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2013-05-09
Wu, Tong, Nickel, Liane, Reimer, Ashley
The number of children who are adopted internationally has been steadily increasing. However, there is a limited amount of research on how language typically develops in this population. This study followed 20 children under the age of 5 who were adopted from Ethiopia to North America....
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Effect of a Child-Controlled Robot on Mother’s Communicative Dominance during Play Interaction with a Child with Cerebral Palsy: a Case Study
Download2014-06-30
Soriano, Adrielle, Yuen, Amanda
Children who have severe physical disabilities often have great difficulty interacting and learning through play, and their expressive language is commonly limited. During play, mothers are frequently more directive in their interaction with children with disabilities. This might change if the...
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2012-04-02
Thoresen-Semonick, Christina, Wunderlich, Lorielle, Cust, Sarah
Peak cough flow (PCF) is a measure of cough strength and capacity. According to American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards, patients should be seated upright during pulmonary function testing. However, the effect of sitting angle on PCF and other measures of cough function in patients with ALS has...
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2014-04-14
Beckett, Laura, Bruder, Ann, Pranjivan, Trisha, Weran, Pamela, Garrett-Petts, Samantha, Benetti, Sarah
The Edmonton Public Library (EPL) is a community resource that offers a variety of materials, technology and services as well as an extensive on-line database of digital materials for the public to utilize. The purpose of this project was to identify EPL’s existing resources and assistive...
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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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Evidence-Based Best Practices in Supporting Elementary‐Aged Children with Mild-to-Moderate Hearing Impairments in School Programs
Download2014-06-30
Freeman, Alicia, Bihis, Shantelle
School-aged children with mild-to-moderate hearing impairments are almost always found in inclusive rather than separate educational settings, yet teachers and school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) may lack a full understanding of the educational and speech/language needs of children...
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2013-06-27
Coutts, Brittany, Cartmell, Melissa, Mitchell, Megan
Traditionally, research on reading comprehension has relied on offline measures such as answering questions after reading a passage. However, for individuals with aphasia (an acquired neurological language impairment), working memory impairments may confound such measures. In contrast,...
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2016-04-14
Hodgetts, Bill, Bernier, Myriam, Hodgetts, Sandy
This exploration study investigates whether or not barriers to audiology service access exist in the province of Alberta by means of 3 surveys. Surveys were divided in barrier-themes such as: distance to the audiologist, funding, wait lists/referrals. These surveys were available in audiology...
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Exploring Pragmatic Language Dysfunction in High Functioning Speakers with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Reliability Study for Transcription using Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT)
Download2014-06-26
Duby, Brandis, Lysay, Katryna, Conrad, Megan, Smith, Kalista
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) commonly experience difficulties with pragmatic language use. To determine how cognitive load affects the pragmatic language use of high-functioning children with ASD, 11 children between the ages of 7 and 12 and diagnosed with ASD performed...
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2011-07-13
Background A large body of literature suggests that individuals who stutter, (“IWS”), are subjected to negative stereotypical attitudes and perceptions held by speech language pathologists (“SLPs”). Although there has been improvement in SLPs’ perceptions of IWS, there continues to be a need...