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Kathryn M. Yorkston
Researcher at University of Washington
Publications - 170
Citations - 7337
Kathryn M. Yorkston is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dysarthria & Intelligibility (communication). The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 168 publications receiving 6519 citations. Previous affiliations of Kathryn M. Yorkston include University of Washington Medical Center & Harborview Medical Center.
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Falls in the Medicare Population: Incidence, Associated Factors, and Impact on Health Care
Anne Shumway-Cook,Marcia A. Ciol,Jeanne M. Hoffman,Brian J. Dudgeon,Kathryn M. Yorkston,Leighton Chan +5 more
TL;DR: Falls are common and may be associated with significant health care costs, and health care providers may be missing many opportunities to provide fall prevention information to older people.
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An analysis of connected speech samples of aphasic and normal speakers.
TL;DR: A technique for quantifying connected speech samples of aphasic individuals as they recover from the moderate to the mild range of severity is developed which takes into account both amount of information and efficency of communication.
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Measuring Communicative Participation: A Review of Self-Report Instruments in Speech-Language Pathology
Tanya L. Eadie,Kathryn M. Yorkston,Estelle R. Klasner,Brian J. Dudgeon,Jean C. Deitz,Carolyn R. Baylor,Robert M. Miller,Dagmar Amtmann +7 more
TL;DR: No existing self-report instruments in speech-language pathology were found to be solely dedicated to measuring communicative participation and developing an instrument for measuring communicable participation is essential for meeting the requirements of the scope of practice.
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Communication Efficiency of Dysarthric Speakers as Measured by Sentence Intelligibility and Speaking Rate
TL;DR: Results indicated that speaking rate and speech intelligibility are not closely correlated and the addition of intelligibility and rate measures to supplement other assessment procedures in the evaluation of dysarthric speakers is discussed.
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The Communicative Participation Item Bank (CPIB): Item Bank Calibration and Development of a Disorder-Generic Short Form
TL;DR: The CPIB provides speech-language pathologists with a unidimensional, self-report outcomes measurement instrument dedicated to the construct of communicative participation and this instrument may be useful to clinicians and researchers wanting to implement measures of Communicative participation in their work.