Purpose To determine what research evidence exists to support the use of voice measures
in the clinical assessment of patients with voice disorders. Method The American Speech …

Background Hospitalizations for aspiration pneumonia have doubled among older adults.
Using a bedside water swallow test (WST) to screen for swallowing-related aspiration can …

The landmark reference in the field, completely updated: a comprehensive treatment of a
disorder that is more prevalent than autism. Children with specific language impairment …

Purpose Speech-language pathologists have both a professional and ethical responsibility
to provide culturally competent services to dual language learners (DLLs). In this tutorial, we …

To improve ecological validity, perceptual and instrumental assessment of disordered voice,
including overall voice quality, should ideally sample both sustained vowels and continuous …

Purpose The purpose of this meta-analytic study was to identify clinical characteristics,
defined as child factors that can be assessed by a speech-language pathologist as part of a …

Purpose This article provides a comprehensive narrative review of intervention studies for
children with speech sound disorders (SSD). Its companion paper (Baker & McLeod, 2011) …

Voice practitioners require an objective index of dysphonia severity as a means to reliably
track treatment outcomes. To ensure ecological validity however, such a measure should …

Purpose This systematic review and meta-analysis critically evaluated the research
evidence on the effectiveness of conversational recasts in grammatical development for …

Purpose This study provides a meta-analysis of the difference between children with primary
or specific language impairment (LI) and their typically developing peers on tasks of …