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Describing the diagnosis of Primary Progressive Aphasia and its variants with particular focus on the speech and language features that differentiate them The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Click the PDF icon to download the presentation slides. I’ll be talking today about connected speech...
Looking at models of comorbidity, assessment implications, and capitalizing on comparisons between children with SLI and children with ADHD. The ADHD Context When I was coming up for a title for the talk, I thought I was quite clever with this. Because the notion of an ADHD context can actually...
Gaining and applying a deeper understanding of dialect differences in terms of rate, context, and function to better distinguish African American English and Southern White English speaking children with specific language impairment The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. I’m going to be speaking about...
How to discriminate bilingual second-language children with typical development from those with language impairment The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Linguistic Diversity and Clinical Assessment On the theme of bilingualness, bilingualism and variants my title has a primary and/specific language impairment, that’s because it...
This talk focuses on the parallels and differences in early risk markers, developmental trajectories and neurocognitive mechanisms in autism and specific language impairment The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. The overview of my talk is I’ll start by introducing Autism Spectrum Disorder and then...
The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. I’m delighted to talk to you about NIH initiatives to improve measurement. They have some similarities between them, and I will point those out. The first one I’m going to talk about is PROMIS. I’m going to start...
Overview of the steps in developing a participation outcomes item bank, including identifying the construct, item development, psychometric testing, and item bank selection She said, “I still meet rehabilitation professionals who believe that people can put their lives on hold until they’re recovered. A focus on participation challenges us to...
Highlighting patient-reported outcomes in the context of clinical outcome measures, limitations of measures and issues of construct dimensionality, and results from development of an item bank and computer adaptive test The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. I’m going to begin just by placing PROs...
Highlighting key issues in defining participation and the process for developing and testing a new participation measure The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. I hope today to talk about the construct of participation, discuss some of the key measurement issues in addressing participation, provide...
Measuring and modeling outcomes when the treatment and goals are individualized to a client’s priorities and capabilities. In measuring clinical outcomes of behavioral and symptom-targeted interventions we’re looking at changing aspects of patient’s behavior, feelings, symptoms, or daily functioning. And in these cases, the treatment is goal directed and targets...