Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 286-306). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002. / Supervisor: Diane L. Schallert. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available from UMI.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 151 pages : ill. (some col.) Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Charles R. Hancock, College of Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-125).

M.A. dissertation, University of Hong Kong, 1980.

Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

The thesis is a qualitative research project examining the lives of Japanese women who have lived in England long-term (defined as two or more years). It is based on oral history interviews with 16 Japanese women ranging in age from 26 to 51, and categorised into four groups: students, career women, women married to or divorced from British men, and company wives (women who accompany their Japanese husbands on company postings). The methodological section is an exploration of the cultural and linguistic issues involved in carrying out a cross-cultural oral history project. Cultural factors examined include uchi/soto (inside/outside), tatemae/honne (public truth/private truth), and omote/ura (front/back knowledge). Linguistic issues covered include the advantages and disadvantages of interviewing in Japanese and in English, dialogue, mood, non-verbal communication, transcription and presentation. This section is an examination of what can be gained or lost through crosscultural interviewing, and a consideration of how far Western methodologies can be applied to historical research with interviewees who are of Eastern origin. The research findings section begins with profiles of the interviewees, examination of their socio-economic backgrounds, and analysis of their reasons for going abroad and for their choice of England as their destination. Subsequent chapters examine the views and experiences of the women in four areas: education, work, relationships, and the lives of the company wives in the expatriate community. The final two chapters analyse common themes: adaptation and alienation, discrimination, segregation, migration identities, status and internationalism. This is an interdisciplinary study dealing with aspects of gender, migration, oral history, and Japanese society

This thesis explores how old people in Oxford were cared for between 1930 and 1960, before and after the inception of the welfare state. Its purpose is to analyse how some families and professionals responded to the transition from the poor law to the welfare state, and examine any changes in this process. Admission to a state institution was usual for old people who were without financial and social resources. In Oxford the Cowley Road Hospital, originally built as a workhouse in the nineteenth century provided this treatment over this period of time. The thesis investigates the relationship of this institution to the broader community in relation to the care of old people. From the 1930s geriatric medicine, a speciality emerged spearheaded by Dr Marjory Warren, geriatric medicine. Early pioneers of geriatric medicine, working in state run institutions, were advocating the need for change in provision for old people, and this study examines their role in this process of change. Within this group of doctors, Dr Lionel Cosin, an initiator and influencer of change and policy in post-war care for old people, was appointed to the Cowley Road Hospital soon after the inception of the welfare state. This thesis, seeks to discover, in conjunction with the changes arising from the introduction of the welfare state, if old people in Oxford benefited from his position. By using oral histories as a major source of evidence, alongside documentary sources, this investigation aims to bring fresh perspectives to the study of the process of ageing. Within the context of national legislative changes, it discovers how a city responded to these, and juxtaposes how families cared for their older relatives. Each chapter examines aspects that contributed to changing provision and attitudes towards old people by professionals and relatives. Local evidence is compared with national to suggest that the city was progressive in its care and attitudes towards old people.

The purpose of this report is to review critically research focused on oral motor based treatment for pediatric swallowing disorders with the aim of assisting speech-language pathologists in making informed clinical intervention decisions. Oral motor based treatment has become a popular intervention approach among some speech-language pathologists, but the evidence supporting the approach is limited. This report will discuss research studies and review articles with high levels of evidence of treatment efficacy and propose when to use oral motor based treatment approaches in clinical intervention for pediatric swallowing disorders. / text

The purpose of this experiment was to determine which of the communication apprehension reduction methods currently available was most effective in classroom application. This contextual concern was a critical factor. Communication apprehension reduction methods not readily applicable to classroom environments were eliminated as viable treatment methods. Treatment methods (independent variables) tested in this experiment were: skills training plus cognitive restructuring, skills training only, cognitive restructuring only, and a no systematic treatment (control) group. Each of these treatments was reviewed. Nonapplicable treatment methods for classroom environments were also reviewed. Subjects were randomly chosen and assigned to one of the four experimental conditions. Three introspective self-report instruments measuring communication apprehension were employed as dependent measures. Level of communication apprehension was the dependent variable. Attempts to control a number of extraneous variables in this quasi-experimental design were made. Composite scores were made for each subject on pre-test and post-test measures, and "Difference" (D) scores were computed from these composite scores. These D scores were submitted to three sets of statistical analyses: a one-way analysis of variance, an analysis of co-variance, and an analysis of co-variance using only those subjects with pre-test composite scores falling above the marginal mean score. In addition, homogeneity of variance tests were run on experimental group variances, and correlation coefficients were computed for each of the six dependent measures (three instruments with one of these instruments having four sub-scales). Also, three sets of Dunnett's tests for comparisons of treatment groups to a control group were made. The results indicated that no significant differences occurred between any of the four experimental conditions tested. Results of the Dunnett's tests indicated that skills training plus cognitive restructuring was the most effective treatment method of those methods tested. Specifically, significant changes in level of communication apprehension occurred from pre-test to post-test trials when only those subjects above the marginal mean score were used. Based on the findings reported, instructors were recommended to use skills training plus cognitive restructuring as a communication apprehension reduction technique in classroom environments. The author also recommended that skills training plus cognitive restructuring be employed only with those students experiencing a moderate or high level of communication apprehension.

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