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Westby, Carol – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
The technological and social/cultural demands of the 21st century are reshaping communication requirements. Students not only need to be able to communicate effectively in oral and written language, but they also need to communicate effectively in multimodal ways--they need to become skilled in multiliteracies. This article explains the two…
Descriptors: Written Language, Oral Language, Language Impairments, Communication Skills
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Oller, D. Kimbrough; And Others – Topics in Language Disorders, 1989
Recent developments are described in transmission of speech information to the skin of hearing-impaired individuals through artificial hearing devices. Discussed are tactual hearing instrument characteristics; transmission of speech sounds by tactual vocoders; vocabulary acquisition, sentence recognition, and discourse tracking through tactual…
Descriptors: Communication Aids (for Disabled), Hearing Aids, Hearing Impairments, Language Acquisition
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Glaspey, Amy M.; Stoel-Gammon, Carol – Topics in Language Disorders, 2005
Dynamic assessment is applied to phonological disorders with the Scaffolding Scale of Stimulability (SSS). The SSS comprises a 21-point hierarchical scale of cues and linguistic environments. With the SSS, clinicians assess stimulability as a diagnostic indicator and use the measure to monitor progress across treatment. Unlike other phonological…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Cues, Phonology, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)