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Clients’ Experiences with, and Perceptions of, Psychological Counseling to Augment Stuttering Therapy
DownloadSpring 2015
Introduction: Stuttering impacts almost every aspect of life, stimulating fear and speaking avoidances, anxiety, frustration, anger, guilt, and/or shame in those affected. Because stuttering triggers anxiety and other psychological and emotional reactions and limits participation in society, it...
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Spring 2016
Background. Stuttered speech (e.g., th-ththth-th-ththth-the car) and typical disfluencies (e.g., thee uh car) have some similarities. Previous research describes a tendency in listeners to predict that a speaker will refer to an unfamiliar object, rather than a familiar one, when both are equally...
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Speech Assessment in Bilingual Children: Relationship between Perceptual Judgments of Accent/Comprehensibility and Formal Test Measures
DownloadSpring 2019
There is a paucity of research examining how the presence of an accent may affect speech-language pathologists’ (SLP) assessments of bilingual children. Generally, assessment tools normed on monolingual children cannot be used to make diagnostic decisions about whether a bilingual child has a...
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Understanding the Impact of Speech-Language Therapy on the Quality of Life of People with Aphasia: A Collective Case Study
DownloadFall 2022
Aphasia is a communication disorder caused by damage to areas in the brain responsible for language, resulting in speaking, understanding, reading, and writing difficulties. Speech- Language Pathologists (SLPs) provide various modalities of therapy for people with aphasia (PWA) through various...