Speech Pathology and Audiology

2011-12-18

Corrigan, M., Adams, K.D., Cook, A.M.

Children with disabilities may have decreased ability to play, and thus less opportunity to acquire associated motor, cognitive, and linguistic skills. There is evidence that robotic play may help children acquire those skills, and our overall goal is to facilitate integration of spontaneous...

2017-12-15

Frankel, Jessica, Haeusler, Brianne, Boliek, Carol, Rieger, Jana, Hardy, Teresa

The literature exploring rate of speech (RoS) as a communication-based cue to gender has been inconclusive, with some studies finding no difference and some concluding that cisgender males speak at a faster rate than cisgender females. The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is a...

2018-11-16

Davies, Brynn, Poets, Sarena, Thomlinson, Stephanie, Loucks, Torrey

Stuttering is a developmental disorder characterized by involuntary disfluencies. Given that stuttering treatment reduces stuttering symptoms we predict the variability of fluent speech will decrease post-treatment. Speech rate is typically slower in adults who stutter regardless of treatment...

2017-12-14

McLellan, Tara, Paslawski, Teresa, Truong, Suzanne, Chan, Lily, Westfall, Claire

Drugs can affect speech-language pathology assessment and treatment, yet speech-language pathologists (SLPs) typically have limited experience considering the effects of medications on their work with clients. The aim of this project was to create a resource to help SLPs consider, as part of a...

2013-03-11

Komar, Laurene, Chan, Eve

Children adopted internationally have a special course of exposure to language as they abruptly switch from hearing the sounds of their birth language, to which they typically are not further exposed post-adoption, to the sounds of a new language (Glennen, 2002; Roberts et al., 2005). The quick...

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....

2011-01-27

Christenson, Robyn, Shantz, Lauren, Rogers, Robyn, Rieger, Jana, Zeleny, Karissa

The objective of this research project was to create an outline for an educational resource that could be used to create a web-based video application that could be used to provide information to head and neck cancer patients.

2014-06-30

Soriano, Adrielle, Yuen, Amanda

Children who have severe physical disabilities often have great difficulty interacting and learning through play, and their expressive language is commonly limited. During play, mothers are frequently more directive in their interaction with children with disabilities. This might change if the...

2012-04-02

Thoresen-Semonick, Christina, Wunderlich, Lorielle, Cust, Sarah

Peak cough flow (PCF) is a measure of cough strength and capacity. According to American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards, patients should be seated upright during pulmonary function testing. However, the effect of sitting angle on PCF and other measures of cough function in patients with ALS has...

2018-11-16

Aime, Rachelle, Cipkar, Emily, Hines, Darby, McFarlane, Lu-Anne, Suleman, Salima

Participants in an interprofessional educational seminar between student SLPs and education students were surveyed. The seminar incorporated video, online learner-led activities, traditional facilitator-led learning and completion of a case study. eClass site provided students access to...