Journal Reviews

Justice for all: role of registered intermediaries

10 March 2023 | | Speech and Language Therapy | Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), communication assistants, communication disability, justice, participation, peace, justice and strong institutions (SDG 16), registered intermediaries

The United Nations’ Agenda for Sustainable Development 2015 advocates equal access to justice for all. In recognition of this, a number of countries have introduced a new professional role; a registered intermediary in England, Wales and NI. The registered intermediary...

Quick and valid: a new measure of aphasia

4 May 2021 | | Speech and Language Therapy | aphasia, conversation, evaluation, participation, quality of life, severity

Aphasia can be caused by a stroke, brain injury or dementia. It is defined as a language disorder that impacts the domains of speaking, understanding, reading and writing. Given the impact on quality of life and conversation, there is a...

Multilingualism in a monolingual environment: shifting perspective for economic benefits

1 July 2018 | | Multilingual, participation, cultural and linguistic diversity, English proficiency, intelligibility enhancement, spoken language proficiency, Australia, census

English proficiency amongst migrant populations has a relatively high profile in the UK education system at present. This article compared data from two Australian national censuses with the aim of describing the English proficiency of the Australian population, to explain...

Voice impairment following spinal cord injury

1 January 2017 | | activity, communication, participation, speech, spinal cord injury, voice

Patients with cervical spinal cord injury face several clinical problems. One of the problems is voice impairment secondary to poor respiratory support. Their syllables per breath, vocal intensity and vocal quality are impaired. This paper studied the impact of the...