Continuing Education Instructions and Questions
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Continuing Education Instructions and Questions Source Type: research
Therapeutic Writing: An Exploratory Speech–Language Pathology Counseling Technique
This exploratory qualitative study investigated the use of therapeutic writing for counseling long-term caregivers of spouses with brain injury and neurogenic communication disorders. Three participants wrote an average of six single-spaced pages of text. After analysis of the written text, the common themes of onset of diagnosis, anger, grief, and similarities in coping mechanisms were identified. Additional information about the value of therapeutic writing was obtained. Therapeutic writing appears to be a promising technique to use for counseling caregivers. On the basis of the caregiver's written text, the counseling n...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Separating the Problem and the Person: Insights From Narrative Therapy With People Who Stutter
Stuttering is a complex disorder of speech that encompasses motor speech and emotional and cognitive factors. The use of narrative therapy is described here, focusing on the stories that clients tell about the problems associated with stuttering that they have encountered in their lives. Narrative therapy uses these stories to understand, analyze, and address aspects of emotional and cognitive aspects of stuttering. In this form of therapy, the therapist helps the client deconstruct unhelpful, but widely held, discourses about people who stutter. Externalization is a core process in narrative therapy, involving the separat...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Telling the Story of Stroke When It's Hard to Talk
Illness narratives may be told in various contexts and are reported to be associated with a variety of positive health outcomes, such as fewer doctors' office visits. The story of stroke onset can be highly varied among people without language impairments, seeming to reflect the way the individual is understanding and adapting to living with the consequences of stroke. Although individuals with aphasia due to stroke appear to have the linguistic capability to construct the typical forms included in a stroke narrative, it is unknown whether the range of narrative styles among individuals with aphasia parallels those produce...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Expanding Expectations for Narrative Styles in the Context of Dementia
This article uses discourse analyses to examine the narrative styles produced by 2 women with a diagnosis of dementia. Because of constrained cognitive resources, people with dementia (PWD) often use alternative strategies to weave their stories into conversations. People with dementia have difficulty in initiating and maintaining a canonical Labovian narrative structure, even with collaboration from an unimpaired conversation partner. For example, they may omit the orientation needed by the partner, or they may not look back, sum up, and achieve a resolution in ways conversational partners traditionally expect. Neverthele...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
“Hopeless, Sorry, Hopeless”: Co-constructing Narratives of Care With People Who Have Aphasia Post-stroke
Despite widespread support for user involvement in health care, people with aphasia (PWA) report feeling ignored and disempowered in care contexts. They also rarely have the opportunity to give feedback on their experiences of care post-stroke. However, it is important for health care professionals to hear this feedback, both to understand the broader illness narrative and potentially to inform improved practice. Health care professionals who work with PWA should be trained and supported to co-construct narratives of feedback on care. In this article, I consider the knowledge, skills, and attitudes underpinning co-construc...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Narrative Medicine: Suggestions for Clinicians to Help Their Clients Construct a New Identity Following Acquired Brain Injury
This article examines how clinicians can utilize the subjective techniques of narrative medicine to facilitate the rehabilitation process and provide their clients with a holistic approach to meet their needs. Narrative accounts from survivors of acquired brain injury support the relevance of this process as a therapeutic modality. (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Issue Editor Foreword: Beyond Narrative Structure to Competence, Identity, and Client-Centered Care
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Issue Editor Foreword Source Type: research
From the Editor: Nobody Owns Narratives, Except the Narrator
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - July 1, 2015 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, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Continuing Education Instructions and Questions Source Type: research
Oral and Written Discourse Skills in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children: The Role of Reading and Verbal Working Memory
This study examined the discourse skills of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children by comparing their oral and written narratives produced for the wordless picture book, Frog, Where Are You? (Mayer, 1969), with those of school-age-matched hearing peers. The written stories produced by 42 Italian 7- to 15-year-old children with moderate to profound hearing loss were compared with those of 48 school-age-matched hearing controls (age range = 7–13 years). The amount of linguistic information produced, measured as the number of words and clauses produced, the ability to generate a narrative structure, and coherence relations...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Reading, Writing, and Spoken Language Assessment Profiles for Students Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing Compared With Students With Language Learning Disabilities
Working with students who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) can raise questions about whether language and literacy delays and difficulties are related directly to late and limited access to spoken language, to co-occurring language learning disabilities (LLD), or to both. A new Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills, which incorporates 15 subtests for profiling oral and written language at sound/word and sentence/discourse levels, was used to assess 3 groups of school-age students (ages 6–18 years; n = 43 each). Students in 2 comparison groups—a typically developing (TD) group and an LLD group—were matched ...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
A Comparison of Deaf and Hearing Children's Reading Comprehension Profiles
Conclusions: These results suggest that deaf children's reading comprehension profiles are remarkably similar to those of poor comprehenders. These findings are discussed in light of the potential differences in underlying causes of reading difficulties in these 2 groups. (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Components of Story Comprehension and Strategies to Support Them in Hearing and Deaf or Hard of Hearing Readers
In this article, we review the skills that have been found to be related to good story comprehension in novice readers with normal hearing and describe the relative weight each plays. The relationship between effective story comprehension and lower level skills (such as syntactic awareness and vocabulary knowledge) is considered, and the casual relations between discourse-level skills (such as inference abilities and story-structure understanding) and good text comprehension are delineated. We then compare this information with what is known about the abilities of children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) and review t...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
The Impact of New Technologies on the Literacy Attainment of Deaf Children
To become successful readers, hearing children require competence in both decoding—the ability to read individual words, underpinned by phonological skills and letter–sound knowledge—and linguistic comprehension—the ability to understand what they read—underpinned by language skills, including vocabulary knowledge. Children who are born with a severe–profound hearing loss, or who acquire such a loss in the first months of life, need to develop the same core skills in decoding and linguistic comprehension although they may develop these skills in a somewhat different manner from hearing peers. This review consid...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
