Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology articles from March 2005

Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology archives from March 2005

Feral children.(Editorial)
March 1, 2005... Children aren't dogs; adults aren't gods. Haitian Proverb One of the pleasures of attending conferences and scholarly meetings is the opportunity it affords for professional and social interaction with friends and former colleagues. A...

Arizona Battery for Communication Disorders of Dementia test performance: can this test be used with Caucasian and African American adolescents with traumatic brain injury?
March 1, 2005... Evaluation of individuals with traumatic brain injury has included a number of test measures, some of which are adapted for use from other disordered populations. One assessment, the Arizona Battery for Communication Disorders of Dementia...

Perception of accented speech by residents in assisted-living facilities.
March 1, 2005... This study measured how intelligible accented speech was to residents in assisted-living facilities. Twenty native speakers of English, ages 62 to 91, listened to words and sentences produced by native speakers of English, Taiwanese, and...

Analysis of articulatory dynamics in dysarthria following brain injury in childhood using electromagnetic articulography and electropalatography.
March 1, 2005... Two physiological assessments, electromagnetic articulography (EMA) and electropalatography (EPG), were used simultaneously to investigate the articulatory dynamics in an 18-year-old male with dysarthria 9 years following traumatic brain injury...

Impact of communication interaction on measuring self- and proxy-rated depression in dementia.
March 1, 2005... This study examined whether teaching nursing aides to interact more effectively with patients with dementia affected self-, proxy, and concordance ratings of depression. Predictors of depression ratings were determined from measures of verbal...

Prosodic characteristics of Parkinsonian speech: the effect of levodopa-based medication.
March 1, 2005... Individuals with Parkinson disease (PD) typically experience fluctuations in motor performance after years of treatment with the medication levodopa. The purpose of this study was to provide an acoustic profile of prosodic characteristics of...

Factors predicting rehabilitative service provision in adults with traumatic brain injury.
March 1, 2005... Approximately 300,000 people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year; however, a limited number receive formal speech-language, occupational, and physical therapy rehabilitation. Consequently, a large number of individuals may not meet...