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This study examined the quantity and quality of language interactions between young Spanish-English speaking children and their caregivers during book sharing in two conditions: with and without feedback on quantity of adult language...
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...
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....
Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder that affects various aspects of speech production, such as breath support, speech rate, articulation, and prosody. Traditional speech therapy involved behavioral changes to how a person with...
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...
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, ...
The aim of the present study was to complete a scoping review of current research on adolescent vocabulary intervention across settings in order to develop a nascent conceptual framework for oral and written, expressive and receptive...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Low retention of school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) is a growing problem that can have drastic consequences at the school and student levels. Factors contributing to this shortage include features of the work environment, ...
The Effect of a Training Module on Voice Quality Features on the Accuracy of Student Perception of Those Features and on Student Self-Efficacy for Clinically Working with People Who Have Voice Disorders
Speech-language pathology (SLP) students and clinicians have reported low self-efficacy, or confidence, in their ability to make auditory ratings of voice quality features. A training program for rating voice quality features may provide...
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...
It is well known that aphasia, a language disorder typically caused by stroke, negatively affects communication abilities. However, little is known about how aphasia impacts a person's talking while walking, a common dual-task scenario....
Children with hearing loss (CWHL) are not achieving reading skills at a comparable pace to their hearing counterparts, but research suggests that parents who utilize emergent literacy techniques while reading with their child might...
It is known that communication disorders, such as aphasia, can negatively impact the friendships and quality of life of the person living with the communication impairment. While there is still much to be learned about the friendships of...
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