - April 28, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Lancaster G, Keusch S, Levin A, Pring T, Martin S Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Communicative and linguistic development in preterm children: a longitudinal study from 12 to 24 months.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions & Implications: Findings suggest that despite the significant biological risk engendered by premature birth, early communicative and linguistic development appears to proceed in a relatively robust fashion among preterm children, with tight relations across communicative domains as in full-term children. Employing both chronological and corrected gestational age criteria in the evaluation of preterm children's abilities may provide important information about their progress in language acquisition. This may be especially important during the initial stages of communicative and linguistic development, inasmu...
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - April 27, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Cattani A, Bonifacio S, Fertz M, Iverson JM, Zocconi E, Caselli CM Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Language Disorders in Children and Adults: New Issues in Research and Practice.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19424885 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - April 21, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Whitworth A Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals

Promoting Social Interaction for Individuals with Communicative Impairments.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19424887 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders)
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - April 21, 2009 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Greathead S Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: journals