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Skip to Search Results- 8Cummine, Jacqueline (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
- 6Kim, Esther (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
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- 3Paslawski, Teresa (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
- 2Campbell, Melanie (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
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Spring 2023
The current study investigated the relationship between participation at businesses (i.e., business access) and the personal factors (i.e., the identity, attitudes, and feelings) of people with aphasia (PWA). Five PWA were interviewed about their business experiences in Edmonton, Alberta, and how...
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Advancing Our Understanding of Speech Motor Control Through an Investigation of Intermuscular Coherence in Typical Speakers
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There is a need to characterize intermuscular coherence (IMC) in selected muscles of the speech mechanism in order to establish its utility as a tool to study speech motor control. IMC is a correlation in the frequency domain that provides information about whether two signals (i.e.,...
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Let's Talk About Sex - Or Not: Sexual Communication, Self-Efficacy, and Sexual Healthcare Use Among Individuals With and Without Communication Difficulties
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Sexual communication is an essential element of sexual satisfaction and wellbeing. However, individuals with communication difficulties (in reading, writing, speaking, or understanding language) may face barriers to sexual communication in interpersonal and healthcare contexts. Based on previous...
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Learning to speak a minority language at school: Mandarin speech development of children in a Chinese-English bilingual program in Canada
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A key factor of bilingual speech development is speech input. Different from an immigrant setting where children who are learning the majority language as a second language (L2) can receive rich and authentic input, the speech input is usually limited when learning a minority language. For L2...
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Pattern Learning and Accent Familiarity in Monolingual and Bilingual English Speakers: Generalizing Learning Across Accented Speech
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It is increasingly common to encounter speakers with an accented variety of English, especially as society becomes more diverse and multilingual. To begin shedding light on how to improve communication outcomes when interacting with a speaker who has an accent, this research investigates...
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Holistic Linguistics: An in-depth analysis of six bilingual English-French children living in Quebec City
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The Problem: When it comes to assessing and intervening with bilingual populations, language interventionists face a difficult problem. Not only is there a lack of standardized tests for these populations, but even the use of the few that exist have limits about their conclusions. These limits...
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Understanding the Impact of Speech-Language Therapy on the Quality of Life of People with Aphasia: A Collective Case Study
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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...
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Building communication ramps: An examination of barriers and facilitators in making businesses accessible for individuals with aphasia
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The present study investigated barriers and facilitators to making businesses accessible for people with aphasia – specifically, external factors that contribute to communication accessibility. Nine people with aphasia were interviewed about their experiences accessing businesses and services in...
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Spring 2021
Despite research indicating long-term risks associated with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD; Anderson et al., 2016; Bishop et al., 2016; Winstanley et al., 2018), there is still uncertainty whether children with language difficulties/DLD in the preschool years may outgrow their language...
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A Qualitative Analysis of a Novel Face-Tracking Application and a Proposed Research Design to Study Glossectomy Speech using this Method
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Background: Following glossectomy, patients often utilize compensatory articulatory behaviors (CABs) to compensate for their acquired speech impairments. Incidental findings have indicated the presence of lower lip inversion CABs, but no study has investigated these inversions directly. A...