The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching dialogic reading (DR) strategies to patients with aphasia (PWA) as measured by DR strategy use during virtual training sessions. The secondary purpose was to improve psychosocial factors, including communicative participation, perceived stress, and confidence. A single subject multiple baseline across behaviors research design was employed via a telehealth model to examine a training program in DR strategies on expressive linguistic abilities and aspects of quality of life (QoL) in a PWA. Treatment was given four to five times a week and the session length varied based on the participant. Based on visual analysis of graphical representation of the data, it was determined that a functional relation existed between teaching the DR strategies and the PWA implementation through the training sessions for three out of the four strategies. These results provide preliminary evidence that a PWA has the necessary skills to implement DR strategies in the future. Researchers should strive towards including a child into future studies to create a more real-life situation.

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This cross-validation study investigated the extent that a Spanish narrative language dynamic assessment accurately identified students with and without language disorder across three separate samples of bilingual and monolingual Spanish-speaking students from Guatemala, Mexico, and the U.S. Students with language disorder and students with typically developing language were administered a narrative dynamic assessment in Spanish. A test-teach-retest format of dynamic assessment was followed and student modifiability, or learning ability, was rated directly following the teaching phase of the assessment. Results indicated that the most predictive dynamic assessment variables for the Guatemalan sample were posttest scores combined with two separate modifiability measures (i.e., total modifiability scores and modifiability final judgment scores). These same variables were applied in the cross-validation classification analyses of the Mexico and U.S. samples with good classification accuracy achieved. The results of this study indicate that a Spanish narrative dynamic assessment may be a culturally appropriate diagnostic tool in identifying Spanish-speaking students with language disorder.

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Syftet med detta examensarbete är att undersöka de utmaningar som lärare upplever i ett arbete med elever som har språkstörningar i SO-undervisningen. Studien utförs med hjälp av kvalitativa metoder i form av semistrukturerade intervjuer. I studien intervjuas sex lärare, varav fem arbetar på en och samma skola. Lärarna upplever svårigheter i att utforma samt hitta och använda rätt anpassningar för elever med språkstörningar i SO-undervisningen. I studien analyserar vi lärarnas olika undervisningsmetoder samt strategier i SO-undervisningen i enlighet med det sociokulturella perspektivet och scaffolding. Detta gör vi för att undersöka hur elever med språkstörningar kan gynnas i deras lärande samt kunskapsutveckling i SO-undervisning. Svårigheterna som lärarna upplever i att didaktiskt kunna planera sin SO-undervisning beror på de olika kunskapskraven i de samhällsorienterade ämnena samt bristande kunskaper kring diagnosen språkstörning. En slutsats som vi i studien kan dra är att ökade kunskaper kring diagnosen språkstörning i enlighet med goda praktiska erfarenheter kan gynna praktiken för läraren samt kunskapsutvecklingen för elever med språkstörningar. Studiens relevans gällande ett arbete med elever som har språkstörningar är att lärarna med hjälp av denna studie kan utöka sina kunskaper gällande diagnosen språkstörning. Detta kan i sin tur hjälpa lärarna att i en tidig stadie identifiera elever som har språkstörningar och därmed i god tid kunna förse samt erbjuda elever med språkstörningar rätt stöd för att hjälpa dem i deras kunskapsutveckling.

<p>  </p> <p>The ability to interpret speech as it unfolds in sentences is a complex skill that is essential to successful spoken communication. However, variability in sentence processing skills, such as predictive processing, can impair not only concurrent communication success but also future language development. Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have known deficits in morphosyntax (Leonard, 2014), lexical representation (Sheng & McGregor, 2010b), and speed of processing (Leonard et al., 2007), but less is known about the impact of these impairments on processing sentences in real time during early stages of language development.  The present study examines individual and group differences in online predictive processing skills in 36-month-old children using eye-tracked simple transitive sentences of the structure Article-Agent-Action-Article-Target (e.g., <em>The pirate chases the ship)</em>. Participants listened to the sentences while viewing pictures that corresponded with the sentential input in four different ways (i.e., Target, Agent-related, Action-related, Unrelated). Core Language Index (CLI) scores from the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Preschool 2  (CELF-P2) were used to from two sets of groups: 1) “high language” (n=33) and “low language” (n=22) groups using a median split of CLI scores (median = 102) and 2) “not at risk for DLD” (n=50) and “at risk for DLD” (n=6) group based on a CLI cutoff score of 85 used in clinical practice, which falls one standard deviation below the mean and suggests risk for DLD.</p> <p> Using eye movements as an index of online sentence processing, no individual or group differences were found in terms of prediction of the Target or locally-coherent activations of the Action-related item. These results indicate that three-year-old children at risk for language impairment are predicting highly expected items as well as entertaining alternative sentence representations simultaneously, indicating graded activations. These results contradict previous findings that adolescents with DLD do not make graded predictions (Borovsky et al., 2013). However, we found that children of higher language ability (as quantified by scores on the CELF-P2) completed significantly more fixations to the Agent-related picture. This finding suggests one way (i.e., Agent-related prediction) in which 36-month-olds’ online processing of sentences differs based on overall language skill that is inconsistent with accounts of an over-reliance on global interpretations in DLD later in development.</p>

This work with title Possibility of using art therapy in the treatment of speech therapy lay down the goal in theoretic part describe penetrations art therapy and speech therapy and presented so coherent summary those problems in all symptomatic classification of speech language disorder. And then in scope art therapy define main relations and ideas from sphere terminology, definitions and analysis. In this sphere also defined forms therapy and presented triangular model of relationship among client, art therapist and art work. It concentated also on goals art therapy and meaning of colours. It also devoted to relationship of art therapy and special education. Practical part has two units. In it's scope there was the goal to form the logopedic - art therapy programme. First part engaged in logopedic - art therapy programme LOGOART, that is here shortly presented. The second part then started from three guestionnaire researches and concentrated on benefits of this programme, meaning of inquiry persons i fit would be intoductioned to the school practice, or would be supplement of speech therapy. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T18:12:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RENATA VIANA ENSINAS.pdf: 1775741 bytes, checksum: 25554dba17c526db0374b0b3fb58d51b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-01-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study aims at analysing the occurrence of discursive genres among aphasic subjects and searches the construction of therapeutic processes that can maximize the use of discursive potentialities; even within the suffering traces implied in aphasia and the personal and social changes usually resultant from it. This research is divided into three parts: studies of aphasia, discursive genres and the occurrence of those genres among aphasic subjects in a specific group. This is a longitudinal, descriptive study, which was carried out at Centro de Convivência de Afásicos (Aphasics Living Centre - CCA) - IEL, University of Campinas: a group of aphasics and non-aphasics built inside a discursive environment where the language (practised here) is established within its various occurrences. The data used in this research were built at CCA and come from weekly notes and VHS recordings, orthographically transcribed and analysed on a qualitative basis, included in the Neurolinguistic Data Bank (CNPq: 521773/95-4). The analysis of the data shows how the subjects make use of discursive genres to reconstruct the suffered language after aphasia and, this way, produce meanings through oral verbal expressions as well as non-verbal expressions, by sharing the dialogical relationship practised in this environment. It was possible to conclude that the use of discursive genres helps subjects with aphasia, when this disorder does not hinder the individual from using the genres and circulating within them in dialogical relationships. Thus, the use of genres can be assumed as a focus of therapeutic strategies, as long as the therapist is based on a discursively oriented language conception and sees the clinical procedures as a process of acceptance, hearing and technical-scientific support for the patient to reflect upon/ re-elaborate his suffering and the language changes resultant from aphasia / Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar a ocorrência dos gêneros discursivos entre sujeitos afásicos, buscando pensar na construção de processos terapêuticos que maximizem o uso de potencialidades discursivas, ainda que em meio a marcas de sofrimento implicadas com a afasia e com as mudanças pessoais e sociais que costuma acarretar. Esta pesquisa está dividida em três partes: os estudos da afasia, os gêneros discursivos e a ocorrência destes gêneros entre os sujeitos afásicos de um determinado grupo. Trata-se de um estudo longitudinal e descritivo, realizado no Centro de Convivência de Afásicos (IEL-Unicamp), um grupo de afásicos e não afásicos construído em um ambiente discursivo onde a linguagem (que aqui se pratica) se estabelece, em suas variadas formas de acontecimento. Os dados foram aí construídos por meio de registros semanais e de gravações em fitas VHS, transcritos ortograficamente e analisados qualitativamente, inseridos no Banco de Dados em Neurolingüística (CNPq: 521773/95-4). A análise dos dados mostra como os sujeitos recorrem aos gêneros discursivos para reconstruir a linguagem sofrida após a afasia e, assim, produzir significados em expressões verbais oralizadas e não-verbais, partilhando da relação dialógica que se pratica nesse ambiente. Pôde-se concluir que o uso do gênero discursivo auxilia o sujeito com seqüelas afásicas, quando estas não são impeditivos ao uso de diferentes gêneros e à circulação por eles nas relações dialógicas. Sendo assim, o uso dos gêneros pode ser assumido como eixo de estratégias terapêuticas, desde que o fonoaudiólogo se paute por uma concepção de linguagem discursivamente orientada, bem como entenda a clínica como processo de acolhimento, escuta e suporte técnico-científico à elaboração, pelo paciente, do sofrimento e das alterações de linguagem decorrentes da afasia

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-08-02Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:08:00Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 coelho_nf_me_sjrp.pdf: 1233885 bytes, checksum: b86eae123f86959177d012ff1fd411e7 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Visando a uma maior compreensão de aspectos linguístico-discursivos do funcionamento da linguagem em contextos categorizados como patológicos, o objetivo do presente trabalho é verificar, no discurso, que tipos de elementos favorecem a dispersão de enunciados de uma criança (J) com diagnóstico fonoaudiológico de Distúrbio de Linguagem. A análise dos dados é fundamentada em subsídios provenientes de estudos de natureza enunciativo-discursiva, mais especificamente, sob o olhar da Análise do Discurso de orientação francesa. Trabalhos que abordam os processos de constituição do sujeito, como os de Authier-Revuz (1990), Pêcheux (1990a, 1990b, 1999), Pêcheux e Fuchs (1990) e Tfouni (2001, 2008), fornecem os alicerces teóricos mais essenciais de nossa pesquisa. Para o seu desenvolvimento, são utilizados dados de gravação de uma sessão de terapia fonoaudiológica da criança J, que, à época da filmagem, encontrava-se com dez anos de idade. Tendo em vista a proposta desta pesquisa, buscamos eventuais vínculos entre elementos linguísticos e/ou contextuais nos 410 enunciados de J produzidos durante uma sessão de terapia fonoaudiológica que pudessem indiciar possíveis mobilizações para a emergência de seus enunciados, uma vez que, grande parte destes se mostram, em primeira instância, como dispersos no discurso, uma vez que não apresentam amarração na superfície discursiva. Observamos, previamente, que essa não-amarração acontece em dois sentidos, já que os enunciados dispersos: (1) não se encadeiam com os enunciados do interlocutor (T); e (2) não se encadeiam entre si. Verificamos, ainda, que a mobilização desses enunciados obedece preferencialmente a duas tendências: (a) a conjugação de elementos verbais e contextuais no interior da situação imediata em que se... / Aiming at a better understanding of linguistic-discursive aspects language functioning in contexts categorized as pathological, the objective of this study is to verify, in the discourse, what kinds of elements favor the dispersion of statements of a child (J) with the diagnosis of Language Disorder. Data analysis is based on subsidies from enunciative-discoursive studies, more specifically, under the gaze of French Discourse Analysis. Papers that focus on the processes of subject constitution, such as Authier-Revuz (1990), Pecheux (1990a, 1990b, 1999), Pecheux and Fuchs (1990) and Tfouni (2001, 2008), provide the most essential theoretic foundations of our research. For its development, are used data from a recorded speech therapy session with a child named J, which at the time was ten years old. Given the purpose of this research, we seek possible links between linguistic and /or contextual elements in 410 utterances of J produced in a speech therapy session that could indicate possible mobilizations for the emergence of the utterances, since most of these are shown in the first instance, as dispersed in discourse since there is no binding on the discursive surface. We observed, previously, that this non-binding occurs in both directions, since the scattered utterances: (1) are not interwoven with the utterances of the interlocutor (T) and (2) are not interwoven with each other. We also observed that the mobilization of these utterances followed preferably two trends: (a) a combination of verbal and contextual elements within the immediate situation that developed in the discourse, and (b) the recovery of elements from other discursive situations. We also observed that: (1) the dispersion happened in the direction of a more recurrent utterance, and that (2) although the utterances are dispersed, it can be found... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)