Veronica White and Douglas Petersen, Communication Disorders Introduction Kindergarten students are often administered screening instruments designed to identify weaknesses in emergent literacy skills. Unfortunately, these screeners, which only measure what a student currently knows, cannot validly differentiate between students who have low scores because of limited exposure, language/dialectal differences, or a disability. A more valid […]
Interpreting Speech Perception in Children with Phonological Deficits: Evidence from Event related Potentials (ERP)
Camille Nuttall and Kathryn Cabbage, Communication Disorders Introduction Children with dyslexia and children with speech sound disorder exhibit differing issues in regard to their speech and language. Dyslexia is a difficulty decoding written language, such as with word recognition or spelling. Speech sound disorder is characterized by speech production errors. Although dyslexia and speech sound […]
Emotional Inferencing in Children with Language Impairment
Allison Barney and Bonnie Brinton, Communication Disorders Introduction Children with language impairment (LI) present with “a significant impairment in the acquisition and use of language across modalities” (ASHA, 1993). LI is a prevalent disorder affecting 7% of kindergarteners (Tomblin et al, 1997). LI limits a child’s ability to acquire language, to establish relationships with others, […]
Mismatch Negativity Event-Related Potential Elicited by Speech Stimuli in Geriatric Patients
Dana Pierce and Faculty Mentor: David McPherson, Communication Disorders Introduction Much of the research done in the field of speech perception has focused on the behavioral aspect of language and not on the functionality of the brain itself. For our research, we focused on the neurological processes of speech perception through Quantitative Electroencephalogram (QEEG) […]
Early Exposure to Expository Texts: Administering the EECA-R2 to Preschoolers
Annika Stark and Barbara Culatta, Communication Disorders Introduction Children are exposed to a variety of narrative texts from a young age. However, young children are not given this same amount of exposure to expository texts. Expository texts inform and describe as they expose a child to factual information. There is a current need in early […]
Re-ordering Utterances Using Transition Probabilities among Randomly Assigned Grammatical Tags
Emily Duncan and Ron Channell, Communication Disorders Introduction It was our desire to investigate further, using a computer model, how children acquire language. Specifically, we decided to investigate how children learn how to arrange grammatical tags (i.e. grammatical categories: verb, adjective, etc.) into the proper order. Originally, we were going to investigate how an evolutionary […]
Motivating with Media: Early Language and Literacy Skills Through Digital Learning
Kalan Andersen and Faculty Mentor: Barbara Culatta, PhD, Communication Disorders Introduction A strong relationship exists between acquiring early literacy skills and attaining proficiency in reading (Catts, 1999, National Reading Panel, 2000). In order to create this connection with young readers, early success can be found through systematically teaching skills and motivating children’s interest in reading. […]
The Grovecrest Project: Analyzing Sociable Behavior in Children with Language Impairment Following a Social Understanding Intervention
Maille Coombs and Faculty Mentor: Martin Fujiki, Communication Disorders Introduction The link between social communication and Language Impairment (LI) is an emerging topic in the field of speech pathology. It is known that children with LI struggle to produce and comprehend language, but it has recently been shown that these children also have notable difficulty […]
The Development of Prosodic Structures in the Speech of Young Children Establishing a Control Group
Darrell Matthews and Dr. Shawn Nissen, Communication Disorders Acoustically, the speech characteristics of male and female speakers differ from one another. In adults, this variation is clearly caused by physiological differences between males and females. The size and shape of the vocal tract, as well as the length of the vocal folds have an impact […]
Establishing a Normative Base for Measures of Auditory Processing
Amanda Fujiki and Dr. David McPherson, Communication Disorders The term auditory processing disorder (APD) refers to a diverse collection of problems in the processing of auditory information. An individual with an APD may have hearing acuity within normal limits; that is, the middle ear (conductive) and inner ear (sensory) systems may function typically. The individual […]
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