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Motor Performance in Children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech and Speech Sound Disorders [PDF]
, 2019 Purpose: This study sought to determine if (a) children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), other speech sound disorders (SSDs), and typical development (TD) would perform differently on a standardized motor assessment and (b) whether comorbid ...
Iuzzini-Seigel, Jenya
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Clinical Communication Across Linguistic and Cultural Boundaries [PDF]
International Journal of Community & Family Medicine, 2018 Due to conflicts and natural disasters every day, thousands of people are leaving their own countries and moving to resettle in another part of the world. This leads, amongst other things, to cross-lingual and cross-cultural clinical encounters. In this context, mutual understanding between patients and healthcare professional is vital for the patients'
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Comprehending Non-literal Language: Effects of Aging and Bilingualism
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 A pressing issue that the twenty-first century is facing in many parts of the developed world is a rapidly aging population. Whilst several studies have looked at aging older adults and their language use in terms of vocabulary, syntax and sentence ...
Shamala Sundaray +3 more
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Linguistic changes in neurodegenerative diseases relate to clinical symptoms
Frontiers in NeurologyBackgroundThe detection and characterization of speech changes may help in the identification and monitoring of neurodegenerative diseases. However, there is limited research validating the relationship between speech changes and clinical symptoms across a wide range of neurodegenerative diseases.MethodWe analyzed speech recordings from 109 patients ...
Melisa Gumus +9 more
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Aphasia: A societal and clinical appraisal of pragmatic and linguistic behaviours
South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 1985 Pragmatic abilities of eleven aphasics classified into fluent and nonfluent groups were examined, and compared with global ratings of communicative adequacy. Further, subjects' pragmatic performance was compared with performance on two standardised linguistic measures.
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Auditory environments influence the link between Autistic traits and quality of life
Scientific ReportsAutistic people often report a heightened sensitivity to sound. Yet, research into Autistic people’s auditory environments and their impacts on quality of life is limited.
R. Poulsen +4 more
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South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 1973 The academic and professional background of the man who initiated and developed training programmes for speech therapists and audiologists in South Africa is presented. The manner in which he developed the profession, and pioneered work in phonetics and
Myrtle L. Aron
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality [PDF]
, 2014 openalex +1 more source
Language Development ResearchIn this perspectives article, we call for a collaborativeapproach to research on children’s development of conversational inferences andof reading inferences.
Catherine Davies +6 more
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Using Distributed Representations to Disambiguate Biomedical and Clinical Concepts
, 2016 In this paper, we report a knowledge-based method for Word Sense Disambiguation in the domains of biomedical and clinical text. We combine word representations created on large corpora with a small number of definitions from the UMLS to create concept ...
Daelemans, Walter +2 more
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