Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1944. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-173).

Thesis(M.S.)--Auburn University, 2008. / Abstract. Includes bibliographic references (p.85-100).

Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: Julie Stierwalt, Florida State University, College of Communication, Dept. of Communication Disorders. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 22, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 26 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: Differentiating between normal language variation and abnormal language development can be difficult for clinicians working with young children who present with slow language development, so-called “late talkers”. Although the language difficulties of many late talkers resolve spontaneously, there is clearly a group of children whose problems persist, either for a long period or possibly permanently (after the age of five, often referred to as children with specific language impairment: SLI). There is a lack of research examining potential markers of language difficulties in young children which may enable the early detection of children at risk of SLI. The aim of this thesis was to determine the most suitable measure, or combination of measures, that can predict which late talkers at age 3;0 to 4;0 will be likely to have SLI at age 4;0 to 5;0. Methods Forty seven late talkers and 47 children with typical language development (TLD) aged from 3;0 to 4;0 were assessed on a number of language, IQ and marker tasks (baseline assessment). The children were recruited from 13 nurseries and one family centre in Aberdeen city. The children were reassessed one year later on a number of language, IQ and marker tasks (follow-up assessment). Results: Characteristics of the child or family examined were not associated with membership of the expressive language delay group at follow-up. Within the late talker group only, the Preschool Language Scale-3 Expressive Communication (PLS-3 EC) and Recalling Sentences scores at baseline were the best predictors of persistent expressive language delay at follow-up. Late talkers performance on the PLS-3 EC and Recalling Sentences tasks at age 3;0 to 4;0 has potential as predictors of persistent expressive language delay (children likely to have SLI) at age 4;0 to 5;0. Conclusions: A sizeable proportion of children identified as late talkers at age 3;0 to 4;0 have persistent language problems a year later at follow-up. The language measure PLS-3 EC has the potential to differentiate between late talkers who are going to have more persistent problems from those who recover. The marker task Recalling Sentences also has the potential to differentiate between late talkers who are going to have more persistent problems from those who recover. Given the simplicity of Recalling Sentences, this task has the potential to be a useful screening test in clinical practice although this needs to be evaluated in further research.

A American Speech-Language-Hearing Association ASHA define a linguagem como um sistema complexo e dinâmico de símbolos convencionais, utilizados de várias maneiras durante a comunicação. Alterações nas regiões cerebrais responsáveis pela fala e linguagem, podem trazer como consequência a afasia, que é definida como a perda ou debilidade da função de linguagem causada por um prejuízo do cérebro. Indivíduos afásicos podem necessitar de recursos da Comunicação Suplementar e/ou Alternativa para complementar ou substituir a transmissão de uma mensagem, que não pode ser transmitida de maneira eficiente pela comunicação verbal. Segundo von Tetzchner e Jensen, a Comunicação Suplementar e/ou Alternativa envolve o uso de modos não verbais de comunicação, para suplementar ou substituir a linguagem oral, que pode estar ausente ou comprometida. Desta forma, o presente estudo teve o objetivo de descrever o uso da Comunicação Suplementar e/ou Alternativa em dois casos de afasia pós Acidente Vascular Encefálico. Para tanto, foi realizada intervenção fonoaudiológica com dois participantes afásicos, utilizando os recursos da Comunicação Suplementar e/ou Alternativa. A intervenção fonoaudiológica foi dividida em quatro etapas, que abrangeu desde a visualização e confecção das fichas para o álbum de comunicação até a utilização efetiva deste recurso. Em todas as etapas, foi utilizado o sistema pictográfico sistema pictográfico de comunicação, por se tratar de um sistema que possui maior iconicidade. Por meio da reaplicação de testes, foi possível constatar melhora nas capacidades de compreensão oral, escrita, leitura e denominação dos dois participantes. Com este estudo pôde-se concluir que a intervenção fonoaudiológica com o uso da Comunicação Suplementar e/ou Alternativa nos dois casos de afasia pós Acidente Vascular Encefálico, trouxe benefícios para a comunicação funcional dos participantes, sendo que estes recursos tiveram função facilitadora, tornando a comunicação mais eficiente e trazendo benefícios no processo de reabilitação, promovendo evolução das habilidades de leitura e nomeação. / The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association defines language as a complex and dynamic system of conventional symbols, used in various ways during the communication. Changes in brain regions responsible for speech and language, can bring the aphasia, which is defined as the as the loss or impairment of language function caused by brain disease. Aphasic individuals may require supplementary resources of communication and/or alternative to supplement or replace the transmission of a message, which cannot be transmitted through verbal communication. According to von Tetzchner and Jensen, the Augmentative and Alternative Communication implicate the use of alternative modes of nonverbal communication, to supplement or replace the oral language which may absent or impaired. Thus, this study aimed to describe the use of the Augmentative and Alternative Communication in two cases of aphasia after stroke. The speech therapy was divided in four stages that approached since the display of forms of communication for the album until the effective use this resource. In all stages, was used the pictographic system Picture Communication Symbols, because it is a system that has greater iconicity. By reapplication of tests, was possible to show improvement in oral ability, writing, reading and denomination the two participants. To this end, the speech therapy was performed with two aphasic participants, using the Augmentative and Alternative Communication. This study allows conclude that the speech therapy using the Augmentative and Alternative Communication in two case of aphasia after stroke, brought benefits to functional communication the participants, and these resources had a augmentative role making communication more efficient and brought benefits in the rehabilitation process, promoting development of skills in reading e naming.

Bakalauro darbe analizuojama patyčių problema mokyklose: jų priežastys, formos, pasekmės, kurias jaučia tiek patyčių auka, tiek patyčių iniciatorius, tiek ir visa mokyklos bendruomenė. Taip pat gilinamasi, ar mokiniai, turintys kalbėjimo ir kalbos sutrikimų, jų susilaukia daugiau. Suformuluota hipotezė, kad kalbėjimo ir kalbos sutrikimai nėra pagrindinė priežastis, dėl ko mokiniai patiria patyčias. Tyrime dalyvavo 100 kalbėjimo ir kalbos sutrikimų turinčių mokinių, taip pat 30 įprastinės kalbos raidos mokinių bei 50 pedagogų, kurie ugdo mokinius, turinčius kalbėjimo ir kalbos sutrikimų. Anketinės apklausos metodu tirta, kaip kalbėjimo ir kalbos sutrikimų turintys mokiniai jaučiasi mokykloje, kaip dažnai, kur ir kokias patyčias tenka patirti, kaip jie į tai reaguoja, ir kaip mano, kodėl vaikai tyčiojasi. Šių mokinių nuomonė buvo lyginama su kitų mokinių bei mokytojų atsakymais. Tyrimu nustatyta, kad dažniau patyčias patiria mokiniai, turintys kalbėjimo ir kalbos sutrikimų, nors nemaža dalis įprastinės kalbos raidos mokinių taip pat patiria patyčias. Dažniausi patyčių būdai yra pravardžiavimas, erzinimas, apkalbinėjimas, ignoravimas ar nebendravimas ir stumdymas. Šias patyčių formas taip pat dažniausiai tenka matyti mokytojams. Nemažai mokinių, kurie patiria patyčias, skriaudėjams atsako tuo pačiu. Taip pat nevengia papasakoti apie patyčias mokytojams ar tėvams. Mokytojai dažniausiai drausmina skriaudėjus, pasišneka su skriaudžiamu vaiku, pataria... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In this bachelor work there is analysed taunting problem in schools: reasons of it, forms, consequences that feel all of the following - the victim of taunting, the initiator of taunting and the whole society of school. There is also explored if students that have disorders of language and speaking attain more taunting. There is formulated a hypothesis that disorder of language and speaking is not the main reason of taunting that students experience. There participated a hundred respondents that have language and speaking disorders, also 30 of regular language students and 50 schoolmasters which educated students that have disorders of language and speaking. Using survey method, there was explored how students that have language and speaking disorders feel like at school and how often, where and what kind of taunting they have to face, how do they react to the taunting and why do they think other people express taunting. The opinion of these students was compared to others students opinion and answers of schoolmasters. According to research, students that have language and speaking disorders face the taunting more often, though not small part of regular language students also face taunting. The most common taunting ways are teasing, slander, ignoring, not communicating and shoving. Schoolmasters also can notice these forms of taunting as most often. A biggest part of students facing taunting responds to the offenders the same way. They also do... [to full text]

A American Speech-Language-Hearing Association ASHA define a linguagem como um sistema complexo e dinâmico de símbolos convencionais, utilizados de várias maneiras durante a comunicação. Alterações nas regiões cerebrais responsáveis pela fala e linguagem, podem trazer como consequência a afasia, que é definida como a perda ou debilidade da função de linguagem causada por um prejuízo do cérebro. Indivíduos afásicos podem necessitar de recursos da Comunicação Suplementar e/ou Alternativa para complementar ou substituir a transmissão de uma mensagem, que não pode ser transmitida de maneira eficiente pela comunicação verbal. Segundo von Tetzchner e Jensen, a Comunicação Suplementar e/ou Alternativa envolve o uso de modos não verbais de comunicação, para suplementar ou substituir a linguagem oral, que pode estar ausente ou comprometida. Desta forma, o presente estudo teve o objetivo de descrever o uso da Comunicação Suplementar e/ou Alternativa em dois casos de afasia pós Acidente Vascular Encefálico. Para tanto, foi realizada intervenção fonoaudiológica com dois participantes afásicos, utilizando os recursos da Comunicação Suplementar e/ou Alternativa. A intervenção fonoaudiológica foi dividida em quatro etapas, que abrangeu desde a visualização e confecção das fichas para o álbum de comunicação até a utilização efetiva deste recurso. Em todas as etapas, foi utilizado o sistema pictográfico sistema pictográfico de comunicação, por se tratar de um sistema que possui maior iconicidade. Por meio da reaplicação de testes, foi possível constatar melhora nas capacidades de compreensão oral, escrita, leitura e denominação dos dois participantes. Com este estudo pôde-se concluir que a intervenção fonoaudiológica com o uso da Comunicação Suplementar e/ou Alternativa nos dois casos de afasia pós Acidente Vascular Encefálico, trouxe benefícios para a comunicação funcional dos participantes, sendo que estes recursos tiveram função facilitadora, tornando a comunicação mais eficiente e trazendo benefícios no processo de reabilitação, promovendo evolução das habilidades de leitura e nomeação. / The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association defines language as a complex and dynamic system of conventional symbols, used in various ways during the communication. Changes in brain regions responsible for speech and language, can bring the aphasia, which is defined as the as the loss or impairment of language function caused by brain disease. Aphasic individuals may require supplementary resources of communication and/or alternative to supplement or replace the transmission of a message, which cannot be transmitted through verbal communication. According to von Tetzchner and Jensen, the Augmentative and Alternative Communication implicate the use of alternative modes of nonverbal communication, to supplement or replace the oral language which may absent or impaired. Thus, this study aimed to describe the use of the Augmentative and Alternative Communication in two cases of aphasia after stroke. The speech therapy was divided in four stages that approached since the display of forms of communication for the album until the effective use this resource. In all stages, was used the pictographic system Picture Communication Symbols, because it is a system that has greater iconicity. By reapplication of tests, was possible to show improvement in oral ability, writing, reading and denomination the two participants. To this end, the speech therapy was performed with two aphasic participants, using the Augmentative and Alternative Communication. This study allows conclude that the speech therapy using the Augmentative and Alternative Communication in two case of aphasia after stroke, brought benefits to functional communication the participants, and these resources had a augmentative role making communication more efficient and brought benefits in the rehabilitation process, promoting development of skills in reading e naming.

Introduction Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a health condition in infants that results from the sudden discontinuation of substances that infants were exposed to in utero (Kocherlakota, 2014). Typical symptoms include: hyperirritability, sweating, hypertension, tremors, sleep deprivation, and seizures (Kocherlakota, 2014). The role of a SLP in treating infants with NAS in the NICU includes evaluation, assessment, and treatment of the feeding cycle. Our research is an early exploratory and descriptive study of the pre-natal, peri-natal, and post-natal characteristics of infants with NAS who required SLP assessment and intervention as opposed to those who did not. Our aim was to examine possible predictors of infants with feeding and swallowing difficulties. Methods Data was collected from a local hospital system that conducted a five-year retrospective chart review study. From charts of 140 infants in the NICU, infants were placed into two groups: infants who received SLP services (SLP group) and infants who did not receive SLP services (NSLP group). From those charts, 26 infants with NAS who received SLP services were placed in SLP group based on the availability of a match in NSLP group. Infants in both groups were matched based on gestational age, year of birth, and gender. Results/Conclusion There were no significant differences found between SLP group and NSLP groups in: number of prenatal visits, week/timing of initial prenatal visit, and dosage of buprenorphine taken by the mother. The two groups did not differ (all ps>.18) in their types of drug use, average dosage of buprenorphine taken, average number of prenatal visits, or average week of first visit. There was a statistically significant difference in maternal age in the SLP group (p<.05; M=29.7 years, SD=5.4) and in NSLP group (M=26.7 years, SD=4.3.). There was no statistically significant difference in initial measurements of weight, head circumference, length, Apgar scores at birth, and number of complications between groups. There were no significant differences found in NAS scores between groups regarding the highest NAS score or average NAS score, number of NAS scores and first day of collection or number of days collected. There was a statistically significant difference in the number of prescription drugs administered. Infants in SLP group had more prescription drugs on average (M=1.50, SD=.89) than NSLP group (M=1.04, SD=.20). There was a statistically significant difference in the amount of weight gained (SLP group gained 229 more grams) and in infant length of stay and overall cost (SLP group on average stayed in the NICU one week longer and cost $22,896 more). Little research has been conducted regarding NAS and the impact it has on feeding and swallowing. We found that there are statistically significant differences among infants who were in SLP and NSLP groups. It cannot be determined how many full-term infants have dysphagia; however, from a clinical opinion it is thought that most full-term babies with dysphagia also have a neurological impairment.

The diploma thesis focuses on the role of teacher assistant in the nursery class. Its aim is to capture the activities that the assistant teacher performs in this class through qualitative research. The main aim of the research was to describe the activities of the teacher assistant that support pupils directly in the logopedic class of the kindergarten. The research was carried out at the nursery class of the kindergarten. The case studies of five pupils were processed on the basis of documentary analysis and observation and teacher assistant activities were categorized. It has been found that pupils has disruptive communication skills that has been shown since the beginning of development and, besides communication skills, involves in other areas of development. Teacher assistant pays attention to all pupils in the class. Activities that encourage them to engage in education and all kindergarten activities do not differ in content. His work focuses mainly on ensuring understanding, orientation and involvement of pupils in every situation. KEYWORDS Teacher Assistant, Pupil with Special Educational Needs, Speech and Language Disorders, Nursery School, Class for children with speech and language disorders, Special Education

A narrativa oral de história trata-se de uma habilidade de grande complexidade uma vez que requer preservação de capacidades linguísticas e cognitivas. O desempenho em tarefa de narração tem contribuído para a identificação de diferentes subgrupos clínicos com alterações de linguagem, como o quadro de atraso no desenvolvimento da linguagem (ADL). Essa população caracteriza-se ao longo do desenvolvimento da linguagem por um ritmo lento para novas aquisições. A habilidade narrativa é descrita em crianças com ADL por produções de histórias mais curtas e com menor complexidade. Contudo, poucas pesquisas abordam a narrativa oral desta população específica, e sobre à influência de programas de intervenção. Desta forma, o presente estudo teve como objetivo comparar o desempenho em tarefa de narrativa oral de histórias de crianças com histórico de ADL antes e após serem submetidas a um programa de intervenção fonoaudiológica. Participaram deste estudo 10 crianças com ADL e 10 crianças com desenvolvimento típico de linguagem, pareadas quanto ao sexo e idade cronológica. Cada grupo foi composto por indivíduos de ambos os sexos, com idade cronológica entre cinco e seis anos. Os participantes de ambos os grupos foram avaliados antes e após a intervenção, nos níveis macro e microestruturais da narrativa oral, utilizando como instrumento de análise: (a) índice de complexidade da narrativa (b) nível de coerência global da narrativa; (c) análise de construção dos episódios que compõem a narrativa. Além da (d) produtividade e (e) complexidade linguística da narrativa. Após a avaliação, as crianças com ADL foram submetidas ao programa de intervenção fonoaudiológica da narrativa. O referido programa foi composto por três fases com objetivos distintos: (a) elementos estruturais da narrativa-apresentar a criança; (b) elaboração da narrativa; (c) contagem de histórias de forma independente. O programa foi organizado em dez sessões de intervenção. Os resultados permitiram concluir que os indivíduos com ADL apresentaram melhora em seu desempenho após intervenção na narrativa oral em relação aqueles com desenvolvimento típico. Foi constatada diferença significativa entre os desempenhos pré e pós intervenção para o grupo com ADL em todos os aspectos macro e microestruturais (exceto total de C-Units). O desempenho do grupo com desenvolvimento típico de linguagem foi mais discreto, não foram observadas diferenças significantes para desafios, resolução e coerência da narrativa e total de palavras, total de C-Units, extensão média dos enunciados e C-Units complexos. / Oral storytelling is a skill of great complexity as it requires preservation of linguistic and cognitive abilities. The performance in narrative task has been contributing to the identification of different clinical subgroups with language alterations, such as late talking condition. This population is characterized throughout language development by late onset or at a slow pace for new acquisitions. Narrative ability is described on children in late talking condition for shorter and less complex storytelling. However, few studies address the oral narrative of this specific population, and the influence of interventional programs. Thus, this study had the aim to compare the performance in task of oral narrative of children in late talking condition before and after being submitted to a speech-language intervention program. The participants were 10 children late talkers and 10 children with typical language development, matched for sex and chronological age. Each group consisted individuals of both sexes, with a chronological age between five and six years. Participants of both groups were evaluated before and after intervention at the macro and microstructural levels of the oral narrative using as an analytical tool: (a) narrative complexity index; (b) level of global narrative coherence; (c) construction analysis of the episodes; (d) productivity and (e) linguistic complexity of the narrative. After the evaluation, the late talkers were submitted to the speech-language intervention program of the narrative. The program was composed by three phases with distinct objectives: (a) structural elements of the narrative; (b) elaboration of the narrative; (c) storytelling independently. The program was organized in ten interventional sessions. The results allowed to conclude that late talkers showed improvement in their performance after intervention in the oral narrative in relation to those with typical development. It was observed a significant difference between the pre and post intervention performances for late talkers group in all macro and microstructural aspects (except total of C-Units). The performance of the group with typical language development was more discreet, no significant differences were found in challenges, resolution and coherence of the narrative and total words, total C-Units, mean length of utterances and complex C-Units.