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Prosodic Boundary Effects on Syntactic Disambiguation in Children With Cochlear Implants
Conclusions Children with CIs do not use prosodic information to disambiguate sentences or to facilitate comprehension of unambiguous sentences similarly to children with NH. The results suggest that cross-linguistic differences may interact with syntactic disambiguation. Prosodic contrasts that affect sentence comprehension need to be addressed directly in intervention with children with CIs. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - May 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Morphosyntactic Production and Verbal Working Memory: Evidence From Greek Aphasia and Healthy Aging
Conclusions Results suggest that individuals with WM limitations (both PWA and healthy older speakers) show dissociations between the production of verb-related morphosyntactic categories. WM affects performance shaping the pattern of morphosyntactic production (in Greek: subject –verb agreement> tense> aspect). The absence of an effect of locality suggests that executive capacities tapped by WM tasks are involved in morphosyntactic processing of demanding categories even when the cue is adjacent to the target. Results are consistent with the Interpretable Features' Impairment Hypothesis (Fyndanis et al., 2012).Sup...
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - May 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Gaze Toward Naturalistic Social Scenes by Individuals With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Implications for Augmentative and Alternative Communication Designs
Conclusion The current study supports the inclusion of social content with various numbers of human figures and sharing activities between human figures into visual scene displays, regardless of the population served. Study design and reporting practices in eye-tracking literature as it relates to autism and Down syndrome are discussed.Supplemental Materialhttps://doi.org/10.23641/asha.6066545 (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - May 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Effects of a Tablet-Based Home Practice Program With Telepractice on Treatment Outcomes in Chronic Aphasia
Conclusion Unsupervised home practice with weekly video teleconferencing support is effective. This study demonstrates that even individuals with chronic severe aphasia, including those with no prior smart device or even computer experience, can attain independent proficiency to continue practicing and improving their language skills beyond therapy discharge. This could represent a low-cost therapy option for individuals without insurance coverage and/or those for whom mobility is an obstacle to obtaining traditional aphasia therapy. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - May 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Applied Chaos Level Test for Validation of Signal Conditions Underlying Optimal Performance of Voice Classification Methods
Conclusion The results of this study corroborate the performance relationships observed in previous studies and, therefore, demonstrate the validity of the validation test method. The presented chaos level validation test could be broadly utilized to evaluate acoustic analysis methods and establish the most appropriate methodology for objective voice analysis in clinical practice. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - May 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Kinematic Features of Jaw and Lips Distinguish Symptomatic From Presymptomatic Stages of Bulbar Decline in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Conclusion The results established a relationship between facial kinematics and bulbar function decline in ALS. Considering that facial movements can be recorded by means of novel inexpensive and easy-to-use, video-based methods, this work supports the development of an automatic system for facial movement analysis to help clinicians in tracking the disease progression in ALS. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - May 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Examining Acoustic and Kinematic Measures of Articulatory Working Space: Effects of Speech Intensity
Conclusions These data suggest that both kinematic and acoustic vowel space metrics that reflect the dynamic contributions of both consonant and vowel segments are sensitive to within-speaker changes in articulation associated with manipulations of speech intensity. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - May 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Auditory –Perceptual Assessment of Fluency in Typical and Neurologically Disordered Speech
Conclusions Speech fluency is a multifaceted phenomenon, and on the basis of this study, we suggest a more general approach to fluency and its deviations that will take into account, in addition to the motor and linguistic aspects of fluency, the metalinguistic component of expression as well. The results of this study indicate a need for further studies on the precise nature of borderline fluency and its different disfluencies. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - May 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Suprasegmental Features Are Not Acquired Early: Perception and Production of Monosyllabic Cantonese Lexical Tones in 4- to 6-Year-Old Preschool Children
Conclusions Contradicting to the long-held assumption that children acquire lexical tone rapidly and early before the mastery of segmentals, this study found that 4- to 6-year-old children have not mastered the perception or production of the full set of Cantonese tones in familiar monosyllabic words. Larger development was found in children's tone perception than tone production. The higher tone perception accuracy but weak correlation between tone perception and production abilities in children suggested that tone perception accuracy is not sufficient for children's tone production accuracy. The findings have clinical an...
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - May 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Children's Acoustic and Linguistic Adaptations to Peers With Hearing Impairment
Conclusions Older children show evidence of listener-oriented adaptations to their speech production; although their speech production systems are still developing, they are able to make speech adaptations to benefit the needs of a peer with HI, even without being given a specific instruction to do so.Supplemental Materialhttps://doi.org/10.23641/asha.6118817 (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - May 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

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Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - April 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Explaining Discrepancies Between the Digit Triplet Speech-in-Noise Test Score and Self-Reported Hearing Problems in Older Adults
Conclusions The findings suggest that a small proportion of the discrepancies between older individuals' results on a speech-in-noise screening test and their self-reports of hearing problems can be explained by the unique context of these individuals. The likelihood of discrepancies partly depends on a person's health (chronic diseases), demographics (gender), personality (self-efficacy to initiate behavior and to persist in adversity, self-esteem), mood (depressive symptoms), and social situation (social network size). Implications are discussed. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - April 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Vocal Emotion Identification by Children Using Cochlear Implants, Relations to Voice Quality, and Musical Interests
Conclusions Implantation age, musical interests, and voice quality tended to have an impact on correct emotion identification. Thus, in developing the cochlear implants, it may be worth paying attention to the acoustic structures of vocal emotional expressions, especially the formant frequency of F3. Supporting the musical interests of children with HI may help their emotional development and improve their social lives. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - April 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Does the Visual Channel Improve the Perception of Consonants Produced by Speakers of French With Down Syndrome?
Conclusions The results suggest that the V information is intact in the speech of people with DS and improves the perception of some phonetic features in Cs in a similar way as for control speakers. This result has implications for further studies, rehabilitation protocols, and specific training of caregivers.Supplemental Materialhttps://doi.org/10.23641/asha.6002267 (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - April 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Comparison of Subjective and Objective Measures of Hearing, Auditory Processing, and Cognition Among Older Adults With and Without Mild Cognitive Impairment
Conclusions Taken together, these results suggest that the CSRQ is an appropriate self-report measure of hearing, cognition, and some aspects of auditory processing for older adults with and without probable MCI. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - April 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research