Showing papers in "Journal of Communication Disorders in 1989"

TL;DR: For both perceptual and expressive tasks the SZs performed significantly less accurately than the NCs and the PDs but did not differ from the RBDs, lending support to the speculation that right hemisphere mechanisms, especially cortical ones, may be compromised among schizophrenics with flat affect.

TL;DR: In a mass screening of children ages 6-10 in a rural school division, 203 children were identified as showing a voice deviation one year later a retesting showed that 39.9% still showed a voice disorder.

TL;DR: In a study of errors observed during a sample of 15 schizophrenics performance on a confrontation naming test, it is able to reliably identify and classify hierarchic categories of verbal perseverations occurring at both semantic and phonemic levels and argues that these perseverations represent a special case of executive dysfunction resulting from a disturbance of language monitoring mechanisms.

TL;DR: Both spouse groups were affected to some degree by the communication problems associated with stroke, with the spouses of aphasic partners being affected the most.

TL;DR: The fundamental frequency characteristics of 30 children between the ages of 6 and 10 years were investigated in a variety of speech tasks and high vowels were found to have higher fundamental frequency values than low vowels.

TL;DR: It proved necessary to modify Rochester and Martin's categories of cohesive ties to show that schizophrenics suffer from a true dysfunction in narrative production, and a pattern of different usage is evident.

TL;DR: Investigation of whether voice onset time differences occurred among speakers exhibiting four different types of dysarthria found the spastic speakers exhibited shortest voice onset times while the flaccid and ataxic speakers exhibited significantly moreVoice onset time variability was found to be related to the physiologic demands of voiceless stop productions.

TL;DR: It is suggested that repeated readings of audiotaped material enhances oral reading ability of students with reading difficulties, but the effects of treatment do not generalize to a wide range of reading measures.

TL;DR: Experienced listeners did, however, generally judge talkers to exhibit higher intelligibility compared to naive listeners, and Statistically significant differences were identified between judgments of the two listener groups for prevocalic stops and fricatives.

TL;DR: The data suggested that velopharyngeal control deteriorates systematically with disease progression, and Parkinson's patients at mild and moderate levels of disease progression differentiated the nasal vowel from the oral consonants with increased nasal airflow associated with the nasal consonant.

TL;DR: This study examined the relationship between receipt of adaptive seating devices and sophistication of early vocalizations/verbalizations in nonverbal children with cerebral palsy.

TL;DR: Male laryngectomees differed from females in their feelings about the surgery, their emotional support systems, and their perceived usefulness of information presented by various counselors.

TL;DR: The syntactic performance of language-impaired and normal children, matched by mean length of utterance was compared and the distribution of syntactic errors revealed that significant differences were not found between the groups.

TL;DR: A case study is that of an elementary age client with a seemingly mild "r" articulation problem but who also presented characteristics consistent with Developmental Apraxia of Speech.

TL;DR: Results revealed that for the average subject, all measures varied by at least several semitones, and further research is needed in order to determine the sources of this intrasubject variability before these measures can be applied to clinical populations.

TL;DR: The study examined the performance of 71 university students on the Fullerton Language Test for Adolescents subtest on Idioms and found that as chronological age increased, performance improved.

TL;DR: To determine if intelligibility changes with age, younger and older adults read CVCs embedded in a carrier phrase and listeners reported the target word said by the speakers.

TL;DR: Analysis of ratings of a photograph of a male peer suggested that adolescents are likely to react negatively to peers who wear visible hearing aids.

TL;DR: Results revealed that the word fluency task was significantly more sensitive than the picture-naming context and the variable of response time was identified as the more discriminating response scoring procedure.

TL;DR: All three groups of children in this study overwhelmingly used revisions to repair their original utterances, and the repair strategies used by the language-impaired children did not differ from the controls.

TL;DR: The severely to profoundly hearing-impaired children could be differentiated on the basis of significantly higher ratings for perceived vocal effort in addition to higher physical measurements of spectral noise levels.

TL;DR: The results, although preliminary, provide support for the contention that language-impaired children may differ from normal children in their use of stress.

TL;DR: The null hypotheses linking speech acceptability, olfaction, and airflow volume were all tested and none of the path coefficients was significant and the findings do not support Gilchrist's observations.

TL;DR: Better performance was found to be associated with better hearing, higher socioeconomic status of the family, consistent use of amplification, and later commencing of preschool training.

TL;DR: Regression analysis on the original 30 aerodynamic variables revealed that speech intelligibility was predicted by a cognate-pair voice onset-time difference measure and a measure of the stability of the volume-velocity rise time.

TL;DR: Sentence length was found to be the primary predictor of cluster reduction and liquid simplification in the articulatory productions of Down's syndrome children.

TL;DR: Nonfluencies of eight psychiatric adults were evaluated through seven tasks: verbal formulation; conversational spontaneous speech; picture description; sentence reading; paragraph reading; automatic speech; and repetition of phrases and sentences.

TL;DR: The differential acquisition of American Sign Language versus Amerind signs was investigated in a moderately to severely mentally handicapped sample and it was thought to be due to the more concrete and less complex nature of the Amerind system.

TL;DR: Investigation of the potential effect that color in visual stimuli may have on the confrontation naming ability of aphasic patients revealed that the presence of color in the visual stimuli did not result in significantly improved naming performance in either group of subjects.

TL;DR: The phonological space was found to be reduced in the speech of the hearing-impaired subjects, and the reduction was primarily due to the lowering of the second formant of the vowel /i/.