Correia, L Brookshire, R H Nicholas, L E
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The Journal of speech and hearing disorders
Twelve aphasic and 12 non-brain-damaged adult males described the speech elicitation pictures from the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BDAE), the Minnesota Test for Differential Diagnosis of Aphasia (MTDDA), the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB), and six pictures representing male-biased or female-biased daily-life situations. For each speech sa...
Elbert, M Dinnsen, D A Swartzlander, P Chin, S B
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The Journal of speech and hearing disorders
Although changes in children's phonological systems due to treatment have been documented in single-word testing, changes in conversational speech are less well known. Single-word and conversation samples were analyzed for 10 phonologically disordered children, before and after treatment and 3 months later. Results suggest that for most of the chil...
Wilcox, M J Kouri, T A Caswell, S
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The Journal of speech and hearing disorders
Aspects of partner sensitivity to communication behaviors of 24 presymbolic children with developmental disabilities were examined. The children were grouped according to their movement abilities (normal vs. abnormal patterns) and communication status (intentional vs. preintentional). Participating communication partners were those with whom the ch...
Tye-Murray, N Purdy, S C Woodworth, G G Tyler, R S
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The Journal of speech and hearing disorders
This investigation determined whether information elicited by repair strategies enhances an individual's ability to lipread a misperceived sentence. Five groups of subjects were each assigned one of five repair strategies: (a) asking the talker to repeat a sentence, (b) simplify it, (c) rephrase it, (d) say an important keyword, and (e) speak two s...
Chapman, R S Bird, E K Schwartz, S E
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The Journal of speech and hearing disorders
Fast mapping of novel words for objects was compared in 48 children and adolescents with Down syndrome (ages 5:6-20:6), who were delayed in expressive language acquisition compared to mental age, and 48 normally developing children matched for mental age (chronological ages 2:0-6:0). Normal and Down syndrome groups did not differ in their ability t...
Shriberg, L D Kwiatkowski, J Snyder, T
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The Journal of speech and hearing disorders
This is the third in a series of studies on the use of microcomputers with speech-delayed children. Two repeated-measures designs (n = 15) and five case studies were completed to compare tabletop management at early and late stages of the response development phase with two comparable, computer-assisted drill-and-practice activities. Discrimination...
Hamre, C
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The Journal of speech and hearing disorders
Meyers, S C
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The Journal of speech and hearing disorders
Standard counseling practices with the families of young stutterers include recommendations that listeners' negative verbal behaviors be modified in order to reduce the likelihood of stuttering. This study tested the hypothesis that stuttering and normal disfluencies in preschool stutterers are related to selected verbal behaviors in conversational...
Kent, R D Kent, J F Weismer, G Sufit, R L Rosenbek, J C Martin, R E Brooks, B R
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The Journal of speech and hearing disorders
Speech intelligibility was studied in a group of 25 male patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The object of the study was to determine the phonetic impairments underlying the speech intelligibility deficits that frequently accompany ALS. Analyses with a word intelligibility test indicated that the most disrupted phonetic features invo...
Awan, S N Mueller, P B
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The Journal of speech and hearing disorders
