Investigating language acquisition in communication sciences and disorders: A case for language diversity

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No AccessPerspectives on Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) PopulationsArticle1 Jul 2002Perspectives on Speech Fluency Issues in African Americans Tommie L. Robinson Tommie L. Robinson Scottish Rite Center for Childhood Language Disorders Children's Hearing and Speech Center Children's Hospital Google Scholar More articles by this author https://doi.org/10.1044/cds8.2.15 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In "Perspectives on Speech Fluency Issues in African Americans." Perspectives on Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Populations, 8(2), pp. 15–16 References Anderson, B. (1981). An analysis of the relationship of age and sex to type and frequency of disfluencies in lower socioeconomic preschool Black children. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Google Scholar Brutten, G. & Miller, R. (1988). The disfluencies of normally fluent Black first graders.Journal of Fluency Disorders, 13, 291–299. Google Scholar Conrad, C. (1985). A conversational act analysis of Black mother-child dyads including stuttering and nonstuttering children. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Google Scholar Conrad, C. (1987). Fluency in multicultural populations.In L. C. & V. Deal (Eds.), Communication disorders in multicultural populations. Unpublished manuscript. Rockville, MD: ASHA. Google Scholar Ford, S. (1986). Pragmatic abilities in Black disfluent preschoolers. Unpublished master’s thesis, Howard University, Washington, DC. Google Scholar Goldman, R. (1967). Cultural influences on the sex ratio in the incidence of stuttering.American Anthropology, 69, 78–81. Google Scholar Leith, W. R., & Mims, H. A. (1975). Cultural influences in the development and treatment of stuttering: A preliminary report on the Black stutterer.Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 40, 459–466. Google Scholar Nathanson, S. (1969). A study of the influence of race, socioeconomic status and sex on the speech fluency of 200 nonstuttering fifth graders, Unpublished dissertation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Google Scholar Robinson, T. L.Jr. & Crowe, T. A. (1987). A comparative study of speech disfluencies in nonstuttering Black and White college male athletes.Journal of Fluency Disorders, 12, 147–156. Google Scholar Robinson, T. L.Jr. & Crowe, T. A. (1998). Culture-based considerations in programming for stuttering intervention with African American clients and their families.Language, Speech and Hearing Services in the Schools, 29, 172–179. AbstractGoogle Scholar Robinson, T. L.Jr., Davis, J. G., & Crowe, T. A. (2000). Disfluency in nonstuttering African American preschoolers during conversation and narrative discourse.Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, 27, 164–171. Google Scholar Additional Resources FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 8Issue 2July 2002Pages: 15-16 Get Permissions Add to your Mendeley library History Published in issue: Jul 1, 2002 Metrics Downloaded 22 times Topicsasha-topicsleader-topicsasha-article-typesasha-sigsCopyright & Permissions© 2002 American Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationLoading ...

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Purpose Research in communication sciences and disorders frequently involves the collection of clusters of observations, such as a series of scores for each individual receiving treatment over the course of an intervention study. However, little discipline-specific guidance is currently available on the subject of building and interpreting multilevel models. This article offers a tutorial on multilevel models, using notation from the R statistical software, and discusses their implications for research in communication sciences and disorders. Method This tutorial introduces multilevel models and contrasts them with other methods to analyze repeated measures data, such as repeated measures analysis of variance or standard linear regression. It also provides guidance on interpreting the components of a multilevel model and selecting the best-fitting model. Finally, these models are illustrated through an analysis of real data from a study of speech production training in second-language speakers of English. Conclusions As a flexible method that can increase the rigor of modeling for clustered data, multilevel modeling represents an important tool for research in communication disorders. Given their increasingly prominent role in the analysis of experimental data in communication sciences, it is important for researchers to be familiar with the basics of building and interpreting these models.

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Purpose The aim of this study was to compare perceptions of cluttering of undergraduate Communication Sciences and Disorders majors with perceptions of non-majors. Method A total of 79 undergraduate students served as participants; 37 students were Communications Sciences and Disorders majors enrolled in an introductory-level course. The other 42 students were recruited from nutrition courses in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences. All students were provided with a written definition of cluttering and also viewed a short segment of an educational video. Students then rated a person who clutters on a variety of speech skills and personality scales. Results Results revealed that the Communication Sciences and Disorders students rated a person who clutters as exhibiting a significantly more inappropriate speech rate than did the Family and Consumer Sciences majors. However, results revealed no significant group differences in ratings of any personality traits. Conclusions Findings do not support the presence of relatively positive perceptions of cluttering among Communication Sciences and Disorders majors, at least not prior to coursework or clinical training. Further research is needed to replicate these findings with larger sample sizes, and to assess attitudes of these students before and after coursework and/or clinical training in fluency disorders.

E-learning and Fluency Disorders

Even though clinical linguistics is an established field in the broader context of the world’s languages, the term is not as widely known and used in Thailand. Research studies on communication disorders in Thailand have largely been conducted within the fields of speech-language pathology and communication sciences and disorders. Despite this fact, many of these studies can also be categorized under the scope of clinical linguistics. This chapter aims to examine the history and the developmental trajectory of the fields of research related to speech, language, and communication disorders in Thailand in the past 45 years. This chapter begins by introducing basic concepts and terminology, including speech, language, and communication disorders, as well as the changing definitions and the development of the discipline of clinical linguistics. This chapter proceeds to provide a brief history of the education and practice in communication disorders in Thailand. Based on an extensive survey of the literature, past trends of clinical linguistics and research on language disorders in Thailand are presented. This chapter concludes with a discussion of the present and future directions of research in the area. This will serve as a guideline for future researchers in the field.