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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"Health Sciences, Speech Pathology"”.
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The Development of a Novel Tumor -Specific MRI Contrast Agent Targeting the High Affinity Folate Receptor: In Vitro and in Vivo Specificity, Toxicity, and Biodistribution
The need to develop target-specific MRI contrast agents to aid in disease characterization remains highly essential. Here, we present a generation four polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimer conjugated to folic acid that specifically targets the high affinity folate receptor (hFR) overexpressed on more …
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The Effects of Pitch, Vowel, Dynamic Level, and Gender on Nasalance in Amateur and Classically Trained Singers
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the effects of frequency range, vowel, dynamic level, and gender in amateur and classically-trained singers. Nasalance scores were obtained for 21 amateur singers and 25 classically-trained singers while singing an ascending 5-tone scalar passage in low, …
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Identification of Traits Transmitted Associated With Stuttering
… complex tasks might be based in different speech motor control strategies that these groups may be thought to possess. Performance on the non-word repetition task was similar for all groups indicating that phonological and auditory memory may not be closely related to stuttering. Further …
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The Growth of Early Phonological and Lexical Development: A Longitudinal Investigation
"In addition, differences in phonological and lexical measures at 18 months were examined as a function of gender and maternal education. Significant differences were observed for all three of the outcome variables: number of different consonants, number of different words, and the percentage of …
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The Relation Between Stuttering and Phonological Ability: A Longitudinal Investigation
… Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health; principal investigator, Ehud Yairi.
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Characteristics of Disfluency Clusters in Stuttering and Normally Fluent Preschool Children: A Longitudinal Study
… R01-DC05210 from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
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Regional Differences in Brain Structure Underlying Childhood Stuttering Persistence and Recovery: An MRI Study
… subcortical, and cerebellar regions critical for speech motor sequencing and sensorimotor integration, such as the left inferior frontal area, bilateral temporoparietal regions, as well as several areas in the basal ganglia and thalamus. When CWPS and CWRS were compared, the latter often exhibited …
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Effects of Early English Education on Phonological Awareness and Language Development of Taiwanese Bilingual Children
Both the experimental and ethnographic findings have implications for bilingual research, education, and testing practice with bilingual children.
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Student Perceptions of Communication Skills and Styles at a Predominately White University
One of the greatest issues currently facing higher education is minority enrollment and retention. The literature has attributed several factors to differences between Black and White students' involvement in and completion of higher education such as socioeconomic status, motivation, and previous …
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Levator Veli Palatini Muscle in Speakers With Repaired Cleft Palate
The results showed that the configurations of the LVP muscle were various among subjects with cleft palate and different from those of normal velopharyngeal anatomy. The distance, length, and thickness of the levator muscle were smaller than those of normal subjects. Angles of origin of the muscle …
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Identifying the Neural Correlates of Swallowing in Two Age Groups Using fMRI
… sites of different components of deglutition in healthy young and older adults using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). Ten young (age range 19-25 years of age; five males and five females) and nine older (age range 66-77 years of age; three males and six females) right-handed healthy …
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Learning New Word Meanings Through Reading by Children With Language Impairment and Typically Developing Peers
This study investigated word learning during reading in 15 children with language impairment (LI), 15 age matched peers, and 12 language compared children. The study sought to determine whether children with LI differed from their peers in their ability to learn new word meanings during reading, …
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Neural Correlates of Auditory -Visual Speech Perception in Noise
Speech perception in noise may be facilitated by presenting the concurrent optic stimulus of observable speech gestures. Objective measures such as event-related potentials (ERPs) are crucial to understanding the processes underlying a facilitation of auditory-visual speech perception. Previous …
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Stuttering Behavior and Physiological Stress Profiles: A Preliminary Investigation of School -Aged Children
Results revealed that in comparison to published references established for normal children, children with a history of stuttering exhibited mean cortisol and alpha-amylase levels that were significantly lower. Though cortisol and alpha-amylase levels were within normal limits, daily circadian …
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An Integrated Multimodal Intervention Approach to Support Speech and Language Development in Children With Severe Speech Impairments
… as a ""last resort"" for children with severe speech sound impairments, with AAC consideration only occurring after years of failed traditional speech therapy. Two main reasons this occurs is because (a) parents view AAC as ""giving up"" on speech, and (b) parents and speech-language …
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The Effect of Temporal Manipulation of Disfluency on the Perception of Stuttering
… were judged as more representative of normal speech.
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Levator Veli Palatini Muscle During Speech and Swallowing
… parameters of interest obtained at rest, during speech activities, and during the performance of a swallow. The data obtained from this investigation and from future studies will be incorporated into a functional biomechanical model of the human pharynx. Such models will be useful in the …
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The Language Use and Interactions of African American Mothers and Their Toddlers in the Home
The present study addressed how middle income African American mothers used language with their two-year old children and how the mothers' cultural beliefs influenced their language interactions. The purpose of this study was to investigate caregiver-child interactions with a focus on language …
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A Roentgencephalometric Investigation of the Effect of Adenoid Removal Upon Selected Measures of Velopharyngeal Function
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The Effect of Trilafon on Certain Audiological Measures Obtained From an Institutionalized Mentally Retarded Population With Normal Hearing Acuity, Conductive Hearing Losses and Sensori-Neural Hearing Losses
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