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Hybrid Telepractice Delivery of Enhanced Milieu Teaching: Effects on Caregiver Implementation and Child Communication (2021)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Telepractice has been a hot topic lately in the field of speech pathology. The hybrid model, combining in-person and teletherapy, has grown in popularity, especially when delivering interventions that involve coaching. This study investigates the efficacy of a hybrid telepractice approach in Enhanced Milieu Teaching.Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT) is a caregiver-implemented intervention for children with […]
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Vocabulary Acquisition and Usage for Late Talkers Treatment: Effect on Expressive Vocabulary and Phonology (2021)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
In-depth breakdown (300-400 words): This study examined the expressive language and phonological development of three “late talking” children between 21- 25 months of age. The children participated in two 30-minute sessions of VAULT treatment with a team of four trained speech-language pathologists over the course of 8 weeks.VAULT treatment is an input-based program, focused on […]
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Perceptual and Acoustic Effects of Dual-Focus Speech Treatment in Children With Dysarthria (2021)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Research shows that most children with CP have dysarthria, characterized by deficits in their rate of speech, articulatory precision, and vocal intensity. Two well-known approaches for treating dysarthria in children include the Speech Systems Approach and the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT). While these treatment methods are supported by research in specific settings, there is […]
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Quantifying Bolus Residue and Its Risks in Children: A Videofluoroscopic Study (2021)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This retrospective observational study was completed at a tertiary children’s hospital. A total of 533 VFSS videos obtained from 2016–2020 were included. Pediatric patients with a variety of different swallowing disorders were involved, including those with neurological, chromosomal, anatomical, respiratory, cardiac, gastrointestinal, and unknown etiologies. All VFSS videos were completed at 30 frames per second. […]
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Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy and Myofunctional Devices Used in Speech Pathology Treatment: A Systematic Quantitative Review of the Literature (2021)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
The authors used Pickering and Byrne (2014)’s method which “allows for a systematic and reproducible way to quantify research, critically review studies, and also identify gaps in the literature” (p. 303). An electronic database search was completed to find studies that 1) had information on SLPs using OMT or MDs, 2) reported data pre and […]
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Morphological Errors in Spanish-Speaking Bilingual Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorders (2021)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This study included English-Spanish speaking children with and without DLD (33 children per group; ages 4-6). Participants were selected by meeting the following criteria: “a qualifying score on the Morphosyntax subtest of the Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment” and “a percentage of grammatical utterances below 80% in both Spanish and English (p. 501). The subjects were also […]
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The Production of Complex Syntax in Spontaneous Language by 4-Year-Old Children With Hearing Loss (2021)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
It is known from previous research that morphosyntactic skills are impaired in children with hearing loss (p. 609); however, there is limited research on complex syntax production with this population. The authors posed the following research questions to add to this area of study: Do children with hearing loss differ from age-matched and/or language-matched children […]
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Comparative Effects of Picture Symbol With Paired Text and Text-Only Augmentative and Alternative Communication Representations on Communication From Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder (2021)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
The author used a very small sample size with a total of four students, who were all male, and attended elementary school in self-contained special education classrooms. The study required that the students have a formal diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder with minimal functional speech, be able to isolate their finger to point to images […]
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Rare Vocabulary Production in School-Age Narrators From Low-Income Communities (2021)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This study was designed as a “supplement” to a previous study by Mills and Fox (2016). Participants included a total number of 76 participants (40 girls, 36 boys), aged 7-11, from diverse backgrounds. None of the participants had ever received special education services. Graduate student clinicians and licensed speech-language pathologists administered the Peabody Picture Vocabulary […]
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Effectiveness of Speech Intervention in Patients With a Cleft Palate: Comparison of Motor-Phonetic Versus Linguistic-Phonological Speech Approaches (2020)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
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 […]
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