Speech Pathology and Audiology
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- 25Pollock, Karen
- 18Paslawski, Teresa
- 15Hopper, Tammy
- 15Kim, Esther
- 14Schneider, Phyllis
- 13Cleary, Stuart
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2011-07-04
Maschio, Nicole, Heck, Crystal, Broome, Carin
Speech generating communication devices (SGCD) are speech aids that help individuals who have severe speech impairments meet the needs of daily communication. They are commonly used by individuals who have congenital, developmental or acquired disabilities in which their ability to speak has been...
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Children's Expression of Emotional and Cognitive Mental States in their Story Generation from Pictures
Download2014-05-05
Ortlieb, Andrea, Babar, Aseea, Baird, Shelby, Lang, Bretton
Background: The term mental state can be used to describe a person’s emotional or cognitive condition (i.e. feelings, thoughts, or perceptions). Narratives provide an important context for the use of mental state words, since stories in Western culture frequently describe characters’ thoughts...
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2011-08-03
Yungwirth, Shaelene, Genuis, Sarah, Charlton, Sheila
Currently, cognitive function of children with motor impairment is difficult to assess because most cognitive assessment tasks require manipulation of small objects and/or verbal intelligibility. Research has demonstrated that play using robots allows children with motor impairments to manipulate...
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2017-05-03
Greville, Charlotte, King, Aleana, Min, Hanie, Petker, Taylor, Reimer, Jo, Smith, Charlotte, Paslawski, Teresa
This paper introduces Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) and describes how a team of students at the University of Alberta brought together the departments of Rehabilitation Medicine, namely Communication Sciences and Disorders, Occupational Therapy, and Physical Therapy, in an event that showcased...
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2016-05-25
Cowden, Brenna, Lee, Alyssa, Pollock, Karen
Purpose: Adoptions of non-special needs children from China have decreased dramatically over the past decade, while adoptions from the Waiting Child program have increased. Waiting children have identified medical needs or are over the age of 10 years. The purpose of this study was to determine...
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Comparing the Children’s Communication Checklist to Standardized Tests: Results from School-age Children Adopted from Haiti
Download2012-01-31
Although research into the language development of children who were internationally adopted is growing, the body of work continues to show mixed results. Part of the difficulty of determining if children who were adopted internationally are at risk for having a language delay is establishing the...
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2011-06-30
The present study evaluates outcomes for individuals to determine how much better a patient’s hearing will be with a bone-anchored device on a headband than with no hearing aid, and how much better a patient’s hearing will be with the bone-anchored device connected to an implant compared to the...
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Comprehension monitoring behaviour during reading of connected text in elementary school-children: Comparing eye-tracking and think-aloud methods
Download2017-06-29
Chomey, Stacey, Collett, Janelle, Molzan, Bradie, Skoczylas, Melissa, Kim, Esther, Charest, Monique
Comprehension monitoring while reading is the ability to recognize that a coherence problem has occurred and that a repair strategy is needed to resolve a discrepancy in understanding. This pilot study examined two methods for detecting incoherence: eye-tracking and think-aloud protocols. The...
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2016-06-30
Dimitrijevic Savic, Jovana, Howell, Heather, Schneider, Phyllis
This paper quantitatively examines grammatical complexity and lexical diversity in the oral and written narrative productions from a subsample of children, aged six and eight, includ-ed in Test of Early Language and Literacy (TELL: Phillips, Hayward & Norris, 2016) narrative norming sample. For...
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2012-06-11
Wesner, Stephanie, Sellinger, Kelly, Pangalia, Jessica, Mak, Karen
Individuals with dementia who live in long-term care facilities often lack opportunities for social interaction. Mealtimes provide such an opportunity, yet there are few studies of the nature of communication during mealtimes. The purpose of this 900 project was to examine verbal and non-verbal...