Arcsine or angular transformations have been used for many years to transform proportions to make them more suitable for statistical analysis. A problem with such transformations is that the arcsines do not bear any obvious relationship to the…
Papers in Communication Disorders
Communication Disorders papers in Medicine, A
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Phonetic inventories of 9 children with profoundly impaired hearing who used the 22-electrode cochlear implant (Cochlear Limited) were monitored before implantation and during the first 4 years of implant use. All children were 5 years old or…
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The conventional view is that most individuals with autism or pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) have no significant motor impairments but do have severe intellectual disabilities. These assumptions impact the nature…
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This paper evaluates the efficacy of a behavioral-cognitive treatment program for adults who stutter. The program combines a commercially available computer-assisted biofeedback program for the reduction of stuttering and a relapse management…
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Science is supposed to be cumulative, but scientists only rarely cumulate evidence scientifically. This means that users of research evidence have to cope with a plethora of reports of individual studies with no systematic attempt made to present…
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A theory of the way working memory capacity constrains comprehension is proposed. The theory proposes that both processing and storage are mediated by activation and that the total amount of activation available in working memory varies among…
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We report a comparatively 'pure' case of 'foreign accent syndrome' (FAS) in a right-handed patient who sustained a small, isolated, left basal ganglia infarct. At 3 weeks post-onset FAS persisted in the absence of aphasic disorder. Phonetic analysis…
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We report the case of AS, a 16 year-old English/Japanese bilingual boy, whose reading/writing difficulties are confined to English only. AS was born in Japan to a highly literate Australian father and English mother, and goes to a Japanese selective…
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Prosodic contours in the verbal output of 30 patients with Idiopathic Parkinson's disease were contrasted to those of fifteen age-, sex-, and educationally matched normal subjects. All subjects were tested for language disorder, dementia,…
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This study presents survey data on 58 Dutch-speaking patients with neurogenic stuttering following various neurological injuries. Stroke was the most prevalent cause of stuttering in our patients, followed by traumatic brain injury,…
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OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to assess the effects of screening and early treatment of preschool children for language delay on language development and school performance at age 8. METHODS: A cluster-randomized, controlled trial and…
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This article examines the form and function of spontaneous communication and outcome predictors in nonverbal children with autism following classroom-based intervention (Picture Exchange Communication System PECS training).
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We investigated whether dogs and 2-, and 3-year-old human infants living, in some respects, in very similar social environments are able to comprehend various forms of the human pointing gesture. In the first study, we looked at their ability to…
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The data of recent research studies have shown that by 3 years of age children show an awareness of dysfluency and that by at least the age of six, youngsters who stutter have a speech-associated attitude that is more negative than that of their…
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The Behavior Checklist, a self-report test procedure, was administered to 42 adults who stutter and 76 who do not in order to investigate the number, frequency of usage, type and nature of the responses that they reportedly employ to cope with the…
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Background and Aim: Several recent studies have suggested that young children who stutter tend to show depressed lexical performance relative to peers. Children who stutter was produced fewer total verbs and fewer different verbs than peers did, but…
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OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present study was to compare the parents of children with a hearing aid (HA) and children with a cochlear implant (CI) regarding their psychological distress, their expectations from treatment, their family climate, and the…
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In psychoacoustic studies there is often a need to assess performance indices quickly and reliably. The aim of this study was to establish a quick and reliable procedure for evaluating thresholds in backward masking and frequency discrimination…
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Although children with language impairments often experience difficulties learning to read and write, very little research has examined early developing skills in this population. In this project, preschool children with specific language impairment…
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The objective of this study was to determine if video otoscope still images (640 x 480 pixel resolution) of the tympanic membrane following surgical placement of tympanostomy tubes are comparable to an in-person microscopic examination. Forty…
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