{"title":"The development of a test of speech reception disability for use in 5- to 8-year-old children with otitis media with effusion.","authors":"I Williamson, C Sheridan","doi":"10.3109/13682829409041479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/13682829409041479","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study aims to develop a test of speech reception disability under simulated classroom conditions for use in young (5-8 year old) schoolchildren, to manage children with otitis media with effusion more effectively. A new video test, TADAST (Two Alternative Auditory Disability and Speech Reception Test), has been constructed in stages by extensively modifying the FADAST (Four Alternative) currently used to assess auditory disability in adults. Minimal word pair lists which were easily identifiable in picture form were developed and refined, and then formulated as a two alternative forced choice picture test. The distribution characteristics of the new test were defined in 89 schoolchildren with and without otitis media with effusion (OME) and compared with pure-tone audiometry performed at the same time. The test correlated highly with audiometry in older children. The distribution characteristics revealed a considerable proportion of children with bilateral OME with little functional disability who might otherwise be at risk of surgery. The test appeared to be sensitive to a 'history of OME' effect. Further refinements are needed to develop a final version which could also be used to evaluate hearing disability in 4-year-old children.</p>","PeriodicalId":77120,"journal":{"name":"European journal of disorders of communication : the journal of the College of Speech and Language Therapists, London","volume":"29 1","pages":"27-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/13682829409041479","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19026180","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":"Speech disorders in children treated for posterior fossa tumours: ataxic and developmental features.","authors":"B E Murdoch, L J Hudson-Tennent","doi":"10.3109/13682829409031290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/13682829409031290","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The oromotor and speech abilities of 19 children (14 boys and five girls) who had been treated for posterior fossa tumour were evaluated using three assessment procedures. All subjects completed the Frenchay Dysarthria Assessment and the Fisher-Logemann Test of Articulation Competence. Perceptual analyses were also performed on the subjects' connected speech samples. Based on the three assessment procedures, 11 of the 19 tumour subjects were judged to be speech disordered. The 11 speech-disordered subjects were then compared to a control group matched for age and sex to determine the nature and severity of speech abnormalities which may occur subsequent to the treatment of posterior fossa tumour in childhood. Both developmental and dysarthric features were identified in the speech of the 11 tumour subjects. The deviant speech characteristics exhibited by the tumour subjects included imprecise consonants, excess stress and reduced intelligibility, as well as the retention of developmental phonological processes. These features are described in detail and discussed with reference to descriptive studies of adult dysarthria. An interaction between acquired and developmental disorders of speech is proposed.</p>","PeriodicalId":77120,"journal":{"name":"European journal of disorders of communication : the journal of the College of Speech and Language Therapists, London","volume":"29 4","pages":"379-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/13682829409031290","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18650396","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 motor planning abilities of phonologically disordered children.","authors":"A Bradford, B Dodd","doi":"10.3109/13682829409031288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/13682829409031288","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The motor planning abilities of three subgroups of speech-disordered children were compared to normally speaking age- and comprehension-matched controls. There were 10 phonologically delayed children who used sound-pattern errors typical of chronologically aged younger children (delayed group); 10 children whose phonological system was characterised by the consistent use of non-developmental phonological processes (deviant consistent group); and 10 children whose production of specific lexical items and phonological features was variable (inconsistent group). The groups were compared on tasks that assessed simple and complex motor planning for hand movements and expressive and receptive novel-word learning. The groups did not differ on a simple task of motor planning for hand movements. However, the inconsistent group performed more poorly than all the other groups on a more complex, timed motor-planning task. Although the groups performed equally well on a task assessing receptive novel-word learning, the inconsistent group performed more poorly than all the other groups on an expressive novel-word learning task. The results provide support for the hypothesis that speech-disordered children with different surface error patterns have different underlying deficits in the speech-processing chain. Specifically, inconsistent error patterns are associated with a deficit in some aspects of fine motor planning.</p>","PeriodicalId":77120,"journal":{"name":"European journal of disorders of communication : the journal of the College of Speech and Language Therapists, London","volume":"29 4","pages":"349-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/13682829409031288","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18650394","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":"Appropriacy judgements and pragmatic performance.","authors":"E Leinonen, B R Smith","doi":"10.3109/13682829409041483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/13682829409041483","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines judgements of inappropriacy made by groups of independent raters from different professional backgrounds when presented with data from two boys with semantic, pragmatic and syntactic difficulties, who are interacting with adults, and when presented with data in a transcript or video format. The purpose is to explore the nature of such judgements with the view to highlighting the centrality and the complex nature of inappropriacy judgements in the clinical management of pragmatic impairment. The current study suggests that consensus of view as to what is or is not appropriate in interactions involving child clients may not exist in the general population. It further suggests that professional experience with children may direct one's attention primarily to the child client. Video presentation of information also appeared to direct attention to the child interactant. Given that audiovisual presentation of data is able to reproduce the non-linguistic 'oddness' of a child (e.g. averted gaze, slumped posture, monotonous voice), a situation seems to be created in which the linguistic content is perceived as equally 'odd' or inappropriate. This study has implications for assessment, diagnosis and treatment of pragmatic difficulties in children.</p>","PeriodicalId":77120,"journal":{"name":"European journal of disorders of communication : the journal of the College of Speech and Language Therapists, London","volume":"29 1","pages":"77-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/13682829409041483","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19026085","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":"Attempting to ameliorate student therapists' negative stereotype of the stutterer.","authors":"M M Leahy","doi":"10.3109/13682829409041480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/13682829409041480","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper reports on attempts to change student therapists' negative stereotyping of 'the stutterer'. Awareness of the negative stereotype and knowledge about the possible effects of this on therapy were not effective in changing attitudes. Knowledge of alternative meanings of stuttering, different models of therapy and theories of change, as well as experimenting with personal change, were effective to a limited degree in changing the direction of negative attitudes. Relevant experience of working with people who stutter was also important for some student therapists in beginning to change the direction of the negative stereotype.</p>","PeriodicalId":77120,"journal":{"name":"European journal of disorders of communication : the journal of the College of Speech and Language Therapists, London","volume":"29 1","pages":"39-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/13682829409041480","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19026181","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":"Portraits in aphasia: Armand Trousseau (1801-1867).","authors":"Y Lebrun","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Armand Trousseau's (1801-1867) contribution to the birth of aphasiology is sketched. It is shown that the French physician anticipated several of the important issues which aphasiologists were to debate at the end of the nineteenth century and in the first part of the twentieth century.</p>","PeriodicalId":77120,"journal":{"name":"European journal of disorders of communication : the journal of the College of Speech and Language Therapists, London","volume":"28 1","pages":"103-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19384898","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 1992 Jansson Memorial Lecture. Communication in medicine.","authors":"A Clare","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":"28 1","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19384897","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":"Teaching word-finding strategies to severely language-impaired children.","authors":"S H Wright","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study describes how four severely language-impaired pupils participated in an intervention programme aimed towards improving their word-finding skills. Short intervention sessions that concentrated upon a combination of both elaboration and retrieval techniques were conducted over a period of 4 weeks. Four control subjects received language therapy that was unrelated to word-finding activities. The subjects were matched for age, sex and word-finding difficulties. Results revealed that the two groups differed significantly on the accuracy of word retrieval. The four subjects that had received specific intervention improved in their ability to retrieve words. Two-tailed t-tests indicated that the improvement was highly significant at the probability level of p < 0.01 between the stages of testing. The contribution of the intervention sessions towards facilitating word-finding strategies of the four children 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":"28 2","pages":"165-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19385491","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":"Are your minimal pairs too neat? The dangers of phonemicisation in phonology therapy.","authors":"H. Gardner","doi":"10.1111/j.1460-6984.1995.tb01686.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-6984.1995.tb01686.x","url":null,"abstract":"Using Conversation Analysis (CA) to look at the interactional dynamics of therapy repair sequences, this paper shows exactly what happens for children when idealised misrepresentations of their phonology are used in therapy. The primary video extract involves a 4-year-old phonologically disordered boy and his therapist. It is not new to warn of the dangers of overlooking any subtle phonetic distinctions that the phonologically disordered child may have but this paper adds something new to the debate. The child's interpretation of the adult's prior turn in the sequence is made explicit and the likelihood of the child producing phonetic revision following an error is seen to be affected by the way the therapist chooses to initiate repair. This is especially true where a 'redoing' of the error is incorporated into such an initiation, when the child's phonetic output is 'tidied up' so that it fits in with the neat minimal pair which forms part of the therapy programme. This is one factor that can be seen to militate against appropriate phonetic repair by the child, especially when used in certain turn structures that are routinely associated with lexical rather than phonetic matters. When the adult 'redoing' more accurately reflects the child's output phonetic revision is more likely to occur. Implications for assessment and therapy are drawn from this evidence, with accurate phonological assessment and continuing interactional error analysis being recommended.","PeriodicalId":77120,"journal":{"name":"European journal of disorders of communication : the journal of the College of Speech and Language Therapists, London","volume":"32 2 Spec No 1","pages":"167-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1460-6984.1995.tb01686.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62964155","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}