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Participation-focused intervention among US speech language pathologists
<italic>Background</italic>: In the field of speech-language pathology, there is an increasing focus on participation-focused interventions. This term refers to evaluating clients and establishing therapy programs that ... -
Patient factors that predict response to intensive phonomotor treatment
Abstract Patient Factors that Predict Response to Intensive Phonomotor Treatment Kristen M. Elliott Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Diane L. Kendall, PhD, CCC-SLP Speech and Hearing Sciences Phonomotor treatment is a ... -
Patient-Provider Communication: Training fourth year medical students in communication with individuals with communication disorders
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Peer Relationships in School-Age Children with Autism: Concurrent and Longitudinal Predictors
This study investigated contributors to peer competence and friendship quality in 26 children with autism (age M=11.7 years, SD=.72; 20 boys, 6 girls) and 25 children with typical development (TD; age M=10.2 years, SD=1.5; ... -
Perceptual and Neurophysiological Effects of Treated and Untreated Hearing Loss in Older Adults
The purpose of this dissertation work was to examine the impact of auditory deprivation in the form of age-related hearing loss (ARHL) and auditory stimulation in the form of hearing aid use, on the neural registration and ... -
The persuasive implications of therapeutic touch in doctor-patient relationships
(1996)This dissertation examined the effects of touch in the therapeutic context as a factor in determining patient compliance with physician directives. In particular, the current research focused on how the use of touch performs ... -
Phonomotor Training for Accent Modification
(2014-02-24)There is a lack of evidence regarding efficacious training programs for modifying accent. The program developed for this study is based on a parallel distributed processing model of phonology and is expected to improve ... -
Physiologic development of speech motor control: articulatory coordination of lips and jaw
(1998)The objective of this investigation was to describe development of lip and jaw coordination during speech. The potential influence of labiomandibular coordination on phonologic acquisition was also considered. A computer-based ... -
Pitch perception prior to cortical maturation
Pitch perception plays an important role in many complex auditory tasks including speech perception, music perception, and sound source segregation. Because of the protracted and extensive development of the human auditory ... -
Preaching with a cupped ear: Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics as postmodern wor[l]d
(1996)For the last twenty-five years, practitioners of what has come to be known as the New Homiletic have attempted to discover a way through the "crisis" of preaching to a "new effectiveness." A growing cadre of homileticians ... -
Procedural Learning in Adults with and without Developmental Language Disorder: The Influence of Manual Motor Demands
The purpose of this research project was to determine differences in procedural learning in adults with and without developmental language disorder (DLD) when manual motor output is and is not required for a learning task. ... -
Purposes for talk in nurse managers' meetings
(1991)This study employed qualitative research methods to examine purpose talk in four nurse managers' meetings. Observation combined with audio-tape recordings, interviews, and printed institutional documents were the data ... -
Relationships Between Auditory Discrimination and Adaptation of Vocal Features of Speech
The current study evaluated relationships between auditory discrimination and adaptation of vocal features of speech. Previous research suggests relationships between auditory discrimination and adaptation of articulatory ... -
The role of aided signal-to-noise ratio in aided speech perception in noise
(2013-07-23)Despite advances in hearing aid technology and careful fitting processes, outcomes vary widely among hearing aid users, particularly in background noise. Predicting benefit with hearing aids is not easy to do, as many ... -
Self-Efficacy in People with Speech or Language Disorders: A Qualitative Study
(2013-04-17)The construct of self-efficacy has emerged in recent research as potentially influencing outcomes for people with chronic health impairments. Individuals with speech and language disorders have been understudied with regards ... -
Sensorimotor learning and control in individuals who stutter
Despite accumulating evidence that stuttering is associated with deficiencies in sensorimotor integration, the exact mechanisms underlying this disorder of speech fluency remain not only unknown but controversial. Since ... -
Sentence Comprehension and Phonological Memory in Boys with Fragile X Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are prevalent neurodevelopmental disorders that share overlapping characteristics, including deficits in language abilities. The current study examined delays in ... -
Sequence learning on motor and non-motor tasks in people who stutter
The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in sequence learning in people who stutter (PWS) and people who are typically fluent (PWTF) using both implicit and explicit sequence learning paradigms while ... -
Short-term musical intervention enhances infants' neural processing of temporal structure in music and speech
Early music training provides an excellent model for studying neural plasticity and understanding the relations between music and speech processing; and it has implications for speech and language development. Most of the ... -
Speech community in the virtual world: the case of one listserv
(1997)This dissertation examines the discourse of an electronic mail listserv. Two research questions were specified: (1) Does this listserv (called Pednet) constitute a speech community? and (2) If Pednet is a speech community, ...