Mariagrazia Zuccarini , Annalisa Guarini , Dino Gibertoni , Chiara Suttora , Arianna Aceti , Luigi Corvaglia , Arianna Bello , Maria Cristina Caselli , Alessandra Sansavini
{"title":"Describing communication profiles of low-risk preterm and full-term late talkers","authors":"Mariagrazia Zuccarini , Annalisa Guarini , Dino Gibertoni , Chiara Suttora , Arianna Aceti , Luigi Corvaglia , Arianna Bello , Maria Cristina Caselli , Alessandra Sansavini","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106336","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106336","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Late talkers represent a heterogeneous population. We aimed to describe communication profiles of low-risk preterm and full-term late talkers according to their receptive and expressive vocabulary size, considering communicative, linguistic, cognitive, and motor skills, as well as biological and environmental risk factors.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Sixty-eight late talkers (33 born low-risk preterm and 35 full-term) were identified through a language screening at 30 months. Parents filled out the Italian Short Forms of the MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventories and the Socio Conversational Skills Rating Scales. Children were assessed with the Picture Naming Game test and the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>A two-step cluster analysis identified three distinct profiles among late talkers according to their receptive and expressive vocabulary size. <em>Severe</em> late talkers (25%) showed less frequent use of pointing, limited verbal imitation, receptive vocabulary size, lexical and sentence production, responsiveness and assertiveness, and lower cognitive scores than <em>mild</em> late talkers (40%). <em>Moderate</em> late talkers (35%) showed less frequent verbal imitation, limited lexical and sentence production and lower cognitive scores than <em>mild</em> late talkers. Male gender was significantly more represented in the <em>severe</em> late profile, whereas other biological and environmental factors did not differ among the three profiles.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Findings highlighted the relevance of assessing communicative, lexical, grammar, pragmatic, and cognitive skills to describe late talkers’ profiles. A deeper investigation of phonological skills might also contribute to a further understanding of interindividual variability in this population.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"104 ","pages":"Article 106336"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9652079","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}
Alejandra Auza B , Chiharu Murata , Christian Peñaloza
{"title":"“Early detection of Spanish-speaking children with developmental language disorders: Concurrent validity of a short questionnaire and a screening test”","authors":"Alejandra Auza B , Chiharu Murata , Christian Peñaloza","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106339","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106339","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>. Under-identification of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a significant problem in monolingual Latin American Spanish-speaking children. We evaluated the identification utility of the sequential use of two screening tools, the \"Parental Questionnaire (PQ)\" and the \"Screening for Language Problems (TPL)\", to identify children who require confirmatory diagnosis of DLD.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>: Parents of children (4 to 6 years) were contacted in schools and public health centers in Mexico. Monolingual Spanish-speaking children with no auditory and cognitive disorders were eligible. The reference diagnosis of DLD was established using BESA (Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment) or SCELF-4 (Spanish Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals), combined with data from the narrative samples that yielded the percentage of ungrammaticality and the clinical judgment of two Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs). Responses to the PQ were obtained as a parental report, and the TPL was applied by a trained SLPs.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>. Both PQ and TPL presented a significant difference between the groups of children with DLD and typical language development (TLD). By combining the two instruments, a notable improvement in diagnostic utility was shown.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>. The combination of these two procedures provides an efficient method for screening children having the risk of DLD and contributes to resolving the problem of under-identification.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"104 ","pages":"Article 106339"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9656239","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":"Why and how to publish aphasia-friendly research summaries","authors":"Jacqueline Hinckley , Clarisse El-Khouri","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106338","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106338","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>A common complaint of people with aphasia and their families is their inability to find information about current aphasia treatment research (Hinckley, Boyle, Lombard & Bartels-Tobin, 2014; <span>Hinckley & El-Khouri, 2021</span>). Plain language summaries, video summaries, and graphical summaries are three ways to disseminate research results that are more accessible to a broader audience. The purpose of this tutorial is to discuss the motivations for disseminating research in understandable ways, and to provide information and resources on how aphasia-friendly dissemination can be done.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>We report an overview of evidence on the importance of and characteristics of dissemination. Next, we provide specific characteristics and resources for producing plain language summaries, video summaries, and graphical abstracts. Finally, we conducted a systematic search for journals in the area of stroke rehabilitation after consultation with a research librarian. The publication webpages of each journal were inspected to gather information about whether and how the journal published plain language summaries, video summaries, or graphical abstracts. Editors were contacted as needed to complete the information. Sixty journals in stroke rehabilitation were identified, and a total of 43 journals (71%) publish video abstracts, graphical summaries, and/or plain language summaries either independently or through third-party platforms.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>The findings are discussed in the context of the importance of making research consumer-friendly. We offer specific recommendations for aphasia researchers, and future directions for publishing research in ways that will have an impact on the broader public are suggested.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"104 ","pages":"Article 106338"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9649245","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}
Ann Dhondt , Ines Van keer , Annette van der Putten , Bea Maes
{"title":"Changes in the early communicative behaviors of young children with significant cognitive and motor developmental delays in a two-year span","authors":"Ann Dhondt , Ines Van keer , Annette van der Putten , Bea Maes","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106337","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106337","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>This study examines longitudinal changes in communicative behavior of young children with significant cognitive and motor developmental delays (SDD) and determines their individual communicative trajectories. A second focus of this study is the relation of changes in communicative behavior with motor skills.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Data consists of codes resulting from a self-developed coding scheme used on observations of 23 children in three different settings and responses on a questionnaire. First, group trends were determined to find out whether communication-related variables tend to significantly change over the course of two years. Furthermore, these findings were contrasted with the individual trajectories of the children. Next, the association of initial communicative skills and (the acquisition of) specific motor skills with the change in their communicative functioning was studied. Wilcoxon Signed Ranks and correlational analyses were used to answer the research questions.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Out of sixteen different variables related to communicative behavior, ten changed significantly over the course of two years. Children with more focus on prompt on the first datapoint showed a significantly larger increase of signs of functionality. Still, all children showed highly individual trajectories. Children with better motor skills on the first datapoint showed a significantly larger increase in communication rate.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Results show that if a myriad of detailed variables are taken into account children with significant cognitive and motor developmental disabilities do change regarding their communicative functioning, but that they tend to all show unique developmental trajectories. Children with stronger skills in some aspects of communication and motor functioning, can be considered advantaged regarding their communicative development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"104 ","pages":"Article 106337"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9652072","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}
Narcisa Pérez Naranjo , David del Río , Silvia Nieva , Carlos González Alted
{"title":"Descriptive discourse in fluent aphasia: The predictive role of attention, phonology, lexical retrieval and semantics","authors":"Narcisa Pérez Naranjo , David del Río , Silvia Nieva , Carlos González Alted","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106335","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106335","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Aims</h3><p>To study the relationship between cognitive and linguistic skills (as measured through standardized tasks) over spontaneous speech elicited during a picture description task.</p></div><div><h3>Methods & procedures</h3><p>21 controls and 19 people with fluent aphasia matched by age and sex were evaluated using transcripts made from a picture description task coded using the CHAT format and analyzed using Computerized Language Analysis (CLAN). Indices obtained from the speech samples contained measures of lexical quantity and diversity, morphosyntactic complexity, informativeness, and speech fluency, along with different kinds of speech errors. We studied their correlations with attentional measures from Conners’ Continuous Performance Test and with standardized measures of naming, pseudoword repetition and semantic non-verbal association. We further used stepwise linear regression to analyze the predictive value of standardized linguistic and cognitive skills over discursive indices.</p></div><div><h3>Outcomes & results</h3><p>Contrary to our initial hypothesis, there were no significant correlations between attentional scores and discourse variables in aphasic participants. Moreover, semantic association, along with naming, was the measure more related with discourse performance in people with fluent aphasia, but cognitive and linguistic standardized measures had overall little predictive power on most discourse indices. In the control group, there was a certain association of naming skills and attentional reaction time with discourse variables, but their predictive power was also low.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions & implications</h3><p>The current results do not support a strong relationship between basic attentional skills and performance in descriptive discourse in fluent aphasia. Although some of the standardized tasks seem to bear some relationship with spontaneous speech, there is a high amount of interindividual variability in discourse that is not captured by classical cognitive tasks routinely used in assessment. Further work on the determinants of discourse performance in aphasia and on the clinical application of discourse analysis is warranted.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"104 ","pages":"Article 106335"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10007895","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":"Effects of behavior inhibition on stuttering severity and adverse consequences of stuttering in 3–6-year-old children who stutter","authors":"Victoria Tumanova , Dahye Choi , Qiu Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106332","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106332","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><p>The purpose of this study was to investigate whether 3- to-6-year-old children who stutter and exhibit a higher degree of behavioral inhibition (BI), a correlate of shyness, stutter more frequently and experience greater negative consequences of stuttering (per parent-report) than their peers who stutter but have lower BI.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>Forty-six children who stutter (CWS; 35 boys & 11 girls; mean age 4 years, 2 months) participated. Their degree of BI was assessed by measuring the latency to their 6th spontaneous comment during a conversation with an unfamiliar examiner (following Kagan, Reznick, & Gibbons's (1989) methodology). The frequency of stuttering and the negative impact of stuttering that CWS may have experienced was assessed using parent reports (i.e., Test of Childhood Stuttering (TOCS) Observational Rating Scale; Gillam, Logan, & Pearson, 2009).</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>We found that children's degree of BI was not associated with their speech fluency per parent report. However, children's degree of BI was significantly associated with greater negative consequences of stuttering. Specifically, among the four categories of TOCS Disfluency-Related Consequences, children's BI significantly predicted the occurrence of physical behaviors that accompany moments of stuttering (such as increased tension or excessive eye blinks). Other Disfluency-Related Consequences, such as avoidance behaviors, negative feelings, and negative social consequences, were not associated with children's behavioral inhibition tendencies. Additionally, children's stuttering severity (per the Stuttering Severity Instrument-4 scores) was significantly associated with increased physical behaviors that accompany moments of stuttering and greater negative social consequences of stuttering.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>This study provides empirical evidence that behavioral inhibition to the unfamiliar may have salience for childhood stuttering as it predicted the development of physical behaviors associated with stuttering (e.g., tension or struggle) in 3- to 6-year-old CWS. Clinical implications of high BI for the assessment and treatment of childhood stuttering are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"104 ","pages":"Article 106332"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10348486/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10138782","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}
Danielle Werle, Courtney T. Byrd, Geoffrey A. Coalson
{"title":"Impact of self-disclosure and communication competence on perceived listener distraction","authors":"Danielle Werle, Courtney T. Byrd, Geoffrey A. Coalson","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106333","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106333","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><p>The purpose of this study was to investigate the distraction reported by unfamiliar adults when listening to a speaker who stutters, and whether listener distraction is influenced by two factors: self-disclosure and communication competence.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>Two hundred seventy-five adults watched a video vignette and were asked to rate their level of distraction when observing an adult Latinx male producing stuttered speech. Each participant watched one of six randomized videos of the same speaker sharing the same content systematically manipulated by (a) presence or absence of 15% stuttering, (b) presence or absence of self-disclosure, and (c) high or low communication competence.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Listener distraction was higher when rating speakers with low communication competence, regardless of whether stuttering or self-disclosure were heard. Videos wherein the speaker was fluent were rated as significantly less distracting, but only in the context of high communication competence. For videos wherein the speaker stuttered, listeners reported significantly less distraction when the speaker demonstrated high communication competence and self-disclosed.</p></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><p>These findings suggest that for persons who stutter, high communication competence and disclosing that they stutter will yield maximum reduction in listener distraction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 106333"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9616440","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":"Theory-driven treatment modifications: A discussion on meeting the linguistic, cognitive, and psychosocial needs of individual clients with aphasia","authors":"Kristen Nunn, Sofia Vallila-Rohter","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106327","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106327","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is a growing body of literature demonstrating that language rehabilitation can improve naming impairments for individuals with aphasia. However, there are challenges applying evidence-based research to clinical practice. Well-controlled clinical studies often consist of homogenous samples and exclude individuals who may confound group-level results. Consequently, the findings may not generalize to the diverse clients serviced by speech-language therapists. Within evidence-based guidelines, clinicians can leverage their experiences and theoretical rationale to adapt interventions to meet the needs of individual clients. However, modifications to evidence-based interventions should not alter aspects of treatment that are necessary to produce change within the treatment target. The current discussion paper uses errorless learning, errorful learning, and retrieval practice for naming in aphasia to model how treatment theories can guide clinicians in making theory-informed modifications to interventions. First, we briefly describe the learning mechanisms hypothesized to underlie errorless learning, errorful learning, and retrieval practice. Next, we identify ways clinicians can provide targeted supports to optimize learning for individual clients. The paper ends with a reflection on how well-defined treatment theories can facilitate the generation of practice-based evidence and clinically relevant decision making.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 106327"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10247540/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9620207","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}
Elizabeth B. Madden , Lauren Bislick , Sarah E. Wallace , Michelle C.S. Therrien , Rachel Goff-Albritton
{"title":"Aphasia and friendship: Stroke survivors’ self-reported changes over time","authors":"Elizabeth B. Madden , Lauren Bislick , Sarah E. Wallace , Michelle C.S. Therrien , Rachel Goff-Albritton","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106330","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106330","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Friendships are an important contributor to quality of life. Due to communication and other stroke-related challenges, people with aphasia (PWA) can experience negative friendship changes, which have been linked with increased physiological distress. This study examined friendship experiences over time for PWA to understand how friendships evolve throughout the course of stroke and aphasia recovery.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Fifteen stroke survivors with chronic aphasia completed language testing and a friendship questionnaire created by the researchers. The friendship questionnaire was composed of open and closed-ended questions that asked PWA to reflect back on their friendship satisfaction, support, activities, and communication during the time before aphasia and during the acute stage of recovery. The questionnaire also addressed their current friendships in the present-day chronic stage of recovery, as well as questions about an ideal friendship. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to examine the data, with quantitative findings reported in this study.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The majority of PWA reported maintaining some friendships and developing new friendships, often with a fellow stroke survivor with aphasia; however, a few PWA in this study were not able to maintain or develop any new friendships. Average ratings of perceived friendship satisfaction and support improved from the acute to chronic stage, nearing those of the ratings pre-stroke, yet there was greater variability in the chronic stage with some currently feeling dissatisfied and not well supported. Aphasia severity, as measured by a standardized assessment, had a negative relationship with perceived friendship support. In contrast, perception of communicative participation had a positive relationship with friendship support.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>This work highlights lasting social implications of aphasia. The overall health of PWA deserves greater attention, including interventions targeting friendship maintenance and development. Continued stakeholder-engaged research and clinical practice focused on the social and emotional consequences of aphasia on PWA, as well as their friends and family, is needed to assist all involved in aphasia recovery achieve better friendships and well-being.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 106330"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9989818","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}
Carajane Millar , Lindsay B. Carey , Anne E. Hill , Stacie Attrill , Maria-Irini Avgoulas , Eutichia Drakopoulos , Carly A. Sutton
{"title":"Global citizenship and social justice among speech-language pathologists: A scoping review","authors":"Carajane Millar , Lindsay B. Carey , Anne E. Hill , Stacie Attrill , Maria-Irini Avgoulas , Eutichia Drakopoulos , Carly A. Sutton","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106317","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106317","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>This scoping review outlines the literature findings that relate to global citizenship and the interconnection between social justice among health professionals, specifically speech-language pathologists. The review aims to provide a synthesis of the relevant literature and thorough thematic identification of common themes.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>Arksey and O'Malley's scoping review framework was used for the searching of critical databases, specifically CINAHL, Medline, the Cochrane Library and Google Scholar. Following the appraisal and synthesis process of the relevant literature, key themes were identified with particular reference to social justice among health professionals (especially speech-language pathologists).</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Four (4) key themes were identified, namely, (i) education and ongoing developmental support, (ii) ethical and moral obligations, (ii) cultural competency, and (iv) community engagement for intergroup empathy and helping.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>This review defines the parameters of a speech-language pathologists’ practice as a global citizen interconnected with social justice and the accountabilities to enable impactful changes creating culturally sustaining practice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 106317"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9608124","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}