Can children with speech difficulties process an unfamiliar accent? [PDF]
, 2001 This study explores the hypothesis that children identified as having phonological processing problems may have particular difficulty in processing a different accent. Children with speech difficulties (n = 18) were compared with matched controls on four
Nathan, L., Wells, B.
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The use and function of gestures in word-finding difficulties in aphasia [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Gestures are spontaneous hand and arm movements that are part of everyday communication. The roles of gestures in communication are disputed. Most agree that they augment the information conveyed in speech. More contentiously, some argue that
Dipper, L., Kistner, J., Marshall, J.
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, 2009 Abstract Apraxias Are notoriously difficult to conceptualize and, unfortunately, inconsistently defined throughout the literature. In some ways trying to imagine them is like looking at a three-dimensional painting: let your mind go and the image will become clear, but if you focus on any particular element within it, the image will ...
Ietswaart, Magdalena, Milner, A David
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Ideational and Ideomotor Apraxia: A Qualitative Analysis
Behavioural Neurology, 1992 This paper reviews research into both ideational and ideomotor apraxia focusing on the qualitative aspects of limb apraxia. The criteria based on a distinction between different type of movements which have been used to distinguish between ideational (IA)
M. J. Mozaz
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Caloric vestibular stimulation in aphasic syndrome [PDF]
, 2013 Caloric vestibular stimulation (CVS) is commonly used to diagnose brainstem disorder but its therapeutic application is much less established.
Milberg, William P. +3 more
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2018 Limb apraxia is a higher brain dysfunction that typically occurs after left hemispheric stroke and its cause cannot be explained by sensory disturbance or motor paralysis.
Satoshi Nobusako +17 more
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Impact of PNKP mutations associated with microcephaly, seizures and developmental delay on enzyme activity and DNA strand break repair [PDF]
, 2012 Microcephaly with early-onset, intractable seizures and developmental delay (MCSZ) is a hereditary disease caused by mutations in polynucleotide kinase/phosphatase (PNKP), a DNA strand break repair protein with DNA 5'-kinase and DNA 3'-phosphatase ...
Alexandra K. Walker +41 more
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The Efficacy of Telepractice in the Assessment and Treatment of Speech Disorders: A Systematic Review [PDF]
, 2019 Purpose: Children and adults with speech disorders face numerous barriers in accessing traditional face-to-face services with a speech-language pathologist. Telepractice may be a feasible solution. The aim of this systematic review was to investigate the
Cooley, Elizabeth +2 more
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Non-verbal episodic memory deficits in primary progressive aphasias are highly predictive of underlying amyloid pathology [PDF]
, 2016 Diagnostic distinction of primary progressive aphasias (PPA) remains challenging, in particular for the logopenic (lvPPA) and nonfluent/agrammatic (naPPA) variants.
Ahmed +24 more
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Brief report : imitation of meaningless gestures in individuals with Asperger syndrome and high-functioning autism [PDF]
, 2008 Nineteen people with Asperger syndrome (AS)/High-Functioning Autism (HFA) (ages 7-15) were tested on imitation of two types of meaningless gesture: hand postures and finger positions.
Carletta, Jean +4 more
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