Issue Editors Foreword: Supporting Writers Across the Autism Spectrum
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Issue Editors Foreword Source Type: research
From the Editors: Supporting Writers Across the Autism Spectrum
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - April 1, 2019 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, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Continuing Education Instructions and Questions Source Type: research
Learning Styles and Motivations of Individuals Without Prior Exposure to Augmentative and Alternative Communication
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Facilitators play a vital role in successful AAC intervention, yet they often lack instruction to effectively fulfill this role. Clinicians should consider age and gender when designing instruction programs for these individuals. (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Caregiving for Persons With Dementia: Evidence-Based Resources for SLPs
Speech–language pathologists (SLPs) have an important role in supporting the caregivers of persons with dementia from diagnosis through the end of life in 4 major areas: education, training to use effective cognitive communication strategies identified for clients with dementia, psychosocial/emotional support, and counseling. Speech–language pathologists may be involved in this process from the initial diagnosis when families need guidance to navigate the vast amounts of information on the Internet and elsewhere, until they need assistance in making end-of-life decisions. Speech–language pathologists must recognize t...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Third-Party Disability in Family Members of People With Communication Disorders Associated With Parkinson's Disease
The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of communication disorders on family members of people with Parkinson's disease (PD) through the lens of third-party disability. Nine community-dwelling family members who live with people with PD participated in semi-structured interviews. Data were collected and analyzed using the qualitative research methods from the tradition of phenomenology. Two themes emerged from the analysis of data. The first theme, “What?” captures examples of how communication between participants and their family members has changed because of PD, and how participants attempt to manage fr...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Loss of Intimacy: A Cost of Caregiving in Aphasia
This article describes one such program, an Aphasia Couples Retreat, ran as a collaboration between a local nonprofit and university program in the Pacific Northwest. The retreat provides couples with the opportunity to discuss and address issues related to intimacy, learn new skills, and gain support from an interdisciplinary team of students, speech–language pathologists, occupational therapists, and psychologists. (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Family-Centered Care in Aphasia: Assessment of Third-Party Disability in Family Members With the Family Aphasia Measure of Life Impact
More than 50 years of research has demonstrated the profound effect that aphasia has on people with the condition and their family members. In the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, the World Health Organization described the impact of an individual's health condition on a significant other as “third-party disability.” Recent research has described how third-party disability can occur in family members of people with aphasia post-stroke. Despite the extensive history and ongoing relevance of these findings, family-centered rehabilitation has been slow to integrate into clinical practice...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Interprofessional Caregiver Education, Training, and Wellness in the Context of a Cohort Model for Aphasia Rehabilitation
Patient-centered care is extending the sphere of health care beyond the patient, focusing attention upon the family caregiver(s). In this context, patient–family relationships are at the center of consistent, well-developed interprofessional interventions that encompass caregiver education, training, and wellness. Cohort models of intervention include groups of patients who start and stop a program or intervention simultaneously. One such cohort-based service delivery model is an intensive comprehensive aphasia program (ICAP), which provides an ideal context in which to address holistic care for the person with aphasia a...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Issue Editor Foreword: Expanding the Envelope of Care: Redefining the Patient as the Patient–Family Caregiver Unit
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Issue Editor Foreword Source Type: research
From the Editors: Expanding the Envelope of Care: Redefining the Patient as the Patient-Family Caregiver Unit
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Source: Topics in Language Disorders - January 1, 2019 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, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Continuing Education Instructions and Questions Source Type: research
Training Implicit Learning of Spelling in Italian Children With Developmental Dyslexia
It had been hypothesized that, in developmental dyslexia (DD), an implicit learning deficit explains children's problems in encoding the phoneme–grapheme correspondences underlying the writing system and thus the development of spelling skills. The present study tested the efficacy of an intervention to facilitate implicit learning of context-sensitive spelling rules with Italian children with DD. Mapping of phonological and orthographic information during spelling was implicitly modeled during 6 sessions of intervention. Thirty-eight elementary-aged children with DD were assigned either to this (phonological–orthograp...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - October 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Spelling of Pseudowords and Real Words in Dutch-Speaking Children With and Without Dyslexia
The purpose of this study was to explore the spelling knowledge and skills of elementary school children with and without dyslexia who speak Dutch, a language with a relatively transparent orthography. Children in Grades 2–6 completed real and pseudoword spelling dictation tasks. Spelling performance was compared in 218 children with (n = 55) and without (n = 163) dyslexia. There was a medium effect size for morphological, phonological, combined, and etymological spelling skills for differences between students with and without dyslexia. In addition, spelling real words resulted in medium effect sizes, whereas spelling p...
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - October 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Beyond Phonology: The Role of Morphological and Orthographic Spelling Skills in German
We present data for the close association of morphological awareness (assessed by a classroom measure requiring students to build new word forms based on presented pseudowords) with orthographic spelling skills. In a large sample (N = 796) of students in Grades 4–7, morphological awareness predicted children's spelling skills above and beyond fluid intelligence and phonological spelling skills. In the last section of this article, we review findings on the efficiency of morphology-based spelling intervention in German. (Source: Topics in Language Disorders)
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - October 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
