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Understanding Dysphagia Care in Pakistan: A Survey of Current Speech Language Therapy Practice
Dysphagia affects individuals across all ages and has pervasive and potentially life-threatening consequences. Individuals with dysphagia are...
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A new tool for the assessment of speech understanding and spatial hearing difficulties in children: the Kid-SSQ questionnaire
PurposeTo develop and validate a new questionnaire, the Kid-SSQ, for the rapid screening of hearing abilities in children with hearing impairment,...
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SARAspeech—Feasibility of automated assessment of ataxic speech disturbance
Ataxias are a group of movement disorders that are characterized by progressive loss of balance, impaired coordination and speech disturbance, which...
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Speech auditory brainstem responses (s-ABRs) as a new approach for the assessment of speech sounds coding
BackgroundThe evoked auditory brainstem response (EABR) is an objective electrophysiological test used to assess the brainstem’s auditory neural...
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Speech characteristics yield important clues about motor function: Speech variability in individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis
Background and hypothesis: Motor abnormalities are predictive of psychosis onset in individuals at clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis and are...
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Speech Perception in Noise and Medial Olivocochlear Reflex: Effects of Age, Speech Stimulus, and Response-Related Variables
PurposeThe role of the medial olivocochlear system in speech perception in noise has been debated over the years, with studies showing mixed results....
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Genetic architecture of childhood speech disorder: a review
Severe speech disorders lead to poor literacy, reduced academic attainment and negative psychosocial outcomes. As early as the 1950s, the familial...
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Listening to speech-in-noise with hearing aids: Do the self-reported outcomes reflect the behavioral speech perception task performance?
BackgroundThe aim of this study is to examine the relationship between behavioral speech-in-noise listening tasks and self-reported speech-in-noise...
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Spectral Grou** of Electrically Encoded Sound Predicts Speech-in-Noise Performance in Cochlear Implantees
ObjectivesCochlear implant (CI) users exhibit large variability in understanding speech in noise. Past work in CI users found that spectral and...
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Role of prior intratympanic gentamicin and corticosteroids therapy on speech understanding in patients with Menière's disease after cochlear implantation
AimIntratympanic injection of corticosteroids (ITC) and gentamicin therapy (ITG) are widely used treatments for vertigo in Meniere’s disease (MD)....
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Comparing Audiological Outcomes of Conventional and AI-Upgraded Cochlear Implant Speech Processors
In current age of technology, artificial intelligence is used in the medical field to improve the quality and accuracy in patient care and achieve...
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Characterization of speech and language phenotype in the 8p23.1 syndrome
The 8p23.1 duplication syndrome is a rare genetic condition with an estimated prevalence rate of 1 out of 58,000. Although the syndrome was...
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Diagnostic Uncertainty in Childhood Motor Speech Disorders: A Review of Recent Tools and Approaches
PurposeSpeech-language pathologists report difficulty in the accurate differential diagnosis of complex speech presentations. This paper explores...
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Value of patient-reported outcome measures for evaluating the benefit of speech processor upgrading in patients with cochlear implants
BackgroundPatients with a cochlear implant (CI) should be evaluated for a new speech processor every 6 years. The aim of this analysis was to assess...
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Connected speech features in non-English speakers with Alzheimer’s disease: protocol for sco** review
BackgroundA large body of literature indicates that connected speech profiles in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) can be utilized for...
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An Update on Apraxia of Speech
Purpose of ReviewApraxia of speech (AOS) is a motor speech disorder that has long been recognized to occur secondary to acute neurologic insults and,...
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Relative importance of speech and voice features in the classification of schizophrenia and depression
Speech is a promising biomarker for schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD) and major depressive disorder (MDD). This proof of principle study...
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Speech Perception in Quiet and in the Presence of Noise in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Behavioral Study
Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is one of the important parameters to be considered for the effective perception of speech. Many researchers indicate...
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Speech deficits in multiple sclerosis: a narrative review of the existing literature
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory and demyelinating autoimmune disease. MS patients deal with motor and sensory impairments, visual...
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Communication strategies for adults in palliative care: the speech-language therapists’ perspective
BackgroundCommunication disorders are a challenge that many patients in palliative care (PC) may encounter. This intervention area is emerging for...
