Progressive language impairments: Definitions, diagnoses, and prognoses

Croot, Karen

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“…Factors such as exact symptomology of communication impairment, expected ABI trajectory and individual specific factors such as comorbidities and pre‐onset functioning are known to impact treatment response (Duffy 2013, Skodda 2013, Croot 2009). Exposure to previous interventions may also impact on detectable treatment response as well as outcome measures and outcome tools used, and intervention structure, content and length.…”

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The effects of choral singing on communication impairments in acquired brain injury: A systematic review

Monroe

Halaki

Kumfor

et al. 2020

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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Background: Acquired brain injury (ABI), such as Parkinson's disease, dementia or stroke, can result in communication difficulties that lead to an impoverished ability to connect meaningfully with others. Choral singing is a complex task that uses multiple brain regions which are also responsible for language and communication skills. The potential therapeutic effects of group singing on communication-related outcomes across ABI aetiologies have not been systematically reviewed. Aims: To examine whether participation in group singing over multiple sessions improves speech, voice, language and/or communication skills in individuals with ABI-related communication disorders. Methods & Procedures: A database search was undertaken according to the PRISMA guidelines. Search terms included: stroke OR Parkinson * OR dementia OR 'acquired brain injury' AND choir OR choral OR singing OR sing OR 'choral sing * ' OR group adj3 singing OR community adj3 singing AND speech OR language OR communication.Main Contribution: A total of 11 studies were included. Nine were quantitative, including one randomized and one non-randomized control trial, and two were mixed method. Nine studies were scored as level IV (uncontrolled) on the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Classification of Evidence Matrix and two as level III (e.g., lack of blinded assessors). Eight examined speech and voice skills in Parkinson's disease, two functional communication skills in post-stroke aphasia and one communication between individuals with dementia and a significant other. One level III control trials provided evidence for a therapeutic effect of group singing on communication in individuals with Parkinson's disease. Conclusions & Implications: Currently, there is only one study providing support for using group singing to improve speech and voice skills in people with Parkinson's disease, and no studies of adequate quality indicating positive effects on language and functional communication abilities in ABI. Further research using more rigorous experimental designs is required to determine whether group singing can influence communication skills in ABI. What this paper addsWhat is already known on the subject r Music activates widespread, bilateral cortical and subcortical brain regions. Group singing is increasingly understood to have positive benefits on quality of life and health-related well-being in both healthy and clinical populations. Given the crossover in neural networks between singing, speech and language, singing activities are also thought to have positive effect of communication impairments secondary to ABI. 304Penelope Monroe et al.However, to date, the research evidence supporting the application of group singing for communication impairments in ABI has not been summarized.What this paper adds to existing knowledge r A total of 11 studies have looked at communication outcomes after group singing in ABI. For most of these, the quality of evidence was low (AAN level IV). It also highlights that there is a bias in the literature towards...

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The effects of choral singing on communication impairments in acquired brain injury: A systematic review

Monroe

Halaki

Kumfor

et al. 2020

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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“…The current literature supporting interventions for primary progressive aphasia includes many of the interventions listed above, as well as the suggestions shown in Table 3 for how these approaches may be applied to functional behaviors. 38,39 TREATMENT OF MODERATE TO SEVERE DEMENTIA IN COMMUNITY AND RESIDENTIAL FACILITY SETTINGS Our role as SLPs should be to help persons with cognitive impairment to live the life they choose to live. We can achieve this by identifying and capitalizing on their spared abilities, modifying the physical and social environment to support their impaired systems such as declarative memory, and continually educating, supporting, and involving families throughout the entire process.…”

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Will You Still Need Me When I'm 64, or 84, or 104? The Importance of Speech-Language Pathologists in Promoting the Quality of Life of Aging Adults in the United States into the Future

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In the next two decades, there will be advances in the diagnosis and treatment of the disorders of aging that have the potential to change the way speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are trained and provide services to individuals with a continuum of cognitive communication challenges. SLPs will address the needs of the aging adult who continues to reside in the community and desires to maintain an independent and meaningful life, as well as those who require a supportive residential setting to achieve a satisfying quality of life. Evidence-based strategies and intervention approaches for the range of goals that will address the desired functions of a meaningful life for individuals faced with cognitive communicative challenges are outlined. Institutional barriers to the implementation of documented evidence-based approaches will need to be reduced through a variety of organizational and systems changes. The projected outcome of these changes will be the creation of a person-centered culture of care that promotes dignity, choice, and engagement in meaningful activities through the end of life.

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“…He also reported a carryover effect such that higher TOT rates also occurred on the next question following an emotion-inducing question. However, these results were challenged by d' Angelo and Humphreys (2012). They determined that in the Schwartz (2010) experiment, the targets corresponding to emotion-inducing questions were lower in word frequency and had fewer phonological neighbors than targets corresponding to neutral questions, variables that increase TOTs Harley & Bown, 1998).…”

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Cognition, language, and aging

Henderson¹,

Wright²

2016

Cognition, Language and Aging

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Age-related changes in cognitive and language functions have been extensively researched over the past half-century. The study of age-related changes has spanned numerous disciplines including linguistics, psychology, gerontology, neuroscience, and communication sciences. The older adult represents a unique population for studying cognition and language because of the many challenges that are presented with investigating this population, including individual differences in education, life experiences, health issues, social identity, as well as gender. The purpose of this book is to provide an advanced text that considers these unique challenges and assembles, in one source, current information regarding cognitive-linguistic processes in the aging population. Providing a comprehensive discussion of language across the adult lifespan by considering neurophysiology, cognition, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics offers a stronger foundation for understanding factors that contribute to normal changes in language processes.As demonstrated in this text and others, cognitive aging is an expansive field of study that involves understanding how cognitive changes normally occur across the adult lifespan. Understanding normal changes is critical for determining pathological as well as exceptional changes (Burke & McKay, 1997; Craik & Salthouse, 2007). Specific to language, changes have primarily focused on word retrieval (e.g., tip-of-the-tongue), sentence comprehension, and discourse. Recently, researchers have also considered the role of psychosocial factors on aging and how these factors may mediate age-related changes in cognitive and linguistic processes and these are discussed in later chapters. Finally, reading ability provides further insight into understanding how cognitive processes change with age and is further addressed in the book. The purpose of this chapter is to orient the reader to the text and overview the many facets of cognition, language, and psychosocial factors in the older adult.In the second chapter, Abrams and Davis provide an in depth review of the "tip-of-the-tongue" phenomenon a phenomenon that occurs in speakers of all

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Progressive language impairments: Definitions, diagnoses, and prognoses

Cited by 14 publications

References 92 publications

The effects of choral singing on communication impairments in acquired brain injury: A systematic review

The effects of choral singing on communication impairments in acquired brain injury: A systematic review

Will You Still Need Me When I'm 64, or 84, or 104? The Importance of Speech-Language Pathologists in Promoting the Quality of Life of Aging Adults in the United States into the Future

Cognition, language, and aging

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