Auteurs québécois: Joël Macoir, Monica Lavoie et Laura Monetta
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Aphasie primaire progressive
Safety and Efficacy of Different Therapeutic Interventions for Primary Progressive Aphasia: A Systematic Review
J Clin Med. 2025 Apr 29;14(9):3063. doi: 10.3390/jcm14093063.ABSTRACTBackground: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurodegenerative disorder that worsens over time without appropriate treatment. Although referral to a speech and language pathologist is essential for diagnosing language deficits and developing effective treatment plans, there is no scientific consensus regarding the most effective …
Approaches to Training Speech-Language Pathologists to Work With People With Aphasia: A Systematic Review
Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2025 May 6;34(3):1454-1492. doi: 10.1044/2024_AJSLP-24-00350. Epub 2025 Mar 7.ABSTRACTPURPOSE: The aim of this systematic review was to analyze the published research on training approaches for preparing current and future speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to work effectively with people with aphasia (PWA). The review addresses key questions regarding …
Co-designing solutions to the challenges speech pathologists and interpreters encounter when they collaborate to deliver aphasia therapy
Disabil Rehabil. 2025 Apr 6:1-15. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2025.2486459. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPURPOSE: Aphasia caseloads worldwide are becoming increasingly diverse. Both speech pathologists and professional interpreters have identified challenges when working together in the delivery of aphasia rehabilitation to culturally and linguistically diverse people with aphasia. In this study we aimed to co-design …
Connected Speech Alterations and Progression in Patients With Primary Progressive Aphasia Variants
Neurology. 2025 May 13;104(9):e213524. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000213524. Epub 2025 Apr 7.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Diagnosing the different variants of primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is challenging, but more accurate characterization can improve patient management and treatment outcomes. This study aimed to identify the following: (1) which speech features, alone or combined with language assessment and gray …
Vocal and articulatory speech control deficits in individuals with post-stroke aphasia
Sci Rep. 2025 Apr 17;15(1):13350. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-96040-4.ABSTRACTIndividuals with post-stroke aphasia exhibit deficits in regulating vocal (i.e., laryngeal) pitch control during speech vowel production; however, it is not determined whether such deficits also exist when they control their supra-laryngeal speech articulators during word production. To address this question, 19 …
Phonemic simplification in apraxia of speech and aphasia with phonemic paraphasia
Clin Linguist Phon. 2025 May 2:1-19. doi: 10.1080/02699206.2025.2498437. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPURPOSE: There are varied reports about the extent to which people with apraxia of speech (AOS) simplify the phonemic complexity of utterances they attempt to produce and whether the degree to which they do so might inform differential diagnosis relative …
What works, how and in which contexts when using digital health to support parents/carers to implement intensive speech and language therapy at home for children with speech sound disorder? A realist review
PLoS One. 2025 May 7;20(5):e0321647. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0321647. eCollection 2025.ABSTRACTPURPOSE: Digital health solutions to support parent-implemented interventions alongside direct speech and language therapist (SLT) input could help increase intervention intensity for children with speech sound disorder (SSD) to meet evidence-based recommendations. This realist review explores the factors which could make intensive …
Welcoming languages into the private practice of a speech therapist
Soins Pediatr Pueric. 2025 May-Jun;46(344):23-25. doi: 10.1016/j.spp.2025.03.007. Epub 2025 Apr 18.ABSTRACTIn their private practice, speech therapists work with multilingual children. Taking their mother tongue into account not only enhances their skills and supports their parents, but also enables the professional to listen and provide more precise support for the child. …
Age-Related Differences in Speech and Gray Matter Volume: The Modulating Role of Multilingualism
Neuroimage. 2025 Apr 15;310:121149. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121149. Epub 2025 Mar 16.ABSTRACTSpeech involves complex processes such as language formulation, motor coordination, and cognitive functions. As people age, their speech abilities often decline, showing reduced fluency and complexity. Older adults also show decreased gray matter volume. However, the relationship between age-related differences in speech and …
Contributions of Auditory Nerve Density and Synchrony to Speech Understanding in Older Cochlear Implant Users
J Assoc Res Otolaryngol. 2025 Apr 4. doi: 10.1007/s10162-025-00984-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPURPOSE: The majority of adult cochlear implant (CI) recipients are over the age of 65, and previous research in non-implanted older adults shows that auditory nerve (AN) pathophysiology contributes to senescent declines in speech understanding. However, age-related …
The Influence of Semantic Context on the Intelligibility Benefit From Speech Glimpses in Younger and Older Adults
J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2025 May 8;68(5):2499-2516. doi: 10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00588. Epub 2025 Apr 15.ABSTRACTPURPOSE: Speech is often masked by background sound that fluctuates over time. Fluctuations in masker intensity can reveal glimpses of speech that support speech intelligibility, but older adults have frequently been shown to benefit less from speech glimpses …
Implementation of Instrumental Assessment to Assess Dysphagia in Older Adults Receiving Long-Term Care Services: A Scoping Review
Geriatrics (Basel). 2025 Apr 3;10(2):53. doi: 10.3390/geriatrics10020053.ABSTRACTBackground/Objectives: Dysphagia, a prevalent condition among older adults, poses significant health risks if not accurately assessed and managed. Instrumental assessments (IAs) like videofluoroscopic swallowing study (VFSS) and fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) allow detailed examinations of swallowing physiology but are underutilized in long-term …
A cross-sectional study of how high-frequency hearing loss impacts cognitive functions in middle-aged-to-older adults
Front Aging Neurosci. 2025 Apr 28;17:1560307. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2025.1560307. eCollection 2025.ABSTRACTPURPOSE: Research on the association between hearing loss and cognition has primarily focused on speech-range hearing frequencies (i.e., 0.5-4 kHz), as these frequencies are most relevant to everyday functioning. However, age-related hearing loss (ARHL) tends to impact higher-frequency hearing first, and more …
Comparing face-to-face and online LSVT®LOUD speech training using LSVT®Coach in patients with Parkinson's disease: a pilot randomised controlled trial
BMC Neurol. 2025 Apr 26;25(1):183. doi: 10.1186/s12883-025-04161-0.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: LSVT®LOUD is an intensive speech therapy targeting voice amplitude, incorporating proprioceptive feedback and auditory-vocal self-monitoring, delivered through 16 one-hour sessions over a month with a high-effort approach. This study aimed to investigate preliminary effects of LSVT®LOUD teletherapy (LSVT®LOUD-tele) in …
Relationships between dysarthria, lesion location, and oral/swallowing function in patients with first-ever stroke
Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2025 Apr 29;254:108928. doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2025.108928. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTOBJECTIVE: Dysarthria negatively affects quality of life and social communication. This study focused on dysarthria in patients with acute-phase stroke and analyzed the association between lesion locations and oral/swallowing functions.METHODS: Patients with first-ever acute stroke were analyzed. …
Clinical assessment and interpretation of dysarthria in ALS using attention based deep learning AI models
NPJ Digit Med. 2025 May 8;8(1):260. doi: 10.1038/s41746-025-01654-7.ABSTRACTSpeech dysarthria is a key symptom of neurological conditions like ALS, yet existing AI models designed to analyze it from audio signal rely on handcrafted features with limited inference performance. Deep learning approaches improve accuracy but lack interpretability. We propose an …
Alzheimer's Disease Classification From Speech Pause Distributions With Context Information
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2024 Jul;2024:1-6. doi: 10.1109/EMBC53108.2024.10782834.ABSTRACTAlzheimer's disease (AD) is known to affect the lengths and frequencies of certain kinds of pauses in speech. Previous studies have used features based on pause lengths for AD classification. We conjecture that in addition to using pause …
Speech-Language Pathologists' Use of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Adult Patients With Cognitive-Communication Disorders: A Survey Study
Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2025 Mar 10;34(2):798-817. doi: 10.1044/2024_AJSLP-24-00285. Epub 2025 Mar 3.ABSTRACTPURPOSE: Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) primarily assess patients with cognitive-communication disorders using performance-based measures. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) may also prove useful in clinical practice with these populations, as they can capture applied communication constructs with subjective or unobservable …
A Multimodal Approach for Early Identification of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease With Fusion Network Using Eye Movements and Speech
IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2025;33:1449-1459. doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2025.3561043. Epub 2025 Apr 22.ABSTRACTDetecting Alzheimer's disease (AD) in its earliest stages, particularly during an onset of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), remains challenging due to the overlap of initial symptoms with normal aging processes. Given that no cure exists and current medications only …
Artificial intelligence-driven natural language processing for identifying linguistic patterns in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: A study of lexical, syntactic, and cohesive features of speech through picture description tasks
J Alzheimers Dis. 2025 May 7:13872877251339756. doi: 10.1177/13872877251339756. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBackgroundLanguage deficits often occur early in the neurodegenerative process, yet traditional methods frequently fail to detect subtle changes. Natural language processing (NLP) offers a novel approach to identifying linguistic patterns associated with cognitive impairment.ObjectiveWe aimed to analyze linguistic features that …
Auteurs québécois: Joël Macoir, Monica Lavoie et Laura Monetta
Diagnosing neurodegenerative disorders using retina as an external window: A systematic review of OCT-MRI correlations
J Alzheimers Dis. 2025 Apr 21:13872877251331231. doi: 10.1177/13872877251331231. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBackgroundRecent studies have explored optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT-angiography (OCT-A) as biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, correlations between OCT/OCT-A and neurodegeneration metrics remain underexplored.ObjectiveWe performed a systematic review of OCT/OCT-A and structural brain imaging using MRI …
