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Code-Switching in Highly Proficient Spanish/English Bilingual Adults: Impact on Masked Word Recognition
Conclusions Results suggest a cost of language mixing on speech perception when bilingual listeners alternate between languages in noisy environments. In addition, the cost of code-switching on speech recognition in noise was similar for both languages in this group of highly proficient Spanish/English bilingual speakers. Differences in response-set size could not account for the poorer results in the mixed-language conditions. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

The Impact of Exposure With No Training: Implications for Future Partner Training Research
Conclusions If the results of this small study are in any way representative of what happens in real life, communication partner training in aphasia becomes even more important than indicated from the positive results of training studies. That is, it is possible that mere exposure to a communication disability such as aphasia could have negative impacts on communication and social interaction. This may be akin to what is known as a “nocebo” effect—something for partner training studies in aphasia to take into account. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Quantitative Analysis of Agrammatism in Agrammatic Primary Progressive Aphasia and Dominant Apraxia of Speech
Conclusions agPPA and DAOS subjects showed similar patterns of agrammatism, although subjects performed differently when speaking versus writing. Integrity of Broca's area correlates with agrammatism. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Pairing New Words With Unfamiliar Objects: Comparing Children With and Without Cochlear Implants
Conclusion This study provides preliminary evidence that children with cochlear implants approach mapping novel words to and soliciting information about unfamiliar objects differently than children with normal hearing. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Morphosyntax Production of Preschool Children With Hearing Loss: An Evaluation of the Extended Optional Infinitive and Surface Accounts
Conclusions Taken together, the findings of this study support a unified theoretical account of morphosyntax weakness in CHL in which both tense and duration of morphemes play a role in morphosyntax production accuracy, with a more robust role for tense than duration. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Facing the Challenges of Primary Progressive Aphasia: The Spousal Perspective
Conclusions Greater understanding of the spousal experiences of PPA is crucial to the development of intervention to help sustain spouses' emotional and relational connections with their partner. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

An Application of Network Science to Phonological Sequence Learning in Children With Developmental Language Disorder
Conclusions Network science provides significant insights into phonological learning trajectories in children with DLD and their typically developing peers. Importantly, errors in word production by children with DLD do not surface as a result of weakness in articulatory control. Instead, results suggest that speech errors in DLD may relate to deficits in sound sequencing. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Information Content and Efficiency in the Spoken Discourse of Individuals With Parkinson's Disease
Conclusions Individuals with PD without dementia demonstrated reduced discourse informativeness that reflects disruptions to both conceptual and lexical discourse processes. In exploratory analyses, reduced efficiency of information content was associated with global cognition and motor severity. Clinical and research implications are discussed within a Cognitivist framework of discourse production (Sheratt, 2007). (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Using the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) System to Investigate Cultural Differences in Conversational Turn Count
Conclusions Culture, but not hearing status, influences CTCs as derived by the Language ENvironment Analysis system. Clinicians should consider how cultural communication practices might influence their suggestions for language stimulation. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Changes in the Synchrony of Multimodal Communication in Early Language Development
Conclusions These results suggest that children produce gestures and vocalizations as coordinated elements of a single communication system before the transition to the two-word stage. This coordination is related to subsequent lexical development in this period.Supplemental Materialhttps://doi.org/10.23641/asha.6912242 (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Verbal Agreement Inflection in German Children With Down Syndrome
Conclusions Data indicate that a substantial number of children/adolescents with DS display a deficit in verbal agreement inflection that cannot be attributed to phonetic/phonological problems. The influence of phonological short-term memory on the acquisition of subject –verb agreement has to be further explored. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

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Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

A Phonetic Complexity-Based Approach for Intelligibility and Articulatory Precision Testing: A Preliminary Study on Talkers With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Conclusions Considering phonetic complexity for dysarthria tests could result in more sensitive assessments for detecting and monitoring dysarthria progression. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

A Simple Method to Obtain Basic Acoustic Measures From Video Recordings as Subtitles
Conclusions This method is useful in integrating the acoustic measures with any kind of video recordings containing audio data when inbuilt hardware means are not available. However, calibration and other technical aspects related to data acquisition and synchronization described in this article should be properly taken care of during the recording. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research