Background Children with communication disorders experience difficulty in one or more
areas of articulation and speech, language, fluency, voice and social communication, and …

Purpose To investigate the characteristics of studies that included underrepresented speech-
language pathologists (SLPs) as research participants. Method A sco** review was …

Teens in rural communities are at greater risk of obesity than teens in urban areas. Diet and
physical activity influence obesity risk. Understanding their perspectives is an important step …

Purpose: To investigate the characteristics of studies that included underrepresented
speech-language pathologists (SLPs) as research participants, to better understand the …

Introduction/Objectives: Nurse practitioners (NPs) improve access to care in community-
based primary care. Determining an appropriate workload for NPs is complex. The number …

Objectives Extensive research has demonstrated that straw/tube phonation exercises
produce positive effects on the voice quality of the user. The purpose of this study was to …

It gives me great pleasure to introduce this special issue of the International Journal of
Speech-Language Pathology. I have worked for the last two years with a wonderful editorial …

ABSTRACT Background Behavioural Activation (BA) is a mental health treatment that
encourages a person to develop or re-engage in activities that are pleasurable and …

Background: Aphasia affects 350, 00 people in the UK with negative consequences to a
person's social connectedness and quality of life. Speech and language therapy …

The lack of diversity in Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) workforces raises concerns of
inadvertently perpetuating the same views and practices, thereby risking excluding …