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{"title":"Prosody and gestures help pragmatic processing in children with Developmental Language Disorder","authors":"Albert Giberga ,&nbsp;Ernesto Guerra ,&nbsp;Nadia Ahufinger ,&nbsp;Alfonso Igualada ,&nbsp;Mari Aguilera ,&nbsp;Núria Esteve-Gibert","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106525","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106525","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The combination of linguistic prosody and bodily signals help typically developing children (TD) in accessing pragmatic meanings. We investigated the benefits of prosodic and gestural cues for processing pragmatic meanings in children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), having difficulties with structural language and pragmatics. 34 children with DLD and 45 TD controls, aged 5 to 10, participated in two visual-world eye-tracking tasks on pragmatic meanings that varied in complexity and develop in different stages: interrogative meaning (Exp. 1, less complex, developing earlier) and indirect requests (Exp. 2, more complex, developing later). In both experiments we manipulated the cues highlighting the intended meaning (prosodically-enhanced, multimodally-enhanced, and no-enhancement). The results showed that all children benefited from prosodic- and multimodal-enhancement to comprehend less complex meanings developing earlier, that younger children with DLD were less accurate even if such cues were present, and that the multimodal-enhancement was especially helpful for children with DLD when processing more complex meanings at an older age. Eye gaze data in both experiments revealed that, compared to TD children, children with DLD showed less clear preference to look at the Target image after the unfolding of bodily and prosodic cues, but that multimodal cues did reduce the children's bias to look at the literal interpretation of indirect requests. Our results highlight the importance of prosodic and bodily cues for the processing of pragmatic meanings that vary in complexity, especially when linguistic abilities are impaired, and have important implications on the communicative strategies that professionals use with children with DLD.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 106525"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143683613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using a scoring template to identify intervention goals for adolescent social communication interventions","authors":"Gerard H. Poll ,&nbsp;William J. Boone ,&nbsp;Janis Petru","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106513","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106513","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Social communication is a critical skill for adolescents at risk for communication disorders as they transition from compulsory education to adult contexts. Identifying intervention goals that are well tailored to the individual requires information from assessments that 1) describe the examinee's present level of social communication ability and 2) identify skills that are just beyond the examinee's current ability level that may challenge the examinee.</div></div><div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of a new assessment of social communication for adolescents, and to explore whether a Rasch keyform – a scoring template that links an examinee's overall ability to their scores on individual instrument items–provides an interpretable assessment output for intervention goal selection.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>The new Transition Pragmatics Interview (TPI; Poll et al., 2024) was administered to 109 adolescents (14 to 21 years) of varied social communication abilities. Data were analyzed using Rasch analysis to evaluate the psychometrics of the TPI. Keyform displays for employment-related TPI items were generated for three participants at different levels of ability.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Analyses supported the TPI as a unidimensional and reliable scale. Keyform displays facilitated the identification of transition zones for each of the three exemplar respondents. Transition zones are item sets at difficulty levels associated with emerging participant abilities.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>TPI keyforms detailed the present level of participant ability and identified items which would be the next most challenging. Data from three exemplar respondents were reviewed in order to show how keyforms could provide information to identify appropriate social communication intervention goals when combined with the examinee's career goals, academic standards, and industry standards for social communication.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 106513"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143562091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The perceptions, attitudes and experiences of service users with telehealth speech-language pathology services","authors":"Reem S.W. Alyahya","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106527","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106527","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Aims</h3><div>To investigate the perceptions, attitudes, and experiences of clients and caregivers towards telehealth Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) services.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>A comprehensive questionnaire was developed and validated to investigate the perceptions, attitudes, and experiences of service users towards telehealth services. The questionnaire included questions related to telehealth experience, client's preferences, and the perceived facilitators, barriers, advantages, and disadvantages of telehealth. Phone survey was used to collect data from clients and caregivers of clients who received telehealth SLP services during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>A total of 293 clients and caregivers participated in this study. The findings indicated that 97.95 % of the respondents reportedly received telehealth SLP services for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic, mainly through video-communication (51.2 %), and for different clinical services, with therapy (31.04 %) and monitoring (31.28 %) being the highest services. Of the total respondents, 54.95 % felt that telehealth appointments were similar to in-person appointments. However, 41.30 % of the respondents preferred receiving in-person appointments. Statistical analyses indicated that eight factors were perceived by service users as significant primary facilitators of telehealth (e.g., good internet connection, available resources, experience with technology), whereas only three factors were perceived as significant primary barriers (e.g., poor image/sound quality, and client's communication impairments). Furthermore, 10 factors were perceived as significant primary advantages of telehealth (e.g., reduced cost and travel time), while only one factor was identified as a significant primary disadvantage (inability to conduct a physical examination).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Service users identified numerous advantages of telehealth, including improved access to healthcare, and reduced costs, while only one disadvantage was identified (lack of physical examinations). The perceived facilitators and barriers of telehealth by service users can be classified into technology-related factors (e.g., comfort with technology, internet connection) and client-related factors (e.g., client's cognitive and sensory abilities). These technology and client-related factors should be considered by policy makers and funding bodies while planning the establishment or expansion of telehealth services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 106527"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143791992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Early language outcomes of children born with unilateral aural atresia","authors":"Anna Persson ,&nbsp;Peter Carew ,&nbsp;Traci Flynn","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106523","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106523","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Aural atresia is a congenital malformation involving the ear canal. There is limited investigation into the impact of aural atresia and the associated hearing loss on language in the early years of development.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Eight children with unilateral aural atresia were followed longitudinally at 30- and 60-days post hearing device fitting, 12 months, 18 months, 24 months, 30 months, and 36 months of age. Expressive language, auditory development, functional auditory performance, and hearing device use were measured.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Two children were delayed in expressive language at 24 months of age. Children's auditory development and functional auditory performance were in the average or above average range. Children wore their hearing devices for an average of 1–2 hours per day.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Thirty-three percent of children (<em>n</em> = 2) were performing below the language levels expected for peers without hearing loss. Children's auditory development and functional auditory performance are comparable to children with typical hearing despite their low hearing device use. These results should be interpreted with caution due to the small number of children participating in the study.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 106523"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143715964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A systematic review of the relationships amongst older adults’ cognitive and motor speech abilities","authors":"Laura Manderson,&nbsp;Anna Krzeczkowska,&nbsp;Anja Kuschmann,&nbsp;Anja Lowit,&nbsp;Louise A. Brown Nicholls","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106510","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106510","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>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.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 106510"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143642155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reading in aphasia: Supporting engagement in and enjoyment of reading in an aphasia support centre","authors":"Janet Webster ,&nbsp;Julie Morris ,&nbsp;Kathy Cann","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106528","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106528","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>People with aphasia often experience difficulties with reading. Within the literature, there are a small number of reports of dedicated book clubs for people with aphasia, providing a social activity for individuals to reconnect with reading in a supportive environment. This paper describes an exploratory study investigating how to support people with aphasia's engagement and enjoyment of reading in an aphasia support centre. The study consisted of two phases. In phase 1, a focus group explored people with aphasia's reading and preferences about social reading activities. In phase 2, a novel reading group that reflected the preferences shared within the focus group was offered in the support centre.</div><div>The focus group revealed individual variability in both pre- and post-stroke reading. People were motivated to read but found it effortful. Participants were interested in a social reading activity but felt a book club was not feasible due to differences in reading preferences, ability, and the effort required to read. The novel reading group was designed to allow individuals to share what they had read at home in a supportive and encouraging environment. The format allowed everyone to engage and participants reported improved reading. This social reading activity encouraged people to read their own reading material rather than a shared book, allowing consideration of personal preference and accommodation of different levels of reading ability. Individuals did not need to read the same reading material to benefit from sharing the experience of reading.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 106528"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143859404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluation of reliability and validity of the Boston diagnostic aphasia examination (BDAE-2) in a Serbian population","authors":"Mile Vuković ,&nbsp;Lana Jerkić Rajić ,&nbsp;Tanja Milovanović ,&nbsp;Natalie F. Douglas","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106526","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106526","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BDAE) has been extensively utilized in Serbia; however, data on its psychometric properties within this context are limited. This study aimed to evaluate the reliability and validity of the BDAE-2 in Serbian-speaking individuals with aphasia. The sample comprised 119 participants with stroke-induced aphasia and 51 neurologically healthy speakers. A Serbian translation of the second edition of the BDAE was administered to all participants. Findings indicated that the Serbian version of the BDAE-2 exhibited strong internal consistency, high inter-rater reliability, satisfactory construct validity, and robust discriminative capacity for differentiating individuals with aphasia from neurotypical speakers. Furthermore, specific subtests effectively distinguished between various aphasia types and demonstrated sensitivity to aphasia severity levels. Sociodemographic factors (gender, education, age) significantly influenced assessments of certain language abilities. In conclusion, the BDAE-2 was found to be a reliable diagnostic tool for assessing aphasia in Serbian speakers, showcasing favorable psychometric properties.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 106526"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143739999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Longitudinal predictors of reading ability in children with CI learning to read in Swedish","authors":"Malin Wass ,&nbsp;Lena Anmyr ,&nbsp;Björn Lyxell ,&nbsp;Eva Karltorp ,&nbsp;Elisabet Östlund ,&nbsp;Ulrika Löfkvist","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106497","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106497","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>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.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 106497"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143080831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relationships between executive functions and vocabulary knowledge in Spanish-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder","authors":"Felipe Torres-Morales ,&nbsp;Gary Morgan ,&nbsp;Ricardo Rosas","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106498","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106498","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>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.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 106498"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143069139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vocabulary and reading skills in adults with Prader-Willi syndrome","authors":"Christelle Robert ,&nbsp;Séverine Estival ,&nbsp;Virginie Postal ,&nbsp;Virginie Laurier ,&nbsp;Fabien Mourre ,&nbsp;Julie Tricot ,&nbsp;Stéphanie Mathey","doi":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106508","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106508","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare genetic condition associated with global intellectual impairment. While research has evidenced speech problems, little is known about reading, which is a critical language ability involved in communication. The aim of the present study was to investigate vocabulary and reading skills in adults with PWS.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>A total of 56 individuals (35 females, mean age = 33.64 years, range = 19–57 years) with PWS participated. Standardized paper and pencil tests were used to examine the level of vocabulary (LexTale-FR test) and reading performance (Alouette-R test). Two computerized tasks were also administered to assess the efficiency of lexical and phonological processes in reading (lexical and phonological decision tasks, taken from the ECCLA software). Performance was analyzed and compared with available norms on neurotypical adults and/or children.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The results showed that adults with PWS had a low level of vocabulary (i.e., three to five standard deviations difference compared to neurotypical adults), poor reading skills (i.e., equivalent to the level of nine-year-olds), and less efficient lexical and non-lexical phonological processes.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The present data suggest a global impairment in vocabulary and reading skills in adults with PWS. These findings might help clinicians to better understand the language abilities of these patients.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communication Disorders","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 106508"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143547135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}