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Download full textNan Bernstein Ratner – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Our purpose is to highlight the contributions of TalkBank initiatives to improved understanding of clinical impairments in adult and child speakers and examine remaining challenges and proposed solutions. We review the origins and development of TalkBank initiatives that have targeted a wide array of typical and atypical child and adult…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Language Impairments, Speech Impairments, Evaluation Methods
Direct linkJacinta M. Saldaris; Jeremiah Ayalde; Samali Kankanange; Jessica Keeley; Helen Leonard; Peter Jacoby; Eric D. Marsh; Tim A. Benke; Scott T. Demarest; Jenny Downs – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Communication impairments are a leading concern for parent caregivers of individuals with rare neurodevelopmental disorders (RNDDs). Clinical trials of disease modifying therapies require valid and responsive outcome measures that are relevant to individuals with RNDDs. Identifying and evaluating current psychometric properties for…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Communication Disorders, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Evaluation Methods
Jessica M. Lammert; Angela C. Roberts; Ken McRae; Laura J. Batterink; Blake E. Butler – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Recent advances in artificial intelligence provide opportunities to capture and represent complex features of human language in a more automated manner, offering potential means of improving the efficiency of language assessment. This review article presents computerized approaches for the analysis of narrative language and identification…
Descriptors: Identification, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Barriers
Petri Partanen; Anna Eva Hallin – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2025
This study investigates the familiarity with and application of Dynamic Assessment (DA) among Speech and Language Pathologists (SLPs) in Sweden, focusing on its use in diagnosing language disorders in children. Using a mixed-methods approach, survey data were collected from 565 SLPs, revealing that 72% were familiar with DA. However, a significant…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Clinical Diagnosis, Alternative Assessment, Foreign Countries
Douglas B. Petersen; Alisa Konishi-Therkildsen; Kallie Dawn Clark; Anahi Kamila DeRobles; Ashley Elizabeth Frahm; Kristi Jones; Camryn Lettich; Trina D. Spencer – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Several studies have demonstrated that dynamic assessment can be a less biased, valid approach for the identification of language disorder among diverse school-age children. However, all prior studies have included a relatively small number of participants, which is generally not adequate for psychometric research. This is the first…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Language Impairments, Language Usage, Individual Characteristics
Holly Robson; Harriet Thomasson; Matthew H. Davis – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: The use of telepractice in aphasia research and therapy is increasing in frequency. Teleassessment in aphasia has been demonstrated to be reliable. However, neuropsychological and clinical language comprehension assessments are not always readily translatable to an online environment and people with severe language comprehension or…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Severity (of Disability), Videoconferencing, Comparative Analysis
Hounslow, Rhiannon; Rohde, Alexia; Finch, Emma – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: A number of practice barriers (e.g., time constraints, patient comorbidities and competing demands) exist as regards the evidence-based assessment of adult language within the acute hospital setting. There is need for an evidence-based, diagnostically validated, adaptable, comprehensive and efficient aphasia assessment. The Brisbane…
Descriptors: Barriers, Evidence Based Practice, Hospitals, Evaluation Methods
Emily Stanford; Maren Eikerling; Olivia Hadjadj; Hélène Delage – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This work reports the results of a survey study conducted with French-, German-, and Italian-speaking speech and language therapists (SLTs) in Switzerland. In this survey we asked respondents about their language background, training in multilingual matters, and practices with multilingual patients, as well as their opinions on the current SLT…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Allied Health Personnel, Speech Language Pathology
Francois, Isabelle; Lapka, Stefanie; Berstein Ratner, Nan; Mills, Monique T. – EBP Briefs (Evidence-based Practice Briefs), 2023
Clinical Question: For young AAE speakers (P), how useful is the Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) compared with Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn) in identifying developmental language disorder (DLD) in the presence of African American English (AAE)? Method: Structured Review. Study Sources: PsycInfo®, Education Source, Education Resources…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Language Impairments, Developmental Delays, Syntax
Jane McCormack; Kerry Ttofari; Deborah Denman; Gaenor Dixon; Sharon Crosbie; Anna Cronin – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2025
Purpose: For speech-language pathologists (SLPs) working in schools, outcome measurement is an important element of practice, enabling us to evaluate the efficacy of our service provision and guiding future decision making, funding, and resource allocation. When selecting outcomes to measure, it is helpful to consider both the level at which…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Speech Language Pathology, Response to Intervention, Speech Impairments
Waine, Hannah; Bates, Sally; Frizelle, Pauline; Oh, Tomasina M. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: In 2016/17, the CATALISE Consortium published the results of a multinational and multidisciplinary Delphi consensus study, representing agreement among professionals about the definition and process of identification of children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) (Bishop et al., 2016, 2017). The extent to which the current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, Speech Therapy
Ashaie, Sameer; Castro, Nichol – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Aphasia is a complex, neurogenic language disorder, with different aphasia syndromes hallmarked by impairment in fluency, auditory comprehension, naming, and/or repetition. Broad, standardized assessments of language domains and specific language and cognitive assessments provide a holistic impairment profile of a person with aphasia.…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Network Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Correlation
How to Use the Index of Productive Syntax to Select Goals and Monitor Progress in Preschool Children
Roberts, Jenny A.; Altenberg, Evelyn P.; Ferrugio, Hannah R.; Rosenberg, Jenna E. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: Syntax assessment and treatment is a major focus of speech-language pathologists who work with young children with language needs. The Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn) provides an efficient method for the assessment of syntax of preschool-age children. The purpose of this tutorial is to illustrate how to hand-score an IPSyn from…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Syntax, Goal Orientation, Progress Monitoring
Amy Wilder; Sean M. Redmond – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024
Purpose: Language sample analysis (LSA) provides many benefits for assessing, identifying therapy goals, and monitoring the progress of children with language disorders. Despite these widely recognized advantages, previous surveys suggest the declining use of LSA by speech-language pathologists (SLPs). This study aimed to provide updates on…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, National Surveys
Roberts, Angela; Aveni, Katharine; Basque, Shalane; Orange, Joseph B.; McLaughlin, Paula; Ramirez, Joel; Troyer, Angela K.; Gutierrez, Stephanie; Chen, Angie; Bartha, Robert; Binns, Malcolm A.; Black, Sandra E.; Casaubon, Leanne K.; Dowlatshahi, Dar; Hassan, Ayman; Kwan, Donna; Levine, Brian; Mandzia, Jennifer; Sahlas, Demetrios J.; Scott, Christopher J. M.; Strother, Stephen; Sunderland, Kelly M.; Symons, Sean; Swartz, Richard – Topics in Language Disorders, 2021
Purpose: Dementia due to cerebrovascular disease (CVD) is common. Detecting early cognitive decline in CVD is critical because addressing risk factors may slow or prevent dementia. This study used a multidomain discourse analysis approach to determine the spoken language signature of CVD-related cognitive impairment. Method: Spoken language and…
Descriptors: Prediction, Discourse Analysis, Language Impairments, Dementia
