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Methodologies for Assessing Morphosyntactic Ability in People with Alzheimer's Disease
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Spyridoula Varlokosta; Katerina Fragkopoulou; Dimitra Arfani; Christina Manouilidou – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: The detection and description of language impairments in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's Disease (AD) play an important role in research, clinical diagnosis and intervention. Various methodological protocols have been implemented for the assessment of morphosyntactic abilities in AD; narrative discourse elicitation tasks…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Alzheimers Disease, Speech Evaluation
Heterogeneity within Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA): Differences between Variants in Functional Communication, and a New Sub-Variant of Logopenic Variant PPA
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Jeanne Gallee – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is an acquired neurodegenerative syndrome that has specific and devastating effects on an individual's speech and language ability. Based on a detailed assessment of behavior and cognition, combined with structural neuroimaging data and pathological evidence, PPA is typically classified into three variants: the…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Language Processing, Language Research, Pathology
Intraword Variability in French-Speaking Monolingual and Bilingual Children
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Kehoe, Margaret M.; Cretton, Emilie – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study examines intraword variability in 40 typically developing French-speaking monolingual and bilingual children, aged 2;6-4;8 (years;months). Specifically, it measures rate of intraword variability and investigates which factors best account for it. They include child-specific ones such as age, expressive vocabulary, gender,…
Descriptors: French, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Preschool Children
Retelling Stories: The Validity of an Online Oral Narrative Task
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Gillon, Gail; McNeill, Brigid; Scott, Amy; Gath, Megan; Westerveld, Marleen – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2023
This study examined the validity of data collected from a novel online story retell task. The task was specifically designed for use by junior school teachers with the support of speech-language therapists or literacy specialists. The assessment task was developed to monitor children's oral language progress in their first year at school as part…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Story Telling, Validity, Speech Language Pathology
Language Attitudes and Ethnic Identity: Examining Listener Perceptions of Latvian-Russian Bilingual Speakers
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Trofimovich, Pavel; Turuševa, Larisa – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2020
This study explored the attitudes of ethnic Latvian listeners towards Latvian-Russian bilinguals. Fifty-seven ethnic Latvians completed an identity questionnaire to obtain estimates of their ethnic beliefs and rated the speech of eight Latvian-Russian bilinguals for personal traits, judged how well social and ethnic labels apply to bilinguals, and…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Self Concept, Indo European Languages, Russian
Video Self-Modeling for Bilingual Children with Identified or Suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech
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Elia Olivares – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The cultural and linguistic diversity of our nation continues to grow and the skills needed by speech-language pathologists to address the needs of their existing caseload continue to be vast. According to the ASHA (2016) Schools Survey, only 8% of speech-language pathologists (n=1689) reported feeling very qualified to address cultural and…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Bilingualism, Speech Evaluation, Video Technology