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1989-10-01
Edmonton Social Planning Council
Special project application to United Way Children and Poverty Project.
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The Development of Idiom Comprehension in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
2011-06-17
Hebert, Mireille, Rajan, Farah
This project is concerned with the development of idiom comprehension in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The performance of four children between the ages of 6 and 13 years, with High Functioning Autism (HFA), was compared on different idiom interpretation tasks. The three idiom...
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2011-07-11
Chin, Chelsea, Kaytor, Danielle, Chan, Vicky
Purpose: This study examined the effects of the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT®LOUD) on the speech intelligibility of children with cerebral palsy (CP) and children with Down syndrome (DS). Method: Naïve listeners were recruited to decode the pre- and post-treatment recorded single-word...
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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,...
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2010
Kolkman, John, Ahorro, Joseph, Varlen, Kory
Developing a comprehensive strategy to reduce if not eliminate poverty in Alberta.
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2012-01-01
Beriault, Rikki, Klatt, Jodi, Ditmars, Melanie
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are said to interpret language literally. If so, they would have trouble understanding figurative language, independent of their language level. Idioms (e.g. “skating on thin ice”) are a type of figurative language that are used frequently. In this...
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We can do better: toward an Alberta child poverty reduction strategy for children and families
Download2008-11-01
Edmonton Social Planning Council, Kolkman, John
A new provincial report on Child and Family poverty released today by the Edmonton Social Planning Council (ESPC) reveals that 77,595 children are living in families below Statistics Canadas Low Income Cut Off (LICO). This means one in ten children in Alberta live below the poverty line.