Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology articles from June 2005

Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology archives from June 2005

The lonely whale.(Editorial)
June 1, 2005... It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951 Did you hear the one about the lonely whale? What a poignant tale. The morale is ever so thinly veiled. I first heard about it in Andrew Revkin's...

Practice guidelines for standardized assessment for persons with traumatic brain injury.(ANCDS Bulletin Board)(Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences)
June 1, 2005... This article is one of a series of publications by the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS) working groups on evidence-based clinical practice (EBP) in neurologic communication disorders. The EPB project was...

Innovation and independence: recent advances in the treatment of paralysis.(Health Care Forum)
June 1, 2005... Recent advances in neurobiology and computer technology have resulted in a number of innovations in the treatment of patients with paralysis. In this article, we provide an overview of two techniques under current investigation: (1) injection...

Effectiveness of the Speech Enhancer on intelligibility: a case study.
June 1, 2005... The effectiveness of the Speech Enhancer[TM] (SE) on single-word, sentence, and spontaneous speech intelligibility was investigated for a single female speaker with hyperkinetic dysarthria resulting from cerebral palsy. Data were taken with the...

Reliability of observations from modified barium swallow studies.
June 1, 2005... This project addressed reliability of judgments made from modified barium swallow (MBS) studies. The specific intent was to minimize potential difficulties in the interpretation of the findings by limiting the focus of the judges and the types...

Six-month outcome for dysphagia following traumatic brain injury: radiological assessment.
June 1, 2005... The coexistence of a swallowing impairment, or dysphagia, can severely impact upon the medical condition and recovery of a child with traumatic brain injury (TBI; Logemann, Pepe, & Mackay, 1994). Despite this fact, there is limited data that...

Speech intelligibility in ALS and HD dysarthria: the everyday listener's perspective.(amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)(Huntington disease)
June 1, 2005... The purpose of this study was to examine the barriers and strategies that listeners endorsed as they attempted to understand dysarthric speech. Speech samples were collected from individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) (N = 6) and...

Dysphonia and dysphagia following anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion.
June 1, 2005... Between January 2002 and February 2004, 200 patients underwent anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion for spondylosis. Eleven patients referred for evaluation of postoperative voice and or swallowing complaints underwent comprehensive...

Articulatory function in hypokinetic dysarthria: an electropalatographic examination of two cases.
June 1, 2005... The present study employed electropalatography (EPG) and a nonspeech measure of lingual function to examine, in detail, the articulatory production deficits of two individuals with Parkinson disease (PD) and hypokinetic dysarthria. Participants...