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2011-02-12

Nickel, Natasha, Flottemesch, Christen, Morrical, Deirdre, Axani, Carly

The use of videoconferencing to provide speech-language services has been promoted by such agencies as Alberta Health Services. It allows previously un-serviced, rural areas to access direct speech services from a speech-language pathologist (SLP), while also reducing the costs associated with...

2011-07-20

Perry, Ashley, Bylsma, Karen, Yam, Casey

The language development of children adopted internationally is a topic of growing interest, however, most studies have investigated children adopted from China or Eastern Europe. This project is a follow-up study that explored the language development of school-age children who were adopted from...

2012-01-31

Kelso, Kaali

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...

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....

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...

2013-06-25

Thomas, Rachel, McMurrer, Allaina, Sommerfeldt, Kaitlan, Farr, Kathryn

Purpose: To review the evidence regarding the effectiveness of Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) as a treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Methods: This review employed the systematic review process developed by the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM)....

2014-06-02

Funk, Vanessa, Thompson, Pamela, Scherz, Danielle

Background: Pragmatic skills are, by definition, impaired in people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). These difficulties can negatively influence a person’s interpersonal relationships, their ability to find employment and their overall quality of life. Currently, there is little research...

2014-08-11

Clover, Jennifer, Pollock, Karen, Goerz, Naomi

This study investigates the language, academic and social skills of 36 school-aged children and adolescents who were adopted from China as infants and toddlers. All participants were part of previous studies by Pollock (2005), Pollock &Yan (2009) and Pollock, Fleming & Gerke (2011). Standardized...

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...

2014-06-26

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...