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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...
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....
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 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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Reading comprehension emerges as an important skill set in the early elementary grades. It is supported by component skills including decoding, linguistic knowledge including vocabulary and syntactic knowledge, as well as more complex, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
While researchers acknowledge broad therapeutic effects of music for patients at the end of life, limited information is available regarding the specific effects of music therapy compared with conversation-based treatment on...
The present study examined tongue strength and speech characteristics in six individuals with Parkinson disease across two sessions of approximately 20 months. The Iowa Oral Performance Instrument was used to measure tongue strength. In...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 use of caregiver coaching in early intervention is growing with an increasing number of researchers examining the benefits and outcomes of caregiver-implemented interventions for young children with delays or disabilities. Most...
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...
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...
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...
Autism can be reliably diagnosed at 18-24 months; however, the average age of diagnosis remains at 4-5 years, which is relatively high in relation to the earliest age at which it can be accurately diagnosed. This gap in diagnosis...
Effects of Absolute and Comparative Risk Information on Self-Evaluation, Affective Responses, and Behavioral Intentions of Precautionary Actions Against Skin Cancer
The fact that skin cancer is relatively prevalent, preventable and often curable represents a special opportunity for health communication and health campaign interventions. A key feature of health communication aimed at preventing skin...
Purpose: To examine pulse oximetry (PO) levels in healthy adult subjects across the adult age span, and to examine the same in a sample of individuals with severe and very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and to...
Research has documented the importance of early oral language and phonological sensitivity abilities in relation to later reading success. More research is needed to measure specific components of oral language abilities in order to...
The purpose of this study was to examine multiple dimensions of written language produced by eighty-nine children in grades 2, 3, and 4 in narrative and expository writing samples. Two written composition samples were collected from...
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...
As dementia grows at an increasingly faster rate around the world, it has become imperative to identify its symptoms at an early stage. Dementia of the Alzheimer’s type (DAT) mainly disrupts cognitive functioning, but behavioral changes...
Limited research has examined the gesture use of young children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in a home-based setting. Observation in the natural environment can supplement assessments that take place in structured...
The purpose of this study was to compare the levels of semantic complexity in children’s oral and written narrative language. This study focused on the narratives produced by students in the fourth grade (N=35) due to the high demand of...
Vocabulary is considered one of the critical language skills necessary for children to develop at a young age, as it has been shown to be highly correlated with future academic success in school. Children from low-income environments...
Theory of Mind (ToM) involves a person's ability to infer what another person knows, thus taking his or her perspective. Initial evidence has been presented for a ToM impairment in individuals with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease ...
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, ...
Purpose: To investigate lingual-palatal pressures generated along the antero-posterior length of the tongue by younger and older adults for Maximum Isometric tongue Pressure (MIP) and swallowing tasks (LSP), and to explore the relation...
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