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The benefits of an immersive Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Camp experience for Rehabilitation Medicine students
Download2017-06-22
Ames, Allison, Archer, Britany, Inkster, Michelle, Pollock, Karen
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) camps provide opportunities for children who use AAC, and their families, to build communication skills in a short-term intensive format. Students in graduate rehabilitation medicine programs are often utilized as counsellors at these camps, but...
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The Development and Effectiveness of an Online Phonetics Refresher Module for Incoming Speech-Language Pathology Students
Download2017-04-21
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...
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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.,...
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Guide to Program StimuLER: A community based program to support development of languages spoken by children who are refugees and immigrants
Download2020-03-01
Jaber, Manar, Pesco, Diane, Meziane, R. Sabah, MacLeod, Andrea A.N.
StimuLER is a program that aims to support children who are refugees in the acquisition of their first language and the learning of their second language, be it English or French (the name, StimuLER, reflects the French verb "to stimulate" and integrates a French acronym for the language of...
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Growing up Bilingual: Tips and Resources for Parents Raising Emerging Bilingual and Multilingual Children
Download2021-11-26
Andrea A.N. MacLeod, Catrine Demers
In Fall of 2021, Dr. Andrea A.N. MacLeod and Dr. Catrine Demers created infographics on (1) tips and (2) resources for parents speaking a marginalized language at home and raising emerging bilingual and multilingual children. The (1) tips include information and strategies for parents to use with...
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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...
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2016-05-30
Dumbrell, Kate, Hornby, Bryn, Stephenson, Kayla, Schneider, Phyllis
Narratives are widely used in language assessment and intervention. They are clinically useful, as they require the skills of combining words and sentences into meaningful stories. Narratives of children with impairments predict later academic achievement, language development, and reading...
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Current Practices of Speech-Language Pathologists Serving Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Adults with Communication Disorders in Alberta
Download2017-05-27
Church, Torie, Manuel, Abigail, Nguyen, Nguyen, Kim, Esther, Tomlinson, Heather
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) provide language-based services which makes working with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) clients uniquely challenging. Alberta is becoming increasingly diverse, but little is known about the ways in which Albertan SLPs are currently serving their...