{"title":"Measurements of temperament in the identification of children who stutter.","authors":"K E Lewis, L L Golberg","doi":"10.3109/13682829709082258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/13682829709082258","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As an empirical check on widely held stereotypes and some assumed temperament proclivities of children at risk for stuttering, parents of at-risk children and a gender- and age-matched control group completed the 'Parent Childhood Temperament Questionnaire for 3-7-Year-Olds'. A discriminant analysis on the nine temperament dimensions revealed four dimensions which combined to discriminate significantly between the two groups, resulting in correct classification of 86.36% of the 22 children. The t-tests of difference on the four discriminating dimensions revealed that 'Mood', 'Adaptability', and 'Rhythmicity' were statistically significant in the direction of more positive temperament for at-risk children than for the control group. Results are discussed with respect to aetiology, stereotype, and the need for clinicians to focus parents on concrete behaviours when reporting on the emotional and behavioural style of their child.</p>","PeriodicalId":77120,"journal":{"name":"European journal of disorders of communication : the journal of the College of Speech and Language Therapists, London","volume":"32 4","pages":"441-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/13682829709082258","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20441551","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 utility of the Right Hemisphere Language Battery in patients with brain tumours.","authors":"A M Thomson, R Taylor, D Fraser, I R Whittle","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Right Hemisphere Language Battery (RHLB) (Bryan, 1989) was devised to assess the presence of language disorders in patients with damage to the right cerebral hemisphere and to permit an evaluation of the efficacy of therapeutic techniques. To evaluate the utility and sensitivity of the RHLB in patients with solitary right hemispheric brain tumours 20 patients were assessed before and after neurosurgery. Twenty control subjects with no signs or symptoms of brain disease who were undergoing lumbar spinal surgery were also assessed. On six of the seven RHLB subtests there was no significant difference between the scores obtained preoperatively by patients with right hemispheric brain tumours and the control subjects. There was also no significant change in the scores of the patients with tumours before and after resection of the lesion. The RHLB is therefore not recommended for either evaluating communication deficits or for measuring the efficacy of therapeutic techniques in patients with right hemisphere brain tumours. This study does, however, show that there are statistically significant differences between the control and brain tumour groups on the discourse analysis subtest preoperatively. The implications of the study are discussed together with possible reasons for the findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":77120,"journal":{"name":"European journal of disorders of communication : the journal of the College of Speech and Language Therapists, London","volume":"32 3 Spec No","pages":"325-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20401129","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":"Intelligibility of oesophageal and tracheo-oesophageal speech: preliminary observations.","authors":"L Max, W De Bruyn, W Steurs","doi":"10.3109/13682829709082257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/13682829709082257","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study was to compare the intelligibility of two types of alaryngeal speech commonly used after total laryngectomy. Four male oesophageal speakers and four male tracheo-oesophageal speakers read a series of monosyllabic words, multisyllabic words and sentences. The monosyllabic word list consisted of several minimal pairs for each of eight phonetic contrasts; multisyllabic words and sentences were not selected on specific phonetic grounds. Audio recordings of all subjects' readings were presented to eight naïve adult listeners who completed both an item identification task and a scaling procedure. The item identification task revealed higher intelligibility fpr tracheo-oesophageal speakers than for oesophageal speakers during the monosyllabic word condition. Results from the scaling procedure indicated that listeners' subjective intelligibility ratings were also higher for the tracheo-oesophageal speakers than for the oesophageal speakers. Moreover, a high positive correlation was found between the speakers' intelligibility scores obtained from the word identification task and the scaling procedure.</p>","PeriodicalId":77120,"journal":{"name":"European journal of disorders of communication : the journal of the College of Speech and Language Therapists, London","volume":"32 4","pages":"429-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/13682829709082257","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20441550","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":"Psychiatric disturbance and personality traits in dysphonic patients.","authors":"A White, I J Deary, J A Wilson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A study of 68 consecutive attendees at a voice clinic revealed that 51 (75%) were female. Personality characteristics and the incidence of minor psychiatric disturbances were studied in the 51 female patients with dysphonia and in 42 female ENT outpatient control subjects. Personality was assessed by use of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and the Hysteroid-Obsessoid Questionnaire (HOQ), and psychiatric disturbance was assessed by use of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), 60-item version. Whereas the 18 patients who were diagnosed as having psychogenic dysphonia had, overall, a greater degree of mild psychiatric disturbance, the 33 patients whose dysphonia was associated with structural laryngeal abnormality were also significantly more disturbed than control subjects (p < 0.01). There were no significant differences in personality traits among the three groups. Ten of the 18 patients with psychogenic dysphonia had evidence of significant psychiatric symptomatology on GHQ testing. More unexpectedly, one in three of the women with structural laryngeal changes showed similar psychiatric disturbance. Such psychological distress cannot therefore be detected solely on laryngeal appearances and voice characteristics. We propose the GHQ to be a quick, simple screening tool to identify those patients who might benefit from a more psychologically based approach to therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":77120,"journal":{"name":"European journal of disorders of communication : the journal of the College of Speech and Language Therapists, London","volume":"32 3 Spec No","pages":"307-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20401127","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":"Variability in upper motor neurone-type dysarthria: an examination of five cases with dysarthria following cerebrovascular accident.","authors":"E C Thompson, B E Murdoch, D G Theodoros","doi":"10.3109/13682829709082256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/13682829709082256","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The degree of diversity in the nature and extent of the physiological deficits which occur in subjects with dysarthria with similar neurological damage is demonstrated through the individual assessment profiles of five subjects with dysarthria following upper motor neurone (UMN) damage. The perceptual profiles of each subject were compiled using perceptual ratings of deviant speech parameters, intelligibility ratings from the Assessment of Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speech (ASSIDS), and perceptual judgements of subsystem function determined from the Frenchay Dysarthria Assessment (FDA). For each individual, the perceptual profile of their speech impairments was compared and contrasted with the objective results of spirometric and kinematic assessments of respiratory function aerodynamic and electroglottographic evaluations of laryngeal function, pressure and strain gauge evaluations of articulatory function, and nasal accelerometric assessments of nasality. The outcomes of the individual perceptual and physiological profiles are discussed with respect to the presence of differential subsystem impairments both within each subject and between subjects with similar underlying pathophysiological deficits. The importance of interpreting the instrumental findings with respect to the interdependency of each of the motor speech subsystems, the limitations of perceptual assessments, and the advantages of utilising both perceptual and physiological analyses in the process of identifying treatment goals is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":77120,"journal":{"name":"European journal of disorders of communication : the journal of the College of Speech and Language Therapists, London","volume":"32 4","pages":"397-427"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/13682829709082256","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20441549","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":"Early intervention in a case of jargon aphasia: efficacy of language comprehension therapy.","authors":"E Grayson, R Hilton, S Franklin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A client with dysphasia was treated during the first six months following onset. A cognitive neuropsychological model of language processing was used to establish the levels of impairment in auditory comprehension. Three separate phases of therapy were administered: a semantic therapy; a period of therapy where both semantics and auditory processing were treated; and therapy designed to enhance the processing of words in a sentence. Four assessments were used to measure changes between each therapy phase and the results demonstrate that improvement occurred in a pattern which suggests specific effects of treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":77120,"journal":{"name":"European journal of disorders of communication : the journal of the College of Speech and Language Therapists, London","volume":"32 3 Spec No","pages":"257-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20401124","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}
F McCall, I Marková, J Murphy, E Moodie, S Collins
{"title":"Perspectives on AAC systems by the users and by their communication partners.","authors":"F McCall, I Marková, J Murphy, E Moodie, S Collins","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study examined the perspectives of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) users and their 'formal' and 'informal' communication partners in relation to two areas of relevance to AAC: firstly, communication strategies, and secondly, advantages and disadvantages of AAC systems. With respect to communication strategies, it was found that formal communication partners thought that more vocabulary for communicating social purposes was actually available to AAC users and they were less aware of daily routines within day and residential environments. With respect to advantages and disadvantages, three main areas of concern emerged: the effect of the AAC system on the users' communication; features of AAC systems; and the effect of AAC on the users' quality of life. Both high- and low-technology AAC systems were seen as having advantages and disadvantages. This study demonstrates the important contribution to be made by AAC users in the provision of a new set of priorities based on their user experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":77120,"journal":{"name":"European journal of disorders of communication : the journal of the College of Speech and Language Therapists, London","volume":"32 3 Spec No","pages":"235-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20401123","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 use of graphic language intervention among young children in Norway.","authors":"S. von Tetzchner","doi":"10.3109/13682829709177098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/13682829709177098","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge about graphic communication intervention and use among young disabled children has been sparse. The present study is based on a thorough search, and provides reliable information about children who are 10 years old or younger who have graphic communication (for example, photographs, drawings, Blissymbols, PIC, traditional orthography) as their main form of communication. The study covers all such children in three Norwegian counties, comprising a population of 1.1 million people. Detailed descriptions of the children, the systems they use, and their educational settings are presented, and implications for the organisation of habilitation services are discussed.","PeriodicalId":77120,"journal":{"name":"European journal of disorders of communication : the journal of the College of Speech and Language Therapists, London","volume":"32 3 Spec No 1","pages":"217-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69266917","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":"Acquisition of speech, pre- and post-cochlear implantation: longitudinal studies of a congenitally deaf infant.","authors":"H. Robinshaw","doi":"10.1080/0300443961260109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0300443961260109","url":null,"abstract":"This paper details the process of speech acquisition by the first British, congenitally deaf infant (without additional handicaps) to be fitted with a multi-channel cochlear implant. The infant's phonologic and phonetic level development using, firstly, acoustic hearing aids and, secondly, a cochlear implant, is thoroughly detailed by use of video- and audio-recorded data, taken at weekly intervals and across a variety of contexts. The paper examines the benefit of early implantation for spoken language development and notes the utility of Ling's model of speech acquisition for the habilitation of young, congenitally deaf implant recipients.","PeriodicalId":77120,"journal":{"name":"European journal of disorders of communication : the journal of the College of Speech and Language Therapists, London","volume":"31 2 1","pages":"121-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0300443961260109","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59714356","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":"Papers from the European Seminar on ELG and EPG, Edinburgh, July 1994.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77120,"journal":{"name":"European journal of disorders of communication : the journal of the College of Speech and Language Therapists, London","volume":"30 2","pages":"101-277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18500669","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}