Relationships among major life events, perceived social support, and psychological disorder were assessed in a sample of older adolescents. Negative life events and satisfaction with social support were significantly and independently related to a range of psychological symptoms. Further, the relationship between negative events and disorder was moderated by gender, the types of events experien...

BACKGROUND Phonological therapy in subjects with phonological disorders. AIM To compare the efficacy of three contrastive approach models in three different severities of phonological disorder. METHOD Participants of the study were nine subjects with phonological disorders, with ages ranging between 4:2 and 6:6 years. All subjects were evaluated prior to and after phonological therapy. Thre...

The pulse broadening and decay of coherent sound waves propagating in disordered granular media are investigated. We find that the pulse width of these compressional waves is broadened when the disorder is increased by mixing the beads made of different materials. To identify the responsible mechanism for the pulse broadening, we also perform the acoustic attenuation measurement by spectral ana...

PURPOSE Clinicians do not have an evidence base they can use to recommend optimum intervention intensity for preschool children who present with speech sound disorder (SSD). This study examined the effect of dose frequency on phonological performance and the efficacy of the multiple oppositions approach. METHOD Fifty-four preschool children with SSD were randomly assigned to one of three inte...

W. Schirmacher1,2, C. Tomaras3, B. Schmid2, G. Baldi4, G. Viliani5 , G. Ruocco6,7, T. Scopigno6,7 1 Physik-Department E13, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Strasse 1, D–85747 Garching, Germany 2 Fachbereich Physik, Universität Mainz, Germany 3 Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstr. 37, D–80333 München, Germany 4 ESRF G...

This paper describes preliminary results from an ongoing study designed to characterize acoustic-phonetic traits in children with speech delay (SD) of unknown origin. Here we present data on 13 SD children and their siblings (26 children in all) from two speech perception tasks: a two-alternative forced choice categorical perception (ID) task, and an error monitoring (EM) task. In the ID task, ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the association of speech-sound disorders (SSD) with symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by the severity of the SSD and the mode of transmission of SSD within the pedigrees of children with SSD. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS The participants were 412 children who were enrolled in a longitudinal family study of SSD. Children w...