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2017-02-07

Eichelt, Karissa, Zielinski, Tammie, Pollock, Karen, Nicoladis, Elena, Koh, Jessie Bee Kim

Speech-language pathologists often assess children’s expressive language, which sometimes includes narrative abilities, when screening and diagnosing language delays. Typically, narratives are analyzed for grammatical complexity (i.e., mean length utterance or MLU) and lexical complexity (i.e.,...

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....

2015-03-11

Pittoors, Dana

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,...

2018-11-16

Quach, Wendy, Pollock, Karen, Simpson, Brianne, Klassen, Jessica

The purpose of this study was to examine perspectives of parents who participated in an intensive weekend family AAC camp on their experience and training received.

2019-11-08

da Silva, Bridgette, Kascak, Lauren, Lelekach, Marisa, Zhang, Jessica, Pollock, Karen, Lin, Youran

This study is part of a larger, ongoing project that aims to develop a profile of children learning Standard Mandarin as L2 in the Edmonton Public Schools Chinese (Mandarin) Bilingual Program.

2017-01-03

Chan, Charlene, Goodridge, Emily, Lam, Joelle, Pollock, Karen

The aim of this project was to pilot a study of perceived accentedness in the speech of students enrolled in Mandarin-English bilingual elementary schools in Edmonton. Seventeen students from Kindergarten to Grade Six were recorded repeating three sentences in Mandarin and three sentences in...

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...

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...

2017-04-21

Blackmore, Sarah, Geisheimer, Sarah, Grant, Kelsey, Preus, Ashley, Pollock, Karen

This project involved the development and evaluation of an online phonetics refresher module for incoming speech-language pathology (SLP) students at the University of Alberta, class of 2018. The module was intended to provide new students with the opportunity to review phonetics concepts and...

2019-11-08

Hutchinson, Megan, McPhedran, Tara, Miller, Clare, Wilson, Taylor, Adams, Kim, Pollock, Karen

A focus on the experiences and perspectives of siblings of children who use AAC who participated in AAC Camp Alberta. While gaining a deeper understanding of this relationship was key, information was also used for program planning.