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Citation: Lousada, M., Jesus, L.M.T., Capelas, S., Margaca, C., Simoes, D., Valente, A., Hall, A. and Joffe, V. (2013). Phonological and articulation treatment approaches in Portuguese children with speech and language impairments: a randomized controlled intervention study. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 48(2), pp. 172-187. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-6984.2012 This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent

Objective: To develop and standardize a phonetic-phonological test (Teste Fonético-Fonológico-Avaliação da Linguagem Pré-Escolar, TFF-ALPE) for the assessment of European-Portuguese (EP) children’s articulation and phonological abilities. Patients and Methods: In order to standardize TFF-ALPE, 768 children aged 3;0–6;11 participated in this study. The standardization, validity and reliability of TFF-ALPE were analyzed. Results: TFF-ALPE presents strong cohesion and has strong inter- and intrajudge reliability. There was also a strong correlation between the TFF-ALPE data and those obtained in other studies. The content validity was demonstrated by the description of the test domain and the items that comprise TFF-ALPE. Conclusion: TFF-ALPE is a valid and reliable phonetic-phonological assessment instrument that speech-language pathologists can use with EP-speaking children.

SUMMARYThe paper presents new characterizations of the integer-valued moving average model. For four model variants, we give moments and probability generating functions. Yule}Walker and conditional least-squares estimators are obtained and studied by Monte Carlo simulation. A new generalized method of moment estimator based on probability generating functions is presented and shown to be consistent and asymptotically normal. The small sample performance is in some instances better than those of alternative estimators.

Citation: Lousada, M., Jesus, L. M., Hall, A. & Joffe, V. (2014). Intelligibility as a clinical outcome measure following intervention with children with phonologically based speechsound disorders. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12095 This is the unspecified version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent