Speech production involves five major components: respiration, phonation, articulation, resonance, and prosody and number of methods can be used to evaluate these aspects. Perceptual analysis methods are frequently employed; ...

Background: Speech and language therapy can provide positive outcomes for people with aphasia after stroke. The intensity of therapy is a key component for successful rehabilitation outcomes but, due to resource constraints, ...

Introduction MND is a rare progressive neurodegenerative illness for which there is no cure. There are approximately 350 people diagnosed with MND in Ireland at any one time. Dysphagia frequently occurs in neurodegenerative ...

Speech and language therapy (SLT) services are coming under increased pressure to provide people living in linguistic minority communities with assessment and intervention in the language of the community in which the ...

Background: It is well documented that children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) experience significant grammatical deficits. While much of the focus in the past has been on their morphosyntactic difficulties, less ...