{"title":"Awareness and Usage of Sign Language among Doctors in Main Khartoum Hospitals (Ibrahim Malik, Bahri, Omdurman) October 2017","authors":"Sundos Hamza Fadul Modawey","doi":"10.4172/2375-4427.1000181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4427.1000181","url":null,"abstract":"Background: When a deaf person become ill a big problems are emerge beginning with explanation of their medical issues, understanding of their medical problems, medications, management and their whole condition. So there is an undeniable need for improving the communication between physicians and deaf patients, non-verbal language is a form of communication that needs to be understood and validated in health services and physicians must be trained to deal with them. \u0000Method: Descriptive and cross-sectional study. The duration of the study is one month, with target population 1290 doctor. \u0000Objective: To Evaluate awareness and uses of sign language among doctors. \u0000Results: 112 house officer, 96 registrar, 85 medical officer and 12 consultants returned completed questionnaires. More than half of doctors (52.1%) consulted with deaf patients in their medical practice. Also the most frequent method of communication used were using of relatives and others people for interpreting and communication (22.6%), followed by writing (12.8%), only (11.5%) used sign language and the least used method was the lip reading (4.9%). 95.7% were aware of sign language importance and 68.5% of them were agree with addition of sign language into medical curricula. \u0000Conclusion: This study highlights the deficit in using of sign language among doctors that make the medical consultation with deaf patients less effective. Doctors must be qualified and experienced in dealing with patient having special needs.","PeriodicalId":231062,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders, Deaf Studies & Hearing Aids","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132306465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Review of Craniosynostosis in Communication Disorders Practice and its Effect on my Family","authors":"A. M. Peters, Lindsey E. Jorgensen","doi":"10.4172/2375-4427.1000177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4427.1000177","url":null,"abstract":"Craniosynostosis is a congenital malformation of the sutures of the scull which fuse too early in childhood which does not allow the scull to expand appropriately. The cognitive and physical consequences of this fusion can last a lifetime. There are several types of craniosynostosis depending on what suture fuses and these have a variety of long-term consequences. The diagnosis is typically made after birth and some of the sequela can be appended if surgery is completed in a quick manner. The children born with craniosynostosis will have long-term complications of which the author, Ms. Peters, is readily aware given her family connection. Working with someone with this disorder can be challenging, but rewarding.","PeriodicalId":231062,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders, Deaf Studies & Hearing Aids","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121468956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preliminary Investigation of the Relationship between the Temperament of Young Children Who Stutter and the Temperament of Their Parents","authors":"Kia N Johnson, Jan Karrass","doi":"10.4172/2375-4427.1000176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4427.1000176","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies suggest temperamental differences between young preschool-age children who stutter and those who do not. It is also known that parental socialization plays a major role in the temperamental development of children. However, to-date, whether temperamental differences exist between parents of children who stutter and parents of those who do not is unknown. The nature of relational differences between parent-child temperament across talker groups is also unclear. \u0000The present preliminary study examined the relationship between the temperament of parents and the temperament of children who stutter (CWS) and children who do not stutter (CWNS). It was hypothesized that the temperament of CWS would differ significantly from CWNS and that the temperament of parents of CWS would differ significantly from parents of CWNS. Participants included 16 CWS and 16 CWNS (ages of 36 to 64 months) matched for age and gender. The primary parent for each child completed the Children's Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ) and the Adult Temperament Questionnaire (ATQ) that assessed factors of the temperament of the child and parent, respectively. Data was subjected to a series of t-tests and correlational analyses. \u0000Preliminary findings indicated no significant difference in the temperament of CWS and CWNS and no significant difference in the temperament of parents of CWS and parents of CWNS according to the ATQ. Relational differences were noted between some aspects of the CBQ and the ATQ scores for both talker groups. Preliminary findings suggest no temperamental differences between CWS and CWNS or their parents. However, findings do suggest relational differences in parental socialization of emotional development between CWS and CWNS. Results also suggest a need to make parents of children who stutter aware of the importance of modeling appropriate use of emotions in order to influence emotional development of their child.","PeriodicalId":231062,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders, Deaf Studies & Hearing Aids","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114164056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. McMicken, F. Salles, S. V. Berg, Margaret Vento-Wilson, Kelly M. Rogers, Asterios Toutios, Shrikanth S. Narayanan
{"title":"Bilabial Substitution Patterns During Consonant Production in a Case of Congenital Aglossia","authors":"B. McMicken, F. Salles, S. V. Berg, Margaret Vento-Wilson, Kelly M. Rogers, Asterios Toutios, Shrikanth S. Narayanan","doi":"10.4172/2375-4427.1000175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4427.1000175","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: Congenital aglossia is a rare syndrome in which an individual is born without a tongue. The present paper examines articulatory details of the production of multiple consonants by an aglossic speaker. \u0000Method: Real-time magnetic resonance imaging data of the upper airway were collected from the aglossic speaker. Air-tissue boundaries were determined from the video sequences using a segmentation algorithm, and dynamics of vocal-tract constrictions and cross-dimensions were calculated. \u0000Results: The aglossic speaker produced the consonants /t, d, th, l ,r, f ,v, s, sh/ with a bilabial closure instead of a normal lingua-alveolar closure; however, in /t/and /d/ the overall vocal-tract configuration presented a cavity anterior to the constriction, which filtered transient and frication sources in a manner similar to normal alveolar production. \u0000Conclusion: The aglossic speaker, lacking a tongue apex, has developed a bilabial compensatory strategy to produce multiple consonants with her lips.","PeriodicalId":231062,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders, Deaf Studies & Hearing Aids","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123137337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wine Flavor Perception in a Person with Isolated Congenital Aglossia, Naïve Wine Taster, and Sommelier","authors":"K. Mahood, Long Wang, B. McMicken, C. Rock","doi":"10.4172/2375-4427.1000174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4427.1000174","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: This study aimed to augment previous research that investigated flavor perception in isolated congenital aglossia by a whole food/beverage approach. Isolated congenital aglossia is the rare condition of absence of a tongue at birth without the presence of other symptoms. Previous studies confirmed taste perception in isolated congenital aglossia using single taste solutions including sour, salty, sweet, bitter, and umami. \u0000Methods: The current randomized, double-blinded study age- and sex-matched a naive wine taster and sommelier to the 46 year-old female with isolated congenital aglossia. A Nose and Palate Survey with 54 variables created based on the Court of Master Sommeliers Deductive Tasting Format was used to evaluate flavor perception. All of the five red wines were tested in triplicate in random order, for a total of 15 separate samples per subject. \u0000Results: There was a significant difference in overall nose ratings among the participants F(2,42)=63.461, p<0.001, with post hoc analysis revealing differences in overall nose ratings between the person with isolated congenital aglossia and sommelier (p<0.001), as well as between the naive wine taster and sommelier (p<0.001). There was a significant difference in overall palate ratings among the participants F(2,42)=48.651, p<0.001, and post hoc analysis revealed differences in overall palate ratings between the person with isolated congenital aglossia and sommelier (p<0.001), as well as between the naive wine taster and sommelier (p<0.001). There were no significant differences between the person with isolated congenital aglossia and naive wine taster with a tongue for either overall nose or palate ratings. \u0000Conclusion: These results support previous findings that individuals with isolated congenital aglossia can discern various taste and flavor stimuli and suggest that absence of tongue does not greatly affect wine flavor perception among naive wine tasters.","PeriodicalId":231062,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders, Deaf Studies & Hearing Aids","volume":"163 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116645258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Harvey, Jonathan P. Wilson, Megan E. Cuellar, E. Anaya
{"title":"The Effects of Stimulus Complexity and Timing during Dual Task across Neurologically- Healthy Older and Younger Adults: A Pilot Study","authors":"J. Harvey, Jonathan P. Wilson, Megan E. Cuellar, E. Anaya","doi":"10.4172/2375-4427.1000173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4427.1000173","url":null,"abstract":"Dual task protocols are often used to assess the simultaneous performance of two tasks. However, the cognitive and perceptual load factors of empirically studied dual tasks often vary considerably. Thus, the current pilot study systematically investigated the effects of dual task constraints across varying levels of complexity, for three groups of neurologically healthy adults, by closely manipulating cognitive and perceptual load factors. Using a novel methodology, performance was measured during both simple and complex dual tasks that were systematically varied according to stimulus onset asynchrony and set size. The results revealed that set-size and stimulus onset asynchrony factors interact to significantly increase levels of dual task interference. The implications of key findings and potential future applications for this novel dual task protocol are further discussed.","PeriodicalId":231062,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders, Deaf Studies & Hearing Aids","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131108386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Educational Assistive Technology for Students with Communication Disorders","authors":"Onintra Poobrasert","doi":"10.4172/2375-4427.1000178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4427.1000178","url":null,"abstract":"Assistive technology has a significant impact on helping students with communication disorders achieve their academic goals. Selecting an appropriate assistive technology for a student requires parents, educators, and other professionals take a comprehensive view, carefully analyzing the interaction between the student, the technology, the tasks to be performed, and the settings where it will be used. It is important for the researchers to have better understanding of this disability issues and develop their own tool. Foreign assistive technologies are expensive and not readily available for the student with communication disorders in Thailand. It is therefore desirable to design and develop such tools for the student in Thailand and determine its effectiveness on performance of the student. Consequently, this paper obviously is considered on a study to integrate usability testing into the design and development of two assistive technology tools called Thai Word Search program and Thai word prediction program. Thai Word Search program assists student with communication disorders to write any vocabulary that he/she cannot spell it correctly. However, Thai word prediction has its advantages for students with communication disorders as the function of word completion and word prediction. Finally, the study indicated that student with communication disorders in this study increase his ability in writing when using assistive technology more than without using assistive technology. The result for the first tool shows the value of p is 0.00001. Additionally, result for the second tool shows the value of p is 0.00027. Therefore both results are significant at p ≤ 0.05.","PeriodicalId":231062,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders, Deaf Studies & Hearing Aids","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126292085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Potential Utility of Self-Learning Modules to Supplement Instruction for Students in Speech-Language Pathology","authors":"Angela Losardo","doi":"10.4172/2375-4427.1000172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4427.1000172","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":231062,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders, Deaf Studies & Hearing Aids","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128056562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Client Centered for Inclusion","authors":"D. Luterman","doi":"10.4172/2375-4427.1000171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4427.1000171","url":null,"abstract":"I began my clinical career as a diagnostic audiologist. I was taught in my training program to conduct exams by taking a case history, testing the client and then counselling. The counselling was always content based and involved an explanation of the audiogram and a recommendation for how the client should proceed. This was essentially the medical-model or institution-centered model of service delivery. In this model the professional is the expert and client is the passive recipient of the expertise. The emphasis in is on causality and cure, and the client’s psycho-social issues are seldom addressed; in fact, as a graduate student I was instructed to refer the client to a mental health professional if emotions emerged in my interactions. Speech therapy had a similar professional-centered bent with a lesson plan devised and executed by the therapist. The advantages of this model are many:","PeriodicalId":231062,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders, Deaf Studies & Hearing Aids","volume":"77 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128082339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can we Measure Speech Perception Ability Objectively in Young Children usingCochlear Implant","authors":"Bhimte Sl, R. Rangasayee","doi":"10.4172/2375-4427.1000170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2375-4427.1000170","url":null,"abstract":"Speech perception plays a significant role in the development of speech and language ability in children with hearing loss. There are various speech perception tests with the specific protocol to administer and score. Auditory evoked potential is an objective measure used for assessing hearing acuity in young children. Higher cortical evoked potential test provides an effective indication of the physiological status of auditory cortex. CEAP can be obtained in young children with assistive devices. The present research study aims to investigate whether latency and amplitude of aided cortical evoked potential can predict Speech perception score in cochlear implant users. 52 cochlear implant users and 102 typical children were tested. The mean age for children using cochlear implant was 8.05 years, standard deviation 1.4. The normal hearing group had a mean age of 8.12 years and standard deviation 1.46. Cochlear implant users were having at least 15 active electrodes. Speech stimulus was used with 100 ms duration, 20 ms rise/fall, 20 ms plateau tones. The inter-stimulus interval was kept at 1125 ms. During statistical analysis of data, CEAP P1 latencies and speech perception scores were found to be related. A further regression equation was obtained. The present study reveals speech stimuli can evoke distinct neural response patterns from auditory cortex. The present research study also helps in understanding the neural processing of speech in individuals with hearing impairment using Cochlear implant. Statistical analysis of data CEAP P1 latency and speech perception score regression equation were obtained. The result reveals that speech stimuli can evoke distinct neural response patterns from auditory cortex. CEAP finding support speech perception ability and auditory evoked potential help to the study of neural processing of speech in individuals with the cochlear implant. The evoked potential and speech perception ability has a significant relation between them.","PeriodicalId":231062,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders, Deaf Studies & Hearing Aids","volume":"217 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122087062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}