Theses from 2024
Speech and Language Errors in an 8-Year-Old Spanish-English Bilingual Speaker: A Case Study, Alaniss Heredia
Different Error Patterns of /l/ in Children and Speech-Language Pathologists' Perception and Treatment, Grace E. Lemoine
Theses from 2023
Exploring the Interactive, Linguistic, and Conceptual Dimensions of Parent Input and Their Role in Children's Pragmatic Development, Nickolas T. Day
Identifying Key Language Research Priorities in Autistic Children According to Parents, Taylor Hale
Thresholds of Quantitative Swallowing Measures Following Intensive Prophylactic Therapy in Head and Neck Cancer, Deirdre Larsen
Theses from 2022
The Effect of Word-Learning Biases on Early Vocabulary Acquisition in Young Children on the Autism Spectrum, Claire C. Bourgeois
Implicit Bias in Speech-Language Pathology Students, Skyller Castello
Defining Change Beyond a Binary System: Measurement and Interpretation of Degrees of Dysphonia Severity in the Individual and Across Voice Disorders, Lindsey Ann Parker
Theses from 2021
Voice Therapy: Racial Disparities in Adherence and Clinically Significant Outcomes, Amber D. Burks
Experienced and Inexperienced Listeners' Perception of Childrens' /l/ Productions and their Acoustic Correlates, Emily A. Coniglio
Brown's Stages of Morphosyntactic Development Applied to the Typical Development of Italian, Marie Laiche
Identifying a Culturally Appropriate Stimulus for the Bangla Picture Description Task, Barnali Mazumdar
Characterizing receptive vocabulary knowledge in minimally verbal children with autism spectrum disorder, Allison Menting
African American English-Speaking Children's Judgments of Grammaticality: Effects of Clinical Status and Grammatical Structures, Lori Elizabeth Vaughn
Theses from 2020
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS, Isabelle Bankston
Acoustic Characteristics of Word-Final American English Liquids Produced by L2 Adult Speakers, Judith A. Espinal
Acoustic Changes during Passage Reading in Speakers with Parkinson's Disease, Kimberly C. Grubbs
The Relationship Between Working Memory, Procedural Learning, and Declarative Memory in Children with Specific Language Impairment, Allison Grace Herring
Comparison of High-Tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication Interfaces: Do Age and Technology Experience Matter?, Surani Gopika Nakkawita
Children's Attitudes Toward Their Communication Abilities, Darby Schoenfield
Research To Practice- Implementing Sign-Infused Intervention as a Novice Clinician, Loren Stoller
Verbal Response Inhibition and Stuttering in Adults, Shanley Belle Treleaven
Theses from 2019
Acoustic Characteristics of Vowels Produced by Young Children from the New Orleans Area, Rebecca E. Dorsa
The Effects of Photographic Representations on Scores of the Stroke and Aphasia Quality of Life Scale-39 for People with Aphasia, Taylor Glorioso
Item Comparison of Two Language Assessments in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Christina M. Hensgens
Use of Video-Models to Teach Language Stimulation Techniques, Jason Killian
Picture Cued and Speech Production Cued Approaches for Speech Sound Learning, Michelyve C. Petit
Relationship between Subject Pronoun and Verb Finite Marking in AAE-Speaking Children, Emily C. Sossaman
Theses from 2018
The Impact of Task-Specific Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Sustained Attention in a Healthy Population, Kasi Dawn Steele
Articulatory Kinematics During Stop Closure in Speakers with Parkinson’s Disease, Austin Ross Thompson
Scaffolded Play as a Predictor of Change in Language and Play in Children with Autism, Cara Tyson
Theses from 2017
Pronoun Marking in African American English-Speaking Children With and Without Specific Language Impairment, Gayatri Ramamoorthy Brown
Medication Use in Adults Who Stutter, Hailey Renee Guillot
Theses from 2016
Phonological Encoding of Medial Vowels in Adults Who Stutter, Allison Elizabeth Jacobs
Treating Attention Deficits in Individuals with Parkinson's Disease, Mora Johanna Mahoney
Reliability of Auditory-Perceptual Ratings of Dysarthric Speech: Hypokinetic Dysarthria Secondary to Parkinson's Disease, Jessica Lynn Miller
The Contribution of Self-Regulation to Reading Comprehension in Adolescent Learners, Rebecca Lynn Parker
Dissertations from 2015
Use of Copula and Auxiliary BE by African American Children with Gullah/Geechee Heritage, Jessica Richardson Berry
Do People With Aphasia Interpret Road Signs Differently Than People Without Aphasia?, Caitlin Elise Brown
Effects of Encoding Practice on Alphabet, Phonemic Awareness, and Spelling Skills of Students with Developmental Delays, Laura Nicole Delrose
Acoustic Realization of Contrastive Stress in Individuals with Parkinson's Disease, Ana Maria Gaviria
Evaluation of Teacher Ratings to Improve Child Language Screenings in Speech-Language Pathology, Kyomi Dana Gregory
Reliability of Subjective Endoscopic Parameters in the Differentiation of Essential Voice Tremor and Adductor Spasmodic Dysphonia Using High-Speed Videoendoscopy, Lindsey A. Parker
Caregiver Perceptions of Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) Communication: Examining How SLPs Talk With Caregivers About Child Language Disorders, Karmen L. Porter
Va-et-Vient, The Goin' and Comin' of Infinitival 'TO': A Study of Children with and without Specific Language Impairment in Cajun English, Andrew Mandell Riviere
Investigating the Effect of Photographic Representations on Scores of the Stroke and Aphasia Quality of Life Scale-39 for People with Moderate to Severe Aphasia, Samantha Studrawa
An Analysis of Spelling Patterns Produced by Elementary School-Aged Speakers of African American English, Lindsay Meyer Turner
Treatment Efficacy of Manual Therapy on Speech Outcomes in Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy: A Single-Subject Experimental Design, Chantelle B. Varnado
Dissertations from 2014
Pragmatics, Prosody, and Social Skills of School-Age Children with Language-Learning Differences, Janet Lynn Bradshaw
The effects of using morphophonic faces as a method for teaching sight words to low-performing kindergartners, Ashley Alexandra Brown
Improving the reliability of caregivers' responses on the Infant-Toddler Meaningful Auditory Integration Scales (IT-MAIS) via video, Chelsi Meagan Gibbons
Stroke and aphasia quality of Life Scale-39: investigating preliminary content validity of picture representations by people with mild to moderate aphasia, Lea Jane Heise-Jensen
Evaluating the effects of dialect on kindergartners' use of three grammatical structures in narratives, Andromeda Patrice Love
"Mais, you talk like me? /ju ra:/": kindergarteners' use of five Cajun English phonological features, Hannah Joy Smitherman
Theses from 2013
An acoustic description of vowels spoken by speakers with Cajun ethnicity in Southern Louisiana, Ali Beslin
Addressing the Higher Level Language Skills for the Common Core State Standards in Kindergarten, Ashley Bourque Meaux
Finding similarities between photographs and the Stroke and Aphasia Quality of Life Scale - 39 (SAQOL-39) items, Ashley Renee Brouwer
Comparing the treatment effect of conversational and traditional aphasia treatments on linguistic complexity measures, Kelsey Ann Copperberg
Treatment effects of attention process training for an individual with idiopathic Parkinson's disease, Kristen Michelle Ferguson
Effect of rate reduction on speech intelligibility in individuals with dysarthria, Zachary Hall
Attitudes about voice and voice therapy among transgender individuals, Stefanie E. Hays
Differentiation of voice disorders using objective parameters from harmonic waveform modeling in high-speed digital imaging, Aimee Elaine Perkins
Examining the validity and reliability of the Infant-Toddler Meaningful Auditory Integration Scales (IT-MAIS) via Rasch analysis, Anne Denise Schubert
The effect of Cajun status on kindergartners' use of five grammar structures, Corrina Spedale
The effects of MorphoPhonic Faces as a method for teaching sight words, Ashley Jean Williams
Dissertations from 2012
Comparing the treatment effect of conversational and traditional aphasia treatments based on conversational outcome measures, Meghan Collins
A single-subject study examining the effects of a behavioral intervention for verbal recurrent perserveration, Jenifer Juengling-Sudkamp
Spectral analysis of stop consonants in individuals with dysarthria secondary to stroke, Trescha S. Kay
Effects of Rhyming Instruction on Learning the Alphabetic Principle, Phonemic Awareness, and Rhyming Complexity Skills with At-Risk Prekindergarten Students, Crystal Randolph
The relationship between children's nonmainstream English dialect density and their emergfent reading achievement, Katelyn Danielle Rodrigue
A syntax-based reading intervention for English as second-language learners, Christina Tausch
Theses from 2011
Using the ambulatory phonation monitor to measure the vocal parameters of older people with and without Parkinson's disease, Danielle Marie Boudreaux
An examination of errors of coherence in adolescent sentence combining, Ginger Gunter Collins
Investigating the use of graphic organizers for writing, Laura Nicole Delrose
A survey of selected representations of the stroke and aphasia quality of life scale-39 items, Dara Lynn Elizabeth Deroche
Treatment effects of attention process training for an individual with idiopathic Parkinson's disease, Erin Renee' Guillory
Comparison of the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation-Screening Test (DELV-ST) to two other screeners for low-income, African American children, Christy Wynn Moland
Time of day effects on language discourse in healthy aging and dementia, Amanda L. Stead
Dissertations from 2010
Investigation of a classroom-based reading intervention strategy for older elementary students with poor decoding skills, Shara Brinkley
Child acquisition of referring expressions, Carlton M. Downey
Vocal warm-up practices and perceptions in vocalists: a pilot survey, Allison Kimberly Gish
Parent report of home literacy experiences in children with and without speech and language impairments, Amanda Blair Grace
The effects of aging and unilateral vestibular disorders on the kinematic performance of vestibular rehabilitation exercises and physical function, Micah Leslie Bradshaw Klumpp
Treatment effect of maximum performance speech therapy for individuals with Parkinson's disease and dysarthria, Heidi Huckabee Michiels
Behaviors and beliefs of African American caregivers as related to their children's language-literacy development, Lekeitha Renee' Morris
The auxiliary system of typically developing children acquiring African American English, Brandi Lynette Newkirk
Dissertations from 2009
Children's production of verbal -s by dialect type and clinical status, Lesli H. Cleveland
Using the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) to discriminate between children with autism and children with language impairments without autism, Whitney Nicole Dolan
Voice initiation and voice offset patterns in normal females: investigated by high speed digital imaging, Rebecca LeBlanc Jopling
The effects of visual representations on teacher training of phonological awareness principles, Rachel Kennedy Powell
Effect of group aphasia treatment on word retrieval skills, Claire Renee Zimmerman
Theses from 2008
A comparison of morphophonic faces and the picture exchange communication system on the production of verbal communication in preschoolers with autism, Ashley Nicole Bourque
Language Learning through Storybook Reading in HeadStart, Patricia Minnis Brazier-Carter
Examining the effects of non-intensive therapy on word retrieval, apraxic errors and quality of life following intensive therapy, Erin Lofton Cain
Vocal fold vibratory characteristics pre and post phonosurgery investigated by stroboscopy, Brittany Anne Durand
The investigation of treatment outcomes for adults with chronic brain injury following intensive multidisciplinary treatment, Donna Mineo Fitzgerald-DeJean
Examining the effects of non-intensive therapy on word retrieval, speech intelligibility and quality of life following intensive therapy, Hillary Leigh Goodwin
The effectiveness of contextualization on second language acquisition using the situational discourse semantic model, Alice Marie Johnson
Baby signs: caregiver perceptions of their use and benefit to children, Leah Catherine Legere