Browsing School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders Faculty Publications by Title
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Communicative Function Use of Preschoolers and Mothers from Differing Racial and Socioeconomic Groups
(Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, 2017-10-26)Purpose: This study explores whether communicative function (CF: reasons for communicating) use differs by socioeconomic status (SES), race/ethnicity, or gender among preschoolers and their mothers. Method: Mother-preschooler ... -
Correlation between communicative functions of mothers and preschoolers of different racial and income groups
(Journal of the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing, 2018-07)While language differences by gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (SES) have been identified, the domain of pragmatics, specifically, communicative functions (CF) has been understudied. Hence, the purpose of ... -
Effects of Mothers' and Preschoolers' Communicative Function Use and Demographics on Concurrent Language and Social Skills
(Journal of the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing, 2017-10-29)Purpose: Achievement gaps exist between children from racial/ethnic minority and low SES homes and their peers, yet clear explanations for the gap have been elusive. In addition to vocabulary, some are examining pragmatics ... -
How Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Developmental Language Disorder, and Typical Language Learn to Produce Global and Local Semantic Features
(MDPI, 2020-04-11)A local processing bias, often considered a cognitive style unique to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), may influence the types of semantic features acquired by children with ASD and could contribute to weaknesses in word ... -
The Intersection of Culture and ICF-CY Personal and Environmental Factors for Alternative and Augmentative Communication
(Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2016)Clinicians facilitate successful use of Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC). The most clinically competent providers, however, address needs that extend beyond technical AAC use to help clients experience full ... -
The Preschool Speech Intelligibility Measure
(American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1995-11)Documenting changes in speech intelligibility across time is an important but difficult task for speech-language pathologists. This study reports on the development and initial testing of the Preschool Speech Intelligibility ... -
Reporting of underrepresented populations in autism treatment studies across 25 years
(Clinical Archives of Communicative Disorders, 2017-12-20)Purpose: Eight language and autism related journals published between 1993 and 2017 were analyzed to identify trends in the inclusion of underrepresented populations in empirical studies with social skill, play, joint ... -
Student perspectives on self-directed learning
(Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014-02)Undergraduate student perspectives regarding specific factors associated with self-directed learning were collected through eight focus groups. A total of 80 upperclassmen provided input revealing three emergent themes in ... -
Table Facilitators' Reflections Regarding their Interprofessional Core Competencies
(Health and Interprofessional Practice, 2017-11)Background: Providing students and practitioners opportunities to learn from other disciplines in a supportive environment has the potential to improve patient outcomes and practitioner job satisfaction. Purpose: The ...
