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Discover more from ASHA's high-impact research journals: AJA, AJSLP, JSLHR, and LSHSS, all continuously published on the ASHAWire platform: pubs.asha.org #bskySPEECHIES #SLPeeps #AUDPeeps

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ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 1h

Veterans Health Administration (VHA) pilot study aimed to determine whether VHA could use automated audiometry w/ asynchronous telehealth systems to increase access points for aud. svcs to veterans across multiple VHA locations. https://on.asha.org/47fnZ72 @sigperspectives.bsky.social #AUDpeeps

Veterans Integrated Service Network 19 Hub-and-Spoke Model for Asynchronous Automated Audiometry

Purpose: In fiscal year 2020 (FY20), the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) initiated a pilot study to determine whether automated audiometry c...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 15h

Hearing aids are the primary treatment for age-related hearing loss--but they're vastly underutilized. Researchers explored cross-sectional associations between predisposing, enabling, & need factors as well as hours of daily use. https://on.asha.org/4q4MVpu

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Associations Between Predisposing, Enabling, and Need Factors and Hours of Daily Hearing Aid Use in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

Purpose: Hearing aids are the primary treatment for age-related hearing loss but are vastly underutilized. We explored cross-sectional associatio...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 17h

Individuals who have had a concussion in the past may experience mild impairments in perception of nonnative-accented speech in noise. Additionally, challenging listening conditions may exacerbate existing symptoms associated with mTBI.

https://on.asha.org/46IFVH6

Accented Speech Perception in Noise After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Purpose: Perceiving nonnative-accented speech is a cognitively demanding task that requires additional cognitive effort compared to perceiving na...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 20h

This study compares the decoding skills of primary school newcomer children with those of native monolingual and bilingual French-speaking children, and it explores the role of contextual factors that might have an impact on these skills.

https://on.asha.org/48k93Wl

Assessing Decoding Skills in Newcomer Children: An Analysis of Word and Pseudoword Decoding Scores in Light of Some Contextual Factors

Purpose: Most studies about reading development in second-language learners have been carried out on children exposed to the second language from...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 1d

Understanding the correlation between objective acoustic measurements and auditory-perceptual scales is essential for improving voice assessment methods, according to authors of this #JSLHR study.

https://on.asha.org/46XDdwc

Auditory-Perceptual Validation of Acoustic Chaos Parameters in Healthy and Dysphonic Voices

Purpose: Understanding the correlation between objective acoustic measurements and auditory-perceptual scales is essential for improving voice as...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 1d

Word-level characteristics (i.e., repeated or variegated sequence) in target words are important for children's success in matching their production to their target sequences during the early period of speech & language development. https://on.asha.org/3IYpUni

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Mom, Dad, and Ball: Manner of Articulation Sequences Within Children's Consonant–Vowel–Consonant Words

Purpose: Previous studies of early speech acquisition have established characteristics of phonemes and syllable structures produced by young chil...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 1d

#JSLHR researchers evaluate the cross-linguistic validity of the CL-NWR Test based on a large multi-country sample by investigating factors related to language ability as well as potential confounds. https://on.asha.org/4nHo3CA

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Evaluation of the Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition Test: Evidence From a Large and Diverse Secondary Data Set

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the crosslinguistic validity of the Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition Test (CL-NWR) based on a la...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 1d

Introducing the NEURAL Research Lab Data Set for Studies of Discourse and Gesture in #Aphasia and Cognitively Healthy Aging Adults https://on.asha.org/42sGsKQ

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Introducing the NEURAL Research Lab Data Set for Studies of Discourse and Gesture in Aphasia and Cognitively Healthy Aging Adults

Purpose: The NEURAL Research Lab data set was collected with the intention of improving the study of short-term variation in spoken language and ...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 1d

#JSLHR researchers aimed to find subgroups within a sample of patients w/ primary muscle tension dysphonia (pMTD) based on acoustic & aerodynamic measurements. They used a computational approach to elucidate what, previously, was largely observational. https://on.asha.org/3KY3z9Z

Acoustic and Aerodynamic Clusters Within Primary Muscle Tension Dysphonia

Purpose: Primary muscle tension dysphonia (pMTD) is a form of vocal hyperfunction with no preexisting tissue trauma to the vocal folds. There are...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 1d

#ResearchTuesday! Children across the world use drawing to show how they talk to, what they talk about, and how they feel about talking.

Read more about this study of children from 24 countries! https://at.asha.org/Nn

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Children Draw Talking Around the World

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine how children from across the world draw themselves talking and to apply an interdisciplinary a...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 2d

Psychosocial Status and Quality of Life in Patients With Ménière's Disease and Vestibular Migraine https://on.asha.org/4pYENqq

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Psychosocial Status and Quality of Life in Patients With Ménière's Disease and Vestibular Migraine

Purpose: The objective of this study was to evaluate anxiety, depression, dizziness disability, sleep, and quality of life in individuals diagnos...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 2d

#JSLHR study finds that children w/ #DLD exhibit impairments in both motor skills & upper limb proprioceptive acuity. https://on.asha.org/48PhwRt

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Deficits in Motor Skills and Upper Limb Proprioception in Children With Developmental Language Disorder

Background: Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) often exhibit motor difficulties and impaired somatosensory perception. While lim...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 2d

Check out the first of two posts celebrating AAC Awareness Month! This week, we focus on how you can help people who use AAC learn new vocabulary and develop important communication skills! https://academy.pubs.asha.org/2025/10/aac-awareness-month-vocabulary-and-socialization-in-aac/ #AACAwareness

AAC Awareness Month: Vocabulary and Socialization in AAC - ASHA Journals Academy

People use nonverbal ways of communicating every day—from sending a text message to waving at a friend. Nonspeaking and minimally speaking individuals rely partially or fully on augmentative and alter...

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ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 5d

Clinical voice quality assessments typically use external microphones meeting technical standards for instrumental assessment of voice. This study explores smartphones' suitability for voice recordings through a systematic review with meta-analysis.

https://on.asha.org/3VNYYJP

The Accuracy of Smartphone Recordings for Clinical Voice Diagnostics in Acoustic Voice Quality Assessments: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Objective: Clinical voice quality assessments typically use external microphones meeting technical standards for instrumental assessment of voice...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 5d

Study finds that the central auditory pathways have a protracted developmental course that can be disrupted by temporary hearing loss early in life.

https://on.asha.org/4gQbgLg @sigperspectives.bsky.social

Poor Spectral Modulation Sensitivity Disrupts Development of Phonological Sensitivity: Evidence From Children With Histories of Chronic Otitis Media

Purpose: This study tested the hypotheses that (a) sensitivity to spectral modulation has a protracted course of development; (b) its development...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 6d

#JSLHR study found that, in noise, both young and older adults recognize lip-reading benefits. Yet, older adults perceive less effort reduction—potentially influencing real-life strategy use. https://on.asha.org/474Ammr

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Metacognitive Awareness of Lipreading Gains in Young and Older Adults

Purpose: When listening to speech in noise, lipreading can facilitate communication. However, beyond its objective benefits, individuals' percept...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 7d

#AJSLP study by @eddychwong et al. investigated the oral & speech motor abilities of Cantonese preschool children with & w/o speech sound disorder using an adapted version of a popular English assessment protocol. https://on.asha.org/46MaIlf

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Cantonese Oral and Speech Motor Assessment for Preschool Children With and Without Speech Sound Disorders

Purpose: Oral and speech motor abilities are key components of assessments of Cantonese speakers with speech sound disorder (SSD), especially chi...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 7d

#LSHSS tutorial article aims to empower SLPs to thoughtfully advocate for & implement UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE SCREENING in order to make a positive impact on the children and communities they serve. https://on.asha.org/42iyZOu

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Taking Steps in the Right Direction: Considerations for Implementing Universal Oral Language Screenings in the Schools

Purpose: Growing awareness of the importance of oral language for academic success, the underidentification of students with developmental langua...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 7d

2 commercially available screening tasks are available in English to screen adolescents for DLD. One (in the literature) is available in Danish. Other potentially useful ones have not been fully evaluated for their diagnostic accuracy. https://on.asha.org/4nZ4F3t

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Clinical Screening Tools to Identify Adolescents at Risk for Developmental Language Disorder: A Systematic Review

Purpose: Adolescents with developmental language disorder (DLD) are an underserved population. Having DLD affects adolescents' academic and event...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 7d

This audiology inpatient management program improved communication between patients w/ hearing loss & their providers during hospitalization. Audiologists must guide recommendations on how inpatients w/ hearing loss can participate in their health care. https://on.asha.org/3KzYg0h

An Audiology Program to Proactively Manage Inpatient Veterans With Hearing Loss

Purpose: Effective communication is essential to optimize medical care, but patients and providers are poor at recognizing hearing difficulty. Wh...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 8d

This study investigated the perception of gender in voices of older children, around the onset of puberty, under the conditions of noise and talker variability arising from regional dialect variation.

https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00907

Perception of Gender in Voices of 8- to 12-Year-Old Children in the Context of Regional Dialect Variation

Purpose: This study investigated the perception of gender in voices of older children, around the onset of puberty. The aim was to characterize g...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 8d

How a multi-tiered multimodal narrative intervention program was developed by integrating research and real-life professional practice through a participatory co-creation process using multiple methods: https://on.asha.org/42iGViy

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Co-Creation of a Multi-Tiered Narrative Intervention Program for Speech-Language Pathology and Educational Settings

Purpose: This study aims to describe how a multi-tiered multimodal narrative intervention program was developed by integrating research and real-...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 8d

#ResearchTuesday! Language exposure at home and school contribute differently to bilingual language development. This article in #JSLHR shows the importance of exposure to both languages. Read more: https://at.asha.org/MG @sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social #SLPeeps

Relationships Between Home and School Language Exposure and Changes in Bilingual Oral Language Performance From Kindergarten to First Grade

Purpose: With over one third of students in the United States exposed to languages other than English at home, there is a growing need to examine...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 12d

This study evaluated typical morpheme production patterns across three different language sample tasks for Bahamian Creole English-speaking preschool-age children.

https://on.asha.org/4mCseyi

Improving Equitable and Culturally Sensitive Practices for Bahamian Creole English Speakers: Identifying Children's Typical Morphosyntactic Productions Through Language Sampling

Purpose: Morphosyntactic features of Bahamian Creole English (BCE), a natural language in the Bahamas, have been evaluated in adult language; how...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 12d

What factors are associated with self-reported hearing difficulty & with relationship of self-reported hearing difficulty w/ hearing aid use? #JSLHR researchers investigated. Let's see what they found!

https://on.asha.org/42Rij0v

Factors Associated w/ Self-Reported Hearing Difficulty on the RHHI & Its Relationship w/ Hearing Aid Use: Findings From the Population-Based Survey of the Health of Wisconsin

Purpose: This study aims to determine the (a) factors associated with self-reported hearing difficulty and (b) relationship of self-reported hear...