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Showing 1 to 20 of 132 for “"speech and hearing"”.
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The Effect of Voice Lessons on the Clinical and Perceptual Skills of Graduate Students in Speech and Hearing Science
Two groups of ten speech-language pathology graduate students were each given a half semester of singing lessons to determine whether voice lessons can have effect on their clinical and perceptual skills. Pre-, mid-, and posttests to measure various skills were designed and implemented. …
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A Survey of Needs for, and Availability of, Referral Sources for the Yucaipa Joint Unified School District Speech and Hearing Therapy Program
<p><strong>[Abstract Not Included]</strong></p>
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American Sign Language as an Aid in Teaching Kindergarten Language Arts Content Standards to Speaking English Language Learners and Speech and Hearing Impaired
… in teaching kindergarten language art content standards to English language learners and speech and hearing impaired students.</p> <p>Research indicates that the visual spatial modality involved in ASL is a reception format for these students. The kinesthetic component in ASL aids in connecting …
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Communication, Disability, and Scientific Interventions in South Asia, c. 1860-1970
… actors devised new methods for treating and understanding speech and hearing in South Asia from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. It argues that instructors, specialists and medical practitioners envisaged diverse solutions to what they considered to be the ‘problem’ of …
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An analysis of state aid to nonpublic elementary and secondary schools in the 50 states, 1970-1984
… education is a stormy political, historical, and religious issue. Permissible and prohibited aid varies by state and by date.</p> <p>Research of four levels of law over the decade of the 1970s was compared with the same research for the 1960s. Sources included constitutions, statutes, and …
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An Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Alameda County Oral Communication Program in Listening
… Oral Communication Program in an itinerant speech and hearing program in Central Washington. The study sought to answer the question: 1. Does the use of the Alameda County Oral Communication Program in Listening effect a change in the language skills of public school age children? 2. Does …
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A Survey of Central Washington’s Speech Correction Program as Related to the Public School Elementary Classroom Teacher’s Role in Speech Correction
… survey of the 1962-1963 curriculum offerings in speech and hearing therapy available to the student majoring in elementary education at eleven of the accredited institutions of higher learning in the State of Washington. Part II of the study deals with the organization of the local speech …
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Conditioning Expressive Language in a Nonverbal Child
<p>The problem of treating the child with delayed speech acquisition has generated a considerable amount of research and these studies have pointed out the need for further work in this area. The purpose of this study is to test the procedures of one particularly effective study, that of Dr. Burl …
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American Sign Language Recognition Using Machine Learning and Computer Vision
<p>Speech impairment is a disability which affects an individual’s ability to communicate using speech and hearing. People who are affected by this use other media of communication such as sign language. Although sign language is ubiquitous in recent times, there remains a challenge for non-sign …
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Possible Effects of Voice Fundamental Frequency, Gender and Tongue Position on Phonation Threshold Pressure
… of voice fundamental frequency (f₀), gender, and tongue position. Ten adult native speakers of American English (five men and five women) with no known history of respiratory, laryngeal, speech and hearing problems served as subjects. Subjects were asked to repeat a series just audible /pa/ …
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Relationship of articulation and feeding skills in children: a pilot study
Feeding development begins during the embryologic and fetal periods with maturation of the head, face, and neck, the emergence of early oral motor reflexes, and continues well into early childhood. Children learn to eat in a predictable sequence. They transition from nutritional intake of a single …
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Vibrotactile sensory substitution for post-stroke rehabilitation
… a stroke leaves people with side effects such as speech and hearing problems, and loss of sensation in one side of their body. Sensory feedback in the hand is used to assess if the individual is using appropriate grip force to hold and use objects; lack of sensory feedback can lead to dropped or …
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Exploring student-led interprofessional education through a community service project
… (IPE) workshop in improving student attitudes and perceptions toward IPE. Students from four health science programs including Dental Hygiene, Communication Sciences and Disorders/Speech and Hearing, Health Services Administration and Occupational Therapy participated in a community service …
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Factors contributing to poor reading and writing skills among Grade 4 English First Additional Language Learners in Klein Letaba Circuit
… the factors that contribute to poor reading and writing skills in English First Additional Language ( EFAL) in schools. It is assumed that Grade 4 learners cannot pronounce and write English words correctly. As such, learners fail to read English texts or stories for understanding. This is …
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Discrimination of Tone Contrasts in Mandarin Disyllables by Naïve American English Listeners
<p>The present study examined the perception of Mandarin disyllabic tones by inexperienced American English speakers. Participants heard two naturally-produced Mandarin disyllables, and indicated if the two were the same or different. A small native Mandarin-speaking control group participated as …
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The Effect of Cochlear Dysfunction on Central Auditory Speech Test Performance
… of cochlear dysfunction on central auditory speech test performance. There has been limited research reported concerning the effects of peripheral hearing loss occurring in the absence of central auditory pathology on tests specifically designed to diagnose central auditory impairment. …
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Parsing Routines in Syntactic Processing: The Effect of Expected Word Order on Sentence Comprehension
… utterance to confirm or adjust its predictions, and (c) the parser has the ability to make on-line revisions based on the syntactic information contained within the utterance.</p> <p>In the first experiments using tachistoscopic presentation, 75 sentences representing 15 different sentence types …
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Predicting Consonant Confusions in Noise on the Basis of Acoustical Analyses
<p>No abstract provided.</p>
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Optimizing performance outcomes for bilateral cochlear implant users to offset suboptimal electrode pairings
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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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
… 2007). Therefore, Haitian Creole (HC) is a candidate for restructuring. In this investigation we compared the morphophonological patterns of the definite article system at the production and perception level between two groups of early learners of Haitian Creole (i.e. native speakers vs. …
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