Within the multi-disciplinary team concerned with child and adolescent development,
speech pathologists are uniquely positioned to understand the nature and overall …

Children with specific language impairment (SLI) have often been reported to have
associated behavioral, emotional and social difficulties. Most previous studies involve …

Background: Theoretical and empirical support now exists for the finding that many children
with expressive phonological impairment experience problems in acquiring phonological …

Background: The long‐term academic consequences of childhood language impairment are
both theoretically and clinically important. An unbiased appraisal of these outcomes …

The conceptual framework proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the
International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health,(ICF), provides a …

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 …

Health classification schemes not only affect funding of speech-language pathology services
but the terminology used in the classification affects the way the profession communicates …

Planning speech therapy services is difficult as the size of the speech and language
handicapped population is not known. A literature review has been undertaken to determine …

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Children and Youth
Version (ICF-CY)(World Health Organization,) provides a relevant framework for …

Background: There has been no previous incidence survey of children referred to a speech
and language therapy service in the UK. Previous studies of prevalence of specific …