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50 Years of ERIC
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Thistle, Jennifer J.; McNaughton, David – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2015
Purpose: This study examined the effect of instruction in an active listening strategy on the communication skills of pre-service speech-language pathologists (SLPs). Method: Twenty-three pre-service SLPs in their 2nd year of graduate study received a brief strategy instruction in active listening skills. Participants were videotaped during a…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Occupations Education, Listening Skills
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Hadley, Pamela A.; Walsh, Kathleen M. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this initial feasibility study was to determine whether brief instruction in toy talk would change grammatical properties of adult language, specifically 3rd person lexical noun phrase (NP) subjects. Method: Eighteen college students participated in the study. The use of 3rd person subjects was examined before and after…
Descriptors: Toys, Grammar, Linguistic Input, Nouns
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Abdalla, Fauzia; St. Louis, Kenneth O. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2014
Purpose: The authors of this quasi-experimental design study explored the effect of an educational documentary video that presented factual and emotional aspects of stuttering on changing attitudes toward stuttering of preservice trainees and in-service public school teachers in Kuwait. Method: Participants were 99 preservice trainees (48 control,…
Descriptors: Arabs, Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change, Preservice Teachers
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Plumb, Allison M.; Plexico, Laura W. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2013
Purpose: To investigate the graduate training experiences of school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) working with children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Comparisons were made between recent graduates (post 2006) and pre-2006 graduates to determine if differences existed in their academic and clinical experiences or their…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Apel, Kenn – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2011
Purpose: I provide alternative views to Kamhi's (2011) assertion that clinical practice cannot be scientific. I also discuss how the field of communication sciences and disorders might encourage scientific thinking about clinical practices in researchers and clinicians. Method: Kamhi's three main points for why clinical practice cannot be…
Descriptors: Researchers, Allied Health Personnel, Sciences, Communication Disorders
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Finn, Patrick – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2011
Purpose: I respond to Kamhi's (2011) conclusion in his article "Balancing Certainty and Uncertainty in Clinical Practice" that rational or critical thinking is an essential complement to evidence-based practice (EBP). Method: I expand on Kamhi's conclusion and briefly describe what clinicians might need to know to think critically within an EBP…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Evidence, Allied Health Personnel