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MacBean, Naomi; Ward, Elizabeth; Murdoch, Bruce; Cahill, Louise; Solley, Maura; Geraghty, Timothy; Hukins, Craig – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2009
Background: Mechanical ventilation is commonly used during the acute management of cervical spinal cord injury, and is required on an ongoing basis in the majority of patients with injuries at or above C3. However, to date there have been limited systematic investigations of the options available to improve speech while ventilator-assisted…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Injuries, Speech Impairments, Patients
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Dornan, Dimity; Hickson, Louise; Murdoch, Bruce; Houston, Todd; Constantinescu, Gabriella – Volta Review, 2010
A longitudinal study reported positive speech and language outcomes for 29 children with hearing loss in an auditory-verbal therapy program (AVT group) (aged 2 to 6 years at start; mean PTA 79.39 dB HL) compared with a matched control group with typical hearing (TH group) at 9, 21, and 38 months after the start of the study. The current study…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Therapy, Outcomes of Treatment, Young Children
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Goozee, Justine; Murdoch, Bruce; Ozanne, Anne; Cheng, Yan; Hill, Anne; Gibbon, Fiona – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2007
Background: Electropalatographic investigations have revealed that a proportion of children with articulation/phonological disorders exhibit undifferentiated lingual gestures, whereby the whole of the tongue contacts the palate simultaneously during lingual consonant production. These undifferentiated lingual gestures have been interpreted to…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Phonemes, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition