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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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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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2017-05-31
Jenkinson, Michal-Joan, LaGrange, Rebecca, Meyn, Larissa, Smith, Sarah, Campbell, Melanie
The resources currently available to grade three teachers for the Hearing and Sound science unit focus on the properties of sound, but do not strongly support learning objectives related to hearing, its role in communication and protection against its damage. Given that about 5% of Canadian...
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2016-06-30
Dimitrijevic Savic, Jovana, Howell, Heather, Schneider, Phyllis
This paper quantitatively examines grammatical complexity and lexical diversity in the oral and written narrative productions from a subsample of children, aged six and eight, includ-ed in Test of Early Language and Literacy (TELL: Phillips, Hayward & Norris, 2016) narrative norming sample. For...