Browsing by Department "Communication Sciences and Disorders, Department of"
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A Comparison of Speech Disfluencies in Bilingual Spanish-English Children Who Do and Do Not Stutter: A Preliminary Investigation
(2017-05)Bilingual Spanish-English (SE) children who do not stutter (CWNS) are known to exceed the diagnostic criteria for developmental stuttering based on monolingual English speakers. Therefore, this population is at risk of ... -
A comparison of speech patterns in children with cochlear implants and their peers with normal hearing
(2020-05)Purpose: The current study investigates the speech patterns of young children with cochlear implants and their peers with normal hearing by comparing group differences on typical and atypical phonological processes, ... -
A Preliminary Investigation of Speech Disfluencies in Bilingual Urdu-English Children
(2019-05)Bilingual Spanish-English (SE) speaking children who do not stutter (CWNS) are known to exceed the diagnostic criteria for developmental stuttering based on data of monolingual English speakers. While this indicates the ... -
Acoustic Analysis of the Voice in Native and Nonnative Speakers
(2019-05)There are significant differences in voice parameters for nonspeech tasks between culturally and linguistically diverse sample populations. Normative data of standard clinical software programs is typically comprised of ... -
An Investigation of Speech Disfluencies of Bilingual Urdu-English
(2020-05)Bilingual Urdu-English (UE) children who do not stutter (CWNS) are known to exceed the diagnostic criteria for developmental stuttering based on monolingual English speakers during their developmental age. Because of this, ... -
Bilingualism and Children with Speech/Language Impairments: A Qualitative Study of Parents' Experiences
(2019-05)Spanish-English bilingual parents are faced with the decision to select home and school language for their children. Parents often turn to clinicians and professionals for advice regarding language use and language ... -
Changes in Discourse Production Following Left Hemisphere Stroke
(2018-05)Discourse is any unit of connected speech longer than a sentence, organized sequentially and logically, to effectively communicate a group of ideas to a listener (Kong, 2016). Discourse can become impaired following injury ... -
Civilian Voices from the Iraq War: Profiles of Iraqi Refugees in Houston
(2020-04)Following the Iraq War of 2003, a rich stream of information analyzing PTSD in American soldiers, the realities of war, and other important narratives began to appear. However, in part because journalists were embedded ... -
Clinical and Educational Profiles of College Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2019-08)This study describes the development of descriptive clinical and educational profiles of college students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), in order to give insight for future research on factors impacting success in ... -
Comparing Differences in Expressive Language Quantity and Quality between School-Aged Children Playing with Traditional and Electronic Toys
(2017-05)Purpose: This preliminary study focuses on the expressive language of English-dominant, school-aged children playing with traditional and electronic toys. Method: Four English speaking children between the ages of 5;4 ... -
Current Practices of Speech-Language Pathologists for Those with Right Hemisphere Damage
(December 2)This study was conducted to obtain a snapshot of current clinical practices of practicing Speech-Language Pathologists that work with people who have developed deficits associated with right hemisphere brain damage after ... -
Development of a Hindi Version of Consensus Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V)
(2019-05)Objective: The purpose of the current study was to develop a Hindi version of the Consensus of Auditory Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V), a tool for speech language pathologists to assess voice quality and degree ... -
EFFECTIVENESS OF GIST REASONING TRAINING IN IMPROVING DISCOURSE, VERBAL REASONING, AND GENERAL COGNITIVE PROCESSES IN AN ADULT WITH RIGHT-HEMISPHERE DAMAGE
(2016-05)There is limited research investigating treatments targeted at remediating cognitive-communicative deficits associated with right hemisphere damage. This single case study investigated the efficacy of using a gist-based ... -
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Dual Language Programs for English Learners in Texas Secondary Schools
(2020)Compared to traditional English as a Second Language (ESL) programs, Dual Language (DL) programs offer a promising approach for schools to help their English Learners (EL) become English proficient. This research project ... -
Examining the Presentation of Speech Disfluencies in Story Generation Narrative Samples of Bidialectal Children
(2020-05)Bilingualism affects fluency resulting in increased disfluencies when compared to monolingual speakers (Coalson, Pena, & Byrd, 2013). However, little is known about the impact of speech fluency when speaking two dialects, ... -
Heading and Cognitive Performance in Female Collegiate Soccer Players
(May 2013)There is conflicting information about the safety of heading by soccer players because of the potential deleterious effects of accumulated subconcussive blows. The purpose of this study is to examine whether there are ... -
Influence of Lexical Versus Procedural Knowledge in Sentence Production in Response to Thematic Role Assignment Treatment
(2017-05)We tested whether one source of variability in treatment response and generalization for sentence production (Mitchum, Greenwald, & Berndt, 2000; Rochon, Laird, & Scofield, 2000) in individuals with non-fluent agrammatic ... -
MEASURING CHINESE-LANGUAGE NEWSPAPERS AS HEALTH COMMUNICATION RESOURCE: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF
(2011-12)Newspapers in Chinese language are one of the major resources of health information for Chinese immigrants living in the United States. However, nearly none study have been conducted on the coverage of health issues and ... -
Outcome Measures of Discourse in Aphasia
(2014-08)Aphasia, an acquired language impairment resulting from a stroke or other brain injury, often negatively impacts the narrative discourse skills of those affected. Several methods have been created to analyze the discourse ... -
Phonological Awareness Assessment Practices for Children with Speech Sound Disorders: Results of a National Survey
(2019-05)The purpose of this study was to examine assessment procedures of phonological awareness skills by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) when evaluating children who have suspected or diagnosed speech sound disorders (SSDs), ...