Background: Aphasic impairments of lexical retrieval (LR) can be attributed to different underlying deficits such as problems with meaning (semantic deficits), with word selection (lexical deficits) and sound selection ...

Background: Research shows that facilitation therapy for naming is effective through priming the link between meaning and word form (Howard et al., 2006), but often only works for the words that are treated within therapy ...

Background: A significant gap exists in the literature on interventions for young school-aged children with language comprehension difficulties. This is due to the heterogeneous nature of language impairments and the ...

Background: Previous studies have highlighted the resistance of receptive language impairment (RLI) to intervention. This is especially evident where interventions aim to treat oral comprehension deficits in children in ...

Background: Children with phonological delays and disorders are a large proportion of a speech-therapist’s caseload (Dodd, 2008). Unfortunately, in Ireland Speech-therapists’ waiting-lists can be as long as two years. ...