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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
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Minyan Hu; Lin Fan; Zhuangzhuang Wang – SAGE Open, 2024
Language disorder (LD), as a public health concern, has received increasing attention from researchers. This study provides an overview of the knowledge domain of LD research and unveils the thematic patterns and emerging trends. A total of 8,649 articles on LD from 2003 to 2022 were collected from WoS and CiteSpace was employed for data analysis.…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Trend Analysis, Bibliometrics, Periodicals
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Tuller, Laurice; Hamann, Cornelia; Chilla, Solveig; Ferré, Sandrine; Morin, Eléonore; Prevost, Philippe; dos Santos, Christophe; Abed Ibrahim, Lina; Zebib, Racha – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2018
Background: The detection of specific language impairment (SLI) in children growing up bilingually presents particular challenges for clinicians. Non-word repetition (NWR) and sentence repetition (SR) tasks have proven to be the most accurate diagnostic tools for monolingual populations, raising the question of the extent of their usefulness in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Impairments, Bilingualism, Speech Therapy
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Lévêque, Nathalie; Slis, Anneke; Lancia, Leonardo; Bruneteau, Gaëlle; Fougeron, Cécile – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to investigate acoustic change over time as biomarkers to differentiate among spastic-flaccid dysarthria associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), spastic dysarthria associated with primary lateral sclerosis (PLS), flaccid dysarthria associated with spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA), and to explore how…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Articulation Impairments, Diseases, Severity (of Disability)
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Witko, A.; Tourmente, B.; Dessez, B.; Decullier, E. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2021
Background: Taking into account international studies interested in the development of evidence-based practice (EBP) in the speech and language therapy field, this survey investigated key issues with regard to students' perception of EBP. Aims: To determine how final-year students in France conceive EBP; to know if they feel competent in this…
Descriptors: French, Foreign Countries, Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Occupations Education
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Riccardi, Jessica S.; Crook, Libby; Oskowski, Madeline; Ciccia, Angela – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe evidenced-based assessment practices for school-age children with any severity of traumatic brain injury (TBI) that could inform the practice of speech-language pathologists (SLPs). Method: A scoping review of the literature was conducted following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic…
Descriptors: Brain, Head Injuries, Evidence Based Practice, Evaluation Methods
Nippold, Marilyn A., Ed.; Scott, Cheryl M., Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
School success in the 21st century requires proficiency with expository discourse--the use and understanding of informative language in spoken and written modalities. This occurs, for example, when high school students read their textbooks and listen to their teachers' lectures, and later are asked to demonstrate their knowledge of this complex…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Text Structure, Intervention