Background: As advanced dementia progresses, individuals become increasingly dependent on health, social, and community care services, and feeding difficulties become common. Oropharyngeal dysphagia is prevalent in people ...

Purpose: Deficits in communication may predominantly impact communication participation after traumatic brain injury, although links between specific communication deficits and the type of communication partner have not ...

Background: Aphasia can cause changes in a relationship as communication forms the basis of interactions. Reduced talking and sharing of thoughts may result in emotional disconnection, or alternatively, partners may grow ...

Background: Counselling, collaboration with mothers, and management of oro-pharyngeal dysphagia within the first few days of an infant’s life, results in favourable breastfeeding outcomes. Little is known about speech-language ...

Background: There is limited knowledge of how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted service provision in South African public and private Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs), specifically from the perspective of speech-language ...

Background: A previous systematic review found limited data regarding social participation in working-age people with aphasia (PWA). This population has many roles to fulfill, that are negatively affected by aphasia. A ...

Access to appropriate information can result in improved health and development outcomes for children. Providing information about health and developmental care via mobile devices (mHealth) can serve not only as curative ...

Introduction: Bilinguals constitute a significant portion of speech-language therapists’ (SLTs) caseloads. Insight into the cross-linguistic effect on voice is needed to guide SLTs to make linguistically-appropriate ...