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Accentuate the Negative: Grammatical Errors During Narrative Production as a Clinical Marker of Central Nervous System Abnormality in School-Aged Children With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Conclusion Grammatical error rates during a narrative are a viable behavioral marker of the kinds of central nervous system abnormality associated with prenatal alcohol exposure, having significant potential to contribute to the FASD diagnostic process. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - December 20, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Identifying Children at Risk for Language Impairment or Dyslexia With Group-Administered Measures
Conclusions Group-administered screens can identify children at risk of LI and/or dyslexia with good classification accuracy and in less time than individually administered measures. More research is needed to improve the identification of children with LI who display good word reading skills. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - December 20, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

False Belief Development in Children Who Are Hard of Hearing Compared With Peers With Normal Hearing
Conclusions Preschool-age CHH are at risk for delays in understanding others' beliefs, which has consequences for their social interactions and pragmatic communication. Research related to FB in children with hearing loss has the potential to inform our understanding of mechanisms that support social –cognitive development, including the roles of language and conversational access. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - December 20, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Statistical Learning in Specific Language Impairment: A Meta-Analysis
Conclusion Together, the results of our meta-analysis indicate a robust difference between people with SLI and people without SLI in their detection of statistical regularities in the auditory input. The detection of statistical regularities is, on average, not as effective in people with SLI compared with people without SLI. The results of this meta-analysis are congruent with a statistical learning deficit hypothesis in SLI.Supplemental Materialhttps://doi.org/10.23641/asha.5558074 (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - December 20, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

The Role of Phonological Working Memory and Environmental Factors in Lexical Development in Italian-Speaking Late Talkers: A One-Year Follow-Up Study
Conclusions The Language Development Survey recently adapted to Italian is sensitive to LTs. Former LTs still have a mild lexical delay at approximately 40 months. As an indirect measure of pWM, the task of NWR is an early indicator of future lexical deficits. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - December 20, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

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Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - December 20, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Interfering With Inner Speech Selectively Disrupts Problem Solving and Is Linked With Real-World Executive Functioning
Conclusion These results provide further evidence for specific links between verbal thinking and EF (particularly using multifactorial tasks of planning) and suggest that inner speech might serve as a key intervention target in clinical disorders where EF deficits are prominent. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - December 20, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Word Processing in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials
Conclusions If ERPs are to ever have clinical utility, their construct validity must be established by investigations that confirm their associations with predictably related constructs. These results contribute to accruing evidence, suggesting that a valid measure of auditory word processing can be derived from the left temporal response to words and nonwords. In addition, this measure can be useful even for participants who do not reportedly understand all of the words presented as experimental stimuli, though it will be important for researchers to track familiarity with word stimuli in future investigations.Supplementa...
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - December 20, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Sentence-Level Movements in Parkinson's Disease: Loud, Clear, and Slow Speech
Conclusions Sentence-level measures of articulatory movements are sensitive to both disease-related changes in PD and speaking-style manipulations. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - December 20, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

The Effects of Palate Features and Glossectomy Surgery on /s/ Production
Conclusions For controls, hard palate height affected tongue height; a higher palate yielded a higher tongue. For patients, hard palate width affected tongue width; a narrower palate yielded a more anterior tongue. Tongue shape was unaffected by any palate features. Preference for /s/ showed an interaction effect between subject and palate height. Controls with high palates preferred a laminal /s/. All patients preferred a laminal /s/; glossectomy surgery may reduce tongue tip control. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - December 20, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Magnitude of Neck-Surface Vibration as an Estimate of Subglottal Pressure During Modulations of Vocal Effort and Intensity in Healthy Speakers
Conclusions NSVMag closely reflects P ′sg during variations of vocal effort; however, the relationship changes across different intensities in some individuals. Future research should explore additional NSV-based measures (e.g., glottal airflow features) to improve estimation accuracy during voice production. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - December 20, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Modeling Speech Level as a Function of Background Noise Level and Talker-to-Listener Distance for Talkers Wearing Hearing Protection Devices
Conclusions Three models of the relationship between vocal effort, background noise level, and talker-to-listener distance for talkers wearing HPDs are presented. The model with the best prediction intervals is a talker-dependent model that requires the users' unoccluded speech level at 10 m as a reference. A model describing the relationship between speech level, talker-to-listener distance, and background noise level for occluded talkers could eventually be incorporated with radio protocols to transmit verbal communication only to an intended set of listeners within a given spatial range —this range being dependent on ...
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - December 20, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

A Multivariate Analytic Approach to the Differential Diagnosis of Apraxia of Speech
Conclusions This study contributes to efforts to identify objective acoustic measures that can facilitate the differential diagnosis of AOS. Results suggest that further study of these measures is warranted to determine the best predictors of AOS diagnosis.Supplemental Materialshttps://doi.org/10.23641/asha.5611309 (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - December 20, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Reproducibility of Dual-Microphone Voice Range Profile Equipment
Conclusions The high test –retest reliability of the dual-microphone VRP equipment, especially in general office surroundings, is a positive finding. Attention must be paid to specific factors such as using the same device when comparing the same voice before and after treatment, caution in headset placement, and manual re calibrations when automatic recalibration occurs. We suggest recalibrations verified with a reference source at regular intervals. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - December 20, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

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Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - November 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research