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SummaryMinnesota Test for Differential Diagnosis of Aphasia is a battery of tests devised by the American speech pathologist Dr Hildred Schuell and associates at the V.A. Hospital Minneapolis, (first published in 1965). We have devised a set of British amendments to this test to replace certain sections which, from the point of view of content, have an American bias, and which, in many cases, have tended to be omitted by British therapists using his test. We have administered these sections of the test, both original and amended versions, to a sample of normal and dysphasic populations, throughout Britain. Our results demonstrate that there is no significant difference between the scores on the original and amended versions for the normal sample. A previous study has already demonstrated that the cultural bias of the test is not revealed numerically in testing normals, because they are able to adjust to and compensate for the American orientation of the test material. (Allan 1972). With the dysphasic population, there was a significant reduction in error score on the British version of one of the tests subjected to statistical analysis. Statistical comparison of the results on other amended tests did not reveal any significant tendency. The experience and comments of clinicians, however, indicate that the British amendments are more suitable for use in this country, and in order to include all parts of the test, essential in certain cases.

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.3109/13682827309011593

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryThis case history tends to support the value of aphasia therapy because the patient was treated succesfully long after the accepted period of spontaneous recovery. It is considered that, since the patient made very little recovery for nine months subsequent to onset, he can act as his own “control,” and his improvement was due to treatm

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.3109/13682827309011594

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryA pilot study was made in relation to 4 representative Sub‐tests during standardization of the Queensland University Aphasia and Language Test (QUALT). Certain Sub‐items of the Items revealed significant differences in performance between boys and girls, and between Australian children who spoke mainly English and children whose main language at home was not English. However, the proportion of Sub‐items showing these differences was such that they could be rejected from the respective Items and still leave 7 or more Sub‐items in each Item, thus offering reasonable chances of constructing 3–4 Parallel Forms of the QUALT.Performance of children in each Sub‐test improved with age. The evidence so far suggests that the QUALT may be usefully and validly normed

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.3109/13682827309011595

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.3109/13682827309011596

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.3109/13682827309011597

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryThe principle procedures by which stuttering can be brought under control is reviewed, and evidence relevant to the mechanisms of these procedures discussed. The ‘operant’ explanation of reinforcement procedures is challenged. It is suggested that both slow speed and increased predictability are important elements of metronome controlled speech. The ‘perceptual’ explanation of white noise masking is criticised and an ‘arousal’ explanation tentatively suggested. It is suggested that delayed auditory feedback can be handled either by timing out the feedback or adopting a more prolonged style of speech. The evidence presently available suggests the importance of the latter. More work is needed to specify precisely the style of speech which enables stutterers t

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.3109/13682827309011598

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.3109/13682827309011599

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryThe effect of clinician bias in evaluating the speech of children was studied. Case presentations were made to 30 clinicians by means of videotape. Prior to evaluation, graduate‐student clinicians were exposed to fabricated case‐histories containing positive‐bias or negative‐bias factors, or to no case‐history information. The clinicians generated phonetic inventories, scaled judgments of articulatory proficiency, scaled prognoses, and scaled therapeutic judgments. The case‐history preconditions had little effect on the measured behaviour of the clinicians. Implications for clinical evaluative procedures ar

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.1111/j.1460-6984.1973.tb01619.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:Personal Change and Reconstruction. Research on a treatment of Stuttering. By Fay Fransella.Communication Variables of Cerebral Palsied and Mentally Retarded Children. By O. C. Irwin, PH.D., 1972.General Linguistics. By Jean Aitchison.‘Aphasia, Apraxia and Agnosia’. By Jason W. Brown, MD. Charles C. Tho

ISSN:1368-2822    

DOI:10.3109/13682827309011601

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

数据来源: WILEY