Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla, Mario Valera-Pozo, Lucía Buil-Legaz, Jorge Luis Guirado-Moreno, Daniel Adrover-Roig
{"title":"Eficacia de las prácticas inclusivas para compensar los resultados académicos de escolares con dificultades del lenguaje oral y escrito","authors":"Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla, Mario Valera-Pozo, Lucía Buil-Legaz, Jorge Luis Guirado-Moreno, Daniel Adrover-Roig","doi":"10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100500","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objectives</h3><p>Previous studies have shown lower academic results in school children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and/or reading difficulties (RD). This paper aims to evaluate whether some of the measures proposed by the inclusive school to enrich the teaching-learning processes have a positive effect on the grades of school children with DLD or RD. Inclusive education measures that foster individualized communication skills are expected to exert a compensatory effect on pupils with difficulties.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>The official academic history of 103 students (26 with DLD, 36 with RD, and 41 with typical development; TD) attending 10 schools from Balearic Islands were collected. Inclusive school indicators were evaluated with ACADI's questionnaire.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>No significative correlations were found between official grades and school inclusivity scores for the DLD and TD groups, while three indicators of inclusivity showed correlations with the academic results in the RD group. The ANOVA (Group x Inclusivity) on the mean grade of the primary school revealed significant results of the Group factor, a tendency in the Inclusivity factor, but the interaction was non-significant. Grade retention frequency was similar between centers with indicators of high or low inclusivity, and higher in the DLD group compared to the RD and TD groups.</p></div><div><h3>Discussion and conclusions</h3><p>Worse academic results were found in the DLD and RD groups. Inclusion measures appear to partially compensate school children with RD, but not the DLD group. In conclusion, inclusive schools must continue looking for measures to compensate for the learning difficulties of students with DLD.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56174,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Logopedia, Foniatria y Audiologia","volume":"44 4","pages":"Article 100500"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141595078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carlos José De los Reyes-Aragón , José A. Adrián , María José Rodríguez-Parra , Karina Cantillo Santis , Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla
{"title":"Detección precoz del deterioro del lenguaje oral en el adulto mayor con déficit cognitivo: resultados de un estudio piloto en la población colombiana","authors":"Carlos José De los Reyes-Aragón , José A. Adrián , María José Rodríguez-Parra , Karina Cantillo Santis , Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla","doi":"10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100498","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and objective</h3><p>The NEUROBEL is a short test for the psycholinguistic evaluation of language comprehension and production impairment in older adults. The utility of this instrument has been primarily tested in the Spanish population. The NEUROBEL consists of tasks that assess comprehension through phoneme discrimination tasks, auditory lexical decision, spoken word-picture matching, and sentence comprehension. Additionally, it evaluates language production through repetition tasks, object naming, action naming, and sentence completion. This study aims to investigate the utility of the NEUROBEL in detecting oral language deficits related to cognitive impairment in the Colombian population.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>Eighty-two monolingual older adults, aged 59 to 92 years, participated, including 23 men. Of the total sample, 26 participants met the clinical criteria for early Alzheimer's disease, and 25 for mild cognitive impairment, according to the Global Deterioration Scale. The remaining 31 participants served as the control group.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The results showed good internal consistency (Cronbach's Alpha=.81) and a high bivariate Pearson correlation with the MMSE (r=.85; <em>P</em><.001).</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Differences were observed among the three groups in the total scale score. In conclusion, the NEUROBEL proves to be a useful tool for detecting language difficulties in patients with suspected AD (Alzheimer Dessease) and MCI (Mild Cognitive Impairment).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56174,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Logopedia, Foniatria y Audiologia","volume":"44 4","pages":"Article 100498"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141595077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La Audiología que se avecina","authors":"Pedro Salesa Isart","doi":"10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100501","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56174,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Logopedia, Foniatria y Audiologia","volume":"44 3","pages":"Article 100501"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141593243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Pediatric Version of Caregivers’ Mealtime and Dysphagia Questionnaire (P-CMDQ): A validity study in Greek-Cypriot caregivers","authors":"Rafaella Georgiou , Louiza Voniati , Alexandros Gryparis , Andri Papaleontiou , Vassiliki Siafaka , Nafsika Ziavra , Dionysios Tafiadis","doi":"10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100499","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction and objectives</h3><p>Caregivers’ compliance with speech and language pathologist's (SLP) recommendations plays a valuable role in the dysphagia therapy process. The Caregiver Mealtime and Dysphagia Questionnaire (CMDQ) is a tool for determining why caregivers do not follow SLP recommendations for dysphagia patients. The purpose of this study was to translate, adapt, and validate the CMDQ, which had previously been created for adults with dysphagia, among Greek-Cypriot caregivers of children with feeding and/or swallowing difficulties.</p></div><div><h3>Material and methods</h3><p>The Pediatric Version of Caregivers’ Mealtime and Dysphagia Questionnaire (P-CMDQ) was administered to 222 parents/caregivers who had children with (<em>N</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->122) and without (<em>N</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->100) feeding and/or swallowing disorders. For the test–retest reliability measures, the questionnaire was re-administered after two weeks to all participants.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>A significant test–retest reliability was found (<em>r</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->0.999, <em>p</em> <!--><<!--> <!-->.001). The P-CMDQ cut-off point was 85.00 [AUC 0.851, <em>p</em> <!--><<!--> <!-->.001] for the two groups. Principal component analysis (PCA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) results showed the P-CMDQ to be a reliable questionnaire: factor 1 – <em>α</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->0.950, factor 2 – <em>α</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->0.494, and factor 3 – <em>α</em> <!-->=<!--> <!-->0.678.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Overall, the P-CMDQ appears to be a reliable tool for the Greek-Cypriot caregivers who have children with feeding and/or swallowing disorders. It can assess the reasons for caregiver compliance with SLP recommendations for children with dysphagia. Hence, the P-CMDQ may be suitable for clinical implementation in the field of dysphagia assessment in children.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56174,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Logopedia, Foniatria y Audiologia","volume":"44 3","pages":"Article 100499"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141486196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karla Guerrero-Leiva , Carme Brun-Gasca , Albert Fornieles-Deu , Ariadna Ramírez-Mallafrè
{"title":"Variables asociadas a las características de comunicación y lenguaje de las personas con síndrome de Angelman en una muestra de la península Ibérica","authors":"Karla Guerrero-Leiva , Carme Brun-Gasca , Albert Fornieles-Deu , Ariadna Ramírez-Mallafrè","doi":"10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100497","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Angelman syndrome (AS) is a rare condition with low prevalence associated with severe global developmental delay, behavioral phenotype of happy appearance and social interaction, moderate to severe intellectual disability with minimal or absent oral language associated with molecular etiology and featuring clinical variables.</p></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><p>To describe communication and language abilities in a sample of individuals with AS from Spain and Portugal, explore the influence of molecular etiology, age and use of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).</p></div><div><h3>Materials and methods</h3><p>The sample comprised 40 individuals diagnosed with AS, from the Iberian Peninsula, assessed using the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>A characteristic profile is shown with a predominance of gestures and receptive language over expressive. Differences are noted by molecular subtype, age, use of AAC and the origin in the Iberian Peninsula.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>The linguistic phenotype for Angelman Syndrome is consistent with findings from other studies, however associated variables such as molecular etiology and use of AAC should be considered.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56174,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Logopedia, Foniatria y Audiologia","volume":"44 3","pages":"Article 100497"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0214460324000706/pdfft?md5=66b50c21a80d0967c6028a5e48864843&pid=1-s2.0-S0214460324000706-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141434797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perspectives about home-language maintenance in multilingual families with and without language and communication disorders: A scoping review","authors":"Paula Bellón, Silvia Nieva","doi":"10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100496","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Parents of multilingual children often need to make choices about the transmission of languages in the next generations. The aim of this scoping review is to examine recent evidence addressing the language views and practices of multilingual families, to identify key patterns regarding the use of language(s) at home. Four databases were searched systematically in June 2023 including a total of 45 articles. Studies where children had language and/or communication disorders were included. The findings show that parents make their linguistic choices based on their own attitudes and experiences. They also consider professional advice, which does not always align with their views. The evidence reveals similarities between families with and without language and/or communication disorders, despite showing particularities related to the child's condition. Few studies were found where children had disorders, highlighting the need of further research on the matter to provide knowledge that could be useful in clinical settings.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56174,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Logopedia, Foniatria y Audiologia","volume":"44 3","pages":"Article 100496"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141434798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adrián Pérez del Olmo , Moisés Betancort , Germán Gálvez-García , Lucía Sabater , Tatiana Romero-Arias
{"title":"Clinical indicators of dysphagia in patients with Parkinson disease","authors":"Adrián Pérez del Olmo , Moisés Betancort , Germán Gálvez-García , Lucía Sabater , Tatiana Romero-Arias","doi":"10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100493","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><p>It is well known that dysphagia in patients with Parkinson disease (PD) can be very disabling and hurt the quality of life. Thus, tongue function is crucial for swallowing. In this line, it has been proposed that inadequate lingual pressure conditions the swallowing process. We aimed to determine whether lingual pressures in PD patients are lower than in a control group. Also, to test whether objective lingual pressures correlate with questionnaires designed to detect dysphagia.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>Thirty-eight patients with PD and thirty-eight age- and gender-matched controls completed lingual pressure tasks with the IOWA oral performance instrument. Additionally, the experimental group completed the DYMUS questionnaire for the early detection of dysphagia and the Dysphapark questionnaire for assessing swallowing disorder awareness.</p></div><div><h3>Result</h3><p>Patients with PD presented significantly lower scores in lingual pressure tasks compared to the control group. Correlation analysis showed significant correlations between lingual pressure tasks and both questionnaires.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Lingual pressures, DYMUS and Dysphapark questionnaires can serve as clinical indicators for assessing dysphagia and prompt diagnosis and early speech therapy intervention of dysphagia in PD patients.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56174,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Logopedia, Foniatria y Audiologia","volume":"44 3","pages":"Article 100493"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141423283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
María Suárez-Romón, Verónica Martínez López, Paz Suárez-Coalla
{"title":"Instrumento MAIN para evaluar las habilidades narrativas en niños hispanohablantes con trastorno del desarrollo del lenguaje (TDL)","authors":"María Suárez-Romón, Verónica Martínez López, Paz Suárez-Coalla","doi":"10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100495","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Developmental language disorder (DLD) involves the impairment of one or more linguistic dimensions. It has been observed that these children present difficulties in oral narratives at the microstructure and macrostructure levels, although there is much disparity in the assessment tools used in research. The aim of this study is to assess the narrative skills of Spanish-speaking children with DLD by analyzing oral narratives in terms of narrative microstructure and macrostructure and phonological and morphological errors.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>The sample consisted of 24 children: 12 with DLD and 12 with typical development (TD) aged between 7 and 11<!--> <!-->years. They were administered CELF-5, Raven's 2, and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test to assess the level of linguistic and cognitive competence and the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN), a narrative assessment tool. These oral narratives were transcribed and analyzed with the CHILDES project tools and coded with the PREP-CORP system.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Statistically significant differences were observed between both groups in the number of utterances, mean utterance length and number of events narrated, as well as in the frequency of morphological and phonological errors.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Oral narratives of DLD children using the MAIN tool are shorter and less detailed than those of TD, as well as with a higher number of phonological and morphological errors. Therefore, the MAIN could be a suitable clinical tool for the assessment of the narrative skills of DLD children.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56174,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Logopedia, Foniatria y Audiologia","volume":"44 3","pages":"Article 100495"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141423284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uso de feedback visual con ecografía en la intervención de las dificultades de articulación en niños con discapacidad auditiva. Una valoración por jueces expertos: logopedas","authors":"Judit Ayala Alcalde, Martín Martínez, Mark Gibson","doi":"10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100494","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><p>This study aims to measure the effectiveness of visual biofeedback using ultrasound in addressing articulatory difficulties in children with hearing disabilities, using the judgment of experts through an auditory perception test. It is the first research of this type carried out with a Spanish-speaking population.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>A speech therapy intervention program was conducted with seven children with cochlear implants and/or hearing aids. External speech therapists evaluated the results through an auditory perception test that reproduces the acoustic stimuli derived from the initial (pre-test) and final (post-test) evaluations. These stimuli are presented in pairs with the assistance of a script created in MATLAB®, in two different ways: pre-post and post-pre.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Results from generalized mixed-effects models indicate that, at a group level, speech therapists perceive improvements mainly in the phonemes /n/ and /r/, and in some children, in the phonemes /x/, /ɡ/, /ɾ/, /r/, /tʃ/, and /l/. The position of the phoneme within the word does not have a significant effect at the group level but does in two participants. The number of syllables in the stimuli has a significant effect at the group level for all levels.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>These results align with previous research demonstrating the efficacy of visual biofeedback in correcting articulation errors in speech therapy intervention.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56174,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Logopedia, Foniatria y Audiologia","volume":"44 3","pages":"Article 100494"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0214460324000676/pdfft?md5=f73b05d00fd75b5ffe41e8514ada5c20&pid=1-s2.0-S0214460324000676-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141324883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Belén Valverde, Marta Rodríguez, Lorena García, Teresa Simón, Miguel Lázaro
{"title":"Resultados de la intervención logopédica en un caso de síndrome raro: un estudio de caso","authors":"Belén Valverde, Marta Rodríguez, Lorena García, Teresa Simón, Miguel Lázaro","doi":"10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rlfa.2024.100490","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this study we present the results of a speech and language therapy intervention in a case of a child with a rare disease -partial tetrasomy 13q11q12.12. At the age of 4, a first evaluation is performed (T1), and treatment goals are set. Six months after the beginning of the treatment, the child is re-evaluated (T2) and a new specific intervention program is designed. After another 6 months of treatment, the child is evaluated again in order to know the possible progress experienced (T3). The results of the intervention show a clear progression between T1 and T2 in all the linguistic prerequisites worked on, such as attention maintenance and communicative intention. Likewise, between T2 and T3, the greatest progress is observed in the development of expressive language, although notable improvements in the aforementioned linguistic prerequisites can also be observed. These results are discussed in the light of the few previous existing studies with patients with rare genetic diseases.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56174,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Logopedia, Foniatria y Audiologia","volume":"44 3","pages":"Article 100490"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0214460324000639/pdfft?md5=780fd774fa443b82e5f0cfd603abdce2&pid=1-s2.0-S0214460324000639-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141078045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}