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Fall 2022

McNeil, Allison, L

In this manuscript-based thesis, I investigated the development of executive functioning (EF) in individuals with FASD, the types and intensity of services individuals with FASD and their caregivers access, and the associations between early EF, adaptive functioning, mental health, and later...

Fall 2022

Hansen, Jessica

Approximately 3.5 million Canadians will meet the criteria for a mood disorder in their life time. Previous research has found that athletes are at a greater risk for mental health disorders than the general public. This could be due to professional athletes having intense physical and mental...

Fall 2022

Campbell, Debra J

The majority of sexual assault incidents in Canada are committed against women and girls. Among the many injurious sequelae survivors can experience post-sexual assault are sexual problems. Sexual concerns related to desire, arousal, pain, orgasm and/or sexual well-being can last for years after...

Fall 2022

Yildirim-Erbasli, Seyma Nur

In recent years, conversational agents have been widely used in education to support student learning. Conversational agents have the capability to enhance learning by improving interaction, motivation, feedback, and personalization. To date, researchers have designed and used different types of...

Spring 2022

Hoover, Michelle NM

Play therapy is an effective form of psychotherapy typically used with children under the age of 12. Numerous meta-analyses amalgamating the results of hundreds of play therapy research studies have shown that children who engage in play therapy are better off than nearly 80% of those who do not...

Spring 2022

Okungbowa, Eki

Parenting is a socially and culturally constructed role and experience. Parenting practices vary across and within communities yet most of what we know about parenting in the literature stems from Western worldviews on what ideal parenting and child-rearing looks like in practice. Taking a...

Spring 2022

Gilmour, Laura Lynn

This study aimed to understand the lived experience of school-aged children engaging with a diversity-positive chapter book in a classroom setting. Participants were 9 third-grade students and 26 sixth-grade students and their respective teachers in a Canadian urban school. An interpretive...

Fall 2022

Schultz, Jessica Lynne

Relationships are not only important to healthy youth development but may be the key ingredient which make intervention programs with youth successful. This study used data from evaluation of a wraparound school initiative called All in For Youth which has, among others, an aim of building and...

Fall 2022

Labonté, Chantal

Many children, including those on the autism spectrum, need to communicate in two or more languages to participate fully in their lives and communities. Despite bilingualism being a worldwide phenomenon, bilingual development in autistic children is a relatively new area of study, with a limited...

Fall 2022

Ree-Fedun, Bradyn

The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between demographic and health factors, and oculomotor functioning during baseline testing in professional athletes. Four hundred twenty-eight male athletes consented and participated in the baseline concussion assessments of the...