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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Social Language"”.
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Young Children's Social, Language and Motor Behaviors on Playgrounds: The Influence of Design, Age, and Sex
… to what extent are preschool-aged children's social, language, and motor behaviors influenced by the design of their playground, their age, or their sex?
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Two voices: social presence, participation, and credibility in online news
An experiment tested hypotheses predicting that social presence would increase participation and credibility on a newspaper website. Participants read four news articles in one of four conditions created by crossing two manipulations: use or absence of social language, and use or absence of a …
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Disciplinary Mythologies: A Rhetorical-Cultural Analysis of Performance Enhancement Technologies in Sports
… and (re)articulated to fit within a sports social language that emphasizes "pure" and "natural" ideals of sport. This often results in a dichotomy where the sport/technology relationship is either black boxed, thus being subsumed in the sport social language and becoming transparent and the …
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Social Intelligence for Cognitive Radios
… society based on the use of an action based social language combined with the behavior-based approach to the construction of multi-agent systems to address the problem of developing decentralized, self-organizing networks that dynamically fit into their environment. In the course of …
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The Impact of Birth Order on Language Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Simplex Families
The impact of birth order on language development has gained significant traction over the years, with contradictory evidence suggesting that lower birth order may hinder language development in typically-developing children (Nafissi and Vosoughi, 2015). However, results also suggest that when …
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The language and literacy skills and behaviours of two middle primary severely to profoundly hearing impaired students in the school environment
… of literacy. Many researchers have examined the language and literacy deficits of the hearing impaired population in order to explain this. Nevertheless, a recent study has shown that hearing impaired children's preschool language and literacy development may occur along a similar pathway to that …
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Academic Language Acquisition
… behind the CCSS’s decision to increase academic language acquisition. Multiple sources were systematically reviewed to find implications for teaching academic language in the content areas. Research studies were examined to determine the impact of requiring academic language acquisition in the …
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The Efficacy of Melodic Based Communication Therapy for Eliciting Speech in Nonverbal Children with Autism
… Therapy (MBCT) to traditional speech and language therapy for eliciting speech in nonverbal children with autism. Efficacy was assessed by number of: verbalizations, correct words, words reported by parent, and imitative attempts. Additionally it examines the effect of exposure to MBCT on …
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Promoting the Social Inclusion of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder via Mobile Technologies
… Children with autism demonstrate impairments in language, communication skills, and social interactions; hence, these children have difficulties with communicating and interacting socially with their peers, educators, and parents. One of the latest interventions is the use of mobile technologies …
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Social Experiences of Young Adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder: Toward an Understanding of Communication
… adult participants who presented with unique social language needs. Their needs highlighted and allowed critique of the research methods that I have learned, bringing up important ethical and pedagogical issues regarding difference and (dis)ability in research and research populations. I asked …
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Clinical Assessment of Pragmatics (CAPs): A Validation Study
… and reliability of a comprehensive pragmatic language diagnostic tool, the Clinical Assessment of Pragmatics as well as comparatively examine and analyze pragmatic language profiles of three groups of adolescents. These included students with Language Impairment (LI), High-Functioning Autism …
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"Marie Manje La Pom Nan." Examining the Cognitive Process of Restructuring and Advantage Selection in the Definite Article System in Haitian Creole Among U.S. Born Heritage Speakers of Haitian Creole
… patterns of heritage speakers’ reanalyzed first language are often grammatically divergent from native speakers. Irrespective of the heritage language, there is converging evidence that the cognitive process of reanalysis of heritage languages is often evident in less salient properties of the …
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Factitious disorder and its online variant Munchausen by Internet: understanding motivation and its impact on online users to develop a detection method
… covert method of detection. To this end the SLP (Social Language Processing) framework, which integrates psychology and computer science, was applied to develop a text classifier through machine learning algorithms. This covert method has already been successfully used to detect written deception …