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View article: Self‐Supervised App‐Based Speech Training for Children With Speech Sound Disorder—A Single‐Case Experimental Design Study
Self‐Supervised App‐Based Speech Training for Children With Speech Sound Disorder—A Single‐Case Experimental Design Study Open
Background For children with speech sound disorder (SSD), speech intervention often involves a considerable amount of home‐training, to achieve high‐enough training frequency to promote speech change. A digital speech‐training app has been…
View article: Students’ use of e-learning in developing auditory-perceptual skills in Speech Language Pathology
Students’ use of e-learning in developing auditory-perceptual skills in Speech Language Pathology Open
Auditory-perceptual assessment is central in speech-language pathology (SLP) practice, and hence, an important target in SLP education. Self-supervised e-learning may serve as a means to achieve sufficient practice. The web-based platform …
View article: Interpretability and clinical utility of the strength and stressors in parenting questionnaire
Interpretability and clinical utility of the strength and stressors in parenting questionnaire Open
This study aimed to enhance the interpretability and clinical utility of the strength and stressors in parenting (SSF) questionnaire, a parent‐reported questionnaire designed to assess strength, stress and associated risks of mental ill‐he…
View article: Expressive vocabulary intervention for four 2- to 3-year-old children with cerebral palsy and speech/language difficulties: A single-case A-B study
Expressive vocabulary intervention for four 2- to 3-year-old children with cerebral palsy and speech/language difficulties: A single-case A-B study Open
Parent-delivered focused stimulation may lead to gains in expressive vocabulary in children with CP and speech and language difficulties. The intervention would be suitable for larger single-case studies with more experimental control.
View article: Individual variation in the realisation and contrast of Swedish children’s word-initial voiceless fricatives
Individual variation in the realisation and contrast of Swedish children’s word-initial voiceless fricatives Open
In this study, we explore individual variation and contrast in Swedish children's voiceless fricatives. Thirty-one children between three and eight years of age participated in a picture-prompted word repetition task, wherein they repeated…
View article: Exploring the effect of lexicality and listener experience on gradient ratings of Swedish sibilant fricatives
Exploring the effect of lexicality and listener experience on gradient ratings of Swedish sibilant fricatives Open
This study explores the influence of lexicality on gradient judgments of Swedish sibilant fricatives by contrasting ratings of initial fricatives in words and word fragments (initial CV-syllables). Visual-Analogue Scale (VAS) judgments wer…
View article: Listening like a speech-training app: Expert and non-expert listeners’ goodness ratings of children’s speech
Listening like a speech-training app: Expert and non-expert listeners’ goodness ratings of children’s speech Open
Speech training apps are being developed that provide automatic feedback concerning children's production of known target words, as a score on a 1-5 scale. However, this 'goodness' scale is still poorly understood. We investigated listener…
View article: Developing an AI-Assisted Low-Resource Spoken Language Learning App for Children
Developing an AI-Assisted Low-Resource Spoken Language Learning App for Children Open
Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL) is a rapidly developing area accelerated by advancements in the field of AI. A well-designed and reliable CALL system allows students to practice language skills, like pronunciation, any time outs…
View article: wav2vec2-based Speech Rating System for Children with Speech Sound Disorder
wav2vec2-based Speech Rating System for Children with Speech Sound Disorder Open
The computational resources were provided by Aalto ScienceIT. This work was supported by NordForsk through the funding to Technology-enhanced foreign and second-language learning of Nordic languages, project number 103893.
View article: Canonical babbling ratio – Concurrent and predictive evaluation of the 0.15 criterion
Canonical babbling ratio – Concurrent and predictive evaluation of the 0.15 criterion Open
CBR is a valid measure of CB (at 10 months). However, when using CBR to classify children's babbling as canonical or non-canonical, researchers need to carefully consider the implications of the chosen criterion.
View article: A survey of Swedish speech-language pathologists’ practices regarding assessment of speech sound disorders
A survey of Swedish speech-language pathologists’ practices regarding assessment of speech sound disorders Open
Swedish SSD assessment practices are variable. The present paper reveals areas for development within SLP practice and education programmes, and provides a new perspective on present praxis with regards to the assessment of suspected SSD i…
View article: Parent rating of intelligibility: A discussion of the construct validity of the Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) and normative data of the Swedish version of the ICS
Parent rating of intelligibility: A discussion of the construct validity of the Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) and normative data of the Swedish version of the ICS Open
Background Intelligibility can be defined as the speakers’ ability to convey a message to the listener and it is considered the key functional measure of speech. The Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) is a parent rating scale used to a…
View article: Understanding acceptability of disordered speech through Audience Response Systems-based evaluation
Understanding acceptability of disordered speech through Audience Response Systems-based evaluation Open
We explore the validity and reliability of an Audience Response Systems (ARS)-based measure of acceptability, applied to speech produced by children with speech sound disorder (SSD). We further explore how the suggested measure relates to …
View article: Speech and Language in 5-year-olds with Different Neurological Disabilities and the Association between Early and Later Consonant Production
Speech and Language in 5-year-olds with Different Neurological Disabilities and the Association between Early and Later Consonant Production Open
The primary aim was to describe speech and language abilities in a clinical group of verbal 5-year-old children diagnosed with neurological disability (ND) in infancy, and the secondary aim was to trace precursors to consonant production a…
View article: How are speech sound disorders perceived among children? A qualitative content analysis of focus group interviews with 10–11-year-old children
How are speech sound disorders perceived among children? A qualitative content analysis of focus group interviews with 10–11-year-old children Open
The aims of this study were to identify children’s reactions towards speech sound disorders (SSD) in other children and whether these reactions can be related to specific speech characteristics. Six audio samples, each containing minute-lo…
View article: Simulating Speech Error Patterns Across Languages and Different Datasets
Simulating Speech Error Patterns Across Languages and Different Datasets Open
Children’s speech acquisition is influenced by universal and language-specific forces. Some speech error patterns (or phonological processes) in children’s speech are observed in many languages, but the same error pattern may have differen…
View article: Audience Response System-Based Evaluation of Intelligibility of Children’s Connected Speech – Validity, Reliability and Listener Differences
Audience Response System-Based Evaluation of Intelligibility of Children’s Connected Speech – Validity, Reliability and Listener Differences Open
ARS-based evaluation offers a valid and reliable measure of intelligibility of particular value in research as a practical tool for collecting input from listeners without experience or knowledge of SSDs. We stress that the ARS design pres…
View article: A multidimensional investigation of covert contrast in Swedish acquiring children's speech - a project description
A multidimensional investigation of covert contrast in Swedish acquiring children's speech - a project description Open
Paper presented at FONETIK 2019, 10-12 June 2019, Stockholm
View article: Dealing with the unknown – addressing challenges in evaluating unintelligible speech
Dealing with the unknown – addressing challenges in evaluating unintelligible speech Open
When investigating the interaction between speech production and intelligibility, unintelligible speech portions are often of particular interest. Therefore, the fact that the standard quantification of speech production - the Percentage o…
View article: Towards an Integrated Curriculum in a Speech and Language Pathology Education Programme: Development and Constituents’ Initial Responses
Towards an Integrated Curriculum in a Speech and Language Pathology Education Programme: Development and Constituents’ Initial Responses Open
Background: A traditional curricular structure may challenge integration between foundational and clinical sciences in speech and language pathology (SLP) education. This project aimed to increase curriculum integration at a Swedish SLP ed…
View article: Subjective ratings of age-of-acquisition: exploring issues of validity and rater reliability
Subjective ratings of age-of-acquisition: exploring issues of validity and rater reliability Open
This study aimed to investigate concerns of validity and reliability in subjective ratings of age-of-acquisition (AoA), through exploring characteristics of the individual rater. An additional aim was to validate the obtained AoA ratings a…
View article: Prosodic traits in speech produced by children with autism spectrum disorders – Perceptual and acoustic measurements
Prosodic traits in speech produced by children with autism spectrum disorders – Perceptual and acoustic measurements Open
Background Autism spectrum disorder has been associated with atypical voice characteristics and prosody. In the scientific literature, four different aspects of atypical speech production in autism spectrum disorder have been highlighted; …
View article: Approximating Phonotactic Input in Children’s Linguistic Environments from Orthographic Transcripts
Approximating Phonotactic Input in Children’s Linguistic Environments from Orthographic Transcripts Open
Child-directed spoken data is the ideal source of support for claims about children’s linguistic environments. However, phonological transcriptions of child-directed speech are scarce,compared to sources like adult-directed speech or text …