This presentation examines methods for identifying language regions in the brains of people with aphasia, showing that commonly used mapping tasks often fail to produce reliable results.
This presentation describes an adaptive treatment design for minimally verbal school-aged children with autism, comparing strategy sequences, including speech-generating devices, to determine which works best.
Purpose: The need for community-viable, evidence-based intervention strategies for toddlers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a national priority. The purpose of this research forum article is to identify gaps in intervention research and needs in community practice for toddlers with ASD, incorporate published findings from a randomized controlled trial (RCT)...
This presentation examines why children with autism spectrum disorder struggle with word meaning, pointing to an early learning strategy called the shape bias that fails to develop consistently.
This presentation examines early motor and communicative development in infants with an older sibling with autism, exploring how motor delays might shape caregiver language input over time.
This presentation explores how young children with autism spectrum disorder learn new words, considering whether they rely on sentence structure rather than social and visual cues.
This presentation examines executive function skills in school-age children with autism, weighing whether language ability or executive function is the true driving force.
A research laboratory is the center of discovery and training of researchers at every level of experience and expertise. Research integrity pervades all aspects of lab life, beginning the moment a new student enters the lab and continuing through the development of independent research projects and programs. Human subject research...
Are you a clinical/applied researcher? If so, you probably are frustrated by the “research-to-practice” gap: The time it takes to move research findings about new treatments or clinical practices into routine practice. In medicine, it’s been estimated that this gap is about 17 years, and even then, only about 14%...
In the early 2000s, ASHA began to promote the application of an evidence-based practice (EBP) model to the discipline of communication sciences and disorders (CSD). This triangular model addresses recommended contemporary practice in speech-language pathology but is flawed by design. It specifies that clinicians should (a) consider the best external...
