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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Human Show: A Study into Cultivation, Perceptions, and Politics
(2016-05)To determine the cultivation effects on the variables of recency, frequency, and vivid memories, this study examines the effects of political drama entertainment television on viewers' political perceptions and aids to the ... -
The Voice Onset Time Productions in Monolingual and Bilingual Children with Cochlear Implants
(2013-05)The voice onset time (VOT) values of word-initial, singleton, stressed voiced and voiceless stop consonants were compared in the productions of monolingual English speaking and bilingual Spanish-English speaking children ...