Pub Date : 2025-02-28DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106510
Laura Manderson, Anna Krzeczkowska, Anja Kuschmann, Anja Lowit, Louise A. Brown Nicholls
Age-related differences in motor speech performance may be only partially explained by physiological factors. In this systematic review we investigated the extent to which cognition is related to older adults’ motor speech production. PsycInfo, PubMed, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library were last searched on 1st October 2024. Eligible studies involved healthy older adults, and/or those with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), with an average age of 60 or above. Study quality was formally evaluated and results presented via a narrative synthesis. In total, there were 22 eligible studies identified including 747 older adults. Ten of eighteen studies investigating attention/executive abilities reported significant relationships with motor speech subprocesses in 571 of 661 participants. Relationships between other cognitive abilities and motor speech outcomes were also reported, however, there were significant gaps in the literature and heterogeneity in the measurements used. In addition, only five studies contained the highest quality evidence. Cognition, and potentially executive abilities specifically, may affect speech articulation in healthy aging and in MCI. Further research implementing a range of tasks is required to better understand the trajectory of age-related changes to cognition and motor speech production.
与年龄相关的运动语言表现差异可能只能部分地用生理因素来解释。在这篇系统综述中，我们调查了认知与老年人运动语言产生的关系程度。PsycInfo、PubMed、Web of Science和Cochrane Library最后一次被检索是在2024年10月1日。符合条件的研究涉及平均年龄在60岁或以上的健康老年人和/或轻度认知障碍（MCI）患者。对研究质量进行了正式评估，并通过叙事综合提出了研究结果。总共有22项符合条件的研究，包括747名老年人。在18项调查注意力/执行能力的研究中，有10项研究报告了661名参与者中571人与运动语言子过程的显著关系。其他认知能力和运动语言结果之间的关系也有报道，然而，在文献中存在显著的差距和使用的测量方法的异质性。此外，只有5项研究含有最高质量的证据。认知，特别是潜在的执行能力，可能会影响健康老年人和轻度认知障碍患者的言语表达。为了更好地了解认知和运动语言产生的年龄相关变化的轨迹，需要进一步的研究来实施一系列任务。
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Pub Date : 2025-01-31DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106500
Ryan A. Millager , Talia Liu , Dillon G. Pruett , Robin M. Jones
Purpose
Demographic data is inconsistently reported and defined in communication sciences and disorders research, yet gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (SES) may be critical considerations for investigations of stuttering. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the global scope and sociodemographic reporting practices among stuttering research published in the year 2020.
Methods
Article searches were conducted in February 2023 in PsycINFO, PubMed, and ASHAWire for studies sampling participants with developmental stuttering or cluttering. Further inclusion criteria for systematic review were that articles must: (a) be published in the year 2020, (b) be published in a peer-reviewed journal, and (c) present original empirical research. Participant gender, ethnicity, and SES were extracted via a manualized coding scheme.
Results
The total corpus for review included k = 92 articles, representing a total n = 7,342 participants recruited from 26 different countries. The majority of articles (k = 36) were based in the United States (US), with all other countries contributing between 1 and 5 articles each. Gender (or sex) was reported in 93.5% of included studies, ethnicity in 22.8%, and SES in 41.3%. Reporting practices did not significantly differ between US and non-US countries. Of note, only one article in 2020 recruited participants who clutter, with all others recruiting participants who stutter.
Conclusion
This is the first systematic review of diversity and reporting practices in the global stuttering research literature. Our results revealed a narrow global distribution of research participants, with limited reporting and analyses regarding participant ethnicity or SES. Consequently, we have identified opportunities to improve research participant transparency and to further consider sociocultural variables toward the advancement of global and inclusive stuttering research.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-30DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106499
Lena Lindberger , Päivikki Aarne , Gunilla Thunberg , Anna Rensfeldt Flink
Introduction
The Responsive Augmentative and Alternative Communication Style Scale, version 3 (RAACS 3) has been used when assessing communicative style in parents of children with communicative disabilities between 12 and 60 months of age and it has demonstrated validity and reliability. The aim of this study was to investigate the reliability of RAACS when applied to video-recorded communication between parents and their infants (aged four to 12 months) with suspected neurodevelopmental disorders, and, if needed, adapt, and retest the instrument.
Method
Four speech language pathologists performed a three-phase reliability procedure using twenty-six audio-video recordings of interactions between parents and infants. Inter- and intrarater agreement was calculated. In phase I the original instrument RAACS 3 was used, on twenty recordings. In phase II the instrument was adapted to better suit the target group (parents of infants aged four to 12 months) and was called RAACS 4. In phase III RAACS 4 was pilot tested on six new audio-video recordings. This phase also included two joint ratings and a consensus discussion between the raters preceding the rating procedure.
Results
The testing during phase I showed low reliability rates of RAACS 3 independent of statistical test method. The pilot testing that was done during phase III showed that the adapted version, RAACS 4, had higher reliability rates.
Conclusions
RAACS 3 was not reliable for assessment of communicative style in parents of infants. RAACS 4 showed promising results when assessing communicative style of parents of infants with neurodevelopmental delays. Further reliability and validity investigation is needed.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-23DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106497
Malin Wass , Lena Anmyr , Björn Lyxell , Eva Karltorp , Elisabet Östlund , Ulrika Löfkvist
Purpose: This study investigated long-term predictors of reading development (phonological decoding, word recognition, and reading comprehension) in 24 children with cochlear implants (CIs). Method: The predictor variables were age, sex, nonverbal intelligence, working memory, paired associate learning, receptive vocabulary, phonological skills, grammatical knowledge, age at implantation, speech perception, and reported interest in reading. The children's mean age was approximately 7;8 years at the start of the study and they were then measured at three time points. The first and second assessments took place approximately 13 months apart, and the children were approximately 11;8 years of age at the third time point. Results: Decoding ability at age 11 was associated with early measures of nonverbal cognitive ability, visual-verbal paired associate learning, and grammatical knowledge when 0.05 was used as significance level but none of them remained significant after correcting for multiple comparisons. Several predictor variables from earlier measurements were significantly related to reading comprehension at age 11. The predictors that remained significant after Bonferroni correction were receptive vocabulary and grammatical knowledge. Discussion: The findings from this research suggest that early exposure to hearing and language, in particular vocabulary and grammar, is associated with reading outcomes at age 11.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-22DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106498
Felipe Torres-Morales , Gary Morgan , Ricardo Rosas
Developmental language disorder (DLD) is often associated with deficits in executive functions (EFs). One common area of language difficulty in DLD is the development of vocabulary knowledge and it has been suggested that EF abilities may be linked to this difficulty. However, an explanation for this relationship remains unclear. The rationale for the current study examined the relationship between EFs and two aspects of vocabulary knowledge, receptive vocabulary size and vocabulary depth, in Spanish-speaking children with and without DLD. Vocabulary skills, the EFs of interference control, response inhibition, verbal and nonverbal working memory, and switching, were assessed in a total of 204 children aged 6–8 years: 105 with DLD and 99 with typical development (TD). Relationships were assessed using multiple regression models and path analysis, including EF as predictors, receptive vocabulary size and vocabulary depth as outcome or mediating variables, and age and non-verbal intelligence as covariates. In children with DLD, the EFs verbal working memory and switching were directly associated with receptive vocabulary size and indirectly with vocabulary depth. This indirect relationship was mediated by receptive vocabulary size. In contrast, no EFs were associated with receptive vocabulary size, and vocabulary depth in the TD group. These results suggest that verbal working memory and cognitive flexibility play a role in the cognitive mechanisms linked to vocabulary development in school children with DLD. Intervention programs aimed at improving vocabulary in this population should include EF activities.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-22DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106496
Hope Sparks Lancaster , Ryan Parks , Seth Bashford , Denis Fitzpatrick , Alicia Buttner
Purpose: Recent technological advancements in psychology have yielded multiple unsupervised online tools for measuring cognitive skills. However, these tools do not measure key features of communication abilities in adults, such as productive speech or oral language. To address this gap, we developed the Remote Adult Language Experiment (ReAL-E) using a three-step approach that incorporates domain identification, expert evaluation, and piloting testing.
Method: Step 1 focused on domain and task identification by collaborating with experts and reviewing the literature. Step 2 included two rounds of evaluation by content and lay experts to assess the initial tool design, identify areas for refinement, and solicit feedback for desired features. Step 3 involved piloting the tool in a sample of adults recruited online.
Results: The ReAL-E tool adapted three speech planning and production tasks and four oral and written language tasks into online versions. Feedback from content and lay experts led to significant improvements, including enhanced task instructions, presentation modifications, and the incorporation of features to address potential confounds. Pilot testing demonstrated that adults perform within expected ranges, and five out of seven tasks had good to excellent preliminary reliability.
Conclusion: The development of the ReAL-E tool contributes to the field by offering a scalable, efficient method for assessing a broad range of communication skills in adults, paving the way for future research and clinical applications in developmental communication disorders. Our study underscores the collaborative effort and innovative approach required for creating a digital assessment tool that promises to expand research capabilities and improve diagnostic processes in the discipline.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106487
Marco van de Ven
Introduction
Laboratory studies have revealed hidden hearing loss in patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, the most prevalent inherited neuropathy, which may impact their quality of life. The current study distinguished between CMT type 1, which involves demyelination of the peripheral nerves, and type 2, which concerns dysfunction of peripheral nerves due to axonopathy. The self-reported effects were investigated of CMT1 and CMT2 on listening problems and related social and attentional problems in everyday communicative situations.
Methods
Data were collected from 42 CMT1 patients, 30 CMT2 patients, and 72 matched controls (selected from 135 control-group participants), who completed questionnaires concerning listening in everyday and noisy situations, social problems due to hearing difficulties, and problems regarding auditory sustained attention.
Results
CMT2 patients seemed to suggest only minor listening difficulties. No effects were found for social and attentional problems. In addition, CMT1 patients were found to be associated with more overall listening difficulties in everyday situations, compared to controls. CMT1 patients reported substantial listening difficulties, particularly in noisy and reverberant environments. These problems might be caused by underlying binaural hearing problems combined with reduced processing of temporal and acoustic information, as suggested in the literature. These listening difficulties were associated with social problems, such as social insecurity or even social avoidance, and problems regarding auditory sustained attention.
Conclusions
These findings strongly suggest that CMT1 impacts quality of life concerning social communication. The findings presented in this study will benefit diagnosis and treatment of hearing difficulties and related problems in CMT1 patients.
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Otitis Media (OM) is one of the most common infections in young children and can create fluctuating hearing loss. Despite the commonality of this condition, there is a lack of conclusive evidence on its impact on speech production outcomes. Therefore, the aim of this systematic review was to identify the impact of otitis media on speech production in children.
Method
A systematic review of peer-reviewed publications since 2000 was conducted using five data bases (PsycINFO, Medline, CINAHL, Pubmed and SpeechBITE). Studies were included if they reported a previous or current experience of otitis media (OM), assessed and reported on the speech production of children before the age of 12 years and the child's speech productions were assessed in the English language. Titles and abstracts of 332 articles were reviewed, followed by full-text review of 58 studies. Due to variability in study procedures and outcomes, a narrative synthesis was completed.
Results
12 studies met inclusion criteria for this review investigating 1,265 children aged between 12 months and 7 years of age. Eight studies used a prospective design, three studies used a retrospective design, and one study used a case study design. Six studies found no relationship between OM and speech production although five of these studies formed part of a larger study of 639 children. Comparatively five studies identified a link between OM history, chronicity of OM and/or elevated hearing levels and speech production. Specifically, OM was linked to the presence of backing in obstruents.
Conclusions
Overall findings were mixed likely due to the presence of multiple influencing variables such as duration, severity, medical intervention, age, hearing status and socio-economic status. Results of this review are limited as prospective studies only considered cases of OM which are treated and therefore do not represent children who have unidentified and/or untreated OM. Furthermore, many studies did not consistently report on the hearing levels of children and only two studies included cohorts of children from an Indigenous background.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106489
Hyunju Chung , Sarah K. Schellinger
Purpose
The aim of the current study is to examine if the relationship among three semivowel sounds (/l, ɹ, w/) and between the semivowel and the following vowel differs by children's overall speech proficiency, and if this relationship affects listeners’ perceptual judgment of the liquid sounds (/l, ɹ/). The acoustic proximity among the three semivowel sounds and the acoustic characteristics of the following vowel sounds were examined by each child speaker's overall speech sound proficiency and their semivowel accuracy.
Methods
A total of 21 monolingual English-speaking children with and without speech sound disorders produced monosyllabic words that include target semivowel sounds in word-initial position in different vowel contexts. Participants were divided into three groups based on overall speech proficiency, as measured by diagnostic status and score on the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation – 3rd Edition. Each semivowel and vowel production was transcribed for accuracy, and F2 and F3 values were extracted at the semivowel midpoints to calculate Euclidean distances (ED) between the three semivowel pairs (/l-w/, /l-ɹ/, and /ɹ-w/). F1 and F2 values extracted at the vowel midpoint were used to examine the characteristics of vowels following the semivowels.
Results
Children with typically developing speech with the highest overall speech proficiency demonstrated the largest ED values between all the three semivowel pairs. Larger ED values were also related to a greater likelihood of semivowels /l/ and /ɹ/ being judged as perceptually acceptable. Acoustic characteristics of the following vowels did not differ across children of varying levels of speech proficiency, but did differ by the preceding semivowel context.
Conclusions
Acoustic distinction of semivowels differs across children with varying levels of speech proficiency and is predictive of judgements of semivowel accuracy. Acoustic characteristics of the vowels were influenced by the preceding semivowel target, indicating the presence of coarticulation across the semivowel-vowel sequences. Findings support intervention approaches that pair semivowel targets to train children to produce acoustic differentiation between semivowels.
目的：本研究的目的是考察三个半元音（/l, r /, w/）之间以及半元音与后元音之间的关系是否因儿童的整体语言熟练程度而不同，以及这种关系是否影响听者对液体音（/l, r /）的感知判断。通过每个儿童说话者的整体语音熟练程度和他们的半元音准确性来检查三个半元音之间的声学接近度和后面元音的声学特征。方法：对21例有和无语音障碍的单语英语儿童在不同的元音语境中产生包含目标半元音的单音节单词。参与者根据总体语言熟练程度分为三组，通过诊断状态和第三版的戈德曼-弗里斯托发音测试得分来衡量。为了提高准确性，对每个半元音和元音产生进行转录，并在半元音中点提取F2和F3值，计算三个半元音对（/l-w/、/l- r /和/ r -w/）之间的欧几里得距离（ED）。在元音中点提取的F1和F2值用于检测半元音之后的元音特征。结果：语言发育典型的儿童在三个半元音对之间表现出最大的ED值，其整体语言熟练程度最高。更大的ED值也与半元音/l/和/ r /被判断为感知上可接受的可能性更大有关。以下元音的声学特征在不同语言熟练程度的儿童中没有差异，但确实因前面的半元音上下文而有所不同。结论：不同语言熟练程度的儿童对半元音的声学区分是不同的，这是对半元音准确性判断的预测。元音的声学特征受到前面的半元音目标的影响，表明在半元音-元音序列之间存在协同发音。研究结果支持对半元音目标进行干预的方法，以训练儿童产生半元音之间的声学区分。
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106491
Imke Kissel , Iris Meerschman , Peter Tomassen , Evelien D'haeseleer , Kristiane Van Lierde
Objective
Unilateral vocal fold paralysis (UVFP) frequently causes severe dysphonia, which necessitates multidisciplinary treatment. Literature on outcomes of interventions has primarily focused on vocal fold motility or instrumental vocal outcomes, but the perspectives of patients about the treatment process have not yet been investigated. The purpose of the study was therefore to explore patient experiences with healthcare for UVFP.
Methods
Twenty-four adults with UVFP (age range: 39 – 84 years) participated in the study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, transcribed, and analyzed with the software program NVivo. An inductive thematic approach was used to code and analyze the interviews.
Results
Three themes were identified through the qualitative analyses: (1) the healthcare professional (HCP), (2) experiences with treatment, and (3) patient support. The laryngologist and speech-language pathologist (SLP) were crucial HCPs during treatment, and patients relied heavily on their advice, so they expected them to be knowledgeable about UVFP and empathic towards their patients. Voice therapy was mostly a positive experience due to the collaborative therapeutic relationship with the SLP, even though it did not yield sufficient voice improvements. Medialization surgery was a relief for some participants, while others expected more or felt too vulnerable to undergo surgery. Sources of patient support included personal connections such as relatives and fellow patients, but participants expressed a need for increased support and guidance from the healthcare system.
Conclusion
Overall, participants were satisfied with the care that they had received, but certain barriers and needs within UVFP healthcare were identified. The findings from the current study can help guide the development of initiatives to better support patients and HCPs and improve patient-centered care in UVFP.
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