TOP MEDICAL JOURNALS

The limitations in interpreting the evidence for behavioral interventions for drooling p. 3
Authors: Sheena Reilly (Commentary author)
DOI: 10.1080/17489530802024026
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Fixed-interval and randomized-interval spaced retrieval training seem to have comparable outcomes for improving confrontation naming performance in three persons with aphasia, but the jury is still out p. 6
Authors: Nidhi Mahendra (Commentary author)
DOI: 10.1080/17489530701878472
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Extended version of the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) results in changes to vocal sound pressure level comparable to those resulting from traditional LSVT in a group of 12 participants p. 11
Authors: Megan J. McAuliffe (Commentary author)
DOI: 10.1080/17489530801902966
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Teaching reciprocal imitation skills to parents of young children with autism supports socially valid parent engagement with their children 1 p. 14
Authors: Karin Lifter (Commentary author)
DOI: 10.1080/17489530801948688
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Print-referencing techniques, implemented during a shared storybook-reading activity, hold promise for increasing the print-concept knowledge of preschoolers with language impairment p. 17
Authors: Sonia Q. Cabell; Laura M. Justice (Commentary authors)
DOI: 10.1080/17489530801937038
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A parent-implemented, naturalistic strategy produced increases in vocalizations and appropriate play in two children with autism p. 20
Authors: Jim Halle (Commentary author)
DOI: 10.1080/17489530801976796
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Acquisition of the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) and its relationship with word production varies for individual children with autism p. 23
Authors: Debra Berry Malmberg; Marjorie H. Charlop-Christy (Commentary authors)
DOI: 10.1080/17489530801897091
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Using motivating operations to evoke question-asking behavior can be effective in teaching language skills to preschoolers with autism p. 26
Authors: Colleen S. Brennan; Phillip J. Belfiore (Commentary authors)
DOI: 10.1080/17483100801921352
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Children with autism can acquire intraverbals, but maintenance and generalization are poor p. 29
Authors: Peter Sturmey (Commentary author)
DOI: 10.1080/17489530801936931
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Adults with developmental disabilities may be able to acquire some requesting skills without direct training of those skills p. 31
Authors: Robert E. O’Neill (Commentary)
DOI: 10.1080/17489530801886219
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Considerations for appraising diagnostic studies of communication disorders p. 34
Authors: Thomas Klee
DOI: 10.1080/17489530801927757
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Methodological quality of intervention research in speech–language pathology: Analysis of 10 years of group-design studies p. 46
Authors: Laura M. Justice;  Chad Nye;  Jamie Schwarz;  Anita McGinty; Ana Rivera
DOI: 10.1080/17489530802008839
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