PURPOSE To report on data from the current survey about academic and clinical education in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), as well as to compare these findings with earlier surveys in an attempt to identify any changes being made as programs in the United States implement the new certification standards of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in the area of speech-...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the methodological adequacy of voice and laryngeal study designs published in speech-language pathology and otorhinolaryngology journals indexed for the ISI Web of Knowledge (ISI Web) and the MEDLINE database. METHODS A cross-sectional study conducted at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Federal University of São Paulo). Two Brazilian speech-language pathology and o...

The purpose of this article is to determine if telehealth-delivered speech-language pathology interventions are as effective as traditional in-person delivery for primary school-age children with speech and/or language difficulties. A systematic review was conducted (in accordance with PRISMA guidelines) using five databases, two journals and reference lists. Titles and abstracts were screened ...

To identify and potentially modify the risk of pulmonary complications in a group of older patients with hip fracture, the authors obtained speech and language pathology consultations for these patients. Then they performed a retrospective chart review of all patients 65 years and older who were admitted to their institution between June 2011 and July 2013 with acute hip fracture, were treated ...

The aim of this study was to describe the trajectory and the outcomes of speech-language therapy in PraderWilli syndrome through a longitudinal study of the case of an 8-year-old boy, along four years of speechlanguage therapy follow-up. The therapy sessions were filmed and documental analysis of information from the child’s records regarding anamnesis, evaluation and speech-language therapy re...

Objective to present a guide with recommendations for translation, adaptation, elaboration and process of validation of tests in Speech and Language Pathology. Methods the recommendations were based on international guidelines with a focus on the elaboration, translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation process of tests. Results the recommendations were grouped into two Charts, one...

1Department of Otolaryngology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung 83301, Taiwan 2Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 15282, USA 3Department of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Mackay Medical College, Taipei 10449, Taiwan 4Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Univers...

conclusions the number of linguistic studies on language and speech therapy is more than that of the studies in which clinical data are used to study the theories and hypotheses. therefore, it is necessary to consider this area seriously and guide the studies toward the theories proposed in the related disorders. thus, attention must be paid to pragmatic and semantic domains of the disorder whi...

Although registry specific requirements exist, cancer registries primarily identify reportable cases using a combination of particular ICD-O-3 topography and morphology codes assigned to cancer case abstracts of which free text pathology reports form a main component. The codes are generally extracted from pathology reports by trained human coders, sometimes with the help of software programs. ...