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{"title":"The feature underspecification in relative clauses: A comparative study on mandarin-speaking children with developmental language disorder and children with autism plus language impairment","authors":"Jiao DU ,&nbsp;Xiaowei HE ,&nbsp;Haopeng YU","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106574","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106574","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examined how Mandarin-speaking children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and Autism Plus Language Impairment (ALI) comprehend relative clauses (RCs), focusing on potential differences between subject and object RCs across these clinical populations. Both clinical groups demonstrated significant difficulties with RC comprehension, producing comparable error types: thematic role reversals, middle errors, and simple sentence errors. However, distinct performance patterns emerged: children with DLD showed better performance on subject RCs than object RCs, while children with ALI exhibited uniformly low performance across both RC types, suggesting potentially different underlying mechanisms. In line with the Edge Feature Underspecification Hypothesis, our findings suggest that the observed asymmetry in RC comprehension among children with DLD, as well as the error patterns across both clinical groups, may be explained by underspecified edge features.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 106574"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145201590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Maximizing the use of practice-based clinical data to track social communication development in autistic preschoolers","authors":"Lauren Denusik ,&nbsp;Katarina Miletic ,&nbsp;Barbara Jane Cunningham ,&nbsp;Amanda Binns ,&nbsp;Janis Oram","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106575","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106575","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>Evaluating caregiver-delivered programs in clinical settings is necessary to generate practice-based evidence. One challenge of such research is the burden placed on clinicians to complete additional measurement tools. This exploratory study examined the validity of clinical forms already completed as part of the standard delivery of the <em>More Than Words®</em> (MTW) program and explored whether this clinical data would reveal distinct clinical and outcome profiles in real-world contexts.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>The Social Communication Checklist (SCC), a MTW program-specific form completed by the speech-language pathologist, was collected for 36 autistic preschoolers during publicly funded delivery of MTW. We assessed the concurrent validity of autistic preschoolers’ social communication stage and skills rated on the SCC pre- and post-program with two of their scores on reliable, validated tools: the Communication Function Classification System (CFCS) and the Focus on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six (FOCUS-34). We also explored autistic preschoolers’ communicative participation outcome profiles on the FOCUS-34 with their assigned social communication stages on the SCC.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Autistic preschoolers’ pre-program social communication stage on the MTW SCC correlated with their pre-program CFCS communication level and FOCUS-34 score. Most children showed positive social communication changes post-program according to the SCC, and two-thirds showed meaningful or possibly meaningful clinical change on the FOCUS-34; however, scores on these measures did not correlate. Autistic preschoolers at different pre-program SCC stages showed distinct communicative participation outcome profiles on the FOCUS-34.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Program-specific clinical forms like the SCC can be valuable for classifying autistic preschoolers’ social communication skills, exploring differences in outcomes, capturing novel outcomes, and generating practice-based evidence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 106575"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145097757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of instructions on individual prioritization strategies in a dual-task paradigm for listening effort","authors":"Katrien Kestens ,&nbsp;Emma Lepla ,&nbsp;Flore Vandoorne ,&nbsp;Dorien Ceuleers ,&nbsp;Louise Van Goylen ,&nbsp;Hannah Keppler","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106571","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106571","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>This study examined the impact of instructions on the prioritization strategy employed by individuals during a listening effort dual-task paradigm.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>The dual-task paradigm consisted of a primary speech understanding task in different listening conditions and a secondary visual memory task, both performed separately (baseline) and simultaneously (dual-task). Twenty-three normal-hearing participants (mean age: 36.8 years; 14 females) were directed to prioritize the primary speech understanding task in the dual-task condition, whereas another twenty-three (matched for age, gender, and education level) received no specific instructions regarding task priority. Both groups performed the dual-task paradigm twice (mean interval: 14.8 days). Patterns of dual-task interference were assessed by plotting the dual-task effect of the primary and secondary task against each other. Fisher’s exact tests were used to assess whether there was an association between interference patterns and group (non-prioritizing and prioritizing) across all listening conditions and test sessions.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>No statistically significant association was found between the pattern of dual-task interference and the group to which the participants belong for any of the listening conditions and test sessions. Descriptive analysis revealed no consistent strategy use within individuals across listening conditions and test sessions, suggesting a lack of a uniform approach regardless of the given instructions.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Providing prioritization instructions was insufficient to ensure that an individual will mainly focus on the primary task and consistently adhere to this strategy across listening conditions and test sessions. These results raised reservations about the current usage of dual-task paradigms for listening effort.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 106571"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145097758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Atypical processing of changes in words and pseudowords in children with autism spectrum disorder","authors":"R Lindström ,&nbsp;S Kuuluvainen ,&nbsp;L Kimppa ,&nbsp;M Vainio ,&nbsp;Y Shtyrov ,&nbsp;T Lepistö-Paisley ,&nbsp;T Kujala","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106563","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106563","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The present study explored the neural basis of speech perception in school-aged children with ASD but without language impairments and typically developing control children.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Event related potentials reflecting stimulus encoding, discrimination, and orientation were recorded to five different speech sound changes (consonant or vowel identity, vowel duration, fundamental frequency, intensity) in carefully matched words and pseudowords. Perceptual discrimination of prosodic changes was assessed with a behavioral test.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Impaired speech sound encoding was found for both word and pseudoword stimuli in children with ASD. Reduced neural discrimination of vowel identity changes, consonant changes in pseudowords and vowel duration changes in both words and pseudowords were found in children with ASD. Also, reduced involuntary attention shifting to changes in vowel duration was found in children with ASD.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Results indicate altered speech-sound encoding and reduced cortical discrimination of and orienting to speech-sound changes in complex word-level speech stimuli in school-aged children with ASD but without language impairments.</div></div><div><h3>Significance</h3><div>The results support the theories suggesting weaknesses in phonemic processing in ASD.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 106563"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145057225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Infant temperament predicts early communicative skills in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study","authors":"Denise Ollas-Skogster ,&nbsp;Pirkko Rautakoski ,&nbsp;Anna Kautto ,&nbsp;Hasse Karlsson ,&nbsp;Elina Mainela-Arnold ,&nbsp;Linnea Karlsson ,&nbsp;Saara Nolvi","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106564","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106564","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Studies have established that dimensions of temperament and language development are associated in childhood. Insofar, however, longitudinal studies from infancy into toddlerhood accounting for all temperament dimensions and covering preverbal communication in addition to emerging verbal skills are scarce. Existing findings are inconclusive.</div><div>The current study is an extension of our previous study (<em>N</em> = 91) on a large cohort sample (<em>N</em> = 1200 and 1039 depending on analysis). Temperament (positive emotionality, negative emotionality and emerging self-regulation) was assessed at 6 and 12 months of age and gesturing and receptive vocabulary at 14 months. As an extension to the previous study, expressive vocabulary and sentence complexity in toddlerhood, at 30 months, were also assessed. All assessments utilized parent reports. Associations were studied by multiple linear regression analysis.</div><div>The temperament traits of positive emotionality and self-regulation positively predicted all communicative skills except sentence complexity. Positive emotionality accounted for 10–11 % of the variance in gesturing, 4–5 % in receptive vocabulary and 1–3 % in expressive vocabulary. Self-regulation accounted for 4–6 % of the variance in gesturing, 2–3 % in receptive vocabulary and 0–1 % in expressive vocabulary.</div><div>Results aligned with the findings of our prior study but also highlighted weak longitudinal positive associations between positive emotionality and self-regulation and gesturing and vocabulary. However, associations were notably stronger with gesturing compared to verbal skills. Longitudinal weakening of associations suggests the role of infant temperament is replaced by other factors influencing language development moving into toddlerhood.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 106564"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145088005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Acoustic insights into coarticulatory dynamics in aphasia: Evidence from a semitic language","authors":"Hicham Adem","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106562","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106562","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This is the first comprehensive study to examine the feasibility of using acoustic measures to characterize coarticulatory dynamics in Arabic speakers with Broca's aphasia, addressing a significant gap in the literature and contributing to both universal and culturally specific understandings of coarticulatory timing in aphasia. Five Palestinian Arabic-speaking participants with Broca’s aphasia and five control speakers completed a repetition task involving initial fricative-vowel syllables. Using PRAAT software, the analysis incorporates both static and dynamic acoustic parameters, including formant values (F2 and F3), transition slopes and variability, Voice Onset Time (VOT), and intensity measures. Statistical analysis identified significant differences between the speaker groups, with individuals with Broca's aphasia exhibiting elevated and more variable formant values, prolonged and variable VOT patterns, and reduced intensity levels. Density mapping demonstrated broader distributions and increased variability in F2 and F3 frequencies, indicating disruptions in coarticulatory timing. Decreased spectral centroids and rapid intensity decay rates further highlighted reduced consistency in acoustic patterns. Contrary to findings from studies in other languages, our results indicate a delay in coarticulation rather than a complete loss, accompanied by increased variability in segmental transitions. The findings also underscore how Arabic’s unique phonological structures shape coarticulatory dynamics and advance our understanding of phonetic variability in linguistically underrepresented populations. The study also acknowledges its limitations and underlines the need for tailored interventions targeting timing dynamics, intensity patterns, and acoustic clarity to enhance therapy for individuals with Broca’s aphasia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 106562"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144919803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A longitudinal exploration of inhibitory control in children with Developmental Language Disorder","authors":"Jorge-Luis Guirado-Moreno,&nbsp;Victor A. Sanchez-Azanza,&nbsp;Àngels Esteller-Cano,&nbsp;Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla,&nbsp;Daniel Adrover-Roig","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106561","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106561","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>Previous research suggests that children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) exhibit weaker executive functioning, but there is limited understanding of how inhibitory control develops in this population over time. Adopting a longitudinal perspective, this study assessed inhibitory control in children with DLD compared with their typical developing peers.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We used a Flanker task to longitudinally assess interference control, a component of inhibitory control, in a group of 12 children with DLD and 31 typical development (TD) peers across three waves. At wave 1, participants had a mean age of 10.5 years, with data collected across three waves spanning ages 8.3 to 16.1 years.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Regarding Response Time, incongruent trials were significantly slower than congruent and neutral trials across all waves for both groups separately. Moreover, the DLD group showed a larger interference effect (IE) than TD peers, but only in the first wave. Concerning accuracy, the DLD group showed lower scores in the first wave compared to the TD group. However, these differences diminished in the last two waves. Finally, no differences were found between groups in IE accuracy.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The DLD group showed a poorer overall inhibition compared to the TD group; however, this deficit seems to vanish over time. Our hypotheses are partially confirmed, aligning with evidence of deficits in inhibitory control in children with DLD. This suggests a domain-specific difficulty with inhibitory control that ameliorates during adolescence in DLD, driven by longer response times during incongruent trials and higher interference effects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 106561"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144891957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Content validity of the aphasia customised electronic patient reported outcome (ACe-PRO) - revealing hidden difficulties post stroke","authors":"Frederik Gybel Jensen ,&nbsp;Helle Klingenberg Iversen ,&nbsp;Troels Wienecke ,&nbsp;Mia Ingerslev Loft","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106559","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106559","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>This study aimed to evaluate the content validity of the Aphasia Customised electronic Patient Reported Outcome (ACe-PRO) questionnaire, designed for people with aphasia following stroke. ACe-PRO serves as a dialogue tool to address hidden difficulties in post-stroke consultations.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>The study followed the COSMIN (Consensus-based Standards for the Selection of Health Measurement Instruments) guidelines for content validity, focusing on relevance, comprehensiveness, and comprehensibility. Data were collected through cognitive interviews with nine people with aphasia and structured as well as semi-structured interviews with seventeen healthcare professionals.</div></div><div><h3>Result</h3><div>Both people with aphasia and healthcare professionals found ACe-PRO relevant. However, healthcare professionals identified challenges with unclear underlying concepts in certain items. People with aphasia reported issues with wording and pictorial support. The comprehensiveness of the tool was generally rated as good, though suggestions for additional items were made.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>ACe-PRO was assessed somewhat relevant. Adjustments are required to enhance its comprehensibility, particularly regarding wording, pictorial support, and the response scale. Further testing is needed to assess respondent burden in clinical practice and to validate its use in a digital format.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 106559"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144893314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parental language mixing and its association with language outcomes of children with (a suspicion of) Developmental Language Disorder","authors":"Merel van Witteloostuijn,&nbsp;Elma Blom","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106557","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106557","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Multilingual children naturally encounter language mixing in their environment. Since children’s language development depends on their language input, and processing language mixing in the input may be cognitively demanding, the amount of parental language mixing could affect children’s language outcomes. This matter is also highly relevant for children with developmental language disorder (DLD), who face challenges with language processing and uptake. We hypothesize that these children’s language difficulties may amplify any negative relationships between parental language mixing and the language outcomes of children with DLD. Using a combination of questionnaires, day-long audio recordings, and Bayesian hypothesis testing, we examined parental language mixing and its relationship with Dutch vocabulary and grammar outcomes in thirty 3- to 6-year-old multilingual children with (a suspicion of) DLD in the Netherlands. Analyses were controlled for overall exposure to Dutch, children’s age and parents’ education level. Contrary to our hypothesis, we found a positive, albeit modest, association between parental language mixing and children’s Dutch language outcomes. This suggests that language mixing in the input may not hinder majority language development in children with DLD. Replication and further research are needed to understand the broader implications of parental language mixing for multilingual development in children with DLD, also regarding their minority language outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 106557"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144750245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Experiences of individuals with adult-acquired hearing loss using hearing technology: A qualitative meta-synthesis systematic review","authors":"Alliete R. Alfano,&nbsp;Kaitlyn N. Saari","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106558","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106558","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Individuals with adult-acquired hearing loss (HL) face many adjustments once diagnosed. The purpose of this qualitative meta-synthesis systematic review was to explore the experiences of working-age adults with adult-acquired HL who use hearing technology. This information can help identify gaps in clinical intervention for working-age adults with HL.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div><strong>:</strong> Researchers conducted a systematic review to examine articles pertaining to adults with adult-acquired HL, then performed a meta-analysis to better understand the difficulties individuals diagnosed and treated for HL in adulthood may face. The method was informed by systematic review and qualitative research methodologies. Researchers filtered articles via databases (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), Medline, and PsychINFO) then imported articles into Covidence. Articles that were included in the study were reviewed and, using a qualitative interpretive approach to the data synthesis, reappearing and relevant themes were identified.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div><strong>:</strong> Seven articles met inclusion criteria and were reviewed. Two main themes emerged from the data, <em>Internal Struggles</em> and <em>External Struggles</em>, based on sub-themes that described experiences that individuals with HL reported facing due to their HL.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div><strong>:</strong> Individuals with HL could benefit from options that include counseling for themselves or loved ones, education about HL, healthcare providers’ encouragement to seek audiologists, and continuity of HL intervention once the treatment plan is determined. A limitation of this study includes a possible lack of diversity within each study.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 106558"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144750244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}