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Speech Pathology and Audiology
Items in this Collection
- 4Children
- 2Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- 1Behavioural services
- 1Developmental services
- 1Early language development
- 1Edmonton
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2013-05-09
Wu, Tong, Nickel, Liane, Reimer, Ashley
The number of children who are adopted internationally has been steadily increasing. However, there is a limited amount of research on how language typically develops in this population. This study followed 20 children under the age of 5 who were adopted from Ethiopia to North America....
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Exploring Pragmatic Language Dysfunction in High Functioning Speakers with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Reliability Study for Transcription using Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT)
Download2014-06-26
Duby, Brandis, Lysay, Katryna, Conrad, Megan, Smith, Kalista
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) commonly experience difficulties with pragmatic language use. To determine how cognitive load affects the pragmatic language use of high-functioning children with ASD, 11 children between the ages of 7 and 12 and diagnosed with ASD performed...
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2014-07-21
Ritz, Rebecca, Pollock, Karen, Frigon, Paula, Baines, Crystal, Chung, Hyunju
Many children have difficulty producing /r/ sounds. In this study we are interested in children’s production of vocalic forms of /r/, otherwise known as rhotic vowels. Rhotic vowels can be monophthongs (/ɝ/and/ɚ/), as in words like stir and tiger, or diphthongs (e.g., /ɑ͡ɚ/ or /ɪ͡ɚ/), as in car...
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2015-03-11
Background: This study describes the intensity of services received by preschool children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the Edmonton area. Method: Sixty eight families were asked to describe the services their preschool children utilized at 4 time points: within 4 months of diagnosis,...