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Minimal Pair Distinctions and Intelligibility in Preschool Children with and without Speech Sound Disorders
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Hodge, Megan M.; Gotzke, Carrie L. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
Listeners' identification of young children's productions of minimally contrastive words and predictive relationships between accurately identified words and intelligibility scores obtained from a 100-word spontaneous speech sample were determined for 36 children with typically developing speech (TDS) and 36 children with speech sound disorders…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Impairments, Speech Impairments, Phonology
Project Access: A Program To Improve Service Delivery for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations with Speech, Language and Hearing Disorders.
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Guillory, Barbara L. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2000
This article describes Project Access, a program at Southern University (Louisiana) designed to recruit, retain, and train speech-language/pathology students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Seminars that explore speech and language disorders of diverse populations were added to the required curriculum. Students receive support in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Special Education, College Students, Communication Disorders, Cultural Differences
Subtle Symptoms Associated with Self-Reported Mild Head Injury.
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Segalowitz, Sidney J.; Lawson, Sheila – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1995
A survey of 1,345 high school students and 2,321 university students found that 30-37% reported having experienced a head injury, with 12-15% reporting loss of consciousness. Significant relationships were found between mild head injury incidence and gender; sleep difficulties; social difficulties; handedness pattern; and diagnoses of attention…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, College Students, Depression (Psychology), Handedness
Post Secondary Program School-to-Work Transition Activity. School-to-Work Outreach Project 1998 Exemplary Model/Practice/Strategy.
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Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Inst. on Community Integration. – 1998
The Postsecondary Program School-to-Work Transition Activity in Carroll County Public Schools (Maryland) has been identified as an exemplary school-to-work program that includes students with disabilities. This program serves 25 students aged 17-21 with disabilities in a noncategorical setting with a large majority of students having significant…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Disorders, College Students, Demonstration Programs
Accommodations--Or Just Good Teaching? Strategies for Teaching College Students with Disabilities.
Hodge, Bonnie M., Ed.; Preston-Sabin, Jennie, Ed. – 1997
This book is a product of an ongoing project which is identifying teaching strategies and/or accommodations for college students with disabilities. The strategies have proven practical and successful by teaching practitioners who responded to a survey of members of the National Association for Developmental Education. The first chapter introduces…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Disorders, Blindness
Evaluating Language. Papers from the Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (Essex, England, United Kingdom, September 1992).
Graddol, David, Ed.; Swann, Joan, Ed. – 1994
Papers from a British conference on applied linguistics address various aspects of evaluation and language. Articles include: "Grammar and Language Impairment: Clinical Linguistics as Applied Linguistics" (Paul Fletcher); "Putting Our Practice Into Theory" (Deborah Cameron); "Applied Linguistics as Evaluation of Theory and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Aphasia, Applied Linguistics, College Students