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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, ... -
Strategies of remembrance: the public negotiation of ntional identity in Germany and Canada
(1997)Nationalism is perhaps the most potent contemporary political force in the world, and yet the discursive means by which collective identity is created, maintained, and transformed are under-explored. This study comparatively ... -
Subgroups of Ataxic Dysarthria
The role of the cerebellum in speech production is related to coordination and timing. When the cerebellar circuit is disrupted, the resulting speech disturbance is known as ataxic dysarthria. Features of this disruption ... -
Tallying Reference Errors in Narratives: Integrative Language Function, Impairment, and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
(2010-12-15)This study investigates the construct validity of a new measure of Integrative Language functioning, Tallying Reference Errors In Narratives (TREIN), by examining the association between previously existing CNS impairment ... -
Temporal weighting of binaural cues for sound localization
(2013-02-25)Normal-hearing human listeners localize sound sources accurately and effortlessly across an effectively limitless variety of acoustic environments by responding to, among other cues, small differences in the timing and ... -
The Associative Learning Model versus the Hypothesis Testing Model: Using Error Patterns to Understand Preschoolers’ Word Learning
A key question in childhood language development is how children are able to learn new words in spite of ambiguous real-world situations. Two potential explanations have dominated the literature to date. The classic model ... -
The effect of speaker-specific information on perceptual voice rating tasks
The effect of speaker-specific information on perceptual voice rating tasks Cara Sauder Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Tanya Eadie Speech & Hearing Sciences Auditory-perceptual voice assessment and ... -
The Games They Play: Observations of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder on the School Playground
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) spend a considerable amount of their school day on the playground with peers. Previous literature on playground engagement has used quantitative methods, but there is limited ... -
The Relationship Between Dysarthria, Primary Motor Profile, and Cognition in Idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease
While previously considered purely a motor disorder, Parkinson’s disease (PD) is now recognized as a complex constellation of motor and non-motor symptoms. Current research to better understand the heterogeneity of symptoms ... -
The relationship between non-orthographic language abilities and reading performance: An exploration of the primary systems hypothesis in chronic aphasia
Individuals with aphasia, an acquired language processing disorder, commonly present with both spoken (i.e., language production and comprehension) and written (i.e., reading and spelling) language impairments. Traditionally, ... -
The Role of Perceived Social Support, Resilience, and Depression on Communicative Participation in Head and Neck Cancer Survivors
Objectives: The purpose of this study was (1) to investigate the relationships among the psychosocial variables of perceived social support, resilience, and depression in adults diagnosed with head and neck cancer (HNC), ... -
The Role of Trust in Treatment Uptake for Hearing Loss in Older Adults
Untreated hearing loss in older adults is a growing public health problem. Many of the barriers contributing to the low uptake of hearing healthcare (e.g., stigma, accessibility, affordability) have been cited in the ... -
Understanding Frequency Encoding and Perception in Adult Users of Cochlear Implants
(2012-08-10)An increasingly common approach to treating severe to profound hearing loss in children and adults is cochlear implantation, with over 219,000 users worldwide. While most cochlear implant (CI) users achieve high levels of ... -
Understanding the vocal learning basal ganglia circuit in zebra finches: Is there co-release of glutamate from midbrain dopamine neurons terminating in area X?
Vocal learning is the process of acquiring and maintaining one of the many complex motor skills that begins to develop from human infancy, during which the brain reliant on auditory input. In this study, zebra finches, a ... -
Understanding verbal accounts of racism
(1997)Racist and covert racist acts have generally been researched from the perspective of dominant group members. The focus of this dissertation is on the little-researched point of view of non-dominant members who believe they ...