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Overview

Kathryn M. Yorkston is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within medicine, health professions, and psychology. The work focuses significantly on subfields such as physiology, clinical psychology, speech and hearing, cognitive neuroscience, and occupational therapy.

The scientist's research addresses several key topics including voice and speech disorders, dysphagia assessment and management, stuttering research and treatment, assistive technology in communication and mobility, autism spectrum disorder research, as well as hearing loss, rehabilitation, and communication.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Yorkston include:

  • The Communicative Participation Item Bank: Evaluating, and Reevaluating, Its Use across Communication Disorders in Adults (2021), published in Seminars in Speech and Language
  • Predicting Communicative Participation in Adults Across Communication Disorders (2021), published in American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • Communicative Participation in Dysarthria: Perspectives for Management (2022), published in Brain Sciences
  • Older adults' perceptions of current and future hearing healthcare services in Australia, England, US and Canada (2021), published in Public Health Research & Practice
  • Communicative Participation and Quality of Life in Pretreatment Oral and Oropharyngeal Head and Neck Cancer (2020), published in Otolaryngology

Yorkston frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Carolyn Baylor, Tanya L. Eadie, Mara R. Kapsner-Smith, Helen Mach, and Allyson D. Page. Carolyn Baylor is the most frequent co-author, having worked together on multiple projects.

Publication venues where Yorkston has contributed multiple articles include:

  • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • Seminars in Speech and Language
  • Brain Sciences
  • Public Health Research & Practice
  • Otolaryngology

The overall research profile is characterized by multidisciplinary approaches to communication disorders, focusing on participation, management, and healthcare services associated with speech, hearing, and related conditions. The integration of assistive technologies and the examination of quality of life factors also form important aspects of their work.

Best Publications

  • Intervention for executive functions after traumatic brain injury: A systematic review, meta-analysis and clinical recommendations

    Mary R T Kennedy;Carl Coelho;Lyn Turkstra;Mark Ylvisaker

  • An analysis of connected speech samples of aphasic and normal speakers.

    Kathryn M. Yorkston;David R. Beukelman

  • Falls in the Medicare Population: Incidence, Associated Factors, and Impact on Health Care

    Anne Shumway-Cook;Marcia A Ciol;Jeanne Hoffman;Brian J Dudgeon

  • Clinical Management of Dysarthric Speakers

    Kathryn M. Yorkston;David R. Beukelman;Kathleen R. Bell

  • Measuring Communicative Participation: A Review of Self-Report Instruments in Speech-Language Pathology

    Tanya L. Eadie;Kathryn M. Yorkston;Estelle R. Klasner;Brian J. Dudgeon

  • The Communicative Participation Item Bank (CPIB): Item Bank Calibration and Development of a Disorder-Generic Short Form

    Carolyn Baylor;Kathryn Yorkston;Tanya Eadie;Jiseon Kim

  • Comprehensibility of Dysarthric Speech

    Kathryn M. Yorkston;Edythe A. Strand;Mary R.T. Kennedy

  • Mobility Limitations in the Medicare Population: Prevalence and Sociodemographic and Clinical Correlates

    Anne Shumway-Cook;Marcia A. Ciol;Kathryn M. Yorkston;Jeanne M. Hoffman

  • Communication and aging.

    Kathryn M. Yorkston;Michelle S. Bourgeois;Carolyn R. Baylor

  • Frequency and age effects of secondary health conditions in individuals with spinal cord injury: a scoping review

    M P Jensen;A R Truitt;K G Schomer;K M Yorkston

  • A comparison of techniques for measuring intelligibility of dysarthric speech

    Kathryn M. Yorkston;David R. Beukelman

  • The Effect of Rate Control on the Intelligibility and Naturalness of Dysarthric Speech

    Kathryn M. Yorkston;Vicki L. Hammen;David R. Beukelman;Charlie D. Traynor

  • The cost and benefits of employment: a qualitative study of experiences of persons with multiple sclerosis.

    Kurt L Johnson;Kathryn M Yorkston;Estelle R Klasner;Carrie M Kuehn

  • Communication Efficiency of Dysarthric Speakers as Measured by Sentence Intelligibility and Speaking Rate

    Kathryn M. Yorkston;David R. Beukelman

  • A qualitative study of interference with communicative participation across communication disorders in adults

    Carolyn Baylor;Michael Burns;Tanya Eadie;Deanna Britton

  • Treatment efficacy: dysarthria

    Kathryn M. Yorkston

  • Social support, depression, and physical disability: Age and diagnostic group effects

    Mark P. Jensen;Amanda E. Smith;Charles H. Bombardier;Kathryn M. Yorkston

  • Speech and pause characteristics following speech rate reduction in hypokinetic dysarthria.

    Vicki L. Hammen;Kathryn M. Yorkston

  • Translating principles of neural plasticity into research on speech motor control recovery and rehabilitation.

    Christy L. Ludlow;Jeannette Hoit;Raymond Kent;Lorraine O. Ramig

  • Evidence for effectiveness of treatment of loudness, rate, or prosody in dysarthria: a systematic review

    Kathryn M. Yorkston;Mark Hakel;David R. Beukelman;Susan Fager

  • Evidence-based practice guidelines for instructing individuals with neurogenic memory impairments: what have we learned in the past 20 years?

    Laurie A. Ehlhardt;Mckay Moore Sohlberg;Mary Kennedy;Carl Coelho

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph R. Duffy
Joseph R. Duffy Mayo Clinic
Dawn M. Ehde
Dawn M. Ehde University of Washington
Kathryn A. Bayles
Kathryn A. Bayles University of Arizona
Lyn S. Turkstra
Lyn S. Turkstra McMaster University
Carl A. Coelho
Carl A. Coelho University of Connecticut
Pélagie M. Beeson
Pélagie M. Beeson University of Arizona
McKay Moore Sohlberg
McKay Moore Sohlberg University of Oregon
Michelle S. Bourgeois
Michelle S. Bourgeois University of South Florida
Pat Mirenda
Pat Mirenda University of British Columbia
Malcolm R. McNeil
Malcolm R. McNeil University of Pittsburgh

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