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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"verbal expression"”.
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The effect of the elementary science study on selected science skills of educable mentally retarded students
… Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities Verbal Expression Sub-Test was modified by this researcher and used as the evaluation instrument. The science skill of communicating was determined by the regular ITPA score while the science skills of observing and inferring were determined by the …
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Culture and Somatic Focused Attention
… for cultural differences in the experience and verbal expression of emotions.
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Divergent thinking and hemisphericity
… technique. Sex, age, hand preference, and verbal expression (assessed by a subtest of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities) were controlled. Subjects were selected at three age levels: four years, seven years, and ten years. For the four-year-old group, the findings indicated …
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Effects of Semantic Feature Analysis+Multimodal Communication Program for Word Retrieval and Switching Behavior in Primary Progressive Aphasia
… common PPA symptom, and contribute to impaired verbal expression. Intense semantic interventions show promise for improving word retrieval in people with PPA. Additionally, people with PPA may learn to use alternative communication modalities when they are unable to retrieve a word. However, …
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Effects of Semantic + Multimodal Communication Program for Switching Behavior in Severe Aphasia
… effectiveness by circumventing deficits in verbal expression. Traditionally, alternative communication modalities are trained separately to augment or replace verbal output. However, adults with aphasia often have executive function deficits, specifically deficits in cognitive flexibility, …
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A way of life: Saranac Lake and the 'Fresh Air' cure for tuberculosis
… ideological constructs from the perspectives of verbal expression, material culture, written texts, and social behaviors. Within the context of American history and culture, the treatment was informed and influenced by medical history, feminism, religion, popular philosophy, and self-help …
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Racial prejudice toward Asian Americans in U.S. children's literature.
… minority" in order to overcome racial prejudice. Verbal expression was found to be more frequently represented as an expression of prejudice that other forms of expression, and nationality was found to be more frequently represented as a subject of prejudice than other subjects. The American …
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Parsing meta-communicational statements in dialogues: a computational model
… that a turn free of such statements is rare. A verbal expression focusing on the activity of talking we term a meta-statement. In this thesis, we present a model of meta-statements. We propose that metastatements are pragmatic units of talk used to regulate and maintain the conversational …
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An investigation to the effects of philophonetics counselling and trauma focused cognitive behavioural therapy in the treatment of sexually abused individuals: A comparative study
… These long term effects are imprinted in the pre-verbal dynamics of the living body and they can appear at any time in the present upon a conscious trigger. This research study seeks to investigate the effectiveness of two therapeutic modalities which are Philophonetics counselling and Trauma …
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A comparison of directed and non-directed easel paintings of sixteen nursery school children
… to represent form becomes greater. Spontaneous verbal expression was greater in the non-directed experiences than in the directed experiences. The paintings were judged to determine which were directed and non-directed. Scoring by the judges shows that verbal interference is discernible in …
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CLINICAL DECISIONS OF MUSIC THERAPISTS IN THE TREATMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WITH EATING DISORDERS
… and associated interventions were emotional expression using improvisational instrument play and songwriting interventions and decreasing anxiety using relaxation/imagery interventions. The top chosen musical elements to adapt were lyrics and rhythm adapted in the context of improving verbal …
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Qualitative analysis of mindful interaction and cognitive residue in pre-tertiary media education
… videotaped and transcribed. Unique behavior and verbal expression of any one student were interpreted as a possible instance of cognitive construction. Following this procedure, and open-ended interviews, students were classified in terms of their level of involvement with the media task, that …
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Non-Verbal Behaviour of a VR Agent Playing a Board Game
… other things, his personality and shows non-verbal behaviour such as looking at the user and showing impatience. The focus of this project is to increase the believability of the agent, by improving its non-verbal expression capabilities during a board-game. This was done by collecting and …
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Beyond aesthetics : a contemporary approach to teaching visual language at a post secondary level
… materials and visual language not as a means for expression of preconceived ideas, but rather as generators or facilitators of meaning. The teaching method is modeled on Donald Schön's reflection-in-action approach. The research method includes reflection-in-action together with phenomenography. …
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Fresh Water Ecology Unit for Secondary Education Science Courses
… in learning styles. There is note taking, art expression, visual learning, verbal expression, group interaction, guided inquiry, different types of assessment, discussions involving higher level thinking, and hands on learning. The unit takes up nearly four weeks of school time. It will take …
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"The Protean Essence of Logos: Problematization of Language and Indefinability of Knowlege as Perception in Plato's ""Theaetetus"
… as abstract conceptualization and as concrete verbal expression, is problematic and ineffectual. The Theaetetus, with its central focus on the notion of episteme as aisthesis, provides the ideal context in which the sophistic approach to knowledge through the medium of logos can be exposed and …
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Atheism and the Matter of Representation in the English Renaissance
… atheism is as much a mode and function of verbal expression, energized by particularized language and the details of material reality, as a discrete category of devotion. Chapters on Edmund Spenser’s mutable universe and John Donne’s interrogation of the soul explore how humanist syntheses …
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Expansive Hybridity: Multilingual and Visual Poetics in Contemporary Experimental Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry
… the scope of hybridity to not only include verbal expression but also visual forms of representation (such as photographs, illustrations, and digital renderings of images). How do these poets grapple with both text and image as a means of communicating across and confronting different types …
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Coming Out of Childhood: Adolescents and Art Therapy
… the past.</p> <p>Art therapy allows for personal expression and symbolic communication of the self through the use of symbols, imagery and metaphors. Besides providing an opportunity for self- identification and self-expression, art can channel impulses into productive activity. Art therapy, then, …
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