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Das 15. Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik mit dem Schwerpunktthema »Interdisziplinär (be-)handeln – Multiprofessionelle Zusammenarbeit in der Sprachtherapie« fand am 20.11.2021 als Online-Veranstaltung statt. Das Herbsttreffen wird seit 2007 jährlich vom Verband für Patholinguistik e.V. (vpl), seit 2021 vom Deutschen Bundesverband für akademische Sprachtherapie und Logopädie (dbs) in Kooperation mit der Universität Potsdam durchgeführt. Der vorliegende Tagungsband beinhaltet die Vorträge zum Schwerpunktthema und Informationen aus der Podiumsdiskussion sowie die Posterpräsentationen zu weiteren Themen aus der sprachtherapeutischen Forschung und Praxis., The Fifteenth Autumn Meeting Patholinguistics with its main topic »Interdisciplinary treatment - multiprofessional cooperation in speech/language therapy« took place online on the 20th of November 2021. This annual meeting has been organised since 2007 by the Association for Patholinguistics (vpl), since 2021 by the German Federal Association for Academic Speech/Language Therapy and Logopaedics (dbs) in cooperation with the University of Potsdam. The present proceedings feature the keynote presentations on the main topic and information from the panel discussion as well as articles from the poster session covering a broad range of areas in research and practice of speech/language therapy., Spektrum Patholinguistik; 15

It is a well-established finding that individuals with aphasia have difficulties in using morpho-syntactic cues to determine the meaning of non-canonical sentences, such as object relative clauses ...

This systematic review investigated how successful children/adolescents with poor literacy skills learn a foreign language compared with their peers with typical literacy skills. Moreover, we explored whether specific characteristics related to participants, foreign language instruction, and assessment moderated scores on foreign language tests in this population. Overall, 16 studies with a total of 968 participants (poor reader/spellers:n = 404; control participants:n = 564) met eligibility criteria. Only studies focusing on English as a foreign language were available. Available data allowed for meta-analyses on 10 different measures of foreign language attainment. In addition to standard mean differences (SMDs), we computed natural logarithms of the ratio of coefficients of variation (CVRs) to capture individual variability between participant groups. Significant between-study heterogeneity, which could not be explained by moderator analyses, limited the interpretation of results. Although children/adolescents with poor literacy skills on average showed lower scores on foreign language phonological awareness, letter knowledge, and reading comprehension measures, their performance varied significantly more than that of control participants. Thus, it remains unclear to what extent group differences between the foreign language scores of children/adolescents with poor and typical literacy skills are representative of individual poor readers/spellers. Taken together, our results indicate that foreign language skills in children/adolescents with poor literacy skills are highly variable. We discuss the limitations of past research that can guide future steps toward a better understanding of individual differences in foreign language attainment of children/adolescents with poor literacy skills.

Das 12. Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik mit dem Schwerpunktthema »Weg(e) mit dem Stottern: Therapie und Selbsthilfe für Kinder und Erwachsene« fand am 24.11.2018 in Potsdam statt. Das Herbsttreffen wird seit 2007 jährlich vom Verband für Patholinguistik e.V. (vpl) durchgeführt. Der vorliegende Tagungsband beinhaltet die Vorträge zum Schwerpunktthema sowie Beiträge der Posterpräsentationen zu weiteren Themen aus der sprachtherapeutischen Forschung und Praxis., The Twelfth Autumn Meeting Patholinguistics (Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik) with its main topic »Away/A way with stuttering: Therapy and self-help for children and adults« took place in Potsdam on November 24 2018. This annual meeting has been organised since 2007 by the Association for Patholinguistics (Verband für Patholinguistik e.V./vpl). The present proceedings contain all talks on the main topic as well as contributions from the poster session covering a broad range of areas in speech/language therapy research and practice., Spektrum Patholinguistik, 12

Das 13. Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik mit dem Schwerpunktthema »Nur ein Wort? Diagnostik und Therapie von Wortabrufstörungen bei Kindern und Erwachsenen« fand am 16.11.2019 in Potsdam statt. Das Herbsttreffen wird seit 2007 jährlich vom Verband für Patholinguistik e.V. (vpl) in Kooperation mit dem Deutschen Bundesverband für akademische Sprachtherapie und Logopädie (dbs) und der Universität Potsdam durchgeführt. Der vorliegende Tagungsband beinhaltet die Hauptvorträge zum Schwerpunktthema sowie die Beiträge der Kurzvorträge im »Spektrum Patholinguistik« und der Posterpräsentationen zu weiteren Themen aus der sprachtherapeutischen Forschung und Praxis., The Thirteenth Autumn Meeting Patholinguistics with its main topic »Just a word? Diagnostics and therapy of word-finding difficulties in children and adults« took place in Potsdam on the 16th of November 2019. This annual meeting has been organised since 2007 by the Association for Patholinguistics (vpl) in cooperation with the German Federal Association for Academic Speech/Language Therapy and Logopaedics (dbs) and the University of Potsdam. The present proceedings feature the keynote presentations on the main topic as well as the short presentations from the section »Spectrum Patholinguistics« and from the poster session covering a broad range of areas in research and practice of speech/language therapy.

Exploring generalisation following treatment of language deficits in aphasia can provide insights into the functional relation of the cognitive processing systems involved. In the present study, we first review treatment outcomes of interventions targeting sentence processing deficits and, second report a treatment study examining the occurrence of practice effects and generalisation in sentence comprehension and production. In order to explore the potential linkage between processing systems involved in comprehending and producing sentences, we investigated whether improvements generalise within (i.e., uni-modal generalisation in comprehension or in production) and/or across modalities (i.e., cross-modal generalisation from comprehension to production or vice versa). Two individuals with aphasia displaying co-occurring deficits in sentence comprehension and production were trained on complex, non-canonical sentences in both modalities. Two evidence-based treatment protocols were applied in a crossover intervention study with sequence of treatment phases being randomly allocated. Both participants benefited significantly from treatment, leading to uni-modal generalisation in both comprehension and production. However, cross-modal generalisation did not occur. The magnitude of uni-modal generalisation in sentence production was related to participants’ sentence comprehension performance prior to treatment. These findings support the assumption of modality-specific sub-systems for sentence comprehension and production, being linked uni-directionally from comprehension to production.

Das 9. Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik mit dem Schwerpunktthema "Lauter Laute: Phonologische Verarbeitung und Lautwahrnehmung in der Sprachtherapie" fand am 14.11.2015 in Potsdam statt. Das Herbsttreffen wird seit 2007 jährlich vom Verband für Patholinguistik e.V. (vpl) durchgeführt. Der vorliegende Tagungsband beinhaltet die vier Hauptvorträge zum Schwerpunktthema, die drei Kurzvorträge aus dem Spektrum Patholinguisitk sowie die Beiträge der Posterpräsentationen zu weiteren Themen aus der sprachtherapeutischen Forschung und Praxis., The Ninth Autumn Meeting Patholinguistics ('Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik') with its main topic "Lots of sounds: Phonological processing and sound perception in speech/language therapy" took place in Potsdam on November 14 2015. This annual meeting has been organized since 2007 by the Association for Patholinguistics (Verband für Patholinguistik e.V./vpl). The present proceedings contain the four keynote talks on the main topic, the three short talks from the series 'Spectrum Patholinguistics', as well as the contributions of the poster session from all areas of speech/language therapy research and practice., Spektrum Patholinguistik, 9

1. Einleitung, 2. Informationen zu Probanden, 3. Informationen zur Behandlung, 4. Informationen zur Evaluation, 5. Fazit, 6. Literatur

Introduction Individuals with aphasia (IWAs) often show above chance performance in the comprehension of subject relative clauses (SRCs) and chance performance for object relative clauses (ORCs) in off-line sentence-picture verification tasks (e.g., Burchert, De Bleser, & Sonntag, 2003). A similar subject-object asymmetry was observed in on-line measures, as evidenced by longer self-paced listening times for ORCs compared to SRCs (Caplan, Waters, Dede, Michaud, & Reddy, 2007). Chance performance on number-marked SRCs and ORCs in behavioral tests suggests that German IWAs, unlike healthy controls, do not exploit number morphology in RC interpretation (Burchert et al., 2003). To our knowledge, an investigation of number marking processing in RCs in on-line tasks has not been published yet. The present ongoing study focuses on German, a language in which SRCs and ORCs are strict minimal pairs in terms of word order. We investigate the off-line and on-line processing of RCs in IWAs and healthy controls using the visual world paradigm (VWP). The VWP allows examining sentence processing in real time and testing whether IWAs show normal-like on-line processing, even if the overall performance is at chance level. Methods Test sentences are 16 SRC (1) and 16 ORC (2) questions. Due to case syncretism, disambiguation occurs only sentence finally through number marking at the finite verb. Moreover, 32 questions with a prepositional phrase are used as fillers (3). (1) SRC: Wo ist das Schwein, das die Wölfe kitzelt? (Where is the pig that is tickling the wolves?) (2) ORC: Wo ist das Schwein, das die Wölfe kitzeln? (Where is the pig that the wolves are tickling?) (3) Filler: Wo ist das Schwein mit dem Ballon? (Where is the pig with the balloon?) All sentences are randomized and presented auditorily. Simultaneously, colored illustrations of animals performing an action are shown on a computer screen (see Figure 1). Participants have to identify via button press (left/right) the target animal to which the question refers. During this task, eye movements are collected as an on-line measure of sentence processing. Off-line comprehension is measured in terms of accuracy of target identification. Ten IWAs with sentence comprehension deficits and 30 healthy controls are tested. Discussion Following Burchert et al. (2003), we expect the IWA’s off-line comprehension of SRCs and ORCs to be at chance level, while controls make hardly any errors. In the on-line data, the number of fixations to the target picture are supposed to increase only at the verb or shortly after the sentence offset, since disambiguation occurs sentence finally at the verb. Controls are expected to show faster or longer fixations to the target in SRCs compared to ORCs (Caplan et al., 2007). In line with Hanne, Sekerina, Vasishth, Burchert, and De Bleser (2011), IWA’s fixations to the target should not differ qualitatively from those of controls, at least for correct responses, but eye gaze patterns may be delayed. Data collection and analysis is still ongoing. Results will be ready by October and presented and discussed at the Academy of Aphasia conference.