Elisa Marrodan, Genesis Vera, Beatriz de Diego-Lázaro
{"title":"Oral language outcomes after narrative intervention in preschoolers who are deaf or hard of hearing.","authors":"Elisa Marrodan, Genesis Vera, Beatriz de Diego-Lázaro","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2616339","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2616339","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) show oral language outcomes below hearing peers. The study aimed to test the effect of a four-week narrative intervention on the narrative macrostructure outcomes of four preschoolers who are DHH. Children received eight intervention sessions, during which the interventionist provided modelling and visual support for stories, and children practiced retelling them. Additionally, we asked children to generate their own personal narratives. We used a multiple baseline single-case research design to assess narrative macrostructure changes based on the children's story retellings. All participants improved their ability to retell stories after the intervention, especially Participants 1 and 3, the ones with lower scores at baseline. Participants 1 and 2's personal narratives improved after the intervention. Narrative intervention is effective for improving story retelling in preschoolers who are DHH. However, these gains are not maintained and do not generalise to story generation for all children who might require longer and more targeted interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"804-822"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146087826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"E-learning of phonetic transcription training for speech-language therapy students.","authors":"Li-Li Yeh, Yu-Jou Lin","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2604570","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2604570","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using a web-based tool as a supplement to classroom training may provide immediate feedback and alleviate teacher workload. The present study employed the web-based Phonetic Transcription Practice (PTP) system to train phonetic transcription skills in Mandarin-speaking speech-language therapy students and examined which aspects of students' learning progress contributed most to their post-test performance. In a pretest-posttest design, students majoring in audiology and speech-language therapy in Taiwan (<i>n</i> = 36) participated in a 12-week online Mandarin transcription training program using PTP. Four dimensions were used to assess students' transcription skills: correctness judgments, syllable structure analyses, error-type classification, and single-word transcriptions. Learning progress was evaluated using multiple regression analysis to assess the effects of training weeks and speech type on transcription accuracy. Participants also completed a survey about their learning experience. The results showed that the cohort improved significantly across the four transcription dimensions after the 12-week training program. Both average submission frequency (i.e., the number of times assignments were submitted per week) and accuracy effectively predicted post-test performance in error judgment and error-type classification. Additionally, the learning curve for typical speech transcription was significantly steeper than for disordered speech, highlighting the greater challenge the latter presents. Taken together, PTP is the first Mandarin transcription training system that includes typical and disordered speech for training syllable structure analysis and error-type classification with immediate feedback. Using this e-learning system, the study mapped students' transcription practice and learning progress and identified process features linked to post-test performance, offering insights for structuring transcription training in SLP education.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"737-760"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145919014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Naïve listener judgements of speech sound change during speech intervention for children with cleft palate ± lip using a visual analogue scale, compared to expert ratings.","authors":"Maria Cairney, Victor Shiramizu, Joanne Cleland","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2571661","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2571661","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Monitoring the speech therapy progress of children with cleft palate ± lip (CP±L) is important for clinical decision-making. Existing approaches, such as Percentage target Consonants Correct (PCC) or narrow phonetic transcription, each present challenges in implementation. Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) have been successfully used by naïve listeners to evaluate disordered speech, but not speech of children with CP±L, which is the purpose of the present study. 120 naïve listeners were presented with words produced by two children with CP±L during consecutive therapy sessions. VAS evaluations of the target consonants in word-initial position were compared to the PCC ratings and narrow phonetic transcriptions of a cleft specialist Speech and Language Therapist. Results suggest that VAS captured gradient changes, which were not captured by PCC, and not as easy to interpret from the narrow phonetic transcriptions.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"544-566"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145507679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oral language abilities in French-speaking children from highly multicultural and low socio-economic status environments.","authors":"Phaedra Royle, Alexandra Marquis, Susan Rvachew","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2615069","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2615069","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Children from a low SES environment may exhibit reduced language performance as a function of family or environmental socioeconomic status (SES) and this can impact oral language assessment and further development, as well as learning trajectories in school. We aimed to establish whether children in a multicultural and low socio-economic environment would show this disadvantage on normed tasks for oral language development in early grades. An oral language screener (Phophlo), a verb production task, and a metalinguistic task were used to screen 48 children in schools from two highly multicultural French schools with varying levels of SES environments. Scores on the tasks were lower than expected, with failure rates between 15% and 65%, depending on the task. SES did not systematically impact results, and percentage of exposure to French was found to impact some task results significantly. Children in schools with lower SES may have oral language delays as compared to children in schools from middle SES districts. These delays can be identified using the Phophlo screener, verb production and meta-linguistic tasks. Recommendations are made for class-based interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"782-803"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146068096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modelling sentence deficits in Arabic agrammatism: A machine learning approach to the Tree Pruning Hypothesis.","authors":"Hicham Adem","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2603914","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2603914","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study models sentence-level deficits in Palestinian Arabic agrammatism using supervised machine learning, with a focus on evaluating the Tree Pruning Hypothesis (TPH). TPH attributes sentence production impairments to disrupted access to higher syntactic projections - particularly CP-level structures - while predicting relative preservation of lower projections such as TP and AgrP. TPH is widely cited but has rarely been tested in morphologically rich, typologically diverse languages. We compared two machine learning (ML) models: a syntax-only model using structural features (question type, tense) and a full-feature Random Forest model incorporating morphosyntactic and clinical variables (Production Score, Error Type, Severity, demographics). The syntax-only model achieved 69% accuracy but failed to classify incorrect responses. In contrast, the full-feature model reached 96% accuracy with strong generalisation. Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP) and permutation analyses revealed that clinical and morphosyntactic features were the strongest predictors, whereas syntactic structure contributed less than 3% of model variance. Our results support TPH's claim of CP-related vulnerability but challenge its hierarchical prediction: no gradient was observed between Wh-arguments and adjuncts, and deficits extended to lower projections. These findings suggest a flatter impairment profile, with similar difficulty across CP structures, shaped by processing demands and individual variability. This study demonstrates the value of theory-driven, multifactorial modelling for capturing sentence deficits in agrammatism and contributes new evidence from an underrepresented language variety.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"707-736"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145835176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Naming objects and actions in Swedish: A validation study.","authors":"Emma Wahlstrand, Charlotta Saldert","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2678201","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2678201","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Anomia is a common symptom in aphasia following stroke and refers to difficulties retrieving content words, such as nouns and verbs. The word classes may be affected to different extents following a brain lesion, but verbs are generally considered more difficult to process and to name. Picture naming tests are often used to evaluate anomia, but verb naming tests have only been developed more recently in many languages, including Swedish. It is important that these tests are valid and reliable. In the present study, the validity of two Swedish naming tests targeting nouns and verbs respectively was investigated. Results from 19 speakers with aphasia were compared to results from 19 matched controls. The relationship between naming results and aphasia severity, age and educational level was also examined. Both naming tests showed good validity and reliability and can be used to evaluate moderate-severe anomia following stroke in clinical and research settings. The tests may not be sensitive enough to detect mild anomia. In line with previous research indicating a decline in naming ability during normal ageing, the results suggest that lower action naming scores may be anticipated in healthy elderly individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148138918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dafni Vaia Bagioka, Elena Theodorou, Arhonto Terzi
{"title":"Retelling skills of 10-year-old Greek-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder.","authors":"Dafni Vaia Bagioka, Elena Theodorou, Arhonto Terzi","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2678207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2026.2678207","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined the narrative retelling abilities of Greek-speaking school-aged children (ages 9-11) with and without Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) using the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). Addressing a gap in the literature, the study investigated group differences in macrostructural and microstructural narrative measurements and their diagnostic accuracy. Fifty children participated (25 DLD, 25 neurotypical), matched for age (mean = 10 years old). Analyses included correlations, MANOVA, Generalized Linear Mixed-effects Models (GLMM) and Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC). Although the overall MANOVA did not show a significant multivariate effect, children with DLD scored significantly lower on Story Structure, Mean Length of Utterance (MLU), Subordinate Clauses, and Complement Clauses. GLMM analysis indicated that Story Structure and Complement Clauses significantly predicted group membership, while ROC analyses confirmed that Sentence Repetition is the most accurate diagnostic measurement with high sensitivity and specificity. These findings suggest that narrative retelling provides valuable insights into the syntactic and discourse organisation in DLD, complementing the diagnostic measurements of structured language tasks.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148139417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patricio Vergara Ponce, Francisca Heredia-Tudela, Barbara May Bernhardt, Eliseo Diez-Itza, Jorge Parada-Morollón, Paula Cerón, Verónica Martínez
{"title":"Development and validation of a phonological screening procedure for Chilean Spanish based on the Whole Word Match measure.","authors":"Patricio Vergara Ponce, Francisca Heredia-Tudela, Barbara May Bernhardt, Eliseo Diez-Itza, Jorge Parada-Morollón, Paula Cerón, Verónica Martínez","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2668119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2026.2668119","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aimed to validate the <i>Prueba de Fonología del Español</i> (PFE) for Chilean Spanish and to identify a reduced subset of words suitable for phonological screening based on the Whole Word Match (WWM) measure. The sample comprised 152 monolingual children aged 3;0-6;11, including 72 typically developing (TD) and 80 with protracted phonological development (PPD). All participants completed the 100-word PFE and the <i>Test para Evaluar Procesos Fonológicos de Simplificación - Revisado</i> (TEPROSIF-R). WWM scores were computed for each production to quantify word-level accuracy. The results confirmed the concurrent validity of the PFE through significant correlations with TEPROSIF-R outcomes and revealed differentiation between TD and PPD groups across all ages. A subset of 26 words demonstrated high discriminant potential (<i>r</i> > .90) and reflected a balanced representation of Chilean Spanish phonological structure, stress, and segmental diversity. These findings establish the PFE as a valid phonological assessment for Chilean Spanish and support the use of a whole-word scoring approach for phonological screening in clinical and cross-linguistic contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148139596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Differential patterns of Voice Onset Time in English plosives produced by Urdu-English bilingual speakers with Dysarthria.","authors":"Summiya Azam, Tahir Saleem, Aisha Saleem","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2680134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2026.2680134","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates Voice Onset Time (VOT) in Urdu - English bilingual speakers with and without dysarthria, with a specific focus on differential vulnerability of positive and negative VOT. Acoustic analyses were conducted on English word-initial plosives produced by 30 speakers with dysarthria and 30 neurologically healthy controls. Non-parametric analyses revealed that dysarthria-related timing disruptions were concentrated in pre-voiced lenis plosives (/b, d, g/), while voiceless plosives (/p, t, k/) showed no consistent group-level differences. Subtype analyses indicated distinct pre-voicing patterns across flaccid, spastic, ataxic, and mixed dysarthria, with the largest effects observed for velar stops. These findings suggest that dysarthria selectively compromises the laryngeal - supralaryngeal coordination required for sustained voicing during closure. The results highlight negative VOT as a sensitive acoustic marker of dysarthric impairment and underscore the value of mechanism-focused, distribution-sensitive analyses in clinical phonetics.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148057840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predictive value of dynamic assessment on future narrative skills in French-speaking children with developmental language disorder: A pilot study.","authors":"Olivia Hadjadj, Margaret Kehoe, Hélène Delage","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2668117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2026.2668117","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), static assessment of narrative as well as Dynamic Assessment (DA) of syntax for instance can predict their future language skills. However, the predictive value of a DA of narrative has never been explored. This study addresses that gap. Twenty-one children with DLD (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 9;5) completed a DA with a pre-test/teaching/post-test procedure, followed by a Delayed Post-test (DP) 12 weeks later. In pre-, post-test and DP, children engaged in a story generation (Story 1) and two story-retellings (Stories 2 and 3). The teaching phase of the DA targeted macro- and microstructure of Story 2. Our results showed that our DA of narrative enabled the prediction of DP scores 12 weeks later, only by considering macrostructure. As for microstructure, the pre-test of our DA was the best predictive measure. Our study adds to the existing literature on predictors of narrative skills.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147943403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}