Cassandra Alighieri

It is an honour to be mentioned on the Forbes 2023 "30 Under 30" list Europe (category Science & Healthcare). 🎉 Can't wait to continue our research on speech therapy in children with a cleft palate! #ForbesUnder30 #ugent #FWO #CESLAS #Cleftpalate

In this newly published #JSLHR study, @Calighie et al. investigated the association between different types of cleft-related speech sound errors & scores on the 7 items of the Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS). pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20… @SIGPerspectives @CSDisseminate

This study compared the occurrence of different types of generalization (within-class, across-class, and total generalization) following motor-phonetic speech therapy and linguistic-phonological speech therapy in children with a cleft palate ± cleft lip on.asha.org/3DqzADZ

“The decision to end speech therapy brought more peace and tranquility into our family.” #AJSLP article investigates speech-related treatment fatigue and speech treatment dropout in parents and children with a cleft (lip and) palate. on.asha.org/3WGrCNb

🎬The Best PhD thesis in SLP Award Dr. Cassandra Alighieri presenting her PhD thesis for "The Best PhD thesis in SLP Award" on #cleftpalate Enjoy the video! youtube.com/watch?v=AzkFy-… #esla2024 #esla #speechpathology #speechtherapist #dissemination

🎤 Last Friday, I presented our qualitative studies on the perceptions of stakeholders with speech therapy at the conference of the Flemish Association for Speech Therapists! 🏠The take-home message? We should listen more to the voices of children when taking therapy decisions

🚨New publication by our research team: do adult naïve listeners perceive differences in speech before and after therapy for cleft palate speech disorders? Full text link: pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.10…

#ASHA2023 in Boston 🇺🇲: het grootste congres eveeeeeer, 15.000 logopedisten en audiologen, dat zie je niet vaak in 1 ruimte. Trots dat ik hier mocht presenteren! Workbestie @Calighie was ook van de partij 🤩

So grateful to be invited to present on evidence-based speech intervention in children with a cleft palate at the convention of The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in Boston together with dr. Kari Lien🌐 #ASHA2023 #FWO #UGent @Reva_UGent

Afgelopen vrijdag hadden we het genoegen om, in samenwerking met @acrehab_ugent , een workshop rond evidence-based behandeling van spraakstoornissen bij kinderen met schisis te organiseren. Een boeiende en leerrijke dag! #UGent #CESLAS #levenslangleren

Ben je logopedist en wil je nog snel inschrijven voor deze interessante navorming, wacht dan niet langer! 🗣️ Tijdens deze navormingsdag gaan we dieper in op de verschillende types spraakstoornissen die voorkomen bij schisis en hun logopedische behandeling!

Een mooie samenwerking tussen de interdisciplinaire schisisteams van Gent en Leuven! @uzgent @UZLeuven @ugent_fge

The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World will contain ~ 80 chapters about 50 languages (24 dialects). It is a huge task - but made easy by the calibre and care of the excellent authors. Due 2024. @OUPAcademic @helenlblake speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2023/05/author…

How do children with a cleft palate experience speech and language therapy? Our publication "Sometimes I feel sad: A qualitative study on children's perceptions with cleft palate speech and language therapy" is now available in @ijlcd! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

- the 2nd paper is an RCT protocol which forms a first step in the creation of guidelines for a personalized, patient-tailored treatment approach in children with a cleft palate doi.org/10.1111/1460-6…

Happy to share our two newest publications available in @ijlcd!🥳 - the 1st study investigated the acceptability of phonological intervention for children with cleft palate from the perspective of speech-language pathologists doi.org/10.1111/1460-6…

Happy to be (online) part of the ENR Cranio meeting for SLPs and being able to talk about quantitative and qualitative perspectives on patient-reported outcome measures. Interesting discussions with colleagues! Thank you for the invitation. @UMCUtrecht

Happy to share our new publication on peer attitudes toward adolescents with cleft palate speech disorders. 🧐Peers seem to show more negative attitudes toward adolescents with less intelligible speech due to their cleft. Full text available online: doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpo…

Last weekend, I had the opportunity to share the results of our study on performance-specific speech intervention in children with a cleft palate at the 37th conference of the Dutch Association for cleft palate. 👉 Full paper text: pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20…

👉High-intensity speech intervention seems acceptable to parents of children with a cleft palate. Want to know more? Our newest study is now available in @ijlcd! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…