Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology articles from March 2008

Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology archives from March 2008

Super models.(Editorial)
March 1, 2008... To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. Spanish Proverb Speech-language pathology is overwhelmingly a profession of females. Males currently comprise 4.4% of speech-language pathologists (SLPs). Few...

Screening mental status in adults with aphasia using a language-modified form of the Mini-Mental State Examination: a preliminary investigation.
March 1, 2008... Screening for dementia in individuals with preexisting cognitive problems presents a special diagnostic dilemma for clinicians working with geriatric patients. In particular, patients with language deficits such as stroke-related aphasia...

Electromagnetic articulographic assessment of tongue function in dysarthric and nondysarthric speakers following stroke.
March 1, 2008... Articulatory impairment has been reported to occur in approximately 98% of dysarthric speakers (Duffy & Folger, 1996). Previous studies have revealed that 29 to 60% of individuals suffer dysarthria poststroke (Duffy, 1995; Grootendorst, Feeny,...

Development of orofacial functions in young individuals with myotonic dystrophy: a retrospective study.
March 1, 2008... Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a disease with autosomal dominant inheritance caused by a trinucleotide repeat expansion on chromosome 19q13. There are four subtypes of DM1 defined by age at onset and predominant symptoms: congenital,...

Effect of model-based treatment on oral reading abilities in severe alexia: a case study.(Case study)
March 1, 2008... Recently, research has focused on understanding the nature, characteristics and treatment for acquired alexia. There are several types of acquired alexia that have been delineated in the literature, namely, pure alexia, phonological alexia,...

Dysarthria as an indicator of neurological disease: characterizing articulatory disturbances in a case of dysarthria of unknown etiology using instrumental methods.(Clincial Note*)
March 1, 2008... Speech difficulties can be the first sign of a neurological problem, from acute conditions such as stroke, through to chronic neurological diseases, including multiple sclerosis and motor neuron disease. In cases of dysarthria for which the...