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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 · 2d

Study highlights the critical role of vocal cues, particularly confidence, in shaping perceptions of speaker credibility. These cues not only affect final credibility judgments--they also shape the dynamic reasoning process involved in social inference. https://on.asha.org/4mVPVBx

On How Vocal Cues Impact Dynamic Credibility Judgments: Mouse-Tracking Paradigm Examining Speaker Confidence and Gender Through Voice Morphing

Purpose: This study aimed to explore how vocal cues of confidence and gender influence the dynamic mechanisms involved in reasoning about speaker...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 3d

This study describes the experience of a first hearing aid fitting from the perspective of adults with hearing loss and their relatives, and it also identifies facilitators and barriers to the fitting process.

https://on.asha.org/4ql3qOr

The Experience of a First Hearing Aid Fitting: Perspectives From Adults With Hearing Loss, Their Relatives, and Hearing Care Professionals

Purpose: This study is the first step in a project aimed at developing an intervention program for new hearing aid (HA) users and their relatives...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 3d

This study examined whether bilingualism affords a perceptual advantage in understanding dysarthric speech, and whether working memory and vocabulary knowledge contribute to that advantage.

https://on.asha.org/4q8hHxK

Bilingual Perception of Dysarthric Speech

Purpose: Despite the prevalence of bilingualism, research on the understanding of disordered speech has focused almost exclusively on monolingual...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 3d

This study aims to characterize Spanish–English emergent bilingual children's language experiences and to examine how these experiences contribute to their bilingual development over a 2-year period.

https://on.asha.org/46L1s24

A Longitudinal Investigation of the Relations Between Emergent Bilingual Children's Language Experience and Bilingual Language Outcomes

Purpose: This study aims to characterize Spanish–English emergent bilingual (EB) children's language experiences and to examine how these experie...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 3d

Researchers aimed to (a) characterize the shape of learning while individuals with #aphasia received intensive anomia intervention and (b) identify the cognitive predictors of this learning response.

https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00101

Cognitive Functions Supporting Learning Over Time in Naming Treatment for Aphasia

Purpose: Aphasia rehabilitation is a learning process that unfolds over time. Previous group studies have examined aphasia treatment response usi...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 3d

This viewpoint explores the idea that a #neurodiversity-affirming social model and a medical model of stuttering health care are not mutually exclusive. In all cases, they should be used in combination.

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

Stuttering and Neurodiversity Across the Lifespan: A Moveable Feast

Purpose: This viewpoint explores the idea that a neurodiversity-affirming social model and a medical model of stuttering health care are not mutu...

ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

#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 · 5d

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 · 5d

#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 · 5d

#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 · 6d

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 · 6d

#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 · 6d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 10d

#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 · 11d

#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 · 11d

#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 · 11d

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...