Tiina Ihalainen

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• PhD
• University Lecturer at Tampere University

Title: Nursing personnel’s knowledge of dysphagia before and after the educational intervention. Abstract in finnish: Nielemisvaikeudet ovat yleisiä henkilöillä, jotka tarvitsevat hoitoa terveyskeskusten osastoilla, hoivakodeissa tai kotihoidossa. Nielemisvaikeus voi heikentävää yleisvointia aiheuttamalla aliravitsemusta ja aspiraatiosta johtuvia...

Swallowing difficulty, also known as dysphagia, is a fairly common symptom that may lead to malnutrition, dehydration, pulmonary complications, and a reduced quality of life. Currently, a swallowing evaluation requires a hospital environment, skilled personnel, and expensive devices. Thus, it is important to develop a successful method for evaluati...

Motivation is an important factor in paediatric speech therapy. Rehabilitation is often long-term work that requires many repetitions and home training with parents. Therefore, one of the most important tasks of paediatric speech-language pathologists (SLPs) is to find different ways, over and over again, to motivate children for training. As diffe...

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a neurological disorder that primarily affects body movement, muscle coordination, and muscle tone. Non-progressive brain injury or abnormal brain development that occurs while the child’s brain is under development causes CP. It is estimated that 40–85% of children with CP have communication difficulties. Children with commu...

Purpose: E-textiles have been the focus of interest in health technology, but little research has been done so far on how they could support persons with complex communication needs. A global estimate is that 97 million people may benefit from Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). Unfortunately, despite the growing body of research, ma...

This paper presents early prototypes of textile-based multimodal customizable activators. The prototypes were targeted at turning our ordinary clothing and accessories assistive. The activators are part of a system with a web-based interface that allows the user to tailor the functionalities of the activators. These first prototypes can be activate...

Participation and social inclusion influence individuals’ health and well-being. These factors can be easily disturbed, especially for those with disabilities. Designers and engineers have tried harnessing technology to assist people via producing prototypes of assistive devices, such as smart clothing and furniture. This study approaches that user...

Epätarkkaa vokaaliartikulaatiota pidetään yhtenä Parkinsonin taudin ensimmäisistä oireista ja sen tutkimiseen on kehitetty erilaisia akustisia mittareita. Tässä pilottitutkimuksessa Parkinsonin tautia sairastavien (n=35) vokaaliartikulaatiota tarkasteltiin vokaaliartikulaatioindeksillä (VAI), jonka tiedetään olevan tämän hetken tarkin ja luotettavi...

Purpose The growth of new high-technology devices in the field of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) has been rapid. However, a vast number of individuals with complex communication needs are left without functional means to communicate in their lives. Intelligent textiles are one of the growing industries in health technologies yet t...

Limitations in physical and cognitive functioning are common among elderly people. Due to these limitations, activities of daily living, such as dressing, can be difficult, even with the help of another person. The limitations may also challenge using the assistive tools meant to support the independent living of elderly people. One significant ass...

In engineering education, and in work life in general, the past two years have been struggling with Covid-19 pandemic. When considering studying, learning, and working, the teachers and other facilitators have been forced to create innovative methods for online working, aiming to good work efficiency, student engagement, and learning results. Along...

Dysphagia can stem from various etiologies and cause several serious complications. Instrumental evaluation methods for swallowing require special equipment not available everywhere. Thus, an instrumental means to evaluate swallowing that could be used outside a hospital setting would be critical. Dual-axis accelerometers have been utilized in earl...

About 200 new traumatic spinal cord injuries occur in Finland every year. Of them, almost 60 percent are cervical spinal cord injuries. The aim of this study was to examine how many subjects experienced changes in swallowing function and whether the subjects’ self-assessment of swallowing function changed during the one-year follow-up period. In ad...

Speech from people with Parkinson's disease (PD) are likely to be degraded on phonation, articulation, and prosody. Motivated to describe articulation deficits comprehensively, we investigated 1) the universal phonological features that model articulation manner and place, also known as speech attributes, and 2) glottal features capturing phonation...

Imprecise vowel articulation can be observed in people with Parkinson's disease (PD). Acoustic features measuring vowel articulation have been demonstrated to be effective indicators of PD in its assessment. Standard clinical vowel articulation features of vowel working space area (VSA), vowel articulation index (VAI) and formants centralization ra...

Puheen ja kommunikoinnin haasteet koskettavat laajaa joukkoa eri ikäisiä ihmisiä. Puhetta tukevien ja korvaavien kommunikointikeinojen, eli AAC- keinojen (engl. Augmentative and Alternative Communication), tarkoituksena on mahdollistaa itseilmaisu, kommunikointi ja osallistuminen. Nykyisten AAC-keinojen käyttöön liittyy monenlaisia käytännön haaste...

Dysarthria is a common symptom for people with Parkinsons disease (PD), which affects respiration, phonation, articulation and prosody, and reduces the speech intelligibility as a result. Imprecise vowel articulation can be observed in people with PD. Acoustic features measuring vowel articulation have been demonstrated to be effective indicators o...

Previously, glove-integrated communication based on gestures, hand movement and finger touch had a complex operating system and an active power source was needed. This paper introduces batteryless and maintenance-free interface gloves. Our solution is based on passive ultra-high frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, comp...

Study design: Prospective cohort study. Objectives: This prospective cohort study aims to evaluate the recovery of penetration/aspiration and functional feeding outcome in patients with acute TCSCI. Setting: Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland Methods: Forty-six patients with TCSCI were enrolled. All the patients received speech thera...

To the Editor: We would like to thank you for the opportunity to respond to the issues raised in Dr Saeid Safiri's letter. The insightful comments by Safiri are important and highlight a common statistical problem with small observational studies. Clinical research with a rare index disease and a narrow scope of interest is many times bewitched wi...

Study design: Prospective cohort study. Objectives: Dysphagia is a relatively common secondary complication in patients with traumatic cervical spinal cord injuries (TCSCI). The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of aspiration and penetration in patients with acute TCSCI. Setting: Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland....

Background Context Laryngeal penetration-aspiration, entry of material into the airways, is considered the most severe subtype of dysphagia and common among patients with acute cervical spinal cord injury. Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate risk factors for penetration-aspiration in patients with acute traumatic cervical spinal cord...

Introduction: Dysphagia is a relatively common secondary complication in patients with traumatic cervical spinal cord injuries (TCSCI). The purpose of this study was to: (1) determine the incidence of penetration and aspiration in patients with acute TCSCI, and (2) examine the temporal relation of aspiration and penetration during swallowing. Metho...