The role of the speech and language therapist in the rehabilitation of speech, swallowing, voice and trismus in people diagnosed with head and neck cancerHead and neck cancer (HNC) and its treatment can have a significant impact on physical and psychosocial wellbeing. A multidisciplinary team (...
A multi-generational family was ascertained for genetic investigation (Fig.1). The family included seven Non-Founder individuals, all of whom were affected by a severe expressive language disorder. Affected individuals presented with slow and dysfluent speech and difficulties characteristic of APD, name...
specifically verbal and vocal variables, early work by Mehrabian (1981) resulted in the “7-38-55” rule, which indicates that only 7% of all communication is done through verbal communication, whilst the non-verbal components, such as the tone of our voice and our body language,...
In the rehabilitation of the individual with CP, the primary role of the speech/language pathologist/therapist is to address communication and feeding needs. Common sequalae of the disorder treated by speech therapists include impairments of articulation that may include mild to severe dysarthria, diff...
Communication and swallowing disorders are a common consequence of stroke. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have been created to assist health professionals to put research evidence into clinical practice and can improve stroke care outcomes. However,
while a greater benefit was found in the weekly group. It should be noted that the weekly singing intervention was delivered by a professional music therapist and the monthly singing intervention was delivered by recreational local musicians, which further complicates interpretation of the findings, si...
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The vast majority of activities described as being illustrative of health promotion in a speech and language therapy context were examples of educational interventions, e.g. training, information provision. Participants believed that the speech and language therapist's role will continue to develop in...
It is therefore essential that speech and language therapists have evidence of their competency with dysphagia. Given these issues, the topic of training and competency of the speech and language therapist with acquired dysphagia was chosen for an MSc dissertation carried out at the University of ...
sentenced to the Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme (ISSP), and to provide a preliminary evaluation of the impact of speech and language therapy (SLT) intervention.Methods & Procedures: Seventy-two entrants to ISSP over 12 months were screened by the speech and language therapist. Thos...