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2016-05-25

Cowden, Brenna, Lee, Alyssa, Pollock, Karen

Purpose: Adoptions of non-special needs children from China have decreased dramatically over the past decade, while adoptions from the Waiting Child program have increased. Waiting children have identified medical needs or are over the age of 10 years. The purpose of this study was to determine...

2017-06-29

Chomey, Stacey, Collett, Janelle, Molzan, Bradie, Skoczylas, Melissa, Kim, Esther, Charest, Monique

Comprehension monitoring while reading is the ability to recognize that a coherence problem has occurred and that a repair strategy is needed to resolve a discrepancy in understanding. This pilot study examined two methods for detecting incoherence: eye-tracking and think-aloud protocols. The...

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...

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...

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...

2024-05-01

Spence, John C.

This evidence brief summarizes the findings from a scoping review of both unpublished and published studies examining impact of the Children’s Fitness Tax Credit (CFTC). The review posed two research questions seeking evidence for: (1) equitable take-up (e.g., claiming, use) of the CFTC by...

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...

2021-11-26

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...

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.,...

2021-01-01

Demers, Catrine, Aguila, Kylene, Casault, Claire, Jamal, Farah, Meloni, Geneviève, Montakhab, Maryam, Salinas-Marchant, Carolina, MacLeod, Andrea A.N.