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 COMPARISON OF VERBAL MORPHOLOGICAL ERRORS IN SPANISH-SPEAKING ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS WITH AND WITHOUT DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDERS
(2021-05)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess morphological markers in Spanish-speaking children, who are English language learners, with and without DLD, to determine the type of verb errors made by each group and the ... -
A developmental program for training preschool children with deficits in the area of immediate auditory recall
(1966)Articulation problems which no structural, emotional, or intellectual basis is evident, have recently caused speech pathologists to evaluate the functional adequacy of specific cognitive processes in children with these ... -
A follow up study of fifty stutterers who were diagnosed at a speech clinic before the age of eight
(1958)The present follow up study was an effort to make as comprehensive a study as possible of the problem of stuttering in young children. Causative, maintaining and remedial factors were studied and analyses and comparisons ... -
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 exploratory study of voice quality in esophageal speech
(1968)This study was designed to investigate the relationship between judged pleasantness of esophageal vocal productions of an isolated vowel and the amount of jitter present in the acoustic signal. Secondary variables considered ... -
An investigation of a combined method of teaching recall in the basic speech course
(1970)Purpose of the study: This investigation was designed to find if there were significant differences and relationships by sex, word count, and error between the experimental group who received instruction in the combined ... -
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, ... -
An investigation of the relationship between selected personality variables and subordination in speech
(1967)This investigation was designed to find if there were any significant relationships between the kind and amount of subordination in the extemporaneous speech of adults and selected aspects of their personalities. In order ... -
An investigation of varying degrees of high discrepancy and change in highly involved subjects : a concept formation problem
(1973)This study was designed to investigate the amount and the nature of change produced in highly involved individuals when they are confronted with extremely discrepant information. To determine the change and to allow for ... -
An investigation of vowel formant position and judgments of roughness
(1968)The purpose of this study was to investigate the importance of the first formant frequency position upon the perceptual judgment of vocal roughness. Vowel-like stimuli were synthesized using a laryngeal analog and vowel ... -
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 ... -
Code-switching in Bilingual Children With and Without Language Disorders
(2021-05)Due to increasing linguistic diversity across caseloads in the United States, it is important for speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to understand code-switching as it relates to typically developing children and children ... -
Communication Sciences and Disorders Students’ Attitudes About American Sign Language, English, and Deaf Culture
(2020-08)Speech-language pathologists, who are considered experts for speech and language development of deaf children, often lack the training necessary to support the language development of deaf children (Brackett, 1997). Little ... -
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 ...