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Participants/Methods/Design:A total of fourteen participants were included in this study. Dutch-speaking children aged 4 years old – 12 years old were referred to the study by a local hospital craniofacial team. The children had no suspected or diagnosed cognitive/learning disabilities, hearing impairment, or presence of oronasal fistula. None of the subjects were to receive additional […]

Search Methods:The authors used an extensive online search through various electronic databases to find relevant articles. The PICOT (population, intervention, comparison, outcomes, and type of study) method was used to establish inclusion criteria. This systematic review included clinical trials with patients diagnosed with asthma and/or rhinitis (no filter on age/gender) receiving OMT and a control […]

Subjects/Methods/Design:The authors conducted a randomized controlled trial with an end total of 22 children with speech sound disorders. The subjects were randomly assigned to either the tablet group or the table-top group, and were all assessed post-intervention. Each subject had a diagnosed speech sound disorder, with thorough assessments from speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and psychologists. The […]

Description of Search Methods:The authors used an extensive online search on various electronic databases. The articles searched for must have been randomized controlled trials or controlled clinical trials, had to have subjects with developing dentition (no specific age range, but included children up to the age of 12), had to have used interventions to “correct […]

Description of Search Methods:The authors conducted an online search using several electronic databases including BIREME and LILACS. The search was narrowed to articles from 1965-2011 using specific keywords. A quality assessment was used in the search to reduce bias.Results/Findings:During initial stages of the search, 355 articles were yielded. After applying eligibility criteria and eliminating articles […]

Description of Search Methods:An online database search was conducted, resulting in a final number of 76 articles appraised in this review. Studies must have been published between 1979-2013 and in English, and included reports on intervention for phonological and/or articulation impairment/delay. Data extraction and analysis were completed in two parts: 1) identify studies with SSD […]

Description of Search Methods:An online search was conducted on a variety of electronic databases to find scholarly articles best fit for this systematic review. The studies must have had subjects under nine years of age with a diagnosis of childhood apraxia of speech (and no other developmental speech disorders), had results on intelligibility and motor […]

Description of Search Methods:Articles were retrieved using an online search strategy from a variety of electronic databases. The papers had to have been peer-reviewed between January 1980 and July 2018, in English, provided outcomes on articulation/phonology, and used visual biofeedback. A total of 29 articles (a total of 138 participants; 3 different types of biofeedback) […]

Description of Search Methods:An online search was conducted using a variety of databases, and the authors set the date range from 1990 to 2012, as videonasoendoscopy began being studied more thoroughly in 1990. After extensive review and elimination of retrieved articles, the authors included a final number of 3 studies in this systematic review. In […]