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Does Generalization Occur Following Speech Therapy? A Study in Children with a Cleft Palate
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Cassandra Alighieri; Camille De Coster; Kim Bettens; Valerie Pereira – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: This study compared the occurrence of different types of generalization (within-class, across-class, and total generalization) following motor-phonetic speech therapy and linguistic-phonological speech therapy in children with a cleft palate ± cleft lip (CP ± L). Method: Thirteen children with a CP ± L (M[subscript age] = 7.50 years) who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Speech Impairments, Speech Therapy
'Sometimes I Feel Sad': A Qualitative Study on Children's Perceptions with Cleft Palate Speech and Language Therapy
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Alighieri, Cassandra; Bettens, Kim; Verbeke, Jolien; Van Lierde, Kristiane – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Evidence-based speech therapy involves the integration of (1) the scientific evidence for therapy with (2) the perspectives of clinicians concerning therapy and (3) the perspectives of patients about therapy. The cleft literature has already paid attention to the first two cornerstones of evidence-based speech therapy. Much less is…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Congenital Impairments, Speech Therapy, Foreign Countries
Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of High-Intensity versus Low-Intensity Speech Intervention in Children with a Cleft Palate: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
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Fien Allemeersch; Kristiane Van Lierde; Nick Verhaeghe; Kim Bettens; Tara Mouton; Greet Hens; Cassandra Alighieri – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: In children with a cleft palate with or without a cleft lip (CP±L), some evidence exists for superior results of high-intensity speech intervention (HISI) compared with low-intensity speech intervention (LISI) on speech and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). However, the existing research often involves small sample sizes.…
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Speech Impairments, Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel
One Size Doesn't Fit All: A Pilot Study toward Performance-Specific Speech Intervention in Children with a Cleft (Lip and) Palate
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Alighieri, Cassandra; Bettens, Kim; Bruneel, Laura; Perry, Jamie; Hens, Greet; Van Lierde, Kristiane – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Speech-language pathologists usually apply a "one size fits all" approach to eliminate compensatory cleft speech characteristics (CSCs). It is necessary to investigate what intervention works best for a particular patient. This pilot study compared the effectiveness of two therapy approaches (a motorphonetic approach and a…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Speech Therapy, Intervention, Congenital Impairments
Is High-Intensity Speech Intervention Better? A Comparison of High-Intensity Intervention versus Low-Intensity Intervention in Children with a Cleft Palate
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Alighieri, Cassandra; Van Lierde, Kristiane; De Caesemaeker, Anne-Sophie; Demuynck, Kris; Bruneel, Laura; D'haeseleer, Evelien; Bettens, Kim – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of speech intervention provided with a low intensity with speech intervention provided with a high intensity on the speech and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Dutch-speaking children with a cleft palate with or without a cleft lip (CP ± L) between 4 and 12 years. Method: A…
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Longitudinal Studies, Speech Therapy, Speech Impairments
Decision-Making after Prenatal Diagnosis of a Syndrome Predisposing to Intellectual Disability: What Prospective Parents Need to Know and the Importance of Non-Medical Information
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Huyard, Caroline – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2012
Background: Recently researchers have suggested that non-medical information may impact the decision to continue or terminate a pregnancy after a prenatal diagnosis. This study is an investigation of what type of information prospective parents need for this decision-making in the case of a condition predisposing to intellectual disability.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Clinical Diagnosis, Disability Identification, Pregnancy