A Cross-sectional Study of Shared Attention by Children With Autism and Typically Developing Children in an Inclusive Preschool Setting
This study examined the ways in which young children with autism and typical children focus their engagement with objects and people (peers and adults) in an inclusive preschool setting. A cross-sectional analysis was conducted of 30 typical children and 30 children with autism, with 10 different children from each group at 3 different ages (2, 3, and 4 years), interacting with both adults and peers available as partners. By the age of 3 years, typically developing children engaged in coordinated joint attention (CJA) with others at a stable rate. At 4 years, children with autism exhibited more sharing attention to objects...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Supporting Children With Severe-to-Profound Learning Difficulties and Complex Communication Needs to Make Their Views Known: Observation Tools and Methods
All children have the right to shape decisions that influence their lives. Yet, children with severe-to-profound intellectual disabilities and complex communication needs are often marginalized from this process. Here, we examined the utility of a set of tools incorporating ethnographic and structured observational methods with three such children. We specifically examined the communicative behavior that these children used to share their views and the ways in which adults recognized and responded to them. The three case studies illustrate (1) that these children have ways to make their intentions known, even though they m...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Words Are Not Enough: Providing the Context for Social Communication and Interaction
This article elucidates the unfolding of 3 phases of cognitive development through which typical children move during the first 2 years of life to illuminate the interrelationships among early cognition, communicative intention, and word-learning strategies. The resulting theoretical framework makes clear the developmental prerequisites for social communication and sheds light on how some children with autism spectrum disorder can learn words and phrases but fail to develop true social language. This framework is then applied to a case example of a child called Henry, using data from 10-min videos of clinician–child inte...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Issue Editor Foreword: A Developmental Framework for Evidence-Based Practices for the Autism Spectrum
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Issue Editor Foreword Source Type: research
From the Editor: Looking Deeper Into Developmental Patterns in Autism
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: From the Editor Source Type: research
Continuing Education Instructions and Questions
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Continuing Education Instructions and Questions Source Type: research
Who Benefits From an Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Program?
Conclusions: This study only identified age as a predictor of responders. Future research may need to examine a broader scope of variables that can impact recovery in aphasia. (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Aphasia Centers and the Life Participation Approach to Aphasia: A Paradigm Shift
The Aphasia Center is a service delivery model that provides an interactive community for persons with aphasia. This model has been increasing in popularity over the last 20 years. Aphasia Centers are consistent with a social model of health care and disability. They offer the potential for linguistic, communicative, and psychosocial benefits. The purpose of this article is to describe the historical context that served as the catalyst for Aphasia Centers as well as to offer a firsthand account of their development. Included is a summary of the research evidence, as well as other factors that support the science underlying...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Script Templates: A Practical Approach to Script Training in Aphasia
Discussion: These findings support the use of graded script templates to ensure that appropriately challenging scripts are delivered to persons with aphasia for both clinical practice and research. (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
A Review of Verb Network Strengthening Treatment: Theory, Methods, Results, and Clinical Implications
This article examines Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST), a relatively new treatment approach for anomia in people with aphasia. The VNeST protocol aims to promote generalization to increased lexical retrieval of untrained words across a hierarchy of linguistic tasks, including single-word naming of nouns and verbs, sentence production, and discourse. The concept of the verb network relates to the centrality of the verb to the semantics and syntax of a sentence. The VNeST protocol elicits diverse agents (e.g., musician) and patients (e.g., tambourine) around trained verbs (e.g., shake) to activate a range of sema...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
The Phonomotor Approach to Treating Phonological-Based Language Deficits in People With Aphasia
The phonomotor treatment program for treating word-retrieval deficits among people with aphasia is inspired by a parallel distributed processing model of lexical processing and is focused at the level of individual phonemes and phoneme sequences. Because verbal production of words involves the translation of a lexical-semantic representation into phonological representations, training the repertoire of phonological sequences should enable individuals with anomia to regain the ability to learn words and sequences, generalize to linguistic items not trained, and continue growth following treatment termination. The developmen...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Issue Editor Foreword: Recent Advances in Aphasia Treatment
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Issue Editor Foreword Source Type: research
From the Editor: Thoughts on Commonalities in Language Disorders Across the Life Span Triggered by “Recent Advances in Aphasia Treatment”
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: From the Editor Source Type: research
Continuing Education Instructions and Questions
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Continuing Education Instructions and Questions Source Type: research
An Integrated Approach for Treating Discourse in Aphasia: Bridging the Gap Between Language Impairment and Functional Communication
Conclusions: Findings add to previous research supporting an IDTA approach to improving discourse in persons with aphasia. Participant characteristics and properties of outcome measures associated with these results are also discussed. (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
