Comparing in-Person and Telepractice Service Delivery for Spoken Language Production and Comprehension Using the National Outcomes Measurement System.

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) developed the National Outcomes Measurement System for aggregating standardized patient outcomes. Outcomes are standardized using Functional Communication Measures (FCM), scales designed to describe communicative function across specific areas of clinical need. This investigation compared in-person and telepractice service delivery for children in elementary school settings who received treatment targeting the FCM categories of either "spoken language production" or "spoken language comprehension.

A comparative study: tongue muscle performance in weightlifters and runners.

Exercise mode (i.e., resistance training, endurance training) is known to yield mode-specific effects on strength and endurance of muscles that are directly targeted during the exercise.

Comparing Traditional Service Delivery and Telepractice for Speech Sound Production Using a Functional Outcome Measure.

Purpose: Using American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's (ASHA's) National Outcomes Measurement System (NOMS) Functional Communication Measure (FCM) as a common metric, this investigation compared traditional service delivery and telepractice service delivery for children receiving therapy for the NOMS diagnostic category of "speech sound production."

Method: De-identified cases were secured from ASHA's NOMS database and a proprietary database from a private e-learning provider. Cases were included if they met 3 criteria: (a) children received treatment exclusively for speech sound production, (b) they were between 6.

Interprofessional Collaborative Practice in Early Intervention.

Professionals in pediatric practice encounter infants and toddlers with developmental delays, disabilities, or complex chronic health conditions eligible for Part C early intervention (EI) services. The most frequently identified concern by families is communication emphasizing the importance of the role of the speech language pathologist (SLP). This article provides a conceptual framework for SLP services in early intervention, based on the principles of interprofessional collaboration.

Tongue strength and endurance: Comparison in active and non-active young and older adults.

Purpose: Tongue strength and endurance are important for swallowing and upper airway patency. Physical activity positively affects targeted and non-targeted skeletal muscles; however, little is known about the indirect effect of physical activity on tongue muscles. This study sought to determine if tongue muscle performance differs between highly active and non-active individuals and if such an effect varies with age.

Allied healthcare providers' role in screening for autism spectrum disorders.

There is evidence documenting that children are not being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) early enough. This study surveyed allied healthcare providers to determine whether these professionals had received training on the characteristics of ASD and ASD-specific screening strategies through their pre-professional education or continuing education (CE). Additionally, participants were asked about their responsibility for screening children for ASD in their workplace and what would help them be better prepared to perform this type of screening.

The frequency of disfluencies during phonatory transitions in stuttered and nonstuttered speech.

The hypothesis that stuttering and nonstuttering adults have fewer disfluencies during voiced-voiced phoneme-to-phoneme phonatory transitions than during voiced-voiceless, voiceless-voiced, or voiceless-voiceless transitions was investigated. The speech of 11 adult stutterers and a matched group of nonstutterers was analyzed according to the occurrence of disfluencies during the above categories of phonatory transtions. Each subject's speech was recorded individually while reading several passages.