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Unkefer, Carol Lynn. "Familiality of Early Expressive Language Delay: A Sibling Study." PDXScholar, 1994. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5162.

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Researchers are seeking more information . on how and why language disorders tend to run in families, particularly siblings of language disordered children. The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of language and related disorders in the siblings of two groups of children: those with slow expressive language development (SELD) and those with a normal language history. This study sought to answer the following questions: 1) Is there a significant difference in prevalence of language problems in two groups of children: those with SELD and those with a normal language history?, an

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Johnson, Marie A. F., and A. Rice. "Early Childhood Language Delay: Identification of Children At-risk, Characteristics, and Strategies for Building Language Skills." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1550.

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Johnson, Marie A. F., and A. Rice. "Early Childhood Language Delay: Identification of Children At-risk, Characteristics, and Strategies for Building Language Skills." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1549.

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Bentley, Lara May. "Perceptions about language development of isiXhosa-speaking primary caregivers of young children receiving speech-language therapy in the Eastern Cape, South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73391.

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Background: Research on communication intervention with young children provides support for the involvement of primary caregivers in their child’s language intervention (Kaiser, & Roberts, 2011; Roberts, & Kaiser, 2011). Research suggests that the perceptions of these caregivers regarding their child’s language development and their role in the language development process are important to their willingness to use intervention strategies (Kaiser, & Hancock, 2003; Leffel, & Suskind, 2013). Furthermore, studies suggest that the severity of child language difficulties may impact on these percepti

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Warren, Deborah Kay. "Nonlinguistic Cognitive Performance and Expressive and Receptive Language Scores in Children with Expressive Language Delay." PDXScholar, 1994. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4884.

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This study was part of the Portland Language Development Project. The purpose was to establish reliability for the Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test. Additionally, nonlinguistic cognitive performance scores were correlated with soores from expressive and receptive language test soores. Finally, scores of overall cognitive function and of nonlinguistic cognitive function in children with normally developing language (NL) and with expressive language delay (ELD) were compared. The original group size was 60 children, 30 with ELD at the age of 20 months, and 30 who were a matched control group. These su

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Spangle-Looney, Shawn. "Communication and socialization profiles in toddlers with expressive language delay." PDXScholar, 1988. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3843.

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The purpose of this study was to compare expressive communication, receptive communication, and socialization achievement in 18- to 34-month-old ELD toddlers to the same skills in normally-speaking children. The questions this study sought to answer were, how do the three skill areas in ELD toddlers compare with the same skills in normal toddlers?, will ELD subjects evidence specific profiles of deficits involving not only expressive but receptive and social skills as well? and, within the ELD subjects will two subgroups emerge, one group having poor expressive skills only, and a second group

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Waller, Jakia L. "SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN WHO EXPERIENCE MULTIPLE OUT OF HOME PLACEMENTS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1029869019.

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Abild-Lane, Tracey. "Children with Early Language Delay: A Group Case Study of Outcomes in Intermediate Grades." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4953.

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Current research in early language development suggests that children who were diagnosed during preschool with expressive language delay would demonstrate difficulties during elementary school years (Scarborough and Dobrich, 1990). This purpose of the present study was to qualitatively describe the outcome of children with a history of early language delay and differing levels of expressive performance (ELD and HELD), as reported by the parents. A questionnaire was developed to determine the children's current age and grade level, past and present reading ability and reading interests, best an

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Giacherro, Traci Lee. "Effects of Receptive Language Deficits on Persisting Expressive Language Delays." PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4949.

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Predicting language outcomes in children who at age two are "late talkers" is a concern of Speech Language Pathologists. Currently, there is no conclusive data allowing specialists to predict which children will outgrow their delays and which children will not. The purpose of the present study is to analyze the effect of a receptive language delay on the outcome of the slow expressive language delayed child, and determine whether or not it is a viable predictor of poor outcomes. The subject information used in this project was compiled from the data collected and reported by Paul (1991) during

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Clancy, Kathleen Ann. "Second Grade Academic Performance in Normal Children, Children with a History of, and Children with Expressive Language Delay." PDXScholar, 1994. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4740.

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Interest in children who are diagnosed with expressive language delay has increased over the years. This has resulted in follow-up studies which have suggested that these children would have difficulties in academics during their elementary school years (Hall & Tomblin, 1978; Weiner, 1974) The current study sought to determine if children with a history of and children with continued expressive language delay would have problems with academics once they reached the second grade. The Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT) was used to measure academic performance. It was chosen for it's reli

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Dahm, Pamela Susan. "Communication and socialization skills of three year olds with a history of language delay." PDXScholar, 1989. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3868.

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The purpose of this study was to compare receptive language, expressive language, and socialization skills of preschool children who have a history of expressive language delay (ELD) with age mates who have a history of normal language development.

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Robinson-Curtis, Heather C. "THE EFFECTIVEMESS OF TEACHING BY SIBLINGS OF MANUAL SIGN LANGAUAGE." UKnowledge, 2012. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/edsrc_etds/2.

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There has been little published research literature that has focused on using siblings to teach their non-verbal siblings a manual sign to communicate using the mandmodel procedure. The mand- model procedure is a naturalistic teaching strategy which has been demonstrated to improve communication and social outcomes for children with disabilities. This study investigated sibling tutors teaching their sibling tutees to use the manual sign “more” to request a want or need. The four sibling tutees were between the ages of 25 and 26 months and their sibling tutors were between the ages of 9 and 14

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Glogowska, Margaret. "The effectiveness and acceptability of community speech and language therapy provision in pre-school children." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/5677e3b5-f098-4999-a41d-8fdaa47b7b54.

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HAUCK, JULIE SWEENEY. "IDENTIFYING POSSIBLE SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DELAYS IN CHILDREN BORN PREMATURELY: ARE PARENTS INFORMED?" University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin997704793.

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Valentino, Amber L. "Selection-based versus topography-based verbal behavior in production of vocalized mands in developmentally disabled children with severe language delay." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1385995328.

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Burns, Rachel Dauer. "Signing to Maintain Joint Attention with Children with Down Syndrome." TopSCHOLAR®, 2017. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1974.

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The current study examined the role of two different methods of sign presentation on signed and spoken language acquisition of toddlers aged two to four years with Down syndrome (DS). The aim of this study was to determine if a method commonly used by native signers/Deaf mothers (referred to in this study as signing to maintain joint attention (SMJA)) was more effective than the method commonly used by hearing mothers and speech-language pathologists (referred to in this study as the triangular method of signing). Both methods were compared in a within-subject design for effects on the partici

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Rahal, Carina. "Atraso de linguagem: do olhar a criança para o escutar a mãe." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2008. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12211.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T18:12:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carina Rahal.pdf: 424615 bytes, checksum: 8bd5a128993219206ac750f3393fda86 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-11-12<br>When discussing the Language Delay, the Speech and Language Therapy disposes of approaches about the origin, diagnosis and treatment, based on either studies that conceive the language as a response to the organic functioning, or the ones that more recently, made an option to define the language as concomitant to the subjective functioning. However, all of them share two points: that the delay is a lan

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Sugden, Eleanor, Natalie Munro, Carol M. Trivette, Elise Baker, and A. Lynn Williams. "Parents’ Experiences of Completing Home Practice for Speech Sound Disorders." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5555.

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Early childhood practitioners, including speech-language pathologists (SLPs), frequently provide home practice to children and families. For children with speech sound disorder (SSD), who comprise a large proportion of SLPs’ caseloads worldwide, completing home practice can increase the amount of intervention received and improve outcomes. However, little is known about parents’ experiences of completing this home practice. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore parents’ experiences of completing home practice for children with SSD. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with

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Dopson, Natalie Elizabeth. "Supporting Hispanic mothers with preschool children with speech and/ or language delays via dialogic reading and coaching within the home." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4886.

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The three children regularly attended a local federally funded preschool and received services for speech and/or language. The results indicated that the mothers' implementation of dialogic reading increased after training and coaching and the children's expressed total vocabulary words also increased. Dyad's interests in the selected books, mother responsiveness during shared book reading, and duration of shared book reading may have impacted some of the variability in the results. Furthermore, mothers were unaware of the dialogic reading strategies prior to the intervention and reported posi

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Cummings, Alycia Erin. "Brain and behavior in children with phonological delays phonological, lexical, and sensory system interactions /." Diss., [La Jolla] : [San Diego] : University of California, San Diego ; San Diego State University, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3352373.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, and San Diego State University, 2009.<br>Title from first page of PDF file (viewed May 8, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-259).

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Blackburn, Carolyn. "Policy-to-practice context to the delays and difficulties in the acquisition of speech, language and communication in the first five years." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.631680.

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The research aim was to investigate the policy-to-practice context to the delays and difficulties in the acquisition of speech, language and communication in the first five years in one local authority in England. Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological model was used to structure the thesis and as a tool of analysis. This facilitated an examination of the nested social contexts that influence children’s speech, language and communication such as policy intentions at the macro level and adult-child interactions in the microcontext of home and early years settings as well as relations between settings a

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Salava, Jennifer Anne. "Concurrent validity of the Woodcock Johnson Third Edition Tests of Cognitive Ability and The Differential Ability for Young Children with speech and language delays." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2004. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2004/2004salavaj.pdf.

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Carneiro, Maria Aparecida Sumã Pedrosa. "A Influência da Cooperação dos Pais no Processo Terapêutico para a aquisição da linguagem." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2005. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/1790.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T14:19:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Aparecida Suma Pedrosa Carneiro.pdf: 482821 bytes, checksum: 27bddfbd076a170d6731793b28434434 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-04-15<br>Considering the previous history of success of the use of procedures based on the Behavioral Approach in the work with children with developmental disabilities, some procedures of this theoretical approach were combined with techniques of speech therapy to make it possible the acquisition of mands abilities by two children, 5 and 7 years old with specific language delay. In the

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Moran, Paul Andrew. "What is language delay?" Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424109.

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My research is concerned with the coherence of the notion of language delay, drawn from Natural Aural deaf education. Empirical evidence strongly indicates that children who have not acquired the underlying structures of the functional grammar (Radford, 1990) of their target language prior to four years of age do not subsequently develop a functional grammar; a finding that renders the notion of language delay, within this context, empirically incoherent. Instead, the coherence of language delay is found to reside within Natural Auralism as a discursive practice. Contradictions between the emp

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Vladimir, Matić. "Novi način procene saobraćajnih svojstava mešovite komunikacione mreže merenjem vremena odziva pozvane strane." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu, 2016. http://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=95785&source=NDLTD&language=en.

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Osnovna svojstva telefonske mreţe, koja opisuju njen kvalitet, su kvalitet prenetog govornog signala i kvalitet u uspostavljanju telefonske veze. Na kvalitet uspostavljanja veze utiĉu mogućnost i brzina uspostavljanja veze. Brzina uspostavljanja veze se izraţava vremenima za koje se obave odreĊene aktivnosti u pojedinim fazama uspo-stavljanja veze. Trajanje ovih faza je propisano normama, koje su odreĊene meĊunarodnim propisima i date su u publikovanim preporukama. Osnovni ĉinilac brzine uspo-stavljanja veze je vreme odziva pozvane strane. Ovaj parametar se defini&scaron;e kao vremenski interv

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Neumeyer, Leonardo G. (Leonardo Gabriel) Carleton University Dissertation Engineering Electrical. "A low-delay backward-adaptive CELP speech coder." Ottawa, 1990.

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Foodeei, Majid. "Low-delay speech coding at 16 kbs and below." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60717.

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Development of network quality speech coders at 16 kb/s and below is an active research area. This thesis focuses on the study of low-delay Code Excited Linear Predictive (CELP) and tree coders. A 16 kb/s stochastic tree coder based on the (M.L.) search algorithm suggested by lyengar and Kabal and a low-delay CELP coder proposed by AT&T (CCITT 16 kb/s standardization candidate) are examined. The first goal is to compare and study the performance of the two coders. Second objective is to analyze the particular characteristics which make the two coders different from one another. The final goal

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Malfait, Ludovic. "Speech quality assessment in communication networks with varying delay." Thesis, University of Essex, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601374.

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This thesis discusses the assessment of speech quality transmitted through telecommunication networks. The aim is to produce a model able to estimate the overall listening quality of speech signals as measured by subjective tests. Objective models for speech quality assessment have been developed for the last twenty years and the most widely adopted is PESO. the currently in-force ITU-T Recommendation P .862. PESQ shows inaccuracy when assessing signals recorded from modern t elecommunication networks that exhibit highly va riable delay such as Voice over lP. This issue is investigated and add

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Braunisch, Jan. "Language Independent Speech Visualization." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Reglerteknik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-71040.

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A speech visualization system is proposed thatcould be used by a deaf person for understanding speech.Several novel techniques are proposed, including: (1) Minimizing spectral leakage in the Fourier transform by using avariable-length window. (2) Making use of the fact that there is no spectral leakage in order to calculate how much of the energy of the speech signal is due to its periodic component vs. its nonperiodic component. (3) Modelling the mouth and lips as a band-pass filter and estimating the central frequency and bandwidth of this filter in order to assign colours tounvoiced speech

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Leon, Michelle. "Investigation of Bilingualism Knowledge of Speech-Language Pathologists and Speech-Language Pathology Students." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2177.

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The purpose of this thesis was to administer a survey to obtain information on practicing Speech-Language Pathologists’ (SLPs) knowledge of bilingual issues, while also considering whether any academic background on bilingualism guides SLP’s diagnostic and treatment options. This was done by comparing survey results of practicing SLPs with different academic backgrounds on bilingualism with current Master’s students registered at the Communication Sciences and Disorders Masters’ program at Florida International University (FIU). The survey consisted of 26 questions that examined participant’s

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Palfrey, Carol Lynn. "The Use of Interpreters by Speech-Language Pathologists Conducting Bilingual Speech-Language Assessments." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3557570.

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<p> The purpose of this non-experimental quantitative study was to explore the practices of speech-language pathologists in conducting bilingual assessments with interpreters. Data were obtained regarding the assessment tools and practices used by speech-language pathologists, the frequency with which they work with interpreters, and the procedures they employ prior to, during, and at the conclusion of assessments of English language learners (ELLs). Also explored were the skills and proficiencies that speech-language pathologists believe interpreters need in order to be effective in interpret

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Madsen, Mikayla Nicole. "Speech Perception of Global Acoustic Structure in Children With Speech Delay, With and Without Dyslexia." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8937.

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Children with speech delay (SD) have underlying deficits in speech perception that may be related to reading skill. Children with SD and children with dyslexia have previously shown deficits for distinct perceptual characteristics, including segmental acoustic structure and global acoustic structure. In this study, 35 children (ages 7-9 years) with SD, SD + dyslexia, and/or typically developing were presented with a vocoded speech recognition task to investigate their perception of global acoustic speech structure. Findings revealed no differences in vocoded speech recognition between groups,

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Iyengar, Vasu. "A low delay 16 kbit/sec coder for speech signals /." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63799.

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Bac, Cassandra. "Investigation of Speech Delay in Individuals with 1p36 Deletion Syndrome." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427812691.

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Mwanyoha, Sadiki Pili 1974. "A speech recognition module for speech-to-text language translation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9862.

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Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-48).<br>by Sadiki Pili Mwanyoha.<br>S.B.and M.Eng.

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Proctor-Williams, Kerry. "Language and Literacy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1813.

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Malay, Sheri. "The behavior of preschool children with language delay." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1995. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23765.pdf.

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Haseeb, Ahmed Abdul, and Asim Ilyas. "Speech Translation into Pakistan Sign Language." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5095.

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ABSTRACT Context: Communication is a primary human need and language is the medium for this. Most people have the ability to listen and speak and they use different languages like Swedish, Urdu and English etc. to communicate. Hearing impaired people use signs to communicate. Pakistan Sign Language (PSL) is the preferred language of the deaf in Pakistan. Currently, human PSL interpreters are required to facilitate communication between the deaf and hearing; they are not always available, which means that communication among the deaf and other people may be impaired or nonexistent. In this situ

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Cox, Ethan Andrew. "Second language perception of accented speech." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282887.

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The present study addresses a core issue in the study of speech perception, the question of how stable phonological representations are accessed from an inherently variable speech signal. In particular, the research investigates the perception of accented English speech by native and non-native listeners. It is known from previous research that foreign-accented speech is harder for native listeners to process than native-accented speech. The reason for this lies in not only qualities of the input (deviation from native production norms, for example) but also in qualities of the listener. Speci

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Zhang, Julia 1981. "Language generation and speech synthesis in dialogues for language learning." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17971.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2004.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-68).<br>Since 1989, the Spoken Language Systems group has developed an array of applications that allow users to interact with computers using natural spoken language. A recent project of interest is to develop an interactive conversational system to assist students in mastering a foreign language. The Spoken Language Learning System (SLLS), the first such system developed in SLS, has many impressive capabilities and shows great pote

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Blackwell, A. "Early language delay : a study of the evolving language environments of preschool children." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2016. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/27407/.

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Primary language impairment (PLI) affects approximately one in 20 young children, who may have difficulties with language in later life. The importance of parent-child interaction (PCI) for language development has been well established. Many early speech and language therapy interventions have focused on modifying characteristics of PCI to enhance opportunities for language learning. However, the success of such programmes is mixed. Furthermore, there is a dearth of literature examining the developmental nature of the relationship between parent and child language with children who have PLI.

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Dohmen, Andrea. "An investigation of nonverbal imitation and language in children with specific language delay." Thesis, City University London, 2012. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/12078/.

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Children with specific deficits in language do not form a homogeneous group, but present with varied profiles of language skills and deficits. Research in children with language problems has focussed on deficits in the acquisition of lexical forms and syntactic structures of language, but our understanding of children's deficits with the meaning of language remains limited. Sociocognitive abilities are necessary for discovering the meaning of language, and it has been hypothesised that some children with specific deficits in language have sociocognitive difficulties. In this thesis, it is argu

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Gomez, Mirjana Maryane. "Treating Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Evaluating the Kaufman Speech to Language Protocol." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29624.

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A Cochrane review of the treatments used for childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) in 2009 identified the need for more well controlled studies (Morgan & Vogel, 2009). These same recommendations were echoed when the review was completed again in 2018 (Morgan, Murray & Liegeois, 2018). There is currently no gold-standard intervention recommended for children with CAS (Morgan et al., 2018). Since the first Cochrane study was published, research has been conducted to examine a small range of treatment approaches for CAS. Despite the increased publication of treatment research, speech-language patholo

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Davies, Karen Elizabeth. "Parents' and speech and language therapists' roles in intervention for pre-school children with speech and language needs." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2014. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/347077/.

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Background: Policy and practice in early years provision in education, health and social care has advanced in recent times to emphasise parents as partners in supporting children’s learning. Speech and language therapists (SLT) work closely with parents of pre-school children with language learning difficulties to enable them to promote language development in the home. There is growing evidence that indicates that parents can be taught how to become effective facilitators of language skills. Nevertheless, little is known about parents’ or SLTs’ conceptions of their roles when working together

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Matthias, Kristine C. "I Spy Language: Finding Language Opportunities in Everyday Activities." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1543.

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Adams, C., Kelli Morgan, Julie Phillips, Emilee Rehm, Brianna Stampler, and Kerry Proctor-Williams. "The Narrative Skills of Children with Specific Language Impairment and Typical Language." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1815.

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Phillips, Julie, Courtney Adams, Kelli Morgan, Emilee Rehm, Brianna Stampler, and Kerry Proctor-Williams. "The Narrative Skills of Children with Specific Language Impairment and Typical Language." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1818.

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Purpose. The purpose of this research project was to compare the narrative content organization (macrostructure) of young children with specific language impairment (SLI) and those with typical language development (TL). While it is well-known that young children with SLI display poorer use of grammar (microstructure) than their TL language similar peers (Leaonard, 2014; Rice et al., 1998) less is known about their use of macrostructure. Thus, the research question was: What are the narrative skills of children with SLI as compared to their language similar peers with development TL? Based on

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Igualada, Pérez Alfonso. "Gesture-speech temporal integration in language development." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/670094.

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In everyday interactions, speakers integrate gestures and speech sounds at a temporal level. One of the linguistic functions of temporally synchronous gesture-speech combinations is to provide prominence to specific parts of a discourse. While a bulk of evidence has explored the gesture-speech co-expressiveness at a semantic level, little is known about the children’s ability to use synchronized gestural and prosodic prominences in the benefit of language. This PhD thesis investigates gesture-speech temporal integration abilities in development and its beneficial impact for children’s language

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Sahin, Serkan. "Language Modeling For Turkish Continuous Speech Recognition." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/1223254/index.pdf.

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This study aims to build a new language model for Turkish continuous speech recognition. Turkish is very productive language in terms of word forms because of its agglutinative nature. For such languages like Turkish, the vocabulary size is far from being acceptable from only one simple stem, thousands of new words can be generated using inflectional and derivational suffixes. In this work, word are parsed into their stem and endings. First of all, we consider endings as words and we obtained bigram probabilities using stem and endings. Then, bigram probabilities are obtained using only the st

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Lukach, Melanie. "Speech production processing in the second language." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6779.

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The phenomenon of foreign accent has long been a topic of linguistic theory. Neufeld proposes that speech production, especially at the phonological level, is hampered by the use of (conscious or unconscious) knowledge that speakers have about the L2--metalinguistic knowledge. Those who begin acquiring an L2 after the age of five focus more on structural correctness than younger learners, and tend to use this metalinguistic knowledge more often. Thus even among balanced bilinguals, on an experiment designed to induce focus on form, older learners should perform more speech errors and dysfluenc

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