Script training treatment for adults with apraxia of speech.

Purpose: Outcomes of script training for individuals with apraxia of speech (AOS) and mild anomic aphasia were investigated. Script training is a functional treatment that has been successful for individuals with aphasia but has not been applied to individuals with AOS. Principles of motor learning were incorporated into training to promote long-term retention of scripts.

Differences in tongue strength across age and gender: is there a diminished strength reserve?

Maximum tongue strength was investigated and compared to mean swallowing pressure elicited by the anterior tongue to calculate the percentage of maximum tongue strength used during swallowing in 96 participants with normal swallowing, divided into three 20-year age groups. The purposes of this investigation were to investigate normal swallowing physiology and to determine whether tongue strength reserves diminished according to age or gender. The results of the study yielded significant maximum tongue strength differences between the youngest and oldest and middle and oldest age groups; the oldest group had the weakest tongues.

Implications of an advice-giving and teacher role on language production in adults with dementia.

Purpose: The purpose of the two studies described in this paper was to assess whether adults with dementia could assume an advice-giving role (Study 1) and a teacher role (Study 2) despite their cognitive impairments. So far, no research on adults with dementia has compared language production in a social conversation condition with that in an advice-giving condition. Moreover, there are no data on language production in cognitively intact adults and in adults with dementia in a teaching situation (e.

Use of chemiluminescent DNA probes in the rapid detection of oxacillin resistance in clinically isolated strains of Staphylococcus aureus.

Chemiluminescent DNA probes (AccuProbe, species specific; and FlashTrack, bacterial generic) were used to determine oxacillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus. Ribosomal RNA was measured at designated intervals in the presence and absence of antibiotic. A total of 48 (AccuProbe assay) and 24 (FlashTrack) S.

Calcific deposits in the heart.

Four case reports are presented which illustrate various patterns of calcific deposits in the heart. Valvular, myocardial, intracavitary, and coronary calcific deposits are illustrated, with emphasis on pathology and clinicopathologic-radiologic correlation. "Dystrophic" and "metastatic" calcifications are terms used to describe calcific deposits in abnormal and normal soft tissues, respectively.