http://hdl.handle.net/10468/722 2013-06-19T23:20:52Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/720 Speech and language therapy for aphasia following stroke Brady, Marian C.; Kelly, Helen; Godwin, Jon; Enderby, Pam Our review provides some evidence of the effectiveness of SLT (speech and language therapy) for people with aphasia following stroke in terms of improved functional communication, receptive and expressive language. However, some trials were poorly reported. The potential benefits of intensive SLT over conventional SLT were confounded by a significantly higher dropout from intensive SLT. More participants also withdrew from social support than SLT interventions. There was insufficient evidence to draw any conclusion regarding the effectiveness of any one specific SLT approach over another. 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/746 Expressive prosody in children with autism spectrum conditions Peppé, Susan; Cleland, Joanne; Gibbon, Fiona E.; O'Hare, Anne; Martinez-Castilla, Pastora The expressive prosodic abilities of two groups of school-age children with autism spectrum conditions (ASC), Asperger's syndrome (AS) and high-functioning autism (HFA), were compared with those of typically-developing controls. The HFA group showed impairment relative to age-matched controls on all the prosody tasks assessed (affect, sentence-type, contrastive stress, phrasing and imitation) while the AS showed impairment only on phrasing and imitation. Compared with lexically-matched controls, impairment on several tasks (affect, contrastive stress and imitation) was found in the HFA group but little in the AS group (phrasing and imitation). Comparisons between the ASC groups showed significant differences on prosody skills. Impairment in prosodic skills may therefore be a reliable indicator of autism spectrum subgroups, at least as far as communicative functioning is concerned. There were also significant differences between ASC groups and lexically-matched typically-developing children on expressive language skills, but the incomplete correlation of the prosody results with scores on language tasks suggests that the prosodic differences between the two groups may not all be attributable to the level of language skills. Suggested further research is to investigate the relationship of prosody and language skills in this population more closely, and to develop a prosody test as part of the diagnostic criteria of ASC. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/856 Non-speech oral motor treatment for developmental speech sound disorders in children (Protocol) Lee, Alice S.-Y.; Gibbon, Fiona E. Objective: To assess the efficacy of non-speech oral motor treatment (NSOMT) for treating developmental speech sound disorders. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/861 Using EPG data to display articulatory separation for phoneme contrasts Gibbon, Fiona E.; Lee, Alice S. A recurring difficulty for researchers using electropalatography (EPG) is the wide variation in spatial patterns that occurs between speakers. High inter speaker variability, combined with small numbers of participants, makes it problematic (i) to identify differences in tongue palate contact across groups of speakers and (ii) to define “normal” patterns during visual feedback therapy. This paper shows how graphing EPG data in terms of articulatory separation of phoneme contrasts reduces these two problems to some extent. The graphs emphasise the importance of establishing the presence and extent of separation, as revealed in the EPG data, for phoneme contrasts produced by speakers. Separation graphs for contrasts /i/ - /u/, /s/ - /ʃ/ and /t/ - /k/ are presented using EPG data from adults and children with typical speech and those with speech disorders. When used in conjunction with acoustic and auditory perceptual analyses, it is proposed that representing articulation data in terms of separation will prove useful for a range of clinical and research purposes. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z