Editorial
Abstract
EDITORIAL Assessment and treatment of speci c language impairment are the topics of the rst two papers of this the last issue of 2002, 27:4. Both papers are from the Dept of Logopedics and Phoniatrics at Lund University in Sweden. In the rst article, authors Hansson and Nettelbladt use grammatical production, language comprehension and phonology data from 42 children to discuss the assessment instruments, their diagnostic value and usefulness in cross-linguistic studies. The focus of the second paper, by Hulterstam and Nettelbladt, is the client-clinician interaction during language intervention and in particular how the clinicianâs elicitation strategies affect child participation. Two different types of phonological interventions were compared and both kinds of therapy showed an adult dominating pattern of communication. The School of Art Education at Stavanger University College contributes a study of muscle activity in the classical singerâs shoulder and neck region. The study was conducted by Pettersen and Westgaard and included 16 conservatory singing students. An overuse of the trapezius muscle was observed, and could be lowered using biofeedback. LPV Forum appears again in this issue and the topic this time is collaborative approach to diagnosis and management of persistent dysphonia in performers. LPV readers are