Auditory-discrimination training is a major component of speech-therapy programs designed to improve speech-articulation skills. Training in the identification and discrimination of correct and incor- rect speech-sound ...

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effects of a specific intervention program on production and feature awareness, as well as on general phonological awareness skills, in four children with moderate-to-severe ...

Although many researchers have investigated the language disorder of aphasia, there have been few studies investigating the semantic organization of language with regard to aphasia. Part of the semantic nature of language ...

The purpose of this study was to differentiate between two basic positions taken by investigators of the language of deaf children: (1) the process by which deaf children acquire language is different from the process by ...

The purpose of this study was to examine and describe the emergence and development of the specific types of conversational repair strategies used by normally developing children. Previous investigations have examined the ...

Individuals with {\it sensorineural hearing loss} (SNHL) are prescribed hearing aids and/or a cochlear implant, based on their pure-tone threshold and speech perception scores. Although these assistive listening devices ...

Background: Previous functional and anatomical neuroimaging studies have reported physiological and structural differences in adults who stutter and children who stutter compared to fluent controls. However, a comparison ...