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Research Watch Report: Telepractice in Aphasia
November 5, 2020
COVID-19 has created an increased need for telepractice services. While some SLPs and their clients are comfortable with the telepractice model, SLPs who provide services to adults with neurogenic lan... Read More
Aphasia Research Watch Report Telehealth and Telepractice
Research Watch Report: Evidence-Based Treatment Approaches for Acquired Apraxia of Speech
May 14, 2020
Acquired apraxia of speech (AOS) is a motor speech disorder that results in decreased intelligibility and impaired prosody. Specifically, AOS results from damage to the motor planning and programming... Read More
Apraxia Research Watch Report
Research Watch Report: Quality of Life, Communication, and Swallowing in Individuals with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
November 19, 2019
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive motor neuron disease that affects approximately 16,000 people in the United States at any given time (ALS Association, 2019). No effective treatmen... Read More
Dysphagia (Adult) Research Watch Report
Research Watch Report: Cognitive-Communication Intervention in Persons with Dementia
July 26, 2019
One of the best ways for busy clinicians to stay abreast of current research is by accessing systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Systematic reviews “involve a detailed and comprehensive plan and s... Read More
Research Watch Report
Research Watch Report: "Intensive" Evidence-Based Aphasia Interventions
March 12, 2019
According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD, 2015), about 1 million people in the United States are currently living with aphasia. ASHA’s (2017) data sug... Read More
Aphasia Research Watch Report Telehealth and Telepractice
Research Watch Report: Attention and Memory in Adults with TBI
June 21, 2018
Attention may be defined as “the flexible allocation of cognitive resources toward stimuli, internal representations, and outputs that are currently most important for the accomplishment of a behavi... Read More
Research Watch Report Veterans Affairs (VA) courses
Research Watch Report, Issue 6
January 15, 2018
Wouldn’t it be great if there was some sort of fancy biofeedback device that could be used for the treatment of articulation disorders? There is! One example is electropalatography (EPG) devices lik... Read More
Hearing and Hearing Loss Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Language Disorder(s) Literacy and Phonological Awareness Research Watch Report School Intervention and Collaboration in Schools
Research Watch Report, Issue 5
November 13, 2017
The impact of digital media on child learning has received quite a bit of attention of the past couple decades. This study not only reviews much of that literature, but adds some relevant data. The re... Read More
Language Disorder(s) Literacy and Phonological Awareness Research Watch Report School Intervention and Collaboration in Schools
Research Watch Report, Issue 4
August 23, 2017
Children who enter school speaking a non-mainstream dialect must quickly learn to dialect shift (a.k.a “code-switch”). Similar to bilingual children, they have two sets of syntactic, semantic, mor... Read More
Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Language Disorder(s) Research Watch Report School Intervention and Collaboration in Schools
Research Watch Report, Issue 3
July 19, 2017
Reading programs generally feature many components, any of which could contribute to teaching literacy skills. The Orton-Gillingham approach (upon which several popular reading programs are based) is... Read More
Apraxia Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Language Disorder(s) Literacy and Phonological Awareness Research Watch Report School Intervention and Collaboration in Schools Stuttering
Research Watch Report, Issue 2
June 26, 2017
Peer Communication Support for Teen AAC Users This article identified a method for increasing peer communication in middle-school AAC users. The treatment program consisted of three pre-interventio... Read More
Language Disorder(s) Research Watch Report School Intervention and Collaboration in Schools
Research Watch Report, Issue 1
April 14, 2017
The following is the December 2016 issue of research reviews for pediatric and school-based SLPs, written by Meredith Harold, PhD, CCC-SLP. Each month, Dr. Harold accesses the top 50 research journals... Read More
Language Disorder(s) Research Watch Report School Intervention and Collaboration in Schools