Issue Editor Foreword: Clinical Discourse as Cultural Borderlands
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Issue Editor Foreword Source Type: research
From the Editors: Clinical Discourse as Cultural Borderlands
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: From the Editors Source Type: research
Continuing Education Instructions and Questions
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Continuing Education Instructions and Questions Source Type: research
The Impact of Language Experience on Language and Reading: A Statistical Learning Approach
This article reviews the important role of statistical learning for language and reading development. Although statistical learning—the unconscious encoding of patterns in language input—has become widely known as a force in infants' early interpretation of speech, the role of this kind of learning for language and reading comprehension in children has received less attention. In fact, the implicit learning of co-occurrences of words, sentence structures, and other components of language forms a critical part of children's language comprehension and fluent reading. Beyond introducing basic information about language st...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Same or Different: How Bilingual Readers Can Help Us Understand Bidialectal Readers
Reading achievement gaps are prominent in U.S. schools, most notably when comparing the performance of African American and Latino/Hispanic children to their White peers. Among the many reasons offered to explain and address these achievement gaps, language differences and language proficiency are primary considerations because many African American children are bidialectal and many Latino/Hispanic children are bilingual. A review of research findings on the relations between language and reading development and performance in these two distinct student populations suggests that bidialectalism and bilingualism are not risk...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Professional Development Aimed at Increasing the Quality of Language Input During Storybook Interactions: Lessons From One Head Start Teacher's Experiences
This article provides a review of problems associated with teachers' talk and indicators of higher quality teachers' talk for use with lower socioeconomic status (SES) Head Start students. Then it shows how one Head Start teacher, called Michele in this article, responded to professional development that was aimed at increasing the quality of language input during storybook interactions, especially for children from low SES communities. Michele's attempts to modify her classroom discourse in her response to her experiences may inform future efforts to work with teachers to improve their classroom interactions with children...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Language Skills of Bidialectal and Bilingual Children: Considering a Strengths-Based Perspective
This article examines the language and cognitive skills of bidialectal and bilingual children, focusing on African American English bidialectal speakers and Spanish-English bilingual speakers. It contributes to the discussion by considering two themes in the extant literature: (1) linguistic and cognitive strengths can be found in speaking two languages or dialects, and (2) advantages accrue when considering the groups together (or at least side-by-side) rather than separately. A strengths-based framework is proposed, whereby the goal is to identify the linguistic and cognitive strengths of these two groups that might supp...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Issue Editor Foreword: Language and Literacy Skills of Bidialectal and Bilingual Speakers
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Issue Editor Foreword Source Type: research
From the Editors: Language and Literacy Skills of Bidialectal and Bilingual Speakers
No abstract available (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: From the Editors Source Type: research
Continuing Education Instructions and Questions
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - October 1, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Continuing Education Instructions and Questions Source Type: research
Communication Supports for People With Motor Speech Disorders
This article emphasizes communication supports that can enhance participation, as described in the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. The article begins with a discussion of partner and patient-reported assessments to evaluate participation levels and barriers to participation. Then, it provides an overview of communication supports for speakers with motor speech disorders, organized by the status of the disorder as stable, improving, or degenerative. The article includes nine case examples to illustrate principles and provide examples of how to address stable an...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - October 1, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Person-Centered Memory and Communication Strategies for Adults With Dementia
The increasing incidence of aging adults with cognitive-communication impairments and demand for services that enhance the quality of life of this population necessitates examination of the evidence-based strategies that hold the most promise in producing desired quality-of-life outcomes. The adoption of person-centered care approaches in health care (Kitwood, 1997) allows for a better understanding of how to include the person with cognitive-communication impairment in the process of identifying communication needs, developing intervention approaches, and modifying strategies as needs change. The continuum of dementia sev...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - October 1, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Communication Supports and Best Practices: Ensuring People With Aphasia Have an Effective Means of Expressing Needs and Wishes
This article summarizes how incorporating communication supports into varied forms of discourse and all aspects of aphasia rehabilitation and care aligns with best clinical practices and national accreditation requirements. (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - October 1, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Supporting Patient Provider Communication Across Medical Settings
Medical errors and poor patient care have been impacted by communication failures despite mandates for effective patient–provider communication (The Joint Commission, 2010). There are a high number of communication vulnerable individuals in medical situations due to new medical conditions, preexisting conditions, and language differences, to name a few. The purpose of this article is to highlight strategies to support consistent, effective patient–provider communication in a medical setting. However, to guarantee patient–provider communication is consistent, policies and procedures must be in place to ensure appropri...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - October 1, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Health Care Provider Accommodations for Patients With Communication Disorders
This article may also serve as a resource for speech–language pathologists providing in-services to their health care colleagues on this topic and to support interprofessional practices. (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - October 1, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
