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The purpose of this single case multiple-baseline design was to investigate the utility of using a mobile device application specifically Pictello for the iPad, as a tool to teach and support peer buddies to interact with a student with...
This study aimed to describe and quantify the types of spelling errors produced in the writing samples of children with limited English proficiency (LEP) and children who are English monolingual speakers. The spelling errors on...
Scholars have studied issues of public relations evaluation and encroachment separately, yet none have previously examined perceptions about evaluation and encroachment together in applied settings. This study features responses obtained...
The achievement gap between African American students and their Caucasian peers is a problem that has persisted within the educational system since the early 1970s. Researchers have been investigating whether differences in oral language...
Reports of working memory in healthy and neurologically impaired individuals are commonly used in discussions of the theoretical models of working memory created to hypothesize the link between working memory and verbal comprehension....
Legal mandates, educational reform, and professional policy changes, have emphasized the need to promote the integration of services for students with communication impairments within the general education curriculum. However, speech...
Few studies have been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of social stories. Studies conducted to date have combined social stories with other intervention tactics, such as behavioral supports, picture prompts, and video modeling....
The purpose of this study was to examine the direct and indirect effect(s) of syntactic knowledge and syntactic awareness on adolescents" reading comprehension. One hundred and eighty, 9th and 10th grade students" syntactic awareness, ...
With the increase of dual language learners in the United States, high efficacy service delivery to this group is a pertinent issue in speech-language pathology. There is a need for research addressing the social validity of empirically...
The present design examined teachers' use of expository text during the dedicated block of time devoted to literacy instruction. Teachers and students were participating in an instructional intervention (Individualizing Student...
Background: There is limited research on how stuttering identity develops. It is known that developing a positive stuttering identity is impacted by having a lack of role models who stutter, negative emotions related to stuttering, and...
Individuals with developmental language disorders experience an array of challenges that persist from childhood into adulthood, highlighting the need for advancements in early detection and intervention for this population. The...
Racial and ethnic diversity is growing rapidly in the United States (US), leading to heightened concerns about racial/ethnic disparities in the provision of services for young toddlers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This...
Repetitive and stereotyped behaviors (RSB) are an early diagnostic feature of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, few studies have systematically examined the context and functions of RSB in young children with ASD. This study...
This study examines Spanish gender assignment among mixed bilingual children with 121 English Language Learners and 17 Spanish Language Leaners from North and South Florida through the results of a receptive gender marking task. Two...
Introduction: Although there is a general convergence of research which indicates that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have deficits in play behavior, substantial gaps remain in our knowledge of play in children with ASD....
The evidence of a general achievement gap, and more specifically, a reading gap between African American students and White students is a well documented and alarming phenomenon (Chatterji, 2006; Darling-Hammond, 2004, 2007; Darling...
Students with developmental language disorder (DLD) have difficulty understanding and using oral language, and these difficulties negatively impact academic achievement. DLD has a prevalence of 7-8% of school-age students, yet research...
Injurious falls often have tragic consequences such as loss of independence, bodily harm and high monetary costs. Evidence on the effects of lexical cognitive tasks on gait in healthy older individuals is lacking. This study investigated...
Many Egyptians—hyphenated and not—have begun to publicly articulate their struggles with identity confusion, collectivist clash, and communication incapability; these (and similar) issues have, in fact, taken center-stage in both Arabic...
Expository writing, a modality of language to convey information, is worthy of analysis in school-age children because it is the predominant genre utilized in the classroom beginning in fourth grade and continuing through high school ...
The present intervention study explores the immediate and delayed word learning in 14 children with cochlear implants. Capitalizing on the multimedia options available in electronic storybooks, the intervention incorporates elements such...
Research has demonstrated that parents' use of synchronous language, which is language that follows their children's focus of attention, is related to language development in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; Haebig, McDuffie, ...
Perceptual-training paradigms offer a promising platform for improving intelligibility of dysarthric speech by offsetting the communicative burden from the speaker onto the listener. Much of the research to date has utilized young adults...
The purpose of this study was to determine whether preschool children from low-income environments learn phonological awareness skills when presented with interactive activities while listening to stories in an independent listening...
This study rhetorically analyzes online news images of suicide bombing. I compare and contrast the visual representation of five different suicide bombing events. I gathered 181 images and 500 websites from the Google search engine, ...
Capitalizing on Protective Factors: Establishing a Child and Youth Care Worker-Implemented Language Intervention for Use in Child and Youth Care Centers in South Africa
The purpose of the present study was to determine if naturalistic language intervention could be effective in a Child and Youth Care Center (CYCC) in South Africa to prevent and to treat potential impairments in orphan's communication....
Writing is essential for communication in literate societies, and its successful acquisition and development is central to academic achievement. As such, there is a critical need to foster children’s emergent writing skills during the...
This study examined the role of variety and frequency of dialectal features in relation to dialect awareness of African American English (AAE) and Standard American English (SAE) forms. Participant data was derived from oral and written...
Observation of Social Communication Red Flags in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Developmental Delay, and Typical Development Using Two Observation Methods
A discrepancy exists between the age at which children are currently identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the community and the age at which they can be reliably identified in research. Observational measures are needed to...
Because of the potentially harmful repercussions of undiagnosed dysphagia, a quick and accurate assessment is necessary to initiate proper treatment as soon as possible. In many situations and settings, the clinical dysphagia evaluation...
The psycholinguistic model is a theoretical framework that details the speech processing system at various levels of input, storage, and output. In the case of a child with complex speech-language impairment, this study sought to...
Few studies have examined how instructor variables relate to student performance measures for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The purpose of this study was to examine instructor language and student active engagement in...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of simultaneous lexical-semantic retrieval on parameters of gait in younger and older healthy adults. This simultaneous cognitive-linguistic loading has implications for alterations...
Purpose:This study examined young English language learners' (ELLs) sensitivity to cognate words (i.e., phonologically-similar translation equivalents, such as baby-bebéand telephone-teléfono) during timed comprehension and production...
Impairment in communication is a primary diagnostic feature of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), however relatively little is known about the early communication development of children with ASD. Vocalizations, which typically begin to...
Children with autism often display deficits in the area of play. The research in this area has focused on teaching various play skills, however, there is minimal research on the use of a curriculum-based assessment linked to direct...
The gap in academic achievement between English learners (ELs) and their monolingual peers is of increasing concern in the United States. Despite efforts to identify effective strategies to support ELs’ development and reduce this...
The rising number of students with disabilities who identify as culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) necessitates the use of culturally and linguistically responsive (CLR) instruction and related supports. Fourteen percent of...
Recent population-based statistics indicate that approximately two-thirds of African American students demonstrate poor reading achievement in the later elementary grades. The academic achievement gap between African American children...
As the rate of stroke increases, the rate of aphasia, an acquired impairment of language and communication, also increases. Aphasia can result in many impairments, including alexia, or acquired reading difficulties. Yet, research in this...
Children adopted internationally are at risk for communication delays because of their history prior to adoption and the fact that they often do not share the same language with their adoptive parents. The purpose of this research was to...
This study aims to examine the differences in expressive language in preschool children (n=36) across contexts. Children’s lexical diversity, lexical productivity, and verb use was compared between two language sampling contexts: a...
The field of speech language pathology has made continuous efforts to center cultural responsivity in clinical practice in order to adhere to systematic shifts aimed at centering equity for all individuals. However, it is necessary to...
The purpose of this study was to first determine whether a librarian's years of experience positively correlated with their literacy knowledge and efficacy, and to second determine whether structured exposure to specific and targeted...
Purpose: To examine maximum isometric lingual pressure (MIP) and total oral phase duration (oral preparation time + oral transport time) (TOP) in healthy adults, and to explore the relations among these variables. Method: One hundred...
The purpose of this study was to examine the concurrent and predictive validity of the IGDI-ECI and to model communication growth on the key skill elements of the IGDI-ECI in toddlers with significant communication delays. Concurrent...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the perceptions of both neurodiverse and typical college students on organizational applications targeting support of executive functioning and overall college success. The study utilized a mixed...
Speech- language pathologists (SLPs) require up-to-date, evidence-based research to inform their treatment decisions. Current literature on clinical recommendations lacks ecological validity, meaning they do not reflect the realistic...
Joint engagement is the child's ability to share an experience involving an object with social partners. This skill is critical to the social and communication development of young children. Previous semi-structured investigations in...
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