OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
“I'm smiling back at you”: Exploring the impact of mask wearing on communication in healthcare	82
Tele‐practice for children and young people with communication disabilities: Employing the COM‐B model to review the intervention literature and inform guidance for practitioners	28
Cultural difference in attitudes towards stuttering among British, Arab and Chinese students: Considering home and host cultures	24
An evidence‐based synthesis of instructional reading and spelling procedures using telepractice: A rapid review in the context of COVID‐19	21
Utility of ultrasound in the assessment of swallowing and laryngeal function: A rapid review and critical appraisal of the literature	20
Smart speaker devices can improve speech intelligibility in adults with intellectual disability	19
Educational outcomes associated with persistent speech disorder	16
‘Like going into a chocolate shop, blindfolded’: What do people with primary progressive aphasia want from speech and language therapy?	16
Barriers and facilitators: Clinicians' opinions and experiences of telehealth before and after their use of a telehealth platform for child language assessment	16
Delivering an iterative Communication Partner Training programme to multidisciplinary healthcare professionals: A pilot implementation study and process evaluation	15
Proactive changes in clinical practice as a result of the COVID‐19 pandemic: Survey on use of telepractice by Quebec speech‐language pathologists	15
Measuring communication as a core outcome in aphasia trials: Results of the ROMA‐2 international core outcome set development meeting	15
L2 vocabulary acquisition of early sequentially bilingual children with TD and DLD affected differently by exposure and age of onset	13
Description of connected speech across different elicitation tasks in the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia	13
‘Emotion is of the essence. … Number one priority’: A nested qualitative study exploring psychosocial adjustment to stroke and aphasia	13
Voice banking for people living with motor neurone disease: Views and expectations	13
Person‐centred care in speech‐language therapy research and practice for adults: A scoping review	13
Development and norming of the Hungarian CDI‐III: A screening tool for language delay	12
Exploring the complexity of how families are engaged in early speech–language pathology intervention using video‐reflexive ethnography	12
The true cost of dysphagia on quality of life: The views of adults with swallowing disability	12
Strengths and challenges of the COSMIN tools in outcome measures appraisal: A case example for speech–language therapy	11
Effects of voice therapy in children with vocal fold nodules: A systematic review	11
Speech, language and communication needs and mental health: the experiences of speech and language therapists and mental health professionals	11
Evaluating communication partner training in healthcare centres: Understanding the mechanisms of behaviour change	11
Swallowing assessment in patients with dysphagia: Validity and reliability of a pocket‐sized ultrasound system	11

What are the implications of climate change for speech and language therapists?	11
A systematic review of early speech interventions for children with cleft palate	11
Intelligibility and comprehensibility: A Delphi consensus study	10
Intensive and comprehensive aphasia therapy—a survey of the definitions, practices and views of speech and language therapists in the United Kingdom	10
Dysarthria following acute ischemic stroke: Prospective evaluation of characteristics, type and severity	10
You may point, but do not touch: Impact of gesture‐types and cognition on language in typical and atypical development	10
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	10
The Test of Masticating and Swallowing Solids (TOMASS): Reliability and validity in patients with dysphagia	10
A systematic review of speech, language and communication interventions for children with Down syndrome from 0 to 6 years	10
Effect of boost articulation therapy (BArT) on intelligibility in adults with dysarthria	10
Speech treatment for Hebrew‐speaking adolescents and young adults with developmental dysarthria: A comparison of mSIT and Beatalk	9
A perceptual outcome measure of velopharyngeal function based on the Cleft Audit Protocol for Speech—Augmented (CAPS‐A VPC‐Sum): Validation through a speech osteotomy study	9
‘I think writing is everything’: An exploration of the writing experiences of people with aphasia	9
Therapeutic relationships in aphasia rehabilitation: Using sociological theories to promote critical reflexivity	9
Factors influencing US speech and language therapists’ use of technology for clinical practice	9
Progressive apraxia of speech in Quebec French speakers: A case series	9
Giving voice to people with communication disabilities during mental capacity assessments	9
Scandcleft randomized trials of primary surgery for unilateral cleft lip and palate: Speech proficiency at 10 years of age	9
Apragmatism: The renewal of a label for communication disorders associated with right hemisphere brain damage	9
Is speech and language therapy effective at improving the communication of adults with intellectual disabilities?: A systematic review	9
Clinical experience and categorical perception of children's speech	9
A preliminary epidemiologic study of social (pragmatic) communication disorder in the context of developmental language disorder	8
Cognitive‐communication performance following mild traumatic brain injury: Influence of sex, age, education, site of lesion and bilingualism	8
Identifying critical behaviours for building engagement in telepractice early intervention: An international e‐Delphi study	8
Speech sound development in typically developing 2–7‐year‐old Dutch‐speaking children: A normative cross‐sectional study	8
Assessment tools and rehabilitation treatments for aprosodia following acquired brain injury: A scoping review	8
Speech–language pathology students’ perceptions of simulation‐based learning experiences in stuttering	8
Detecting autism from picture book narratives using deep neural utterance embeddings	8
International expert perspectives on the principles and components of effective intervention for adults who stutter	8
Automated assessment of hyoid movement during normal swallow using ultrasound	7
An examination into the effect of genetic taste status and intensity of carbonation on swallowing and palatability in healthy young adults	7
Assessment of minority language skills in English–Irish‐speaking bilingual children: A survey of SLT perspectives and current practices	7
Executive functioning during verbal fluency tasks in bilinguals: A systematic review	7
Vocabulary changes in adulthood: Main findings and methodological considerations	7
Impact of COVID‐19 on digital practice in UK paediatric speech and language therapy and implications for the future: A national survey	7
Acoustic characteristics of fricatives, amplitude of formants and clarity of speech produced without and with a medical mask	7
Statistical word learning in Catalan–Spanish and English‐speaking children with and without developmental language disorder	7
Differentiating phonological delay from phonological disorder: Executive function performance in preschoolers	7
Influential factor combinations leading to language outcomes following a home visiting intervention: A qualitative comparative analysis (QCA)	7
Paediatric oral sensorimotor interventions for chewing dysfunction: A scoping review	7
Verbal fluency difficulties in aphasia: A combination of lexical and executive control deficits	7
The oral language and emergent literacy skills of preschoolers: Early childhood teachers’ self‐reported role, knowledge and confidence	7
Obtaining consensus on core components of stuttering intervention for adults: An e‐Delphi Survey with key stakeholders	6
Supporting adjective learning by children with Developmental Language Disorder: Enhancing metalinguistic approaches	6
Clinical practice patterns of speech‐language pathologists for screening and identifying dysphagia	6
Language gains in 4–6‐year‐old children with developmental language disorder and the relation with language profile, severity, multilingualism and non‐verbal cognition	6
Interpretation of familiar metaphors and proverbs by Polish people in middle and late adulthood	6
Speech and language difficulties in Huntington's disease: A qualitative study of patients’ and professional caregivers’ experiences	6
Factors influencing the success of telepractice during the COVID‐19 pandemic and preferences for post‐pandemic services: An interview study with clinicians and parents	6
Does the duration and frequency of dummy (pacifier) use affect the development of speech?	6

Making the case for the collection of a minimal dataset for children with speech sound disorder	6
Morphosyntactic abilities in young children with Down syndrome: Evidence from the Greek language	6
Deep learning in automatic detection of dysphonia: Comparing acoustic features and developing a generalizable framework	6
Prevalence of language and pre‐literacy difficulties in an Australian cohort of 5‐year‐old children experiencing adversity	5
Sustaining acute speech–language therapists’ implementation of recommended aphasia practices: A mixed methods follow‐up evaluation of a cluster RCT	5
A systematic scoping review on contextual factors associated with communicative participation among children with developmental language disorder	5
Communication partner training with familiar partners of people with aphasia: A systematic review and synthesis of barriers and facilitators to implementation	5
‘I think that's what I heard? I'm not sure’: Speech and language therapists’ views of, and practices in, phonetic transcription	5
The experience of speech–language therapists and audiologists when delivering bad news: A qualitative analysis	5
My experience of living with nonfluent/agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia: Challenges, compensatory strategies and adaptations	5
Psychosocial features of stuttering for school‐age children: A systematic review	5
Family carers’ experiences of dysphagia after a stroke: An exploratory study of spouses living in a large metropolitan city	5
The utility of LENA as an indicator of developmental outcomes for young children with autism	5
Changes in telepractice use and perspectives among speech and language therapists in Singapore through the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Phonological processing skills in children with speech sound disorder: A multiple case study approach	5
Real‐time comprehension of Spanish prepositions and prepositional locutions in bilingual children with developmental language disorder: A study based on eye‐movement evidence	5
Dementia knowledge, attitudes and training needs of speech–language pathology students and practitioners: A countrywide study	5
Pre‐ and post‐operative voice therapy (PaPOV): Development of an intervention for patients with benign vocal fold lesions	5
Acoustic, perceptual and clinical correlates of speech and voice in isolated dystonia: Preliminary findings	5
Interactions with youth justice and associated costs for young people with speech, language and communication needs	5
Shielding, hospital admission and mortality among 1216 people with total laryngectomy in the UK during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐sectional survey from the first national lockdown	5
Psychological impact of COVID‐19 on speech and language therapists working with adult dysphagia: A national survey	5
Low language capacity in childhood: A systematic review of prevalence estimates	5
Evaluating two different dose frequencies and cumulative intervention intensities to improve past tense production for early school‐aged children with developmental language disorder	5
Autism and bilingualism: A thematic analysis of practitioner perspectives in the United Kingdom	4
Access, referral, service provision and management of individuals with primary progressive aphasia: A survey of speech‐language therapists in Italy	4
Development of mobile compatible software for cognitive–communication disorder in individuals with Alzheimer's disease	4
Reliability, validity and developmental sensitivity of the Language Use Inventory (LUI) in the Chinese context	4
Predictors of Lidcombe Program treatment dropout and outcome for early stuttering	4
Embedding key word sign prompts in a shared book reading activity: The impact on communication between children with Down syndrome and their parents	4
Intervention for oral language comprehension skills in preschoolers with developmental language disorder	4
Efficacy, model of delivery, intensity and targets of pragmatic interventions for children with developmental language disorder: A systematic review	4
Language development and behaviour problems in toddlers indicated to have a developmental language disorder	4
Automatic boost articulation therapy in adults with dysarthria: Acceptability, usability and user interaction	4
The longitudinal trajectory of discourse from the hyperacute to the chronic phase in mild to moderate poststroke aphasia recovery: A case series study	4
Neuropsychological correlates of P300 parameters in individuals with aphasia	4
Perceptions of communication recovery following traumatic brain injury: A qualitative investigation across 2 years	4
Speech changes in old age: Methodological considerations for speech‐based discrimination of healthy ageing and Alzheimer's disease	4
Setting a prioritized agenda to drive speech–language therapy research in health	4
The City Gesture Checklist: The development of a novel gesture assessment	4
Communication strategies to support decision‐making by persons with aphasia: A scoping review	4
Aphasia and spelling to dictation: Analysis of spelling errors and editing	4
Prosodic skills of Spanish‐speaking children with developmental language disorder	4
Dutch translation and validation of the Communicative Participation Item Bank (CPIB)—short form	4
Adaptation of The Scenario Test for Greek‐speaking people with aphasia: A reliability and validity study	4
Word‐finding difficulties in Parkinson's disease: Complex verbal fluency, executive functions and other influencing factors	4
Creating the conditions for robust early language development for all—Part 1: Evidence‐informed child language surveillance in the early years	4
Electropalatography (EPG) activities in Japan and the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on EPG research and therapy: A report of presentations at the 7th EPG Symposium	4
Applying core lexicon analysis in patients with anomic aphasia: Based on Mandarin AphasiaBank	4
Methodologies for assessing morphosyntactic ability in people with Alzheimer's disease	4
Affective prosody disorders in adults with neurological conditions: A scoping review	4
A qualitative systematic review of the role of families in supporting communication in people with dementia	4
How to cut the pie is no piece of cake: Toward a process‐oriented approach to assessment and diagnosis of speech sound disorders	4
Oral diadochokinetic rates across languages: Multilingual speakers comparison	4
Speech input processing in children born with cleft palate: A systematic literature review with narrative synthesis	4
Does a simulation‐based learning programme assist with the development of speech–language pathology students’ clinical skills in stuttering management?	4
‘It depends on who I'm with’: How young people with developmental language disorder describe their experiences of language and communication in school	4
Supporting language development in Lebanese preschools: SLT and pre‐KT practice and perception of roles	4
Assessing parent interaction with deaf infants: A quantitative survey of UK professional practice	4
The pervasive and unyielding impacts of cognitive‐communication changes following traumatic brain injury	4
An intensive neurorehabilitation programme with sEMG biofeedback to improve swallowing in idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD): A feasibility study	4
Watch vs do: A randomized crossover design evaluating modified simulated patients and video learning for novice speech–language therapy students	4
Teaching little kids big sentences: A randomized controlled trial showing that children with DLD respond to complex syntax intervention embedded within the context of preschool/kindergarten science in	4