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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Description of Search Methods: This systematic review aimed to be “transparent and replicable” by using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. Online databases including Web of Science, PsycINFO, PubMed, and Google Scholar were used in the authors’ search. Studies must have been in English, in peer-reviewed journals prior to August 2015, and […]

Description of Method: Inclusion criteria for online databases were 1) most of the samples had to be 2yo to 5y11mo children with “at risk” label for speech and language impairment (w/o concomitant disorders); 2) be an RCT, experimental and quasi-experimental studies, and/or case studies; and 3) one outcome measure must have discussed speech/ language/communication. The […]

Description of Methods, Participants, and Design: The authors of this study used 3 sources to gather as much information as possible. The first was using 13 databases with the search terms children, consonant, acquisition, development. The second was compiling studies collected at conferences, fellow colleagues, and international clinics. The third source consisted of articles collected […]

The authors of this study provide rationales, examples, and key empirical evidence on each strategy. Below is a brief synopsis of what they found and reported: Provide access to Augmentative and Alternative Communication Clinicians use all sorts of forms of AAC such as picture exchange, Big Mac buttons, and communication books when working with children […]