Caregivers' insights into supporting their late talkers using a parent program.

Purpose: To explore caregivers' experiences and engagement during the 16-week designed to support late talkers.

Method: Qualitative interpretative description methodology was used to understand the experience of five caregivers who had completed to support their children (aged 18-36 months). Caregivers attended a focus group to share their perspectives.

Extraction of primary maxillary incisors and children's speech production: A case series.

Dental caries (tooth decay) is a disease with a significant global burden. Management may necessitate the extraction of teeth to restore oral health. The association between dental extractions and children's speech is unclear, with clinical implications for speech-language pathologists and dentists.

Considerations of dialect on the identification of speech sound disorder in Vietnamese-speaking children.

Background: The dialect spoken by children influences diagnostic decision-making regarding the identification and severity of speech sound disorder (SSD).

Aims: The primary objective was to review papers that examined the influence of dialect on the identification of SSD in Vietnamese-speaking children.

Methods & Procedures: Five studies of mono- and multilingual Vietnamese-speaking children living in Vietnam and Australia were reviewed to examine the influence of dialect on the assessment and analysis children's speech.

Eligibility Determinations for Speech and Language Services in U.S. Public Schools: Experiences and Tensions.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine school speech-language pathologists' (SLPs) experiences regarding students' eligibility for services in public schools within the United States.

Method: Fifteen school SLPs participated in online focus groups to examine the complex nature of SLPs' participation within decision-making teams and describe practice experiences in U.S.

Multilingual Speech Acquisition by Vietnamese-English-Speaking Children and Adult Family Members.

Purpose: This article presents a large-scale example of culturally responsive assessment and analysis of multilingual Vietnamese-English-speaking children and their family members using the VietSpeech Protocol involving (a) examining all spoken languages, (b) comparing ambient phonology produced by family members, (c) including dialectal variants in the definition of accuracy, and (d) clustering participants with similar language experience.

Method: The VietSpeech participants ( = 154) comprised 69 children (2;0-8;10 [years;months]) and 85 adult family members with Vietnamese heritage living in Australia. Speech was sampled using the Vietnamese Speech Assessment (Vietnamese) and the Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology (English).

Equitable access to speech practice for rural Australian children using the SayBananas! mobile game.

Purpose: To evaluate the effect, usage, and user-experience for SayBananas!, a Mario-style mobile game providing Australian children access to high-dose individualised speech therapy practice.

Method: Participants were 45 rural Australian children with speech sound disorders (SSD; 4;4-10;5 years) with internet access. This mixed-methods study involved: (a) recruitment, (b) eligibility screening, (c) questionnaire, (d) online pre-assessment, (e) SayBananas! intervention using motor learning principles (4 weeks, 10-15 target words), and (f) online post-assessment and interview.

Communication for all and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Purpose: Communication is central to the accomplishment of each of the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is a fundamental human right.

Method: This special issue of the (IJSLP, vol. 25, no.

Parent Perspectives of Ear Health and the Relationship with Children's Speech and Language in the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children.

Health and well-being are holistic concepts that are perceived to be inseparable for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We examined relationships between parent-reported ear symptoms for 787 Indigenous children at two time points (age 2-3 years, age 4-5 years) and two parent-reported speech and language outcomes one year later (age 5-6 years). Most parents (80.

Transcribing multilingual children's and adults' speech.

Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) face challenges in transcription and diagnosis of speech sound disorders (SSD) in multilingual children due to ambient language influences and cross-linguistic transfer. The VietSpeech Multilingual Transcription Protocol, a 4-step process to undertake impressionistic transcription of multilingual speech was tested using data from Vietnamese-Australian children ( = 69) and adult family members ( = 85). The transcription team included an English-speaking SLP, a Vietnamese-English-speaking linguist and accredited interpreter, and two Vietnamese-English-speaking SLPs.

Fijian school students' Fiji English speech sound acquisition.

The aim of this study was to investigate Fijian students' acquisition of Fiji English speech sounds. Participants were 72 multilingual students (5-10 years) living in Fiji who spoke the Fijian or Fiji Hindi dialects of Fiji English. The students' productions of single words from the Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology (DEAP) were analysed according to dialect using the Children's Independent and Relational Phonological Analysis (CHIRPA).

Predicting Which Children Will Normalize Without Intervention for Speech Sound Disorders.

Purpose: The speech of some children does not follow a typical normalization trajectory, and they develop speech sound disorders (SSD). This study investigated predictive correlates of speech sound normalization in children who were at risk of SSD.

Method: A prospective population cohort study of 845 Cantonese-speaking preschoolers was conducted over 2.

Drawing Talking: Listening to Children With Speech Sound Disorders.

Purpose: Listening to children using age-appropriate techniques supports evidence-based clinical decision-making. In this article, we test the Sound Effects Study Drawing Protocol, an arts-based technique, to support children with speech sound disorder (SSD) to express their views about talking.

Method: Participants were 124 Australian children aged 4-5 years in the Sound Effects Study.

SuperSpeech: Multilingual Speech and Language Maintenance Intervention for Vietnamese-Australian Children and Families via Telepractice.

Purpose: The aim of this pilot feasibility study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the group VietSpeech SuperSpeech program targeting speech skills and home language maintenance via telepractice.

Method: In Stage 1, using a case-control design, 30 Vietnamese-English-speaking children were assessed in English and Vietnamese, and parents completed questionnaires about speech and language competency and practices. During Stage 2, children were allocated to intervention ( = 14) or control ( = 16) conditions.

Advancing Workplace Diversity Through the Culturally Responsive Teamwork Framework.

Purpose Diversification of the profession is an important element of combating racism, bias, and prejudice in the speech-language pathology workforce at national and systemic levels. However, national and systemic change needs to be combined with equipping individual speech-language pathologists to adapt to the challenges that they face to engaging in culturally responsive practice. This paper presents four interacting levels of practice within the Culturally Responsive Teamwork Framework (CRTF): (a) intrapersonal practices, (b) interpersonal practices, (c) intraprofessional practices, and (d) the interprofessional practices.

Profiles of Linguistic Multicompetence in Vietnamese-English Speakers.

Purpose Speech-language pathologists work with increasing numbers of multilingual speakers; however, even when the same languages are spoken, multilingual speakers are not homogeneous. Linguistic multicompetence (aka multi-competence) considers competency across all languages and is associated with multiple demographic, migration, linguistic, and cultural factors. Method This article examines the linguistic multicompetence of adults with Vietnamese heritage living in Australia ( = 271) and factors associated with varying profiles of multilingualism.

Persistence, strength, isolation, and trauma: An ethnographic exploration of raising children with cleft palate.

Background: The lives of families of young children with cleft palate (±lip) are complex. Multiple interventions are required as part of the long-term multidisciplinary treatment for children with CP±L, with an impairment-focused approach prevailing. Research with young children with CP±L has focused on treatment and intervention, and previous qualitative research has been collected predominantly via interviews, so little is understood about the day-to-day lives of families of young children with CP±L.

Icelandic Children's Acquisition of Consonants and Consonant Clusters.

Purpose This study investigated Icelandic-speaking children's acquisition of singleton consonants and consonant clusters. Method Participants were 437 typically developing children aged 2;6-7;11 (years;months) acquiring Icelandic as their first language. Single-word speech samples of the 47 single consonants and 45 consonant clusters were collected using Málhljóðapróf ÞM (ÞM's Test of Speech Sound Disorders).

Intelligibility in 3-Year-Olds With Cleft Lip and/or Palate Using the Intelligibility in Context Scale: Findings from the Cleft Collective Cohort Study.

Objective: To provide comparison data on the Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) for a sample of 3-year-old English-speaking children born with any cleft type.

Design: Questionnaire data from the Cleft Collective Cohort Study were used. Descriptive and inferential statistics were carried out to determine difference according to children's cleft type and syndromic status.

Speech acquisition within a 3-generation Vietnamese-English family: the influence of maturation and ambient phonology.

The emergence approach to speech acquisition theorises the influence of intrinsic capabilities (e.g., maturation), interactional capabilities, and extrinsic contexts (e.

Children's English Consonant Acquisition in the United States: A Review.

Purpose Speech-language pathologists' clinical decision making and consideration of eligibility for services rely on quality evidence, including information about consonant acquisition (developmental norms). The purpose of this review article is to describe the typical age and pattern of acquisition of English consonants by children in the United States. Method Data were identified from published journal articles and assessments reporting English consonant acquisition by typically developing children living in the United States.

Randomised Controlled Trial Evaluating Active versus Passive Waiting for Speech-Language Pathology.

Introduction: High demand for speech-language pathology means children sometimes wait over 12 months for services, missing out on timely support. Waiting can be a time of stress, concern, and powerlessness for caregivers. Provision of information via a website may support families and encourage active waiting.

Waiting for speech-language pathology services: A randomised controlled trial comparing therapy, advice and device.

To compare children's speech, language and early literacy outcomes, and caregivers' empowerment and satisfaction following provision of 12 sessions of direct intervention (therapy), or face-to-face advice or a purpose-built website (device) while waiting for therapy. A four-stage randomised controlled trial was undertaken involving three- to six-year-old children referred to speech-language pathology waiting lists at two Australian community health centres over eight months ( = 222). Stage 1 (screening): 149 were eligible to participate.