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The Effect of Event Boundaries on Repetition Reduction Among Individuals with Previous Experience of mTBI 

Siegel, Julia (2022-05-01)
Previous research has shown that event boundaries have a ‘reset’ effect on repetition reduction within conversational speech. Other studies have shown that the ‘Location Updating Effect’ impacts memory, even within a virtual ...

The Effects of Clinical Experience in the Rating of Intelligibility of Phonetically Contrasted Words 

Hanner, Emily (2020-03-31)
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate if crowdsourced lay listeners with minimal exposure to child speech and certified clinicians in the field of speech-language pathology experienced in treating speech ...

Exploring an Explanatory Child Speech Intelligibility Model Using Phonetically Contrasted Word Productions 

Willoughby, Katherine (2019-04-17)
Purpose: In clinical practice, there is no standard measure of intelligibility that explains the kinds of difficulties that listeners who are inexperienced with child speech may encounter. This study aimed to investigate ...

Exploring the Use of Parent Report in Child Speech and Language Screening 

Madden, Caroline (2018-04-25)
Early detection of speech-language disorders in preschool children have been found to improve academic, behavioral, and social outcomes. As the USPSTF reports, there is currently no gold standard measure for assessing ...

How Native Language Affects Functionally Relevant Item Selection 

Barahona, Lissien Esther (2021-04-13)
PURPOSE: A challenge speech language pathologists face when establishing a therapy plan to rehabilitate a significant loss of language and communication ability is the identification and selection of functionally relevant ...