The impact of surgical technique and cleft width on the rate of secondary surgery and velopharyngeal function in children with UCLP at 5 years of age.

Several factors may influence speech outcome and the rate of secondary palatal surgery in patients with cleft palate. The aim of this study was to evaluate different types of intra-velar veloplasty within an otherwise uniform surgical protocol. The impact of cleft width and the surgeon's experience on outcome measurements was examined.

Self-efficacy and resilience in severe aphasia - an exploratory cross-sectional study of two psychosocial factors and their relation to functional communication.

Purpose: Self-efficacy and resilience are important for various aspects of rehabilitation outcome after stroke. However, little is known about how these factors are affected and related to communication outcome in stroke survivors with aphasia. The purpose was to investigate self-efficacy and resilience, and associations to language and functional communication, in people with severe post-stroke aphasia.

Longitudinal data on speech outcomes in internationally adopted children compared with non-adopted children with cleft lip and palate.

Background: At the beginning of the 21st century, international adoptions of children with cleft lip and/or palate increased dramatically in Sweden. Many children arrived partially or totally unoperated, despite being at an age when palatoplasty has usually been performed. To date, the speech development of internationally adopted (IA) children has been described up to age 7-8 years, but later development remains unstudied.

Swallowing Function in COVID-19 Patients After Invasive Mechanical Ventilation.

Objective: To explore swallowing function and risk factors associated with delayed recovery of swallowing in patients with COVID-19 post-invasive mechanical ventilation using the Functional Oral Intake Scale (FOIS).

Design: Longitudinal cohort study.

Setting: Three secondary-level hospitals.

Swallowing dysfunction in patients hospitalised due to a COPD exacerbation.

Objectives: This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the prevalence of self-reported and clinically screened swallowing dysfunction (dysphagia) in COPD patients with severe exacerbations and to identify any associated factors. Findings were then compared to a control group.

Methods: Participants included 30 patients hospitalised due to a COPD exacerbation.

What do people respond to when rating executive function? - a cognitive interviewing investigation of BRIEF-A informant ratings in severe aphasia.

Purpose: Executive dysfunction is common in persons with severe aphasia. Assessing these functions in this population is challenging. Informant ratings, such as the BRIEF-A, might be a useful alternative to neuropsychological tests.

Creating a response space in multiparty classroom settings for students using eye-gaze accessed speech-generating devices.

Conversation Analysis was used to explore how teachers, personal care assistants, and students organized inclusive multiparty classroom interaction when one of the students in the classroom used an eye-gaze accessed speech-generating device (SGD). Scaffolding and collaborative practices that created a response space for the construction of the eye-gaze accessed SGD-mediated turn were identified and analyzed. The participants were two adolescent students with severe cerebral palsy and intellectual disability who relied on eye-gaze accessed SGDs, and their teachers, personal care assistants, and classmates with intellectual disabilities.

Measuring executive function in people with severe aphasia: Comparing neuropsychological tests and informant ratings.

Background: Knowledge about patients' executive function is important in the rehabilitation of language and communication in stroke patients with aphasia. Due to linguistic demands, most neuropsychological tests are unsuitable for this population, and it might seem appealing to use informant report of executive function as a substitute.

Objective: To investigate the relationships between scores on a neuropsychological test and informant ratings of executive function, as well as between the informant ratings and the functional communication ability, in people with severe aphasia after stroke.

Subjective swallowing symptoms and related risk factors in COPD.

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of subjective ( self-reported) swallowing symptoms in a large cohort of patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and to identify potential related risk factors.

Methods: A total of 571 patients with COPD, investigated in a stable phase, participated in this multicentre study (335 females, 236 males; mean age: 68.6 years (sd 7.

Caregivers', teachers', and assistants' use and learning of partner strategies in communication using high-tech speech-generating devices with children with severe cerebral palsy.

Communication with speech generating devices (SGDs) with children with severe physical, communicative and cognitive impairments, such as children with cerebral palsy (CP), can be difficult. Use of partner strategies facilitates the communication and instructional approaches such as feedback and role play facilitate communication partners' learning in how to use partner strategies. To describe communication partners' use and learning about partner strategies in SGD-mediated communication with children with severe CP.

Speech and language pathologists' perceptions and practises of communication partner training to support children's communication with high-tech speech generating devices.

This study examined speech and language pathologists' (SLPs') perceptions and practices of communication partner training with high-tech speech generating devices (SGDs). Fifteen SLPs were recruited throughout Sweden. The SLPs answered a study-specific questionnaire on communication partner training in relation to communication partners to children with severe cerebral palsy and intellectual disability.

Imageability ratings across languages.

Imageability is a psycholinguistic variable that indicates how well a word gives rise to a mental image or sensory experience. Imageability ratings are used extensively in psycholinguistic, neuropsychological, and aphasiological studies. However, little formal knowledge exists about whether and how these ratings are associated between and within languages.

Prevalence of swallowing dysfunction screened in Swedish cohort of COPD patients.

Background: COPD is a common problem associated with morbidity and mortality. COPD may also affect the dynamics and coordination of functions such as swallowing. A misdirected swallow may, in turn, result in the bolus entering the airway.

Communication difficulties and the use of communication strategies: from the perspective of individuals with aphasia.

Background: To enhance communicative ability and thereby the possibility of increased participation of persons with aphasia, the use of communication strategies has been proposed. However, little is known about how persons with aphasia experience having conversations and how they perceive their own and their conversation partner's use of communication strategies.

Aims: To explore how people with aphasia experience having conversations, how they handle communication difficulties, and how they perceive their own and their communication partners' use of communication strategies.