1,192 results match your criteria: "School of Communication Sciences[Affiliation]"

Comparison of Methods of Eliciting Vital Capacity: Forced Versus Slow Vital Capacity.

J Voice

January 2025

Department of Statistics, Purdue University, Mathematical Sciences Building, 150 N. University Street, Room 231, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

Background: Methods to elicit the vital capacity (VC) include forced vital capacity (FVC) and slow vital capacity (SVC). Because the FVC maneuver can be affected by air trapping or inefficiencies in lung emptying vs. the SVC, the SVC-FVC difference may be substantial and diagnostically meaningful in elderly individuals and patients with respiratory obstruction.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

How our brain integrates single words into larger linguistic units is a central focus in neurolinguistic studies. Previous studies mainly explored this topic at the semantic or syntactic level, with few looking at how cortical activities track word sequences with different levels of semantic correlations. In addition, prior research did not tease apart the semantic factors from the syntactic ones in the word sequences.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Purpose: Recent advances in artificial intelligence provide opportunities to capture and represent complex features of human language in a more automated manner, offering potential means of improving the efficiency of language assessment. This review article presents computerized approaches for the analysis of narrative language and identification of language disorders in children.

Method: We first describe the current barriers to clinicians' use of language sample analysis, narrative language sampling approaches, and the data processing stages that precede analysis.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Frequencies and functions of vocalizations and gestures in the second year of life.

PLoS One

January 2025

Origin of Language Laboratories, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America.

Speculations on the evolution of language have invoked comparisons across human and non-human primate communication. While there is widespread support for the claim that gesture plays a central, perhaps a predominant role in early language development and that gesture played the foundational role in language evolution, much empirical information does not accord with the gestural claims. The present study follows up on our prior work that challenged the gestural theory of language development with longitudinal data showing early speech-like vocalizations occurred more than 5 times as often as gestures in the first year of life.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Having a detailed description of the psycholinguistic properties of a language is essential for conducting well-controlled language experiments. However, there is a paucity of databases for some languages and regional varieties, including Québec French. The SyllabO+ corpus was created to provide a complete phonological and syllabic analysis of a corpus of spoken Québec French.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Maternal-newborn care does not always align with the best available evidence. Applying implementation science to change initiatives can help move evidence-informed practices into clinical settings. However, it remains unknown to what extent current implementation practices in maternal-newborn care align with recommendations from implementation science, and how confident nurses, other health professionals, and leaders are completing steps in the implementation process.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Introduction: Measurements of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are important for capturing disease impact beyond physical health and relative to other diseases but have rarely been assessed in primary progressive aphasia (PPA).

Methods: HRQoL was characterized overall, by sex and subtype in PPA ( = 118) using the Health Utilities Index-2/3 (HUI2/3). Multiple linear regression assessed associations between HRQoL and language severity.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Objectives: Cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMPs) reflect saccular stimulation that results in an inhibitory muscle reflex recorded over the sternocleidomastoid muscle. These responses are utilized to study basic vestibular functions and are also applied clinically. Traditionally, cVEMPs have utilized transient stimuli such as clicks and tonebursts to evoke onset responses.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

There is a scarcity of health human resources worldwide. In occupational therapy (OT), physical therapy (PT), and speech-language pathology (S-LP), attrition and retention issues amplify this situation and contribute to the precarity of health systems. Therefore, we aimed to investigate retention strategies for rehabilitation professionals in Quebec.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) experience and live with physiological, psychological, and social impacts of their injury throughout their lives, including changes in one's sense of personal identity. This qualitative multiple-case study examines the lived experiences of four individuals living with brain injuries and how participation in occupation-based community programming interacts with post-injury sense of self. Study data reveal a dynamic relationship between occupational participation and personal identity that suggests ongoing post-acute occupational therapy services can support recovery including aspects of identity reformation.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Objective: This pilot study was designed to test the tolerability of a lower scope position and feasibility of custom-designed MATLAB graphical user interface (GUI) used to analyze playback review of laryngeal high-speed videoendoscopy (laryngeal HSV) during healthy volitional dry swallows. We hypothesized this method would conceptually provide time resolution for glottic closure events compared with standard (30 frames per second, fps), and enable a means to measure timing, sequence, and duration of laryngeal movements during swallowing not otherwise visualized.

Methods: A total of 14 healthy adults (4 male, 22-80 years) participated.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Auditory evoked potential-age (AEP-age) is proposed to index auditory maturation and has been found to predict language skills in children with and without a language disorder. However, reporting average effects using linear regression does not fully capitalize on the potential of AEP-age to estimate individual differences in young children. This study used a quantile regression approach to examine the predictive utility of AEP-age for 105 typical and neurodiverse 7-10-year-old children (61 males; 44 females; largely monolingual English) with varying language skills without creating subgroups.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The Relationship Between Self-Reported Nocturnal Cough Symptoms and Acoustic Cough Monitoring.

J Voice

December 2024

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio; School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.

Article Synopsis
  • The study investigated how well self-reported cough symptoms match objective data from audio recordings in individuals with chronic nighttime cough.
  • Ten participants completed questionnaires about their cough and recorded their symptoms using an app while sleeping, revealing a strong correlation between perceived cough severity and actual cough frequency.
  • Although participants felt comfortable using the app, they expressed concerns about privacy, highlighting the need for careful handling of data and better communication with healthcare providers in future studies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • The study investigates how the brain processes speech sounds and their corresponding written letters, proposing that both may use similar neural pathways despite differing senses.
  • Participants showed quicker and more defined categorization of spoken sounds than written letters, suggesting a difference in how these modalities are processed.
  • Key brain regions, including the left inferior frontal gyrus and auditory cortex for speech, and early visual cortices for letters, demonstrate that while auditory and visual systems operate distinctly, there is some shared processing for phonetic categorization.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Recorded Word Recognition Testing Is Worth the Time.

Am J Audiol

December 2024

School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis, TN.

Purpose: The goal of this study was to provide evidence of the inherent variability associated with monitored live voice (MLV) presentation methods and encourage audiologists to more closely follow best practice of using recorded stimuli. To accomplish the goal, administration times for word recognition testing were compared between MLV and MP3 recorded stimuli presented directly from an audiometer (computer assisted, CA). Furthermore, the variability of administration time across testers was evaluated.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Neural Tracking to Auditory Statistical Structures in Children.

Psych J

November 2024

Language Pathology and Brain Science MEG Laboratory, School of Communication Sciences, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.

Children's brain is able to track the linguistic structures in continuous speech. When there was no prior knowledge, we found that children also automatically detected and tracked the statistical structures in auditory tone steam as reflected by neural entrainment, but their ability was immature.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • * A comprehensive literature search was conducted across multiple databases, yielding 17 studies that were relevant, with most focusing on experimental dual-task performance.
  • * The findings revealed significant gaps in the research, particularly regarding methodological inconsistencies and the need for more thorough exploration of various functional domains.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • Non-pharmacological interventions could improve quality of life for individuals with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and their caregivers but need more efficacy trials.
  • The Communication Bridge-2 (CB2) trial is the first international, video chat-based randomized controlled trial focusing on speech-language interventions for PPA.
  • The trial successfully recruited and randomized 95 participant dyads across four countries, demonstrating that global recruitment for non-drug trials in this field is feasible and may serve as a model for future research in Alzheimer's and related dementias.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Homocysteine, neurodegenerative biomarkers, and APOE ε4 in neurodegenerative diseases.

Alzheimers Dement

November 2024

Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Introduction: Elevated plasma homocysteine (Hcy) is associated with an increased risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases; however, its relationship with the apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 allele has not been well characterized.

Methods: Participants clinically diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment (AD/MCI), frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson's disease, or cerebrovascular disease were stratified by the presence of the APOE ε4 allele. Volumetric magnetic resonance imaging, plasma amyloid/tau/neurodegeneration biomarkers, and cognitive performance were quantified.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Purpose: Virtual service delivery models in audiology have become more accessible due to recent technological advancement and improved system-level uptake following COVID-19. Although current evidence identifies the benefits of virtual care to families with children who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing and supports its use in practice, this delivery model is still underutilized. This research aimed to gain consensus on an evidence-informed virtual caregiver participation framework developed from a scoping review of the communication sciences and disorders literature.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

An integrated empirical and computational study to decipher help-seeking behaviors and vocal stigma.

Commun Med (Lond)

November 2024

School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Background: Professional voice users often experience stigma associated with voice disorders and are reluctant to seek medical help. This study deployed empirical and computational tools to (1) quantify the experience of vocal stigma and help-seeking behaviors in performers; and (2) predict their modulations with peer influences in social networks.

Methods: Experience of vocal stigma and information-motivation-behavioral (IMB) skills were prospectively profiled using online surveys from a total of 403 Canadians (200 singers and actors and 203 controls).

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Purpose: This study examined the contribution of voice to the self via implicit associations.

Method: An implicit association test (IAT) of the voice and the self was created and presented to vocal performers and community controls. One-hundred eleven participants completed this voice-self IAT, the Vocal Congruence Scale (VCS), and the Voice Handicap Index (VHI) via an in-person, monitored, and timed Qualtrics survey.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • The article discusses community-based participatory research as a way to identify barriers preventing racially minoritized groups, particularly Black adults, from accessing cochlear implants.
  • It highlights how Black adults in the U.S. face specific challenges regarding cochlear implantation and emphasizes the importance of community engagement in studying these issues.
  • The Memphis SOUND Project aims to investigate hearing health disparities and has begun to share insights on both the motivating factors and obstacles Black adults face in utilizing cochlear implants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to find out if children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH), particularly those without substantially delayed language, appear to be at risk for overreporting of inattentive and hyperactive behaviors and if attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) measures are influenced by the presence of language-based items, by child language skills, and by child and parent report of fatigue.

Method: This study included 24 children with typical hearing, 13 children with hearing aids (HA), and 16 children with cochlear implants (CI) in second through sixth grade. Parents of children in each group completed a measure reporting on inattentive and hyperactive behaviors, social and academic outcomes, and general fatigue for their child.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: In voice clinics, vocal effort is a prevalent complaint, with around 25% of clinicians citing it as the primary issue.

Aim: This study had two objectives. First, it sought to establish the prevalence of vocal effort, both as the primary and the only symptom, among patients receiving treatment from clinicians specializing in voice disorders in various countries across South and North America.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF