Review Panel: John Ashford, PhD; Tobi Frymark, MA; Daniel McCabe, DMA; Nan Musson, MA; Carol Smith Hammond, PhD; Karen Wheeler-Hegland, PhD Swallowing disorders are commonly seen among veterans as a result of stroke, traumatic brain injury, and head and neck cancer. These and other neurological and nonneurological conditions associated with dysphagia can lead to a number of adverse consequences...

Purpose: To systematically gather from the literature available the quantitative instruments used to assess the sense of smell in studies carried out with children. Research strategy: The present study included a survey in the Pubmed and Bireme platforms and in the databases of MedLine, Lilacs, regional SciELO and Web of Science, followed by selection and critical analysis of the articles found...

The field of disability studies (DS) has grown rapidly in North America and around the world over the past 20 years.1–3 Canada has seven designated DS programmes across the country and DS courses in other areas of concentration in a variety of disciplines, such as the humanities.4 DS is now also being taught in non-DS health professional academic programmes—including physical and occupational t...

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It is estimated that 10% of the world's population, approximately 650 million people, have some form of disability. Population growth, aging, and medical advances that preserve and prolong life have increased demands for health and rehabilitation services. Recent predictions indicate a shortage of speech-language pathologists and other rehabilitation specialists to provide care for individuals ...

Two speech processor programs (MAPs) differing only in electrode frequency boundary assignments were created for each of eight Nucleus 24 Cochlear Implant recipients. The default MAPs used typical frequency boundaries, and the experimental MAPs reassigned one additional electrode to vowel formant regions. Four objective speech tests and a questionnaire were used to evaluate speech recognition w...

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The clinical assessment of language impairment (LI) in bilingual children imposes challenges for speech-language pathology services. Assessment tools standardized for monolingual populations increase the risk of misinterpreting bilingualism as LI. This Perspective article summarizes recent studies on the assessment of bilingual LI and presents new results on including non-linguistic measures of...