Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology articles from March 2006

Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology archives from March 2006

Profanity.
March 1, 2006... Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. Mark Twain Oh heck! Another doggone pet mess. As our local revered football coach might say, "Dadgum it! Seems like it's just one dadgum thing after...

Collaborative intervention in clinical settings.(Health Care Forum)
March 1, 2006... Collaborative interventions in rehabilitation are practices that create equal family-professional partnerships and rely on family expertise to develop and evaluate intervention strategies. (1) They are characterized by truly family-directed...

Evidence-based practice recommendations for working with individuals with dementia: Montessori-based interventions.(ANCDS Bulletin Board)(Clinical report)
March 1, 2006... The Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS), the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), its Special Interest Division 2 (SID-2: Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders), and the...

A systematic review of outcome measurement in unilateral vocal fold paralysis.(Clinical report)
March 1, 2006... This article is one in a series of articles sponsored by the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS) to address issues related to evidence-based practice guidelines in neurologic communication disorders. The purpose...

Medialization thyroplasty versus injection laryngoplasty for unilateral vocal fold paralysis: a comparative analysis of functional outcomes.(Clinical report)
March 1, 2006... The primary objective of this investigation was to determine whether medialization thyroplasty (MT) or injection laryngoplasty (IL) offered significant short- and long-term functional improvements in vocal function in patients with unilateral...

Dynamic assessment of articulation during lingual fatigue in myasthenia gravis.(Disease/Disorder overview)
March 1, 2006... The present study aimed to investigate how induced lingual fatigue affected lingual strength, articulatory kinematics, and perceptual speech features in CS, a 51-year-old female with active myasthenia gravis (MG), and three age and gender...

Word fluency strategies in aphasia for common and goal-directed categories.
March 1, 2006... In this study, response strategies used in a word fluency task by 10 fluent and 10 nonfluent aphasic and 10 non-brain-damaged (NBD) adults were examined for two different types of categories, goal-directed and common categories. Significantly...

Effects of topiramate on essential tremor of the voice, jaw, and upper limbs.
March 1, 2006... The effects of topiramate were evaluated in a study of 18 patients with essential tremor of the voice, tongue, jaw, and upper limb. All patients had been unresponsive to at least one other antitremor medication. Topiramate was started at 25...

Intervention outcomes of a bilingual child with autism.(Disease/Disorder overview)
March 1, 2006... This longitudinal case study examined a child who was initially diagnosed with language delay at age 3 and subsequently diagnosed with autism at age 3 years 6 months. This case study is particularly interesting because it followed the child for...

FEEST: Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing With Sensory Testing.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... FEEST: Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing With Sensory Testing AUTHORS: Jonathan E. Aviv, M.D., and Thomas Murry, Ph.D. PUBLISHER: Plural Publishing, Inc., 2005 ISBN: 1-59756-000-6, 188 pages, $135.00 Fiberoptic...