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{"title":"Corrigendum to The role of temperament in stuttering frequency and impact in children under 7 Journal of Communication Disorders 97 (2022) 106201.","authors":"Sarah Delpeche, Sharon Millard, Elaine Kelman","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106689","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":" ","pages":"106689"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148913977","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":"Reframing Ableism in stuttering: advancing research, practice, and dialogue","authors":"Kia N. Johnson, Angela M. Medina","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106662","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106662","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"123 ","pages":"Article 106662"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148399084","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":"Corrigendum to The role of temperament in stuttering frequency and impact in children under 7 Journal of Communication Disorders 97 (2022) 106201","authors":"Sarah Delpeche, Sharon Millard, Elaine Kelman","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106685","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106685","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"123 ","pages":"Article 106685"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148833957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"State of the art in speech perception assessment","authors":"Justine Wathour,&nbsp;Anaïs Grégoire,&nbsp;Agathe Décultot,&nbsp;Stéphanie Borel","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106663","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106663","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Perceptual assessment constitutes a critical component of the evaluation process in deaf patients, providing essential information on speech perception abilities and informing auditory rehabilitation strategies. In the absence of standardized guidelines, existing clinical practices appear highly variable, both in terms of assessment tools and methodological approaches. The objective of this study was to characterize the assessment instruments currently employed by French-speaking speech-language therapists to evaluate the various domains of speech perception in deaf children and adults.</div></div><div><h3>Design</h3><div>A cross-sectional survey was disseminated online to French-speaking speech language therapists engaged in the care of deaf patients. Recruitment was conducted via specialized professional Facebook groups and targeted email outreach.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>A total of over 100 respondents completed the survey. Analysis of responses demonstrated substantial heterogeneity in the selection of assessment tools, encompassing both standardized instruments and practitioner-developed, unpublished tests lacking empirical validation. No consensus was identified regarding preferred measures or standardized assessment procedures for speech perception.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The observed variability underscores the urgent need to establish a standardized, evidence-based protocol for speech perception assessment in deaf populations. Such standardization would facilitate methodological consistency, enhance clinical decision making, and improve the comparability of research and clinical outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"122 ","pages":"Article 106663"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148370559","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":"Parent-therapist therapeutic alliance - a neglected factor in pediatric speech-language intervention: A longitudinal study","authors":"Michal Icht ,&nbsp;Maayan Tayar ,&nbsp;Mario Mikulincer ,&nbsp;Riki Taitelbaum-Swead ,&nbsp;Boaz M. Ben-David","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106637","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106637","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>The therapeutic alliance (TA) has been widely used to explain variations in psychotherapy, but its role in pediatric speech-language therapy remains underexplored.</div></div><div><h3>Aims</h3><div>This longitudinal study examined whether the TA between speech-language therapists (SLTs) and parents of children undergoing speech-language intervention predicted therapeutic outcomes and whether it moderated the effects of parental psychological factors.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Forty-one parents of children aged 3–12 years and 12 SLTs participated in a 12-week intervention. SLTs rated child disorder severity at onset, TA after two sessions, and therapeutic outcomes at completion. At the onset of therapy, parents completed measures of caregiving style, perceptions of their child, and child-related emotions. Hierarchical regression models assessed predictors of therapeutic outcomes, and moderation analyses tested interactions between TA and parental variables.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Background variables explained 18% of the variance in therapeutic outcomes. Adding parental psychological variables increased the explained variance to 40%, and including TA significantly increased it to 50%. Stronger TA predicted better therapeutic outcomes, while greater disorder severity, compulsive caregiving, and highly positive parental perceptions of the child predicted poorer outcomes. Importantly, the moderation analysis indicated that a strong TA buffered the negative impact of compulsive caregiving on therapeutic outcomes.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Findings underscore the role of early parent-SLT alliance in promoting therapeutic success and mitigating the negative effects of intrusive parenting. Clinicians should prioritize building a strong TA with parents and address parental psychological factors as part of pediatric speech-language therapy. Future research should include parent-reported alliance and independent outcome measures, in longitudinal multi-informant designs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 106637"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147388466","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":"Linear versus nonlinear modeling of dysphonia severity: A comparison between Acoustic Voice Quality Index and machine learning","authors":"Ahmed M. Yousef ,&nbsp;Adrián Castillo-Allendes ,&nbsp;Mark L. Berardi ,&nbsp;Juliana Codino ,&nbsp;Adam D. Rubin ,&nbsp;Eric J. Hunter","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106648","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106648","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>This study compares the Acoustic Voice Quality Index (AVQI-3) with machine learning (ML) models to evaluate their clinical utility for estimating voice quality.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Audio from 187 American English speakers (49 healthy, 138 with voice disorders) was rated for overall voice quality by six voice specialists. AVQI-3 and its six acoustic parameters were extracted, and these parameters were used to train 14 ML models (linear, curvilinear, nonlinear). Correlations and classification accuracy (normal–mild vs. moderate–severe) were compared against perceptual ratings as ground truth.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>AVQI-3 correlated strongly with perceptual ratings (Spearman <span><math><msub><mi>r</mi><mi>s</mi></msub></math></span>=0.75), comparable to linear and curvilinear models, yet outperformed most nonlinear models. At a cutoff score of 2.52, AVQI-3 achieved the highest classification accuracy (0.92) with balanced sensitivity (0.90) and specificity (0.93). Among ML models, linear regression performed best (<span><math><msub><mi>r</mi><mi>s</mi></msub></math></span>=0.77, accuracy=0.92, sensitivity=1.0, specificity=0.89), whereas nonlinear models showed reduced performance (average <span><math><msub><mi>r</mi><mi>s</mi></msub></math></span>=0.74, accuracy=0.87, sensitivity=0.95, specificity=0.85).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>AVQI-3 is a simple, accessible index that quantifies voice quality as effectively as complex ML models. This is supported by the best-performing ML models being linear, indicating that linear combinations of acoustic measures are effective, accurate, and clinically interpretable, whereas added nonlinear complexity offered little benefit.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 106648"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147845081","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":"Linguistic correlates of Chinese children with developmental dyslexia: a systematic review","authors":"Caixia Du,&nbsp;Yonggang Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106629","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106629","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Developmental dyslexia can negatively affect children’s cognitive, emotional, and academic development. This systematic review synthesizes findings from cross-sectional studies on linguistic correlates of developmental dyslexia in Chinese children. A total of 50 studies comprising 185 effect sizes were synthesized using a random-effects model to identify key linguistic correlates. Four significant correlates were identified: morphological awareness (Hedges’s g = -1.14), phonological awareness (Hedges’s g = -1.14), orthographic awareness (Hedges’s g = -0.99), and rapid automatic naming (Hedges’s g = 0.93). Short-term memory showed a moderate association (Hedges’s g = -0.59) relative to age-matched typically developing children. Moderation analyses revealed that phonological awareness was more strongly associated with Chinese developmental dyslexia in older children, under comprehensive diagnostic criteria (character recognition + comprehension), and in self-designed tasks. While orthographic awareness showed stronger associations with developmental dyslexia in regions using traditional Chinese (Hong Kong and Taiwan). However, age, location, diagnostic criteria and task designs did not emerge as moderators of morphological awareness, rapid automatic naming and short-term memory. Implications for identification and intervention for Chinese children with developmental dyslexia were discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 106629"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146182943","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":"Supplementary motor area: A promising neurostimulation target to improve speech production","authors":"Fatemeh Tabari,&nbsp;Karim Johari","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106630","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106630","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The supplementary motor area (SMA) works in concert with several cortical and subcortical regions to produce speech in a timely, accurate, and fluent manner. Despite the SMA’s critical role in speech motor control, it has been inadequately addressed in neurostimulation studies, and its exact mechanism remains unexplored. We investigated the SMA’s function through the lenses of various theoretical models, as well as lesion and neuroimaging studies. This review synthesizes the current evidence on the potential of SMA-targeted non-invasive neurostimulation techniques, including repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS), and high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS). Current evidence supports the integrative role of the SMA in coordinating planning-related and sensory-guided aspects of speech motor control and demonstrates that both excitatory and inhibitory stimulation of the SMA modulate speech-related processes, including motor planning, temporal coordination, auditory-vocal integration, and vocal compensation, in healthy individuals and clinical populations, particularly those with Parkinson’s disease and stuttering. Collectively, the SMA holds promise for improving speech motor function and motivates future studies using diverse stimulation techniques and speech production tasks to inform therapeutic applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 106630"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146203456","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":"“Leave the thorn, enjoy the rose” identity formation of people with aphasia in the early rehabilitation phase","authors":"Rianne Brinkman ,&nbsp;Mieke Cardol ,&nbsp;Karin Neijenhuis ,&nbsp;Margreet Luinge ,&nbsp;Carlo Leget","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106627","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106627","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and purpose</h3><div>Aphasia can profoundly affect an individual’s identity. Yet studying identity in people with aphasia presents methodological challenges, as language, our primary medium for self-expression, is disrupted. This study explored how people with aphasia experience and reshape identity during early rehabilitation, using narrative inquiry and visual ethnography. This approach aims to deepen understanding of identity formation and change, and the potential value of creative arts in supporting meaningful research participation.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Twenty-two people with post-stroke aphasia (aged 34–62) were recruited from Dutch rehabilitation centers six to eight weeks post-admission. Each participant took part in two sessions: one individual session and one follow-up session attended by proxies. In the individual sessions, arts-based visual participatory methods were used to elicit narratives. Data analysis integrated the listening guide, embodiment, and the production of the image and the image itself.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Findings reveal that identity formation after aphasia is complex and ongoing, characterized by multiple, complementary, and sometimes conflicting voices. Affirming, coping, and challenging voices interact within key tensions: connection versus disconnection, agency versus disempowerment, and personal growth versus living loss. Visual participatory methods were valued by participants. The creative process provided an alternative way to express experiences when verbal communication was limited.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Combining narrative inquiry and visual ethnography, supported by skilled facilitation, offers a promising way to reveal identity changes and support people with aphasia in sharing their experiences. This study shows that using integrated approaches is not only methodologically necessary but also ethically important for enabling meaningful participation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 106627"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146020009","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":"Predictors of communication ability in Angelman syndrome: evidence from Polish individuals","authors":"Marcin Opacki ,&nbsp;Agata Suleja ,&nbsp;Robert Śmigiel ,&nbsp;Dominik Cysewski ,&nbsp;Kacper Łukasiewicz","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106624","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2026.106624","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Angelman syndrome (AS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects cognitive and executive functioning, as well as emotional, expressive, sensory, and physical behavior. Children with AS demonstrate a distinct lack of expressive speech, with recognizable words appearing only seldom. No data regarding the prevalence of AS in the Polish population is available to date, resulting in a diagnostic gap.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>The current work reports on the results of applying the Observer Reported Communication Ability (ORCA) questionnaire to provide new data on the linguistic abilities of Polish individuals affected by AS. 73 individuals were included in the analysis with a median age of 111.02 months, 39 of them female.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Based on our analyses, we conclude that individuals without deletions have a greater communication ability relative to individuals with deletions. We found no correlation between age and language ability in AS, which corroborates previous claims that language skills in AS become stunted at some point. We did not find any significant predictors of communication ability tied to socio-economic status or gender.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Our results suggest that – as far as communication abilities are concerned – an awareness of an individual’s genetic diagnosis when choosing therapy can increase the likelihood of optimized care being given.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 106624"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145980649","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}