Showing papers in "Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research in 2018"
TL;DR: Given that LE measures do not show consistent, strong intercorrelations and differ in their relationships with cognitive and personality predictors, these findings suggest caution in generalizing across studies that use different measures of LE.
Abstract: Purpose Listening effort (LE) describes the attentional or cognitive requirements for successful listening. Despite substantial theoretical and clinical interest in LE, inconsistent operationalizat...
87 citations
TL;DR: The fundamental principles behind SPL measurements are explained and guidelines to improve their accuracy and reproducibility are provided, including those for stand-mounted and head-mounted microphones.
Abstract: Purpose Sound pressure level (SPL) measurement of voice and speech is often considered a trivial matter, but the measured levels are often reported incorrectly or incompletely, making them difficul...
69 citations
TL;DR: Stuttering was associated with reduced earnings and other gender-specific disadvantages in the labor market and preliminary evidence indicates that discrimination may have contributed to the earnings gap associated with stuttering, particularly for females.
Abstract: Purpose The purpose of this study was to quantify relationships between stuttering and labor market outcomes, determine if outcomes differ by gender, and explain the earnings difference between peo...
63 citations
TL;DR: Speech and language clinicians working with transsexual individuals may use the results of this review for goal setting after finding mixed findings as to the contribution of a breathy voice quality to gender perception.
Abstract: Purpose The aim of this study was to provide a systematic review of the aspects of verbal communication contributing to listener perceptions of speaker gender with a view to providing clinicians wi
63 citations
TL;DR: SFA leads to positive outcomes despite the variability of treatment procedures, dosage, duration, and variations to the traditional SFA protocol.
Abstract: Purpose The purpose of this study was to review treatment studies of semantic feature analysis (SFA) for persons with aphasia. The review documents how SFA is used, appraises the quality of the inc...
56 citations
TL;DR: Aided AAC input may reduce input-output asymmetry and enhance expression and comprehension for individuals who use AAC; the evidence suggests that partners should utilize this strategy.
Abstract: Purpose The purpose of this meta-analysis was to investigate the effects of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) interventions that included aided AAC input (e.g., aided AAC modeling, a...
56 citations
TL;DR: Congenital hearing loss puts children at continued risk of language deficits, especially for phonologically based skills, and two interventions appear to ameliorate that risk are providing a period of bimodal stimulation and strong literacy instruction.
Abstract: Purpose This study assessed phonological, lexical, and morphosyntactic abilities at 6th grade for a group of children previously tested at 2nd grade to address 4 questions: (a) Do children with coc
48 citations
TL;DR: It was showed that only a few acoustic parameters were determined as the best estimators for roughness and breathiness and various acoustic measures in both sustained vowels and continuous speech.
Abstract: Purpose Over the last 5 decades, many acoustic measures have been created to measure roughness and breathiness The aim of this study is to present a meta-analysis of correlation coefficients (r) b
48 citations
TL;DR: This study demonstrates that even individuals with chronic severe aphasia can attain independent proficiency to continue practicing and improving their language skills beyond therapy discharge, and could represent a low-cost therapy option for individuals without insurance coverage and/or those for whom mobility is an obstacle to obtaining traditional aphasic therapy.
Abstract: Purpose The aim of this study was to determine if a tablet-based home practice program with weekly telepractice support could enable long-term maintenance of recent treatment gains and foster new l...
47 citations
TL;DR: Outcomes indicate that secondary difficulties in emotional competence in children with DLD make these children more vulnerable to victimization and warrant specific support and interventions.
Abstract: Purpose Victimization is a common problem for many children but is exacerbated for children with a developmental language disorder (DLD). However, the severity of communication problems does not ex...
43 citations
TL;DR: The present findings were taken to suggest that cognitive processes are important variables associated with developmental stuttering.
Abstract: Purpose This study presents a meta-analytic review of differences in verbal short-term memory, inhibition, and attention between children who stutter (CWS) and children who do not stutter (CWNS) M
TL;DR: The findings suggest that declines greater than 12% sentence intelligibility and 37 WPM are required to be outside measurement error and that these estimates vary widely across dysarthria severities.
Abstract: Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine the minimally detectable change (MDC) and minimal clinically important difference (MCID) of a decline in speech sentence intelligibility and speak...
TL;DR: Results indicate that healthy EF skills do not require audition and therefore that difficulties in this domain do not result primarily from a lack of auditory experience, and are consistent with the hypothesis that language proficiency, whether in sign or speech, is crucial for the development of healthy EF.
Abstract: Purpose Deaf children are frequently reported to be at risk for difficulties in executive function (EF); however, the literature is divided over whether these difficulties are the result of deafnes...
TL;DR: In this paper, the aim of the study was to understand the experiences of children with speech and language disorders from the perspective of psychological and social well-being, and to understand their experiences.
Abstract: Purpose Children with speech and language disorders are at risk in relation to psychological and social well-being. The aim of this study was to understand the experiences of these children from th...
TL;DR: It is suggested that perceived performance can serve as a ready heuristic and may explain the dissociation between subjective measures of listening effort and behavioral and physiological measures.
Abstract: Purpose Subjective reports of listening effort are frequently inconsistent with behavioral and physiological findings. A potential explanation is that participants unwittingly substitute an easier ...
TL;DR: This study provides important contributions to the literature by clarifying normal variability within a wide range of swallowing behaviors and by providing normative data from which to compare disordered populations.
Abstract: Purpose The aim of this study was to examine the effects of frozen and mixed-consistency boluses on the swallowing physiology of younger and older adults. We also aimed to quantify factors that lea...
TL;DR: Current health care and education systems are challenged to provide intervention of adequate intensity for toddlers with ASD and the use of innovative technology can increase acceleration of access to evidence-based early intervention that addresses health disparities, enables immediate response as soon as ASD is suspected, and rapidly bridges the research-to-practice gap.
Abstract: Purpose The need for community-viable, evidence-based intervention strategies for toddlers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a national priority. The purpose of this research forum article is ...
TL;DR: Findings from research on early motor and communicative development in infants who have an older sibling with ASD are summarized to improve understanding of communicative delays of the sort observed in ASD.
Abstract: Purpose A recent approach to identifying early markers of risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been to study infants who have an older sibling with ASD. These infants are at heightened risk ...
TL;DR: The current evidence from studies on teleaudiology applications for rehabilitation of adults with hearing impairment with hearing aids is examined to determine whether it is sufficient to support the translation into routine clinical practice.
Abstract: Purpose This review examined (a) the current evidence from studies on teleaudiology applications for rehabilitation of adults with hearing impairment with hearing aids and (b) whether it is suffici...
TL;DR: An acoustic model containing articulation rate and the F2 range of diphthongs differentiated children with dysarthria from typically developing children with 87.5% accuracy.
Abstract: Purpose The objectives of this study were to identify acoustic characteristics of connected speech that differentiate children with dysarthria secondary to cerebral palsy (CP) from typically developing children and to identify acoustic measures that best detect dysarthria in children with CP. Method Twenty 5-year-old children with dysarthria secondary to CP were compared to 20 age- and sex-matched typically developing children on 5 acoustic measures of connected speech. A logistic regression approach was used to derive an acoustic model that best predicted dysarthria status. Results Results indicated that children with dysarthria secondary to CP differed from typically developing children on measures of multiple segmental and suprasegmental speech characteristics. An acoustic model containing articulation rate and the F2 range of diphthongs differentiated children with dysarthria from typically developing children with 87.5% accuracy. Conclusion This study serves as a first step toward developing an acous...
TL;DR: Evidence suggests that treating hearing loss in persons with cognitive impairment can have benefits to communication and quality of life, and cases suggested that hearing loss treatment is feasible, reduces stressful communication for caregivers, and improves dementia-related behavior problems.
Abstract: Purpose The purpose of this systematic review was to assess studies of treating hearing loss in older adults with cognitive impairment. Of interest to this review is identifying clinical adaptation...
TL;DR: It would be beneficial for EF interventions with children with ASD to consider language outcomes and, conversely, to examine whether specific language training facilitates aspects of executive control in children on the autism spectrum.
Abstract: Purpose This article reviews research on executive function (EF) skills in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the relation between EF and language abilities. The current study assesse...
TL;DR: Given that correct performance for a difficult word in one language is associated with knowing its cognate in another, cognates may be particularly viable targets for language intervention in bilingual children with SLI.
Abstract: Purpose Bilinguals tend to produce cognates (e.g., telephone in English and telefono in Spanish) more accurately than they produce noncognates (table/mesa). We tested whether the same holds for bil...
TL;DR: Poor to modest agreement in swallowing impairment identification, frequent false positives, and wide variability in treatment planning recommendations suggest that additional research and training in healthy and disordered swallowing are needed to increase accurate dysphagia diagnosis and treatment among clinicians.
Abstract: Purpose Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are the primary providers of dysphagia management; however, this role has been criticized with assertions that SLPs are inadequately trained in swallowin...
TL;DR: It is suggested that speech perception deficits are not a core feature of CAS but rather occur with co-occurring language impairment in a subset of children with CAS.
Abstract: Purpose Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is hypothesized to arise from deficits in speech motor planning and programming, but the influence of abnormal speech perception in CAS on these processes ...
TL;DR: Tongue strength was significantly reduced in idiopathic PD and did not differ by medication state, and Tongue strength differentiated between PwPD with and without self-reported swallowing symptoms, which may promote early diagnosis and management of dysphagia in PD.
Abstract: Purpose Swallowing impairment, or dysphagia, is a known contributor to reduced quality of life, pneumonia, and mortality in Parkinson's disease (PD) However, the contribution of tongue dysfunction
TL;DR: Results support the view that, although coarticulation degree decreases with age, children do not organize consecutive articulatory gestures with a uniform organizational scheme (e.g., segmental or syllabic), and suggest that coartICulatory organization is sensitive to the underlying articulatory properties of the segments combined.
Abstract: Purpose This study reports on a cross-sectional investigation of lingual coarticulation in 57 typically developing German children (4 cohorts from 3.5 to 7 years of age) as compared with 12 adults....
TL;DR: Children with SLI show reduced speech motor performance in tasks that require language generation but not when task demands are reduced in rote practice, and whether it is beneficial to incorporate conditions of high load to understand speech production.
Abstract: Purpose Children with specific language impairment (SLI) show particular deficits in the generation of sequenced action: the quintessential procedural task. Practiced imitation of a sequence may be...
TL;DR: The results established a relationship between facial kinematics and bulbar function decline in ALS and supports the development of an automatic system for facial movement analysis to help clinicians in tracking the disease progression in ALS.
Abstract: Purpose The goals of this study were to (a) classify speech movements of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in presymptomatic and symptomatic phases of bulbar function decline relyin...
TL;DR: The results demonstrate listeners' reliance on domain-general cognitive processes when listening to acoustically challenging speech, even when speech is highly intelligible, and Acoustic challenge and semantic ambiguity both reduce the accuracy of listeners' recognition memory for spoken sentences.
Abstract: Purpose The goal of this study was to determine how background noise, linguistic properties of spoken sentences, and listener abilities (hearing sensitivity and verbal working memory) affect cognit...