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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...
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...
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...
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...
Following a total laryngectomy, individuals' quality of life may be affected in a number of ways. One issue that is often overlooked is a swallowing disorder. The process of eating and drinking is an essential element in social...
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...
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...
This study was conducted to discover the effects of specific language tasks on injurious falls. Injurious falls often have tragic consequences, such as traumatic brain injury, hip fractures, and/or high monetary costs. Previously, FSU...
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...
The primary aim of this project is to develop a language and literacy intervention program for Spanish-speaking ELLs (English Language Learners). The project is being conducted in schools in Gadsden County where it is reported that 48%...
Not only are children from linguistically diverse backgrounds at risk for being under-identified but also, language differences among speakers have been considered language deficit, based on a lack of understanding about Spanish-speaking...
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, ...
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, ...
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...
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-bebรฉand telephone-telรฉfono) during timed comprehension and production...
Historically, hearing loss was a condition that only affected the elderly. Due to increasing technological advances, Noise Induced Hearing Loss is on the rise for all populations. Hearing conservation programs aim to educate the public...
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...
In a community-dwelling sample (N = 4, 790; age range 14-94), we examined whether personality traits prospectively predicted performance on a verbal fluency task. Open, extraverted, and emotionally stable participants had better verbal...
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...
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...
Disordered stress has been proposed as a potential diagnostic marker of CAS. This study examines the use of the durational aspect of stress, particularly vowel and consonant duration, in distinguishing children with suspected CAS from...
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...
Purpose: Reading plays a critical role in ensuring children's academic achievement (Lonigan, Burgess, & Jason, 2000). This investigation focused on the acquisition of mental orthographic images (MOIs). Specifically, it examined word...
English language learners compose a growing percentage of the student population in the United States and are at risk for reading and academic problems. It is important to understand how English language learners acquire language in...
A deficit in communication is not only one of the earliest and most frequently reported concerns by parents of young children later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but is also among the most frequent reasons for the...
Individuals with dementia have language and memory deficits that interfere with their functional abilities, such as conversation skills. A Variety of treatments have been developed to address these deficits during group conversation...
This study examined the relations among expressive phonology, phonological sensitivity, and early decoding skills in children attending kindergarten through 2nd grade. Extant literature suggests that children with disordered speech may...
Contemporary young people are engaged in a variety of information behaviors, such as information seeking, using, sharing, and creating. The ways youth interact with information have transformed in the shifting digital information...
This study investigated the development and validation of the Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading (FAIR) expressive vocabulary measure. Three hundred, seventy-one children from two school districts representative of the...
The ability to use language effectively is a function we rely on every day. Unfortunately for many individuals, language ability can be impaired following damage to the language centers of the brain. Aphasia is the term that applies to...
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the vocabulary of low SES students, who also had low standardized language and cognitive scores, could be improved through a supplemental one-on-one intervention. Three first graders (6...
There is great interest in determining the effects of Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation (TES) on voice. A possible factor that influences electrical stimulation transfer to the extrinsic and intrinsic laryngeal muscles is...
Purpose: This study examined the triadic relationships between the early interventionist, the parent and the child in a parent-implemented communication intervention for toddlers. Specifically, relationships between coaching strategies...
The purpose of this research was to determine the effects of three in-service training methods on the quality of IEP objectives developed by speech-language pathologists. Forty-nine school-based speech-language pathologists were randomly...
Many theories for explaining speech production problems in apraxia of speech (AOS) have been advanced. Schmidt's schema theory of motor control has been widely used to explain motor learning in normal subjects as well as in individuals...
Purpose: There is evidence to support the Motor Learning Guided (MLG) approach as a feasible and effective treatment for speech production impairments. To achieve the next step in providing a solid evidence base, the current study...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a caregiver-implemented vocabulary intervention for toddlers with language delays using mobile device applications (apps). This study used two apps to teach caregivers to use...
The investigators of this study set out to determine if extended Reaction Time (RT) in people with Parkinson disease is due to impairments in the ability to initiate and execute motor movements, a deficit in cognitive processing function...
The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of cognitive load on parameters of gait in a person with traumatic brain injury and a person with no neurological deficits. Injurious falls are the leading cause of traumatic brain...
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the underlying factors related to dialect awareness in second, third, and fourth grade students. Eighty-seven students were administered measures of written and spoken dialect usage, ...
Early detection of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is crucial to optimizing child and family outcomes. Most research on the early diagnostic features of ASD has been done in the clinic environment; therefore there is a need for research...
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