Benefits of a professional development course on transcription for practising speech-language pathologists.

Transcription of speech sounds is a fundamental skill used by speech-language pathologists. Little is known about the impact of professional development courses on transcription accuracy and confidence. This study explored speech-language pathologists' use and perceptions of transcription and the effect of a professional development course on their transcription accuracy and confidence.

Use of Transcription when Assessing Children's Speech: Australian Speech-Language Pathologists' Practices, Challenges, and Facilitators.

Objective: There is currently limited knowledge on the useof transcription in the management of children with speech sound disorders (SSD) by speech-language pathologists in Australia. This study explored the use of transcription, the facilitators, and challenges of transcription use, and differences in the use of detailed transcription with various client groups. Method and Participants: Eighty-four participants (speech-language pathologists working in Australia) completed an online exploratory survey which included closed and open-ended questions.

Validation of Dodd's Model for Differential Diagnosis of childhood speech sound disorders: a longitudinal community cohort study.

Aim: Dodd's Model for Differential Diagnosis is one of the available clinical diagnostic classification systems of childhood speech sound disorders. Yet we do not understand the validity of this system beyond clinical samples, precluding its application in epidemiological or population-based research. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of subgroups of speech sound disorders in a community sample, relative to past clinical samples, in children speaking standard Australian English.

Articulation or phonology? Evidence from longitudinal error data.

Children's speech difficulties can be motor (phone misarticulation) or linguistic (impaired knowledge of phonological contrasts and constraints). These two difficulties sometimes co-occur. This paper reports longitudinal data from the Early Language in Victoria Study (ELVS) at 4 and 7 years of age.

Who to Refer for Speech Therapy at 4 Years of Age Versus Who to "Watch and Wait"?

Objective: To examine predictors of speech disorder resolution versus persistence at age 7 years in children with speech errors at age 4 years.

Study Design: Participants were drawn from a longitudinal, community cohort. Assessment at age 4 years (N?=?1494) identified children with speech errors.

Speech sound disorder at 4 years: prevalence, comorbidities, and predictors in a community cohort of children.

Aim: The epidemiology of preschool speech sound disorder is poorly understood. Our aims were to determine: the prevalence of idiopathic speech sound disorder; the comorbidity of speech sound disorder with language and pre-literacy difficulties; and the factors contributing to speech outcome at 4 years.

Method: One thousand four hundred and ninety-four participants from an Australian longitudinal cohort completed speech, language, and pre-literacy assessments at 4 years.