Title: Survey of the functional priorities in patients with disability due to neuromuscular disorders. Objective: This study attempts to determine the functional priorities for...

Objective: This study set out to obtain information on the impact of trainable hearing aids among clinicians and hearing aid users and candidates. Design: Two online adaptive...

Purpose: To investigate how speech-language pathologists (SLPs) report involving parents in intervention for phonology-based speech sound disorders (SSDs), and to describe the...

Aim: The world population is rapidly ageing. As population age, the incidence of functional limitations increases, demanding higher levels of care from caregivers. Assistive...

Objective: This study evaluates the Danish test battery for auditory processing disorder (APD). The battery consists of four behavioural tests, two speech and two non-speech...

This introduction to a special issue of Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics includes an overview of the contents of each of the six articles. Each of the articles use the...

Purpose: Access to an appropriate wheelchair is a human right. Only between 5–15% of people who need a wheelchair have access to one. One of the key barriers to access is the...

Objective: To conduct a systematic review of the benefits of non-linear frequency compression (NLFC) in adults and children. Design: Ten databases were searched for studies...

Purpose: Executive function (EF) deficits commonly co-occur with other linguistic and non-linguistic deficits in aphasia. The questions about whether, and to what extent, people...

Purpose: The Persian language is a member of the Western Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian family within the Indo-European language family. Here, we aimed to study phonological...

Objective: Explore the acceptability of a socialisation, health education and falls prevention programme (Walk and Talk for Your Life: WTL) as an adjunct to group auditory...

Purpose: Aphasia – loss of comprehension or expression of language – is a devastating functional sequela of stroke. There are as yet no effective methods for rehabilitation of...

Purpose: Youth with disabilities are under-represented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in school and in the workforce. One encouraging approach to engage...

It is commonly accepted that the evaluation of voice disorders ought to include extensive perceptual, psychometric, and instrumental measurements. This serves to encapsulate the...

Objective: To identify and describe predictors of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) outcomes for adult cochlear implant (CI) recipients in South Africa. Design: A...

Objectives. To monitor listening habits to personal listening devices (PLDs) using a smartphone application and to compare actual listening habits to self-report data. Design....

Purpose: Limited data exist that support the reproducibility of cervical auscultation (CA) use in children. This study aimed to determine the reliability of CA in detecting...

Purpose: There is a need to develop letter knowledge assessment tools to characterise the letter knowledge in Portuguese pre-schoolers and to compare it with pre-schoolers from...

Purpose: To explore possible effects of tongue piercing on perceived speech quality. Methods: Using a quasi-experimental design, we analyzed the effect of tongue piercing on...

Volunteer activities can provide opportunities to learn new skills, build social networks, and contribute to enhanced self-esteem. Volunteering also provides a positive...