An Acoustic Analysis of Speech Motor Performance in Autistic Children Purpose: Despite known motor and spoken language impairments in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the motor skills underlying speech production and...

💰🔐 In @ashajournals.bsky.social Maffei, M. F., Chenausky, K. V., @htagerf.bsky.social, & Green, J. R. (2025). An Acoustic Analysis of Speech Motor Performance in #Autistic Children. JSLHR, 1–23. doi.org/10.1044/2025... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #ChildSpeechDis #autism #slpeeps

Conceptualizing and describing autistic language: Moving on from ‘verbal’, ‘minimally verbal’ and ‘nonverbal’ - Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Alyssa Hillary Zisk, Jordyn Zimmerman, Betty Yu, 2025

#openaccess
Conceptualizing and describing autistic language: Moving on from ‘verbal’, ‘minimally verbal’ and ‘nonverbal’

#autism #SLP #SLT #bskyspeechies #languagedevelopment

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Babble Boot Camp for Infants With Down Syndrome: Piloting a Proactive, Caregiver-Led Intervention Designed to Boost Earliest Speech and Language Skills Purpose: Down syndrome (DS) is associated with lifelong difficulties with verbal communication, beginning in infancy when vocalizations are spars...

Babble Boot Camp for Infants w/ Down Syndrome: Piloting a Proactive, Caregiver-Led Intervention Designed to Boost Earliest #Speech and #Language Skills on.asha.org/4l5jwZE

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www.cnebabylab.psychol.cam.ac.uk/publications #ChildDirectedSpeech ✔️ #babytalk ✔️ Mums unconsciously exaggerate a rhythm pattern of ≈120 beats a minute, perfect for babies to learn from. Babies’ brainwaves seem to work in sync with #trochaic rhythm. 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #MetricalStress #Trochees SwSw

A Scoping Review of Episodes of Lucidity in People Living With Dementia Near the End of Life: The Potential Role of Speech-Language Pathology in Research and Practice Purpose: Emerging evidence suggests that people with dementia may experience episodes of lucidity (ELs) near the end of life, characterized by a ...

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Scoping review in looks at episodes of lucidity in people living with #dementia. Potential roles for SLPs are highlighted. at.asha.org/wi

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p.s. Remember: Research Tuesday articles are freed up for 2 weeks.

How to Interpret and Evaluate a Meta-Analysis in the Field of Speech-Language Pathology: A Tutorial for Clinicians Purpose: This tutorial will provide speech-language pathologists with practical considerations and pragmatic tools for interpreting and criticall...

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What Matters When Providing Conversational Recast Treatment? A Multilevel Modeling Analysis Purpose: Conversational recasting treatment is generally effective. However, different versions of this treatment and different targets may yield...

In this newly published #AJSLP study, the authors directly compare multiple variations of conversational recasting to determine how modifications to delivery and modifications to target impact treatment outcomes. on.asha.org/4h06Tw8

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Image of two brains, a speaker and a listener. An idea goes from the brain of a speaker through the speech production system and into an acoustic waveform, which is perceived both by the speaker (as auditory feedback) and the listener (where it is decoded back to a linguistic signal.

I've always appreciated the "speech chain" as a way to frame communication. I like that it explicitly includes an acoustic signal 👂 (which can be degraded) and feedback to the speaker. And brains. 🧠

So, this is the first figure in my book, and informs the rest. 🧵

#neuroscienceoflanguage

First, Meta-analysis of #recasting from 2015 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... (The infographic includes newer work, but also dated). Recasting works for grammar targets and kids with #devlangdis ... but wow, it requires intentionality & a high dose. Makes it hard to incorporate into regular tx.

What We Learned from Research in 2024 2024 was another great year filled with fascinating research. Over the course of this year, I’ve written a few posts about some of it:...

Hey, 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES! Learn why @mandercorn.bsky.social says "If you’ve stayed with me this far, you are a true research 🤓nerd!" #language #literacy #research #cognition #reading #writing #multilingualism #assessment 🧠 #cognition #SoR languageandliteracy.blog/what-we-lear... Turns out I'm one 🤓!

Learning to produce and transcribe cardinal vowels: speech and language therapy students’ perception of task difficulty Learning vowel transcription skills is crucial to function as a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT). However, vowel transcription is commonly regarded as particularly difficult and therefore often ...

🆓🔓"The importance of accurate vowel transcription is highlighted in the @csdrnetwork.bsky.social Good Practice Guidelines alluding to a tendency to focus on the transcription of Cs & neglect Vs whose transcription is considered more difficult" doi.org/10.1080/0269...
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #ChildSpeechDis

Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted by work.

I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.

Late to the party but this was a fascinating morning read 😁 while I snack on watermelon ☺️🍉

Depiction of a picture naming trial (patient sees Frankenstein and says "Frankenstein"), a sentence production trial (patient sees Dracula hitting Frankenstein and says "Dracula hit Frankenstein"), and mean neural activity for each of the six words in one electrode during picture naming.

New preprint! We know a lot about how the brain produces single words. But how does word production work in sentences? We tracked 6 words in the brain while ECoG patients used them to produce sentences like "Dracula hit Frankenstein". 🧵 1/9
doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Systematic Review of Interventions Based on Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition (GLP/NLA): Clinical Implications of Absence of Evidence and Cautions for Clinicians and Parents... Purpose of the Review This systematic review aimed to determine whether interventions related to Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition (GLP/NLA) are effective for individuals wi...

It’s here 📗 the Systematic Review of #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisition link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Look forward to your emails ABCD feedback! (Accurate, Balanced, Critical, Depersonalised)

I’d like it if language courses started with expressing your opinion first with a couple of nouns. And then from there we can go into nouns like jacket and uncle etc

Implications of a systematic review into GLP S6E44 Podcast Episode · Speak Up · 28/11/2024 · 43m

Here you go - Podcast 1! From our National Professional Association - Speech Pathology Australia - podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i... #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisition @carolinebowen.bsky.social

The Hourglass Nebula seen by Hubble

I like seeing research articles and discussion threads (especially as a student(I can mine for nuggets of wisdom )) 🤓

Assessment and treatment of gesture in neurogenic communication disorders: An international survey of practice Background Gesture and speech collaborate in conveying meaning, and gesture is often leveraged by people with neurogenic communication disorders, such as aphasia, cognitive-communicative impairments...

New article!

Is gesture included in speech &language therapy for neurogenic communication disorders?
Yes!

Find out how and why in our international survey.

With Anna Caute, Lucy Dipper & @briellestark.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Gesture #BSkySpeechies #Aphasia

AJLD EMINENT RESEARCHER AWARD WINNER 2023: EMERITUS PROFESSOR KEVIN WHELDALL AM Swansong: five decades of research on language, behaviour and reading difficulties In this paper, Emeritus Professor Kevin Wheldall AM, who received the Eminent Researcher Award of this journal in 2023, describes his research over the past five decades, together with his wife and...

What Kevin Wheldall learned from 50yrs of research:
✔︎ find your tribe;
✔︎ be prepared to be unpopular;
✔︎ learn from one another;
✔︎ be patient, your time will come; and
✔︎ keep on keeping on; persistence is key to making a difference.
🆓🔓www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1940415...

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Nice bio, @iliemoo.bsky.social 😉. Are there any more 🇳🇿🥝 #NZ #NewZealand 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES here? #SLPeeps #AUDPeeps #WeSpeechies #NZSTA

The Aphasia Research Library aphasialibrary.org is a new, free resource for creating and sharing aphasia friendly research summaries. Co-designed with people living with aphasia and researchers. Learn more here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xais8...

It's a right, it's the right thing to do and it's a requirement. www.aphasialibrary.org

I love the adjective embiggened 🥹🥹🥹 doesn’t get enough credit

Redefining language networks: connectivity beyond localised regions - Brain Structure and Function Brain Structure and Function -

Brain Structure and Function

Redefining language networks: connectivity beyond localised regions
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How awesome ☺️🫶🏻

New Bouba and Kiki just droppt 😍

Right there with you 🫶🏻