SLPD Capstones 2016

Request here Recent investigations have posited that greater than 42% of individuals who have experienced stroke have been diagnosed with dysphagia (Crisan, Shaban, Boehme, Dubin, Jeungling, Schulter, Albright, Beasley, & Schild-Martin, 2013). In addition, these individuals have required either short term or long term interventions to compensate for the various levels of dysphagia they have [...]

Request here Pascoe, Stackhouse, and Wells (2006) define persisting speech difficulties (PSD) as "… difficulties in the normal development of speech that do not resolve as the child matures or even after they receive specific help for these problems (p. 2)." Lohman, Fucci, and Marinellie (2001), indicated that in traditional articulation therapy, children are given [...]

Request here In the literature, there are various treatments for children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) but few discuss treating CAS with a concomitant disorder. CAS can be a challenging disorder to treat and likely to be seen in conjunction with a disorder like autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (Tierney et al., 2015) thus making [...]

Request here There is an identified need to investigate supervisory instructional practices that can effectively manage the cognitive load and needs of student clinicians (SCs) during various stages of clinical development (Young, Van Merrienboer, Durning, & Ten Cate, 2014). This investigation aimed to study an interactive, technology-based method for providing feedback to promote the transfer [...]

Request here Verbal descriptions are important for academic success and are included in the 2010 Common Core State Standards; however, children with language impairment (LI) often have limitations in this area. The Expanding Expression Tool™ (EET) is a multisensory program designed to teach children with LI a conceptual strategy to produce comprehensive verbal or written [...]

Request here The ability to understand spoken language involves mechanisms beyond the linguistic level of comprehension. People with acquired auditory comprehension impairments due to a brain injury have differences in neural speed and timing that impair their ability to comprehend. This single subject research study investigated the effect of Interactive Metronome (IM) on processing and [...]

Request here A single subject A-B design was conducted to determine the effect of the Earobics Computerized Literacy Program on ability of kindergarten children to segment sounds in words. Earobics was invented as supplementary literacy program to increase reading skills by focusing on phonological awareness abilities. The investigation included seven kindergarten children. The baseline and [...]

Request here Two adults with dementia and dysphagia were taught to recall a compensatory swallow strategy using the spaced retrieval training method combined with external memory aids. Ten intervention sessions were administered over a four-week period with two weeks of baseline sessions with external memory aids only. On each trial, participants were provided a 5x8 [...]

Request here Studies evaluating the acquisition of phonemic awareness and learning to decode print have typically focused on preschool and primary school years. There is limited research of phonemic awareness skills in language-impaired readers post-elementary (Scarborough et al., 1998; Swanson, 2008; Ukrainetz, Cooney, Dyer, Kysar, & Harris, 2000). There are several studies that evaluate the [...]

Request here Speech sound disorder (SSD) is the most common diagnosis made by speech-language pathologists with a pediatric caseload (ASHA, 2014). An estimated 2% to 25% of children ages 5 to 7 years have a SSD diagnosis (Law, Boyle, Harris, Harkness, & Nye, 2000). This investigation examined the effects of the multiple oppositions therapy approach, [...]

Request here Children with autism present with unique communication needs. The children who are nonverbal present speech-language pathologists with the challenge of finding and establishing an effective means of communication, often in the form of an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) system. This investigation explored the use of video modeling (VM) for training three 6 [...]

Request here Medical offsite placements for graduate students in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) are increasingly difficult for speech-language pathology (SLP) programs to attain. Some suggest that may be, in part, due to the perception of student ambiguity, clinical skill deficits, and poor overall self-efficacy (Brown, 2007). This leads to difficulty for universities, which are [...]

Request here The overall purpose of this research was to determine if individuals with dementia would benefit from cognitive/memory therapy interventions being provided by a tablet-based application. Two individuals with dementia participated in this research. The behaviors measured included overall cognitive function that was measured with a pre and post-test of cognition. In addition, percentages [...]

Request here The purpose of this investigation was to determine if the use of sensory integration plus positive reinforcement would be more beneficial than the use of escape extinction plus positive reinforcement to increase overall acceptance of food and decrease negative mealtime behaviors in preschoolers with pediatric feeding disorders. Two preschool males participated in this [...]