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2014-06-27
Mitchell, Samantha, Treen, Jana
Admissions criteria are set by a university in an attempt to choose the candidates who will be the best clinicians and professionals to represent their field of choice. Our study aimed to help pinpoint the admissions criteria that would be most helpful in determining the applicants who would make...
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2015-12-08
Young, Sarah, Zhang, Ming, Jeske, Alysia, Leung, Ada
Objective: This preliminary study aimed to implement a new set of sound parameters in modified white noise to produce significant reductions in tinnitus amplitude. Design: This study was a single subject design in which subjects served as their own control. Each participant received treatment...
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2015-05-19
Peters, Julie, Smith, Jacqueline
Qualitative analysis was conducted on 30 written reflections completed by pre-service health science students enrolled in Interdisciplinary Team Development 410 at the University of Alberta. Five themes emerged from the analysis: (1) experience of cohesiveness, collaboration and communication of...
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2012-06-22
Rapid automatized naming (RAN) tasks have been used to investigate underlying reading skills, understand reading impairment, and evaluate how to improve literacy instruction for typical and atypical readers. The two main areas of study have focused on the phonological and orthographic knowledge...
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2013-06-28
Cummine, Jacqueline, Lamontagne-Looy, Angèle, Hautz, Taylor, Addison, Nicky
This study examined the structural integrity of white matter tracts related to reading in twelve Chinese-English adult bilinguals. Participants read aloud three lists of words varying in their proportions of regular (REG) and exception (EXC) words as quickly and accurately as possible. Using...
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2011-06-28
Sharp, Patricia, Hill, Cinthia
This study described the expressive language characteristics of 12 children with dysarthria and cerebral palsy based on analysis of 50-utterance spontaneous speech samples. Children were between four and 12 years old and had receptive and expressive language ages of at least three years. ...
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Reliability of Online Scoring of First Mentions in the Edmonton Narrative Normative Instrument
Reliability of Online Scoring of First Mentions in the Edmonton Narrative Normative Instrument
Download2011-07-07
When a story is told, referring expressions are used to introduce referents (characters and objects). This must be done so that the listener clearly understands that the character or object is new to the story (Schneider & Hayward, 2010). The ability to use referents correctly, according to the...
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Reliability of the Pragmatic Rating Scale in High Functioning Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Download2014-06-02
Funk, Vanessa, Thompson, Pamela, Scherz, Danielle
Background: Pragmatic skills are, by definition, impaired in people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). These difficulties can negatively influence a person’s interpersonal relationships, their ability to find employment and their overall quality of life. Currently, there is little research...
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2012-06-29
Health care providers report that individuals with similar levels of impairment after stroke have markedly different outcomes (Hartman-Maeir et al., 2007). Pilot studies of stroke survivors suggest that resilience may be a primary mediating variable accounting for the fact that some individuals...
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2012-06-15
The Speechies Speak Out blog was created to advocate the Speech Language Pathology & Audiology program at the University of Alberta and to attract prospective students. Weekly updates or \"posts\" included highlighting the experiences and perspectives of students, as well as integrating current...