Browsing by Department "Communication Disorders"
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Phonological Awareness Skills of Six-year-old Children with Mild and Moderate Articulation Disorders
(2006-05-15)
An investigation of the phonological awareness skills of children with mild and moderate articulation disorders is presented in this thesis. A sample of 24 first graders, 12 of whom had normal articulation and the other ...
Prosodic Characteristics Observed in Verbal Children with Autism
(2012-04-11)
Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) exhibit difficulties with the
suprasegmental aspects of speech production, more specifically, with prosody. However,
there is a paucity of research regarding the perception ...
Quantifying Vocal Power: Correlation of Whole Body Anaerobic Power to Vocal Function Measures
(2020-03-06)
PURPOSE: The purpose of this preliminary study was to identify a vocal task that could be used as a clinical indicator of the vocal aptitude or vocal fitness required for vocally demanding occupations in a manner similar ...
The Role of Communication and Social Skills in Postsecondary Education Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities
(2020-04-16)
The purpose of the current investigation was to explore the educational missions and priorities of postsecondary education (PSE) programs for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID), where and how communication and ...
The Role of Personality in Career Preference of Speech-Language Pathology Students
(2015-05-04)
The purpose of this study was to obtain a personality profile, as measured by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (Tellegan, 2003), of undergraduate and graduate speech-language pathology (SLP) students and to ...
A Systematic Review of Assessment Protocols for the Discrimination between Mild Cognitive Impairment and Normal Cognitive Ability in the Aging Population
(2008-05-15)
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a concept that an aging individual has reached a point of cognitive decline that is not yet severe enough to be termed dementia, but is not considered normal. Subtle declines in cognitive ...
Telehealth Applications for Assessment and Treatment Procedures in Speech-Language Pathology: A Modified Narrative Review
(2008-05-15)
The use of telehealth in the field of speech language pathology has steadily increased in recent years and a number of researchers have published articles detailing research findings of the practice. This document is a ...
Temporal Features of Voice in Connected Speech: Bioenergetic Implications
(2016-05-05)
Purpose: Translating exercise science methodology for determination of muscle bioenergetics, it was hypothesized that the temporal voice use patterns for classroom and music teachers would indicate a reliance on the immediate ...
Therapeutic Relationship between Primary Caregivers of School-Aged Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Speech-Language Pathologists
(2018-04-23)
The purpose of the current investigation was to determine facilitators and barriers that
contribute to the therapeutic relationship between primary caregivers of school-aged children
with ASD and their child’s ...
Use of NMES for Swallowing Habilitation in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: A Survey of Clinical Practice
(2021-01-19)
Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was to identify clinical practice patterns of speech language pathologists who use NMES with the neonate and young infant population, specifically, the modality treatment parameters ...