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Verbal Working Memory in Children With Cochlear Implants
Conclusions The verbal working memory deficits of children with cochlear implants arise due to signal degradation, which limits their abilities to acquire phonological awareness. That hinders their abilities to store items using a phonological code. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - November 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Generalization of Perceptual Learning of Degraded Speech Across Talkers
Conclusions Learning of NV speech generalized completely between talkers. Two additional experiments confirmed this result. Thus, when listeners are trained to understand NV speech, they are not learning talker- or accent-specific features but instead are learning how to use the information available in the degraded signal. The results suggest that people with cochlear implants, who experience spectrally degraded speech, may not be too disadvantaged if they learn to understand speech through their implant by listening primarily to just 1 other talker, such as a spouse. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - November 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Infant-Directed Speech Enhances Attention to Speech in Deaf Infants With Cochlear Implants
Conclusions Two major findings emerge: (a) IDS enhances attention to speech in deaf infants with CIs; (b) the degree of IDS preference over ADS relates to language development in infants with CIs. These results support a focus on input in developing intervention strategies to mitigate the effects of hearing loss on language development in infants with hearing loss. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - November 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Language Outcomes in Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing: The Role of Language Ability Before Hearing Aid Intervention
Conclusions These findings highlight the importance of considering a child's prefitting language ability in interpreting eventual language outcomes. Possible mechanisms of hearing aid benefit are discussed.Supplemental Materialshttps://doi.org/10.23641/asha.5538868 (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - November 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Developing Appreciation for Sarcasm and Sarcastic Gossip: It Depends on Perspective
Conclusions We suggest that adults' disapproval of sarcastic gossip shows a deeper understanding of the utility of sarcasm's face-saving function. Thus, the ability to modulate appreciation of sarcasm according to interpretive perspective and parties present continues to develop in adolescence and into adulthood. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - November 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Developmental Associations Between Working Memory and Language in Children With Specific Language Impairment: A Longitudinal Study
Conclusions The results of this study suggest that particularly verbal CE is of importance for the acquisition of linguistic skills. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - November 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Distributional Learning in College Students With Developmental Language Disorder
Conclusion Differences in ratings between grammatical and ungrammatical items in this task suggest that college students with DLD can form grammatical categories from novel input and more broadly use distributional information. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - November 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Procedural Motor Learning in Children With Specific Language Impairment
Conclusions The PDH requires reframing. The sequence learning deficits in SLI are modest and specific to more difficult tasks. Visual –motor adaptation, on the other hand, appears to be unaffected in SLI. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - November 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Academic Vocabulary Learning in First Through Third Grade in Low-Income Schools: Effects of Automated Supplemental Instruction
Conclusion This model of vocabulary instruction can be applied efficiently in high-poverty schools through an automated, easily implemented adjunct to reading instruction in the early grades and holds promise for reducing gaps in vocabulary development. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - November 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Associations Between the 2D:4D Proxy Biomarker for Prenatal Hormone Exposures and Symptoms of Developmental Language Disorder
Conclusions Prenatal hormone exposures may play a role in the etiology of some language symptoms. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - November 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

With Some Help From Others' Hands: Iconic Gesture Helps Semantic Learning in Children With Specific Language Impairment
Conclusions Results suggest that iconic co-speech gestures help both children with and without SLI learn new words but, in particular, assist children with SLI understand and reflect the words' meaning. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - November 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Consonant Age-of-Acquisition Effects in Nonword Repetition Are Not Articulatory in Nature
Conclusion Results indicate that NWR performance is sensitive to phoneme-level phonological knowledge in long-term memory. NWR, accordingly, should not be regarded as a diagnostic tool for pure impairment of phonological short-term memory.Supplemental Materialshttps://doi.org/10.23641/asha.5435137 (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - November 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Development of Pointing Gestures in Children With Typical and Delayed Language Acquisition
Conclusions Using more index-finger points at the beginning of the second year of life is associated with TD, whereas using more pointing gestures at the end of the second year of life is associated with delayed acquisition. Neither the verbal nor gestural input of caregivers accounted for differences in children's skills. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - November 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Age-Related Variability in Tongue Pressure Patterns for Maximum Isometric and Saliva Swallowing Tasks
Conclusions Tongue pressure generation patterns appear highly stable across repeated maximum isometric and saliva swallow tasks, despite advancing age. Greater pattern variability is seen with weaker posterior isometric pressures. Overall, saliva swallows had the lowest pressure amplitudes and highest pressure pattern variability as measured by the cSTI. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - November 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

A Method to Administer Agents to the Larynx in an Awake Large Animal
Conclusions This methodology allowed for repeated application of exogenous agents to awake, unstressed animals. This method can be used repeatedly in the laboratory to test various therapeutics for safety, toxicity, and dosage. Future studies will specifically manipulate the type of agent to further our understanding of laryngeal pathobiology. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - November 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research