The focus of this study is interaction during speech and language intervention in children with phonological impairment. Interactional patterns between children and therapists in two different settings are compared; on the one hand ‘tabletop’ phonological intervention and, on the other hand, computer-assisted phonological intervention. The interactions are compared in terms of interactional dom...

Speech disorders are common manifestations of Parkinson´s disease. Objective To compare speech articulation in patients according to age at onset of the disease. Methods Fifty patients was divided into two groups: Group I consisted of 30 patients with age at onset between 40 and 55 years; Group II consisted of 20 patients with age at onset after 65 years. All patients were evaluated based on th...

UNLABELLED Researchers, as well as the lay public and the popular press, have become increasingly concerned about the lack of reproducibility of research findings. Despite this concern, research has shown that replications of previously published work comprise a very small proportion of published studies. Moreover, there are fewer published direct replications of research studies by independent...

Purpose The aim of this study was to characterize the ultrasonographic pattern of tongue movement in 14 consonant phonemes of Brazilian Portuguese (BP), seeking to identify and describe ultrasonographic parameters that could grasp the difference of manner and place of articulation among these phonemes. Methods We selected 20 individuals with typical speech production, aged between 20-30 years...

OBJECTIVE Cleft lip and palate (CLP) may cause functional limitations even after adequate surgical and non-surgical treatment, speech disorders being one of them. Interindividually, they vary a lot, showing typical articulation specifics such as nasal emission and shift of articulation and therefore a diminished intelligibility. Until now, an objective means to determine and quantify the intell...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the types of speech errors that are produced by children with speech-sound disorders and the children's phonological awareness skills during their prekindergarten and kindergarten years. METHOD Fifty-eight children with speech-sound disorders were assessed during the spring of their prekindergarten year and then again a...

Horizontal line bisection is a ubiquitous task in the investigation of visual neglect. Patients with left neglect typically make rightward errors that increase with line length and for lines at more leftward positions. For short lines, or for lines presented in right space, these errors may 'cross over' to become leftward. We have taken a new approach to these phenomena by employing a different...

PURPOSE Adenoid hypertrophy is a physical alteration that may affect speech, and a speech disorder can have other negative effects on a child's life. Airway obstruction leads to constricted oral breathing and causes postural alterations of several oro-facial structures, including the mouth, tongue, and hyoid bone. The postural modifications may affect several aspects of speech production. MET...

Phonetic disorders are errors of articulation and resonance phonemes, which, in the presence or absence organic changes phonoarticulatory organs, persist beyond acquisition perceptual articulatory skills. For correct production each vowel/consonant, structures apparatus come into contact a variable way, following finely coordinated movements, adopt certain position to allow emission sound. Orof...