Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology articles from June 2003

Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology archives from June 2003

Moxon and the Flying Trapeze.(Editorial)
June 1, 2003... Who knows only his own generation remains always a child. George Norlin, 1939 Where were you in 1866? Do you remember it as a pivotal year? Ah, the good times? Ah, the music. The explosive discoveries. Alfred Nobel, the Swedish...

Evidence-based practice: let's be reasonable. (Essay).
June 1, 2003... Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is rapidly reshaping notions about what is appropriate medical care. It is setting the criteria by which health-care policies are developed, and it is affecting health-care provider self-confidence as well as the...

Behavioral management of respiratory/phonatory dysfunction from dysarthria: A systematic review of the evidence. (ANCDS Bulletin Board).(Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences )
June 1, 2003... This systematic review of the literature addresses behavioral techniques for the management of respiratory/phonatory dysfunction in dysarthria. It was carried as part of the development of practice guidelines for the Academy of Neurologic...

Behavioral management of respiratory/phonatory dysfunction from dysarthria: A flowchart for guidance in clinical decision making.
June 1, 2003... ********** This work emerged from a larger effort by an Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences committee to establish Practice Guidelines for the management of speakers with dysarthria. A fundamental issue in dysarthria...

Characteristics of multiple sclerosis as a function of the severity of speech disorders.
June 1, 2003... Although previous studies of the speech problems associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) report general prevalence information, they do not describe the full range of patient characteristics necessary for appropriate clinical management. This...

Spectral measures and perceptual ratings of hypokinetic dysarthria.
June 1, 2003... Ten individuals with Parkinson disease (PD) and hypokinetic dysarthria were compared with age-matched neurologically normal (NN) speakers on acoustic measures from speaking and vowel phonation tasks and on perceptual ratings of connected...

Approaches to speech-language intervention and the true believer.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2003... Treatment approaches in speech-language therapy are sometimes selected and justified on the basis of a clinician's experience that "it works." Moreover, it has been argued (e.g., Kamhi, 1999) that such clinical judgment is, in principle, sound...

Approaches to speech-language intervention and the true believer: A response.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2003... Gruber, Lowery, Seung, and Deal address threats to the inference that positive outcomes for communication disorders result solely from the treatment administered. They caution that treatments should not be selected and justified on the basis of...

By His Side: Life and Love after Stroke.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... AUTHOR: Eileen Steets Quann PUBLISHER: Fastrak Press, 2002 ISBN: 0971686408, 152 pages, $15.95 In 1997 Eileen Steets Quann was a successful businesswoman. At 48, she was married and owned a training business. Her marriage was a...