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Cystic Fibrosis and Pancreatic Disease
Published in Praveen S. Goday, Cassandra L. S. Walia, Pediatric Nutrition for Dietitians, 2022
Elissa M. Downs, Jillian K. Mai, Sarah Jane Schwarzenberg
A genetic counseling referral should occur at diagnosis of CF or for family planning considerations. A speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, or feeding therapy referral should occur with maladaptive feeding behaviors, swallowing difficulties, or other concerns.
Exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction
Published in John W. Dickinson, James H. Hull, Complete Guide to Respiratory Care in Athletes, 2020
Speech-language pathology intervention may include a number of different features. Motor retraining of upper airway muscles is hypothesised to explain the benefits reported in case series. Specific techniques range from simple to complex. Initial techniques described focused on pursed lip exhalation and attention to diaphragmatic breathing. More recently, a complex manoeuvre called the EILOBI technique was described, its creation based on direct visualisation during performance of the manoeuvre.
The Role of the SLP and Assistive Technology in Life Care Planning
Published in Roger O. Weed, Debra E. Berens, Life Care Planning and Case Management Handbook, 2018
Individuals with communication disorders present complex, confusing, and often frustrating challenges to the life care planner. Communication is defined as the transmission or exchange of thoughts and information from one individual to another, whatever the means (e.g., speech, manual signs, gestures, or other graphic symbols). Communication may be linguistic or nonlinguistic. Communication itself is an abstract concept, with disorders in communication, defined by brain-monitoring technology, sophisticated differential diagnoses, and an ability to understand normal and abnormal human speech and language. The best-qualified person to evaluate and make recommendations in this specific area is the speech-language pathologist (SLP). The area of study is accurately referred to as communication sciences and disorders, which includes speech-language pathology and audiology. Speech-language pathology includes cognitive communication, speech, language, and swallowing.
The impact of climate-related disasters on children’s communication and wellbeing: Addressing Sustainable Development Goals
Published in International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2023
Nicole McGill, Sarah Verdon, Michael Curtin, Judith Crockett, Tracey Parnell, Gene Hodgins
Understanding the ongoing impacts of bushfire and natural disasters upon children has multiple implications for SLPs. First, it is evident that the need for support in affected communities is high. There may be many social, financial, geographical, and emotional barriers to accessing services that children need (McGill et al., 2020; Verdon et al., 2011). This is especially true if families have been displaced, lost their home, or if parents and/or children are experiencing ongoing mental health impacts as a result of the disaster. Previous research has shown that on a community level, children’s language, literacy and academic outcomes can be impacted for prolonged periods after bushfire exposure (Gibbs et al., 2019). This is further exacerbated for children with communication disorders who have not previously had access to speech-language pathology, such as those living in rural or remote communities (Verdon et al., 2011). With the increased frequency of climate-related disasters, services must also consider a preventative approach to prepare children, especially those living in high-risk areas. This may include teaching disaster-related vocabulary and having visual aids prepared for times of crisis (Boesch et al., 2022).
From conversation starters in the front yard to talking to God: the sensory ethnography of communication access
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2021
Communication is defined as the process of understanding and sharing meaning [5]. This definition best supported the parameters of the investigation into the relationship between home and communication for people with disability. The field of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) has emerged as an area of research and clinical specialisation within speech-language pathology [6] set within the broader field of rehabilitation. The predominate term accepted and used in the field of AAC is complex communication needs. It refers to individuals with limited or no use of functional spoken language to meet daily communication needs arising from developmental conditions such as CP, autism, intellectual disability, and psychiatric and progressive neurological conditions [7] which restrict or limit a person’s ability to participate independently in society [8]. Communication needs refer to the needs of the individual, with the field of AAC being the science of meeting those needs [9]. This study diverts somewhat from this theoretical position, attempting, instead, to understand communication through the notion of “access” as often applied to other forms of disability. Perceptions of access have tended to be limited to physical barriers with communication barriers not understood in the same way as parking spaces, curb cuts, and ramps [10].
Orofacial function in children with Speech Sound Disorders persisting after the age of six years
Published in International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2020
Åsa Mogren, Lotta Sjögreen, Monica Barr Agholme, Anita McAllister
All participants were children with SSD of unknown origin where speech difficulties had not resolved at the age of six years, despite long-term contact with an speech-language pathologist (SLP). The median age for the first SLP visit was 4:0 years (2:0–7:3 years). Thirteen per cent of the parents were unable to remember how old their child was at his/her first appointment with an SLP. Almost all children in Sweden participate in a nurse-administered general health screening programme at child health-care centres at 2:6–3 years and at four years of age. If a child is identified as having speech, language and communication difficulties at this screening, a referral is sent to the local speech-language pathology clinic for further assessments (Fäldt, Nordlund, Holmqvist, Lucas, & Fabian, 2018).