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Language and culture in speech-language and hearing professions in South Africa: The dangers of a single story	448	48	0	496
The influence of screen time on children's language development: A scoping review	387	48	2	437
The challenge of linguistic and cultural diversity: Does length of experience affect South African speech-language therapists' management of children with language impairment?	199	21	10	230
Mixed-methods research: A tutorial for speech-language therapists and audiologists in South Africa	84	131	1	216
Phonemic awareness of English second language learners	169	27	1	197
Language and communication development in preschool children with visual impairment: A systematic review	143	26	0	169
'We are in this together' voices of speech-language pathologists working in South African healthcare contexts during level 4 and level 5 lockdown of COVID-19	105	27	7	139
Implementing oral care to reduce aspiration pneumonia amongst patients with dysphagia in a South African setting	110	15	0	125
Challenges of teaching the deaf-blind learner in an education setting in Johannesburg: Experiences of educators and assistant educators	72	34	12	118
A proposed artificial intelligence-based real-time speech-to-text to sign language translator for South African official languages for the COVID-19 era and beyond: In pursuit of solutions for the hearing impaired	82	23	2	107
Intervention for bilingual speech sound disorders: A case study of an isiXhosa-English-speaking child	87	15	4	106
A retrospective review of speech-language therapy services provided to adult inpatients at a central-level hospital in Gauteng, South Africa	83	10	7	100
Practices and views of audiologists regarding aural rehabilitation services for adults with acquired hearing loss	89	4	4	97
Facilitating pragmatic skills through role-play in learners with language learning disability	88	8	1	97
Exploring the efficacy of melodic intonation therapy with Broca's aphasia in Arabic	83	10	1	94
Comparison of the South African Spondaic and CID W-1 wordlists for measuring speech recognition threshold	88	4	0	92
Identifying hearing impairment and the associated impact on the quality of life among the elderly residing in retirement homes in Pretoria, South Africa	64	18	9	91
South African hearing conservation programmes in the context of tele-audiology: A scoping review	74	8	7	89
The experiences of speech-language therapists providing telerehabilitation services to children with autism spectrum disorder	75	12	2	89
The prevalence of hearing impairment within the Cape Town Metropolitan area	73	6	0	79
Assessing the efficacy of asynchronous telehealth-based hearing screening and diagnostic services using automated audiometry in a rural South African school	65	14	0	79
Occupational noise-induced hearing loss in the mining sector of South Africa: Perspectives of occupational health practitioners on how mineworkers are trained	62	11	6	79
Increasing unemployment rate amongst health professionals: Will there be jobs for newly graduated South African audiologists post-COVID-19?	67	10	2	79
Dysphagia services in the era of COVID-19: Are speech-language therapists essential?	69	9	0	78
Simulations as a mode of clinical training in healthcare professions: A scoping review to guide planning in speech-language pathology and audiology during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond	66	8	4	78
Audiology practice management in South Africa: What audiologists know and what they should know	64	10	3	77
Adapting and translating the Mullen Scales of Early Learning for the South African context	55	19	3	77
Suck, swallow and breathing coordination in infants with infantile colic	69	6	0	75
Towards a South African model of language-based learning disability	65	8	1	74
Post-stroke dysphagia: An exploration of initial identification and management performed by nurses and doctors	63	11	0	74
Public awareness of audiology, hearing and hearing health in the Limpopo Province, South Africa	64	7	2	73
The use of non-speech oral-motor exercises among Indian speech-language pathologists to treat speech disorders: An online survey	60	10	2	72
Impact of drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment on hearing function in South African adults: Bedaquiline versus kanamycin	53	10	9	72
Development of a clinical feeding assessment scale for very young infants in South Africa	60	8	2	70
Development and evaluation of the Ingwavuma receptive vocabulary test: A tool for assessing receptive vocabulary in isiZulu-speaking preschool children	58	7	5	70
The practices, challenges and recommendations of South African audiologists regarding managing children with auditory processing disorders	56	13	0	69
Speech processing and production in two-year-old children acquiring isiXhosa: A tale of two children	54	13	0	67
The hearing function of sound engineers: A hearing conservation perspective	63	4	0	67
Classroom acoustics as a consideration for inclusive education in South Africa	53	12	0	65
Recent advances in hearing conservation programmes: A systematic review	51	7	7	65
Vocal effectiveness of speech-language pathology students: Before and after voice use during service delivery	59	5	0	64
The core vocabulary of South African Afrikaans-speaking Grade R learners without disabilities	47	17	0	64
The use of diet modifications and third-party disability in adult dysphagia: The unforeseen burden of caregivers in an economically developing country	55	3	5	63
Chemicals, noise and occupational hearing health in South Africa: A mapping study	51	5	7	63
Public awareness of ear health and hearing loss in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia	54	3	3	60
Nurses' knowledge of stroke-related oropharyngeal dysphagia in the Eastern Cape, South Africa	50	7	1	58
Does occupational noise matter amongst manufacturing (small and medium enterprises) workers? Empirical evidence from Magaba, Mbare, Zimbabwe	36	16	6	58
Outcomes of newborn hearing screening at an academic secondary level hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa	40	10	8	58
Effect of voice therapy in sulcus vocalis: A single case study	50	6	0	56
'A blender without the lid on': Mealtime experiences of caregivers with a child with autism spectrum disorder in South Africa	49	2	5	56
Perceived barriers to compliance with speech-language therapist dysphagia recommendations of South African nurses	51	4	0	55
Classification of audiograms in the prevention of noise-induced hearing loss: A clinical perspective	43	5	7	55
New graduates' perceptions of preparedness to provide speech-language therapy services in general and dysphagia services in particular	49	5	0	54
Health sciences students' perception of the communicative impacts of face coverings during the COVID-19 pandemic at a South African University	50	2	2	54
Burden of disease: A scoping review of HIV/AIDS and TB in occupational noise-induced hearing loss	41	5	7	53
The perspectives of speech-language pathologists: Providing teletherapy to patients with speech, language and swallowing difficulties during a COVID-19 context	45	6	2	53
Caregivers' reading practices to promote literacy in a South African children's home: Experiences and perceptions	44	8	0	52
Grammatical number inflection in Arabic-speaking children and young adults with Down syndrome	41	5	6	52
Male students' perceptions about gender imbalances in a speech-language pathology and audiology training programme of a South African institution of higher education	42	7	2	51
Sports audiology: Ear hygiene practices of gym users who wear earphones	34	12	0	46
The South African dysphagia screening tool (SADS): A screening tool for a developing context	36	9	0	45
The attitudes of typically developing adolescents towards their sibling with autism spectrum disorder	32	11	2	45
Breastfeeding and swallowing in a neonate with mild hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy	33	10	2	45
Challenges to infection control in early communication intervention: A scoping review	36	5	3	44
Risk versus benefit: Should not audiologists assess this in the context of occupational noise-induced hearing loss in the mining industry?	35	3	5	43
Are South African Speech-Language Therapists adequately equipped to assess English Additional Language (EAL) speakers who are from an indigenous linguistic and cultural background? A profile and exploration of the current situation	31	10	1	42
What can speech production errors tell us about cross-linguistic processing in bilingual aphasia? Evidence from four English/Afrikaans bilingual individuals with aphasia	34	7	0	41
Perceptions of public primary school teachers regarding noise-induced hearing loss in South Africa	33	8	0	41
Engineering noise control for mines: Lessons from the world	31	4	6	41
Language and culture in speech-language and hearing professions in South Africa: Re-imagining practice	38	3	0	41
Lexical and grammatical development in trilingual speakers of isiXhosa, English and Afrikaans	34	6	0	40
Evaluating a smartphone digits-in-noise test as part of the audiometric test battery	35	5	0	40
A descriptive analysis of assessment measures on the effectiveness of a comprehensive stuttering intervention approach: A single case study	35	3	2	40
Application of machine learning approaches to analyse student success for contact learning and emergency remote teaching and learning during the COVID-19 era in speech-language pathology and audiology	35	3	2	40
The cat on a hot tin roof? Critical considerations in multilingual language assessments	39	0	0	39
Community service speech language therapists practising in adult dysphagia: Is the healthcare system failing them?	36	3	0	39
Middle ear pathologies in adults within the mining industry: A systematic review	29	4	6	39
Newborn and infant hearing screening at primary healthcare clinics in South Africa designated as National Health Insurance pilot sites: An exploratory study	32	4	3	39
When uncertainty becomes the norm: The Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital's Speech Therapy and Audiology Department's response to the COVID-19 pandemic	31	5	3	39
Poor consistency in evaluating South African adults with neurogenic dysphagia	32	6	0	38
The validity of an isiZulu speech reception threshold test for use with adult isiZulu speakers	30	3	4	37
A critical analysis of the current South African occupational health law and hearing loss	22	9	6	37
Estimating miners at risk for occupational noise-induced hearing loss: A review of data from a South African platinum mine	26	5	6	37
Promoting emergent literacy in under-served preschools using environmental print	29	6	1	36
Systemic support for learners with developmental language disorders in Zimbabwe and South Africa	18	16	2	36
Learning new words from an interactive electronic storybook intervention	31	2	2	35
Gestational age and birth weight variations in young children with language impairment at an early communication intervention clinic	17	16	2	35
Skydiving: The audiological perspective	32	1	1	34
A comparison between video otoscopy and standard tympanometry findings in adults living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in South Africa	28	6	0	34
Analysis of barriers and facilitators to early hearing detection and intervention in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	25	7	2	34
A pilot study to determine the feasibility of a cluster randomised controlled trial of an intervention to change peer attitudes towards children who stutter	21	11	1	33
Communication and school readiness abilities of children with hearing impairment in South Africa: A retrospective review of early intervention preschool records	28	3	2	33
Shifting and transforming the practice of audiology: The inclusion of traditional healing	27	6	0	33
Maternal knowledge and views regarding early hearing detection and intervention in children aged 0-5 years at a semi-urban primary care clinic in South Africa	27	5	0	32
Contextualising clinical reasoning within the clinical swallow evaluation: A scoping review and expert consultation	28	4	0	32
Primary school teachers' opinions and attitudes towards stuttering in two South African urban education districts	21	9	1	31
Responsive communication coaching for early childhood practitioners in underserved South African contexts: Clinical perspectives	29	2	0	31
A comparison of attitudes towards stuttering of non-stuttering preschoolers in the United States and Turkey	25	4	1	30
Middle ear status - structure, function and pathology: A scoping review on middle ear status of COVID-19 positive patients	24	4	2	30
Speech-language therapy educator reflections on the planning and implementation of education and training during the COVID-19 pandemic	21	2	7	30

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