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{"title":"Normative values for tests of central auditory processing disorder in children aged from 6 to 12 years old","authors":"Piotr H. Skarzynski ,&nbsp;Natalia Czajka ,&nbsp;Rita Zdanowicz ,&nbsp;Aleksandra Kolodziejak ,&nbsp;Ewelina Bukato ,&nbsp;Małgorzata Talarek ,&nbsp;Zuzanna Pankowska ,&nbsp;Henryk Skarzynski","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106426","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106426","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Central auditory processing disorders (CAPD) can significantly affect the daily functioning of a child, and the first step in determining whether rehabilitation procedures are required is a proper diagnosis. Different guidelines for making diagnoses have been published in the literature, and in various centers normative values for psychoacoustic tests of CAPD have been used internally. The material presented in this paper is based on more than 1000 children and is the largest collection so far published. The aim of this study is to present normative values for tests assessing CAPD in children aged 6 to 12 years, divided by age at last birthday.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>We tested 1037 children aged 6 to 12 years who were attending primary schools and kindergartens. The criteria for inclusion were a normal audiogram, intellectually normal, no developmental problems, and no difficulties in auditory processing. To evaluate auditory processing all children were given three tests on the Senses Examination Platform: the Frequency Pattern Test (FPT), Duration Pattern Test (DPT), and Dichotic Digit Test (DDT).</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The results from 1,037 children allowed us to determine normative values for FPT, DPT, and DDT in seven different age groups (6 through to 12 years). We developed a newapproach, based on quantile-based norms, to determine normative values in each group. Three categories – average, below-average, and above-average – allow for a broader but more realistic interpretation than those used previously. We compare our results with published standards.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Our study is the largest normative database published to date for CAPD testing, setting a standard for each child by age in years. We used the Senses Examination Platform, a universal tool, to unify standards for the classification of CAPD. Our study can serve as a basis for the development of a Polish model for the diagnosis of CAPD.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 106426"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021992424000224/pdfft?md5=2cc819a0f7d06610fa39d1ee31e1108a&pid=1-s2.0-S0021992424000224-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140779754","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":"Differential spectral characteristics of the Spanish fricative /s/ in the articulation of individuals with dysarthria and apraxia of speech","authors":"Natalia Melle ,&nbsp;Carlos Gallego ,&nbsp;José María Lahoz-Bengoechea ,&nbsp;Silvia Nieva","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106428","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><p>This study examines whether there are differences in the speech of speakers with dysarthria, speakers with apraxia and healthy speakers in spectral acoustic measures during production of the central-peninsular Spanish alveolar sibilant fricative /s/.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>To this end, production of the sibilant was analyzed in 20 subjects with dysarthria, 8 with apraxia of speech and 28 healthy speakers. Participants produced 12 sV(C) words. The variables compared across groups were the fricative's spectral amplitude difference (AmpD) and spectral moments in the temporal midpoint of fricative execution.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The results indicate that individuals with dysarthria can be distinguished from healthy speakers in terms of the spectral characteristics AmpD, standard deviation (SD), center of gravity (CoG) and skewness, the last two in context with unrounded vowel, while no differences in kurtosis were detected. Participants with AoS group differ significantly from healthy speaker group in AmpD, SD and CoG and Kurtosis, the first one followed unrounded vowel and the latter two followed by rounded vowels. In addition, speakers with apraxia of speech group returned significant differences with respect to speakers with dysarthria group in AmpD, CoG and skewness.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>The differences found between the groups in the measures studied as a function of the type of vowel context could provide insights into the distinctive manifestations of motor speech disorders, contributing to the differential diagnosis between apraxia and dysarthria in motor control processes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 106428"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140917846","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":"Changes in speech prosody perception during Parkinson's disease: A comprehensive analysis","authors":"Nasrin Shahouzaei ,&nbsp;Zahra Ghayoumi-Anaraki ,&nbsp;Toktam Maleki Shahmahmood ,&nbsp;Narges Torke Ladani ,&nbsp;Ali Shoeibi","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106430","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects approximately 1%–2% of individuals aged 60 and above. Communication disorders in PD can significantly impact the overall quality of life. As prosody plays a vital role in verbal communication, the present study examines Persian prosody perception in PD, focusing on linguistic and emotional aspects of prosody.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>This cross-sectional study aimed to compare the perception of linguistic and emotional prosody in three groups: middle-aged adults (<em>n</em> = 22; mean age = 50.40 years), healthy older adults (<em>n</em> = 22; mean age = 68.31 years), and individuals with Parkinson's disease (<em>n</em> = 22; mean age = 65years). All individuals with PD were classified in stages 1; 1.5; 2; 2.5, and 3 of the disease using the Hoehn and Yahr scale. All participants had an MMSE score of 24 or above. The Florida Affect Battery (FAB) was used to evaluate prosody perception. This Battery was validated in the Persian language and its reliability and validity were reported as 94 % and 100 % respectively.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Participants with PD presented significantly lower scores than the older adults in all subtests of the FAB (<em>p</em> &lt; 0.05), while healthy older adults were significantly different only in linguistic discrimination (β = -2.14; -3.68 to -0.61), and linguistic naming of prosody (β = 1.25; 0.17 to 2.33) compared to middle-aged adults.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>The present study sheds light on the influence of PD on Persian prosody perception. Given the crucial role of prosody in verbal communication, these findings enhance our understanding of communication disorders in PD and could bring attention to consider prosody perception, among other aspects, when assessing individuals affected by PD.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 106430"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140948730","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":"Associations between social anxiety, physiological reactivity, and speech disfluencies in autistic young adults and controls","authors":"Veera Pirinen ,&nbsp;Kurt Eggers ,&nbsp;Katja Dindar ,&nbsp;Terhi Helminen ,&nbsp;Aija Kotila ,&nbsp;Sanna Kuusikko-Gauffin ,&nbsp;Leena Mäkinen ,&nbsp;Hanna Ebeling ,&nbsp;Tuula Hurtig ,&nbsp;Mirjami Mäntymaa ,&nbsp;Soile Loukusa","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106425","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>The aim of this study was to examine possible associations of social anxiety (SA) and speaking-related physiological reactivity with the frequencies of a) total disfluencies, b) typical disfluencies, and c) stuttering-like disfluencies, as well as d) stuttering-severity in autistic young adults and controls.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Thirty-two autistic young adults and 35 controls participated in this study. Participants were presented with video clips (viewing condition) and were then asked to talk about the videos (narrating condition). SA was measured by the self-report <em>Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory</em> (SPAI). Speaking-related physiological reactivity was measured by the electrodermal activity (EDA), an index of emotional arousal. The speech samples from the narrating condition were analyzed for type and frequency of speech disfluencies and used for determining the stuttering severity. SA and speaking-related physiological reactivity were compared between the groups. Correlation between SA, physiological reactivity, disfluency frequencies, and stuttering severity were tested separately for both groups.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>No between-group differences were found in the overall SA, yet differences were found in SPAI subscales of social interaction, group interaction, and avoidance, as well as in agoraphobia. Both groups had higher physiological arousal in narrating condition in comparison to the video viewing condition, yet there was no between-group difference in the reactivity. No associations were found between SPAI measures, physiological reactivity, disfluency frequencies, and stuttering severity in the autistic group. In the control group, a negative association was found between physiological reactivity and total and typical disfluency frequencies.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>SA or speaking-related physiological reactivity were not associated with disfluency frequencies or stuttering severity in autistic persons. Negative association between physiological reactivity and disfluency frequencies found in the control group may indicate that the physiological arousal may impact the speech production process by reducing the overt disfluencies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 106425"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140536129","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":"Narrative skills and language comprehension in preschool children with cochlear implants: A comparison with children with Developmental Language Disorder or typical development","authors":"Marinella Majorano ,&nbsp;Valentina Persici ,&nbsp;Michela Santangelo ,&nbsp;Rachele Ferrari ,&nbsp;Beatrice Bertelli ,&nbsp;Elena Florit ,&nbsp;Manuela Lavelli ,&nbsp;Tamara Bastianello ,&nbsp;Letizia Guerzoni ,&nbsp;Domenico Cuda","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106424","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>The narrative skills of children with cochlear implants (CIs) are fragile, but the factors at play and whether these difficulties could be similar to those detected in language impairment are not clear. The present study aims to assess, at the microstructural level, narrative skills, comparing children with CIs with children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) or Typical Development (TD). Furthermore, the relationship between verbal (lexical and morphosyntactic) comprehension and narrative skills across groups is investigated.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>The narratives of 19 children with CIs (<em>M_age =</em> 62.42 months, <em>SD =</em> 6.83), 13 children with DLD (<em>M_age =</em> 65.38 months, <em>SD =</em> 4.27), and 18 preschool children with TD (<em>M_age =</em> 63.67 months, <em>SD =</em> 4.31) were assessed in a standardized task. Articles, prepositions, pronouns, gender and number agreement, accuracy in the use of verbs, and number of arguments in each sentence were analysed. Lexical and morphosyntactic comprehension were also assessed. Performance was compared across groups using ANOVAs or Kruskal–Wallis tests. The role of lexical and morphosyntactic comprehension in predicting each morphological and syntactic element in the narrative task was examined using linear regressions.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Data analysis showed that both children with CIs and DLD had fragilities in narration, both in the morphological and syntactic components. Although some differences between children with CIs and those with DLD emerged in descriptive analyses, these were not statistically significant. Regressions showed that morphosyntactic comprehension predicted the number of pronouns produced only in the TD group.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>The scarce differences between CI and DLD groups and the absence of an effect of morphosyntactic comprehension on pronoun production may be due to their low production of these elements in the narrative task and/or to a difficulty in managing pronouns in an expressive task regardless of their ability to comprehend them. Potential implications of these results are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 106424"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021992424000200/pdfft?md5=64bb0dba8f1b1f7e3fea62c1b1a99d9a&pid=1-s2.0-S0021992424000200-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140348107","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":"Correspondence between consonant inventories obtained using modified naturalistic listening in real time (NLRT) and parent report","authors":"Mary A. Hardin-Jones ,&nbsp;Ann E. Dahill ,&nbsp;Libby Heimbaugh ,&nbsp;Adriane Baylis ,&nbsp;Caitlin Cummings ,&nbsp;Kathy L. Chapman ,&nbsp;On behalf of the Cleft Outcomes Research NETwork (CORNET) Consortium","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106417","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106417","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><p>The current study examined the correspondence between consonant inventories obtained using the modified NLRT approach and parent report.</p></div><div><h3>Design</h3><p>Prospective comparative study.</p></div><div><h3>Setting</h3><p>Multisite institutional.</p></div><div><h3>Participants</h3><p>Participants included 70 children with repaired CP + L (mean age = 16 months) who were participating in the multicenter study.</p></div><div><h3>Procedures</h3><p>Parents of participants were asked to record approximately two hours of their child's vocalizations/words at home using a Language ENvironmental Analysis (LENA^TM) recorder. Four ten-minute audio-recorded samples of vocalizations were extracted from the original recording for each participant and analyzed for size of consonant inventory. Parent reported consonant inventory was compared to coder identified consonant inventory. Coders identified an in-inventory consonant using two different criteria: 2+ tokens of each consonant were required in the first analysis and 10+ tokens of each consonant were required in the second analysis.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Coder identified consonant inventory was larger (mean = 7.90) than that reported by parents (mean = 6.06) when a minimum of two tokens per consonant was required for inclusion of a consonant in inventory, while the inventory transcribed by coders was smaller (mean = 4.46) than that reported by parents when inclusion criteria required a minimum of ten tokens per consonant.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Although the mean number of consonants in inventory between coders and parents was slightly closer using the 10+ versus 2+ criterion for consonant inclusion, the difference was not significant enough to recommend one protocol over the other.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 106417"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139950131","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":"Patterns of performance on the animal fluency task in logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia: A reflection of phonological and semantic skills","authors":"Fatima Jebahi ,&nbsp;Katlyn V. Nickels ,&nbsp;Aneta Kielar","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106405","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106405","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><p>This study aimed to characterize the quantitative (total number of correct words generated) and qualitative (psycholinguistic properties of correct words generated) performance patterns on the animal fluency task in individuals with the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia and to investigate the influence of phonological and semantic abilities to these patterns.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Fifteen participants with lvPPA and twenty neurotypical adults completed the animal fluency task and an assessment battery to characterize their phonological and semantic abilities. We recorded the total number of correct words produced and their psycholinguistic properties. Group differences were analyzed using independent samples <em>t</em>-tests and analysis of covariance. Stepwise and multiple linear regression analyses were implemented to investigate the contribution of psycholinguistic properties on word generation as well as the role of phonological and semantic abilities on performance. We also investigated the mediating role of phonological and semantic abilities on the relationship between relevant psycholinguistic properties and word generation output.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Compared to neurotypical controls, participants with lvPPA produced fewer correct responses and more words with lower age of acquisition. The total number of correct words generated was predicted by the age of word acquisition, such that individuals who generated more responses, produced words acquired later in life. Phonology and semantics influenced the number of correct words generated and their frequency, age of acquisition, and semantic neighborhood density. Familiarity and arousal were driven by semantic abilities. Phonological abilities partially mediated the relationship between age of acquisition and word generation output.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>This study provides valuable insights into the performance patterns of the animal fluency task in lvPPA. Individuals with lvPPA with more intact phonological and semantic abilities generated greater number of words with more complex psycholinguistic properties. Our findings contribute to the understanding of language processes underlying word retrieval in lvPPA.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 106405"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139515685","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":"Children's communication repair strategies: Online versus face-to-face interaction","authors":"Haeun Chung,&nbsp;Kyungrang Baik,&nbsp;Jihye Cheon,&nbsp;Young Tae Kim,&nbsp;Dongsun Yim","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106406","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106406","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>One's ability to repair communication breakdowns is an important and pragmatic language skill. The present study examined children's communication repair strategies between online and face-to-face interactions using a reading comprehension task designed to probe for persistent clarification requests. Methods: 4–6-year-old typically developing children (Age: <em>M</em> = 5.5years) completed a communication repair task. Online group (<em>n</em> = 17) completed the task online, face-to-face group(<em>n</em> = 22) met researchers in person. Children's responses were then categorized into verbal strategies, supplementary strategies, and nonresponses.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Our results showed that children can effectively employ repair strategies when a communication breakdown occurs, regardless of the communication setting in response to a series of clarification requests. However, types and patterns of communication repair strategies varied between online and face-to-face interactions. Children in online interaction showed higher use of repetition and suprasegmental strategies than did their face-to-face peers. In contrast, children in face-to-face interaction demonstrated more frequent use of revision and addition. Also, we examined the relationship between repair strategy and children's language skills. The results showed that children with better language skills used more addition, which is a more complex strategy than suprasegmental and nonresponse, and tried to use repair strategies effectively in an attempt to repair their statements as clarification requests proceeded.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>It is important to understand different trends of pragmatic skills of children across online and face-to-face interaction. Guidance on the effective strategy to repair communication breakdowns depending on the different contexts needs to be considered for the successful use of online learning and telepractice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 106406"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139515623","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":"Age of onset, motivation, and anxiety as predictors of grammar and vocabulary outcomes in English as a foreign language learners with developmental language disorder","authors":"Jasmijn Stolvoort,&nbsp;Megan Mackaaij,&nbsp;Elena Tribushinina","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106407","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106407","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Like children with typical language development, their peers with developmental language disorder (DLD) are expected to learn English as a foreign language (EFL). For pupils without DLD, it is well-established that amount of informal exposure to English outside of the classroom, starting age of EFL instruction and motivation are strong positive predictors of EFL learning rate and/or achievement, whereas anxiety is negatively related to performance. This paper is the first attempt to investigate how these predictors of EFL performance operate in learners with DLD.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Participants were nineteen Dutch-speaking 7^th graders with DLD learning English as a school subject at a specialist education facility in the Netherlands. English receptive grammar and receptive vocabulary were measured twice, with a four-month interval. Foreign language learning motivation, anxiety and (length and amount of) informal exposure to and instruction in English were measured via questionnaires.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The participants did not show any progress on English vocabulary and grammar. At Time 1, vocabulary and grammar scores were positively related to starting age of EFL instruction and negatively related to anxiety. For vocabulary, achievement was also positively predicted by attitudes towards English lessons. Only the relationship between starting age of instruction and vocabulary outcomes was visible at Time 2. Amount and length of informal exposure to English did not predict performance, which is in stark contrast to the patterns observed in EFL learners with typical language development.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>We conclude that children with DLD benefit from a later onset of foreign language lessons, whereas length and amount of out-of-school exposure to English are less important in the context of DLD, possibly due to difficulty with implicit learning.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 106407"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021992424000030/pdfft?md5=870eb855229a4647d4f1b577d7d4fe9a&pid=1-s2.0-S0021992424000030-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139557772","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":"Status of prosody in the practices of speech-language pathologists in France: A survey on theoretical and clinical dimensions","authors":"Aline Petitpain ,&nbsp;Juliette Brabant-Thery ,&nbsp;Cédric Patin ,&nbsp;Laurent Ott ,&nbsp;Anahita Basirat","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106404","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106404","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><p>Many populations in the scope of speech and language pathologists (SLPs) are at risk of prosodic disorders that can impact communicative ability. While a few studies have examined the importance of prosody in the clinical practice of English-speaking SLPs, there is a lack of similar research in non-English-speaking countries. The current study aimed to establish an overview of the situation in France and to determine factors that might be associated with assessing and treating prosody.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>We collected data about the theoretical and clinical dimensions related to prosody from SLPs in France using an online survey.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>One hundred and twenty-eight valid responses were analyzed. Results suggest that both emotional and linguistic prosodies are examined by SLPs. Some aspects of prosody seem to be mastered better than others. While they are aware of the major prosodic difficulties in various pathologies and their negative impact, most SLPs in France rarely or never assess prosody. They feel more uncomfortable with it than with other speech-language domains and often do not consider it as a therapeutic target. Importantly, the perception of prosody as a therapeutic tool is associated with the frequency of assessing and addressing prosodic impairment.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Further studies should focus on identifying the factors that could improve practices and developing comprehensive assessment tools and evidence-based intervention methods in French. Providing better training in prosody and setting up more collaborations between SLPs and researchers in linguistics and psycholinguistics would be keys in developing this field.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"107 ","pages":"Article 106404"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021992423001041/pdfft?md5=86aab46dcb529dfc8ca9e0a967207c8f&pid=1-s2.0-S0021992423001041-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139547108","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}