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Speech therapy for children with dysarthria acquired before three years of age

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, July 2016
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Title
Speech therapy for children with dysarthria acquired before three years of age
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, July 2016
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd006937.pub3
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Authors

Lindsay Pennington, Naomi K Parker, Helen Kelly, Nick Miller

Abstract

Children with motor impairments often have the motor speech disorder dysarthria, a condition which effects the tone, strength and co-ordination of any or all of the muscles used for speech. Resulting speech difficulties can range from mild, with slightly slurred articulation and breathy voice, to profound, with an inability to produce any recognisable words. Children with dysarthria are often prescribed communication aids to supplement their natural forms of communication. However, there is variation in practice regarding the provision of therapy focusing on voice and speech production. Descriptive studies have suggested that therapy may improve speech, but its effectiveness has not been evaluated. To assess whether any speech and language therapy intervention aimed at improving the speech of children with dysarthria is more effective in increasing children's speech intelligibility or communicative participation than no intervention at all , and to compare the efficacy of individual types of speech language therapy in improving the speech intelligibility or communicative participation of children with dysarthria. We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL; 2015 , Issue 7 ), MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL , LLBA, ERIC, PsychInfo, Web of Science, Scopus, UK National Research Register and Dissertation Abstracts up to July 2015, handsearched relevant journals published between 1980 and July 2015, and searched proceedings of relevant conferences between 1996 to 2015. We placed no restrictions on the language or setting of the studies. A previous version of this review considered studies published up to April 2009. In this update we searched for studies published from April 2009 to July 2015. We considered randomised controlled trials and studies using quasi-experimental designs in which children were allocated to groups using non-random methods. One author (LP) conducted searches of all databases, journals and conference reports. All searches included a reliability check in which a second review author independently checked a random sample comprising 15% of all identified reports. We planned that two review authors would independently assess the quality and extract data from eligible studies. No randomised controlled trials or group studies were identified. This review found no evidence from randomised trials of the effectiveness of speech and language therapy interventions to improve the speech of children with early acquired dysarthria. Rigorous, fully powered randomised controlled trials are needed to investigate if the positive changes in children's speech observed in phase I and phase II studies are generalisable to the population of children with early acquired dysarthria served by speech and language therapy services. Research should examine change in children's speech production and intelligibility. It must also investigate children's participation in social and educational activities, and their quality of life, as well as the cost and acceptability of interventions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 332 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 45 14%
Student > Bachelor 36 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 30 9%
Researcher 22 7%
Other 21 6%
Other 47 14%
Unknown 132 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 63 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 46 14%
Psychology 23 7%
Social Sciences 15 5%
Sports and Recreations 8 2%
Other 36 11%
Unknown 142 43%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 53. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 August 2023.
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#1,512
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#15,742
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#37
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