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Speech Impairment and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (2018)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Description of Methods, Participants, and Design: The authors of the study recruited 10 boys (ages 4.5-10.3 years old) with a diagnosis of FASD, and 26 typically developing children (both girls and boys, aged 4.1-8.7 years old), who had normal hearing and speech-language development. Of the boys with FASD, 3 had a history of hearing issues, […]
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Cognitive Processing and Syntactic Sentence Comprehension (2018)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Description of Methods, Participants, and Design: More specifically, the subjects of this study included 234 children aged 7-11 years old, half with DLD and half with typical development. Subjects were from four parts of the country, and discovered through community centers, public schools, and summer camp programs through universities. The authors reduced selection bias by […]
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A Sensory-Motor Approach to Feeding (2011)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Case History: This subject of this study was a 2-year old female with the diagnosis of Down syndrome. The author describes the child’s medical history with complications including premature birth, bronchiopulmonary dysplasia, and neutropenia. From birth, she was fed via IV, then OG feeds, then NG feeds, and finally a G-tube. It was reported that […]
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Consonant Acquisition in 27 languages (2017)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
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 […]
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Pre-Linguistic Communication Skills (2009)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Types of Gestures: Humans use gestures to express communicative intent with gross (body, arms) and fine motor movements (hands, fingers, face, lips). Research from Iverson and Thal (1998) defined two types of gestures, representational and deictic. Deictic: Emerging around 7-9 months of age (Carpenter et al., 1998), this type of gesture can be either distal […]
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Strategies Beyond Speech Imitation (2009)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
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 […]
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Predictors of Expressive-Language Outcomes for Late-Talkers (2017)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Description of Participants, Methods, and Conditions: The online search used Communication & Mass Media Complete, ERIC, Medline, PsycEXTRA, Psychological and Behavioral Sciences, and PsycINFo databases. The studies must have had late-talking participants, been tested at least 5 months after determination and before the age of 5, have had data on one predictor, and been in […]
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Non-Orthodontic Intervention and Non-Nutritive Sucking behaviors (2018)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Description of Method, Participants, and Conditions: The authors conducted an online search on PubMed’s database with “anterior open bite” and “open bite” as the primary search terms. Initially, the search found nine relevant articles, but reduced to four articles determined to fit the inclusion criteria: Cayley et al., 2000 – found that more studies should […]
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The Relationship Between Phonological Awareness and Developmental Disabilities (2018)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Description of Methods, Participants, and Assessment Measures: Subjects were given assessments that evaluated speech, language, orthographic knowledge, and phonological awareness. The age range was chosen as neurotypical children begin to develop these pre- literacy skills around this age. Skills varied among participants due to the nature of study’s purpose, which was to examine “intrinsic factors” […]
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