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Delaney AL, Diestler E, Sridevi P, Mahmood A, Ahamed SI. Acceptance of bite presentations and feeding behaviors of 8 to 12-month-old infants: A reflection of typical feeding development. Physiol Behav 2024; 276:114463. [PMID: 38241948 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2024.114463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2023] [Revised: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 01/09/2024] [Indexed: 01/21/2024]
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PURPOSE The lack of age-appropriate expectations for feeding acceptance patterns in early childhood is a barrier to early and accurate identification of pediatric feeding disorder (PFD). The objective of the study was to describe the process by which typically developing children 8-12 months of age accept or refuse bite presentations and their corresponding feeding behaviors, aiming to establish age-appropriate normative data for feeding acceptance. METHOD Using cross-sectional methodology, we studied the proportion of bite presentations accepted, the type of feeding behaviors-passive, disruptive, expulsion, feeding concerns- observed at presentation and acceptance or refusal, and the duration between presentation to acceptance or refusal in 63 healthy infants between 8 and 12 months of age. Descriptive statistics and a one-way ANOVA were conducted to compare the effect of age and texture. RESULTS Findings reveal high levels of bite acceptance of 80 % or > for children across ages, but with lower texture-specific differences. Both passive and disruptive behaviors were present even during acceptance of bites without any expulsion. Feeding concerns showed developmental trends with rapid reduction by 12 months suggesting improvement in oral feeding skills. The duration of acceptance and refusals revealed clear patterns by age and texture with an average of 3 s for acceptance but <1 s for refusal. CONCLUSIONS This study describes bite acceptance patterns in a cohort of typically developing infants between 8 and 12 months of age by examining the acceptance of bites, frequency and type of feeding behaviors, and duration differences when children accept versus refuse a bite. Findings may be applied in the future to provide more sensitive detection of problematic feeding patterns to aid in the detection of pediatric feeding disorder.
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- Amy L Delaney
- Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology, Marquette University, Cramer Hall, 230H, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201, United States.
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- Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology, Marquette University, Cramer Hall, 230H, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201, United States
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- Department of Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, United States
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- Department of Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, United States
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- Department of Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, United States
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Basinger ED, Delaney AL, Williams C. Uncertainty Management in Online Sexual Health Forums. Health Commun 2023; 38:875-884. [PMID: 34605355 DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2021.1980253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Sexual health is critical to overall well-being, yet it is challenging and uncomfortable to discuss. Individuals frequently encounter uncertainty about their sexual health as they experience bodily changes, navigate romantic or sexual relationships, and explore their identities. In this study, we called on uncertainty management theory to guide an investigation of sexual health uncertainty. Specifically, we asked how people use social support to manage their sexual health uncertainty in online forums. Grounded theory analyses revealed that negative emotions, avoidance, and pursuing medical care prompted people to seek emotional and informational support online, and support served three functions: integrating information, assessing risk, and strategizing communication. The results point to stigma as a driving force in sexual health discussions online and imply practical recommendations for sexual education, communication about sexual topics, and patient-provider relationships.
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- Erin D Basinger
- Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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- Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Iuzzini-Seigel J, Delaney AL, Kent RD. Retrospective Case-Control Study of Communication and Motor Abilities in 143 Children With Suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Effect of Concomitant Diagnosis. Perspect ASHA Spec Interest Groups 2022; 7:45-55. [PMID: 36936798 PMCID: PMC10019349 DOI: 10.1044/2021_persp-20-00283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Purpose This study sought to determine if children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) plus another major diagnosis (CAS+) are equivalent in communication and motor profiles to those with a primary diagnosis of CAS and no indication or report of any other diagnosis (CAS-Primary). Method This retrospective case-control study included a chart review of 143 children who were suspected of having CAS at Children's Hospital-Wisconsin between 1998 and 2004. Participants were between 30 and 127 months old and included 107 males. Participants were assigned to the suspected CAS-Primary group (n = 114) if they had characteristics of CAS but no other major diagnosis (e.g., galactosemia) and to the CAS+ group (n = 29) if a comorbid diagnosis was present. Groups were compared across demographic, communication, and motor characteristics. Results Children with CAS+ evidenced more severe motor profiles than those with CAS-Primary, χ2 = (1, n = 122) = 4.952, p = .026, and a small-to-medium effect size (Φ = .201). On average, communication profiles also tended to be more severe among those with CAS+ wherein receptive language was poorer and phonemic inventories were smaller than those with CAS-Primary. Conclusions These retrospective data suggest that comorbid diagnosis may play an important role in communication and motor development in children with suspected CAS. These exploratory findings should motivate future prospective studies that consider the role of concomitant diagnoses in symptom profile and response to treatment in children with CAS.
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- Jenya Iuzzini-Seigel
- Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
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- Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
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- Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Delaney AL, Van Hoorn M, Staskiewicz S, Feuling MB, Pladies S, Bansal NK, Goday PS. Texture Consumption Patterns of 8- to 12-Month-Old Infants: A Reflection of Typical Feeding Development. Am J Speech Lang Pathol 2021; 30:2643-2652. [PMID: 34723644 DOI: 10.1044/2021_ajslp-21-00048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Purpose The lack of age-appropriate expectations for the acquisition of feeding skills and consumption of textured food in early childhood inhibits early and accurate identification of developmental delay in feeding and pediatric feeding disorder. The objective of this study was to describe texture intake patterns in a cohort of typically developing infants between 8 and 12 months of age, with the aim of informing future research to establish targets for feeding skill acquisition. Method Using cross-sectional methodology, we studied the presence of liquid and solid textures and drinking methods in the diet, consumption patterns by texture and drinking methods, and caloric intake by texture via caregiver questionnaire and 3-day dietary intake record in 63 healthy infants between 8 and 12 months of age. Descriptive statistics and a one-way analysis of variance were conducted to compare the effect of age on texture intake patterns. Results Findings reveal rapid advancement of intake patterns for texture overall and for energy intake by texture between 8 and 12 months of age. Whereas liquids continue to provide a large proportion of total energy through this time, solids contribute an equal proportion of energy by 12 months of age. Conclusions This study describes texture intake patterns in a cohort of typically developing infants between 8 and 12 months of age by examining the presence of texture and drinking methods, liquid and solid consumption patterns, and energy intake by texture. When applied to data from a future population sample, findings will provide a threshold for age expectations for typical and disordered feeding development to aid in the detection of developmental delay in feeding and pediatric feeding disorder. What Is Known: Expectations regarding early feeding development have been focused on nutrition parameters. Lack of standardized, age-appropriate expectations for texture progression in infancy and early childhood inhibits early and accurate identification and treatment of pediatric feeding disorder. What Is New: We have described changes in dietary composition by texture and drinking method in healthy infants. Together with nutritional composition, this study describes a more comprehensive assessment of infant feeding, particularly to clinicians who need to diagnose feeding skill deficits. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.16879615.
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- Amy L Delaney
- Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
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- Department of Clinical Nutrition, Children's Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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- Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
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- Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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Basinger ED, Wehrman EC, Delaney AL, McAninch KG. A Grounded Theory of Students' Long-Distance Coping With a Family Member's Cancer. Qual Health Res 2015; 25:1085-1098. [PMID: 25794524 DOI: 10.1177/1049732315576710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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In this study, we explore how family members cope with one source of stress-cancer diagnosis and treatment. We suggest that coping away from one's family is characterized by constraints that are not common to proximal coping. We conducted six focus groups with college students (N = 21) at a university in the United States to investigate their long-distance coping experiences and used grounded theory methods to develop a model of college students' long-distance coping. Negotiating the tension between being here (at school) and being there (at home) was central to their experiences. Participants described four manifestations of their negotiation between here and there (i.e., expressing/hiding emotion, longing to care for the patient there/avoiding responsibility here, feeling shock at degeneration there/escaping degeneration by being here, and lacking information from there) and three strategies they used to cope (i.e., being here and withdrawing, being here and doing school, and seeking/not seeking support).
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- Erin D Basinger
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA
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Delaney AL. Special Considerations for the Pediatric Population Relating to a Swallow Screen Versus Clinical Swallow or Instrumental Evaluation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015. [DOI: 10.1044/sasd24.1.26] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Careful consideration should be taken to determine how a swallow screen could be implemented in the pediatric population. A variety of factors to be considered include: age, developmental level, feeding experience of the child, diagnosis, the status of the child's dysphagia, and the setting where the patient is treated. A swallow screen might be feasible in specific situations in the pediatric population to identify aspiration risk in those with a change in normal swallow status. Yet, more research is needed to improve the accurate identification for the pediatric population of aspiration risk and other signs of dysphagia that warrant an instrumental assessment. While risk for aspiration is a concern in this population, it is not the only concern due to the dynamic changes in feeding and swallowing performance that occur throughout childhood. These dynamic changes require a thorough clinical observation that neither a swallow screening nor instrumental assessment can provide the clinician. Thus, the clinical swallow evaluation (CSE) remains the most comprehensive tool available to assess oral feeding skill development and function, as well as, to identify risk factors for not only aspiration, but for other aspects of dysphagia, which may warrant an instrumental assessment.
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- Amy L. Delaney
- Masters Family Speech and Hearing Center, Children's Hospital of WisconsinMilwaukee, WI
- Clinical & Translational Science Institute & Otolaryngology, Medical College of WisconsinMilwaukee, WI
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This article draws on the relational turbulence model to illuminate the dynamics of depression in romantic relationships using a thematic analysis of online discourse. Three content areas of relational uncertainty were apparent: (a) depression uncertainty (questions about physical harm, source of depression, and understanding), (b) self and partner uncertainty (questions about helplessness and identity), and (c) relationship uncertainty (questions about physical intimacy, relationship satisfaction, and the future of the relationship). Three content areas of interference from partners also emerged: (a) daily routines (disruptions to household tasks; finances, work, and school; children and parenting; and family and social life), (b) personal well-being (disruptions to health and safety as well as treatment), and (c) the relationship (disruptions to sexual activity, emotional intimacy, and openness). Relational uncertainty and interference from partners coincided in people's experiences in seven ways. The article concludes by discussing the conceptual, empirical, and pragmatic implications of the findings.
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- Leanne K Knobloch
- Department of Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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Conley SF, Beecher RB, Delaney AL, Norins NA, Simpson PM, Li SH. Outcomes of tonsillectomy in neurologically impaired children. Laryngoscope 2009; 119:2231-41. [DOI: 10.1002/lary.20600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Rosen KM, Kent RD, Delaney AL, Duffy JR. Parametric quantitative acoustic analysis of conversation produced by speakers with dysarthria and healthy speakers. J Speech Lang Hear Res 2006; 49:395-411. [PMID: 16671852 DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2006/031)] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2005] [Revised: 08/23/2005] [Accepted: 08/25/2005] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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PURPOSE This study's main purpose was to (a) identify acoustic signatures of hypokinetic dysarthria (HKD) that are robust to phonetic variation in conversational speech and (b) determine specific characteristics of the variability associated with HKD. METHOD Twenty healthy control (HC) participants and 20 participants with HKD associated with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) repeated 3 isolated sentences (controlled phonetic content) and 2 min of conversational speech (phonetic content treated as a random variable). A MATLAB-based program automatically calculated measures of contrastivity: speech-pause ratio, intensity variation, median and maximum formant slope, formant range, change in the upper and lower spectral envelope, and range of the spectral envelope. t tests were used to identify which measures were sensitive to HKD and which measures differed by task. Discriminant analysis was used to identify the combination of measures that best predicted HKD, and this analysis was then used as a general measure of contrastivity (Contrastivity Index). Differential effects of HKD on maximum and typical contrastivity levels were tested with interaction of maximum, minimum, and median observations of individual speakers and with pairwise comparisons of skewness and kurtosis of the contrastivity index distributions. RESULTS Group differences were detected with pairwise comparisons with t tests in 8 of the 9 measures. Percentage pause time and spectral range were identified as the most specific (95%) and accurate (95%) differentiators of HKD and HC conversational speech. Sentence repetition elicited significantly higher levels of contrastivity than conversational speech in both HC and HKD speakers. Maximum and minimum contrastivities were significantly lower in HKD speech, but there was no evidence that HKD affects maximum contrastivity levels more than median contrastivity levels. The HKD speakers' contrastivity distributions were significantly more skewed to lower levels of production. CONCLUSION HKD can be consistently distinguished from HC speech in both sentence repetition and conversational speech on the basis of intensity variation and spectral range. Although speakers with HKD were effectively able to produce higher contrastivity levels in sentence repetition tasks, they habitually performed closer to the lower end of their production ranges.
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- Kristin M Rosen
- Waisman Research, Center University of Wisconsin--Madison, 53705, USA.
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