It can be difficult and frustrating to navigate the road to stronger speech and communication skills, both for children and parents as well as those re-learning basic speech patterns as recovering stroke victims. Our goal as highly-trained Speech and Language Pathologists (SLPs) who are certified...
In the graceless jargon of bad journalism, few 'have' a breakdown, injury, stroke or tumour and 'go' to hospital as a consequence: victims suffer them, and are rushed to the ED, the ER or A&E. Prognoses, issued in catchy Headlinese, vary from ridiculously optimistic - with over-...
Requests for access to the dataset can be made online at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8200782. Response can be expected within three weeks. Any data provided must be kept confidential and cannot be shared with others unless approval is obtained. To protect the participant’s anonymity, any...
Treatments for functional dysphonias are typically directed by speech therapist/vocal coaches who conduct voice therapy. Voice therapy commonly centers on the use of modeling and feedback to teach individuals a wide variety of vocal techniques that are designed to improve voice quality. Voice therapy...
There was a serial killer in the 1800s who killed his victims with a Philips-head screwdriver his father had given him for Christmas. He favored the Philips-head screwdriver because it had a pointed tip. As you would expect, he was called the “Screwdriver Killer” but people also called ...
Study finds distinct brain paths for speech, writing Way to help stroke victims is foreseenJudy Foreman, Globe Staff
singing;speech therapy;music therapy;communication disorders;stroke;dementia;professional practice;social prescribing 1. Introduction Singing is a musical activity with high therapeutic potential in neurological rehabilitation, particularly in acquired neurogenic communication disorders (ANCD), such as aphasia or...