Differential spectral characteristics of the Spanish fricative /s/ in the articulation of individuals with dysarthria and apraxia of speech.

Purpose: This study examines whether there are differences in the speech of speakers with dysarthria, speakers with apraxia and healthy speakers in spectral acoustic measures during production of the central-peninsular Spanish alveolar sibilant fricative /s/.

Method: To this end, production of the sibilant was analyzed in 20 subjects with dysarthria, 8 with apraxia of speech and 28 healthy speakers. Participants produced 12 sV(C) words.

Temporal acoustic properties of the sibilant fricative /s/ for the differential diagnosis of dysarthria and apraxia of speech in Spanish speakers.

Dysarthria and Apraxia of Speech (AoS) are motor speech disorders in which neurological lesions differentially affect motor control, possibly leading to noticeable differences in articulation and consequently sound production. Among the sounds requiring greater motor capacity because of its articulatory complexity is the voiceless alveolar sibilant fricative /s/. The aim of this study was to identify acoustic variables able to distinguish between dysarthria and AoS, and between these disorders and normal speech in Spanish speakers.

Allocation and funding of Speech and Language Therapy for children with Developmental Language Disorders across Europe and beyond.

Background: Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) have a significant deficit in spoken language ability which affects their communication skills, education, mental health, employment and social inclusion.

Aim: The present study reports findings from a survey by EU network COST ACTION 1406 and aims to explore differences in service delivery and funding of SLT services for children with DLD across Europe and beyond.

Methods And Procedures: The survey was completed by 5024 European professionals.

Assessment of Oral Skills in Adolescents.

There is broad consensus on the need to foster oral skills in middle school due to their inherent importance and because they serve as a tool for learning and acquiring other competences. In order to facilitate the assessment of communicative competence, we hereby propose a model which establishes five key dimensions for effective oral communication: interaction management; multimodality and prosody; textual coherence and cohesion; argumentative strategies; and lexicon and terminology. Based on this model, we developed indicators to measure the proposed dimensions, thus generating a self-report tool to assess oral communication in middle school.

RETRACTED: Allocation and funding of Speech and Language Therapy for children with Developmental Language Disorders across Europe and beyond.

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Spontaneous verbal repetition in toddler-adult conversations: a longitudinal study with Spanish-speaking two- year-olds.

The role of children's verbal repetition of parents' utterances on vocabulary growth has been well documented (Masur, 1999). Nevertheless, few studies have analyzed adults' and children's spontaneous verbal repetition around the second birthday distinguishing between the types of repetition. We analyzed longitudinally Spanish-speaking parent-child dyads during spontaneous interaction at 21, 24 and 30 months.

[Observing and measuring early development of grammar in Spanish children].

Observing and measuring early development of grammar in Spanish children. This study analyzes parental report data as a source of information about toddlers' grammatical development. It is a study of concurrent validity that compares parents' reports obtained with the European Spanish version of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) with spontaneous speech measures from 35 children who took part in this study.