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Suzanna Dooley; Tammy Hopper; Rachael Doyle; Orla Gilheaney; Margaret Walshe – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Individuals with dementia have communication limitations resulting from cognitive impairments that define the syndrome. Whereas there are numerous cognitive assessments for individuals with dementia, there are far fewer communication assessments. The Profiling Communication Ability in Dementia (P-CAD) was developed to address this gap.…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication Problems, Dementia, Intellectual Disability
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Rattaz, Cécile; Loubersac, Julie; Michelon, Cécile; Geoffray, Marie-Maude; Picot, Marie-Christine; Munir, Kerim; Baghdadli, Amaria – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder is challenging due to its phenotypic and etiological heterogeneity, but critical for implementation of early interventions. We examined the age of autism spectrum disorder diagnosis in a sample of 554 children and adolescents enrolled in the ELENA cohort study in France with regard to the influences of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Socioeconomic Status, Clinical Diagnosis, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Andrews, Leigh; Botting, Nicola – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2020
Background: There is very little awareness of the speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) of rough sleepers. The small amount of documentation that does exist involves a wider group of homeless adults (not just rough sleepers), and reports that communication needs are an area of concern. Aims: To investigate: (1) the reported prevalence of…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Adults, Incidence, Networks
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James, Karen; Munro, Natalie; Togher, Leanne; Cordier, Reinie – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: Working with students with emotional behavioral disorders is a challenging area of speech-language pathology practice. In this study, we compare and profile the narrative discourse, structural language, and social communication characteristics of adolescents attending behavioral support and mainstream schools. We also examine…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Adolescents, Special Schools
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Anjum, Samra; Bhatti, Rahmat Ullah; Iqbal, Muhammad Javed – Pakistan Journal of Distance and Online Learning, 2020
Communication transmits information, ideas and feelings from one person to another. But there are certain barriers which restrict the people's expression. These are social barriers, cultural barriers, temporal barriers, technical barriers, psychological barriers, contextual barriers and collaboration barriers. Therefore, present study was designed…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Barriers, Open Universities, Open Education
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AlMahdi, Osama; Bukamal, Hanin – SAGE Open, 2019
This study explored pre-service teachers' attitudes toward inclusive education. The Sentiments, Attitudes, and Concerns about Inclusive Education--Revised (SACIE-R) scale was completed by 138 teacher candidates in a teacher preparation program in Bahrain Teachers College. The findings revealed that candidate teachers needed more opportunities to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Inclusion, Teacher Education Programs, Students with Disabilities
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Hauser, Maria Paulina; van Dijk, Marijn – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Premature children or infants with neonatal pathologies have a higher risk of developing communicative problems. This pilot study aimed to explore communicative behaviour between the mothers and the infants during the hospitalization in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and follow-up paediatric visit. The verbal interactions in the NICU were…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Neonates, At Risk Persons, Communication Problems
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Newton, Caroline; Ridgway, Samuel – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2016
Many schools in Western countries like the United Kingdom have become increasingly diverse communities in recent years, and children are likely to be exposed to a variety of accents that are different from their own. While there is a wide body of research exploring accent comprehension in the adult population and in infancy, little has been done…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Speech Communication
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Sherman, Tamah; Homolác, Jirí – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
Language brokering (LB) practices are a widespread phenomenon in transnational communities. This paper aims to add to the description and analysis of these practices within a community which has not been extensively studied--the Vietnamese in the Czech Republic, as well as show how LB is embedded in other sociolinguistic aspects of community life.…
Descriptors: Translation, Code Switching (Language), Immigrants, Vietnamese People
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Oluwatoyin, Fashiku Christopher – International Journal of Educational Leadership and Management, 2016
The study investigated the influence leaders' communication pattern has on lecturers' job performance in Kwara State Colleges of Education, Nigeria. Using the descriptive survey method, the population of the study was made up of all lecturers and students of the existing three state government owned Colleges of Education in the state. Five hundred…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Teacher Attitudes, Job Performance
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Yaman, Erkan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2015
Mobbing is an important construct which has impact on the numerous psychological variables. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between mobbing and stress. Participants were 436 teachers (206 (55%) were female, 230 (45%) were male) from Sakarya, Turkey. Their ages ranged from 26 to 55 years and the mean age of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Conditions, Teaching Conditions, Bullying
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Thurston, Allen – Education Endowment Foundation, 2016
"Talk of the Town" is a community led approach to supporting the speech, language and communication (SLC) skills of children and young people, aged 0-19, living in areas of social disadvantage. It is delivered by the Communication Trust. This evaluation reports on a randomised controlled trial undertaken with 2696 pupils in 64 primary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Infants, Children
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Bjorgaas, H. M.; Hysing, M.; Elgen, I. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
The aim of the present population study was to estimate the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in children with cerebral palsy (CP), as well as the impact of comorbid conditions. A cohort of children with CP born 2001-2003, and living in the Western Health Region of Norway were evaluated at school starting age. Parents were interviewed with the…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Incidence, Mental Retardation, Mental Disorders
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Mroz, Maria A. – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
This paper considers how pre-service primary teachers in England (trainees) are supported to work with children with special educational needs (SEN) using a personalized learning task. The focus, in particular, considers how speech, language and communication skills are foregrounded in the reports describing children with moderate learning…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Special Needs Students, Disabilities
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Cohen, Nancy J.; Farnia, Fataneh; Im-Bolter, Nancie – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: Clinic and community-based epidemiological studies have shown an association between child psychopathology and language impairment. The demands on language for social and academic adjustment shift dramatically during adolescence and the ability to understand the nonliteral meaning in language represented by higher order language…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Mental Health, Language Impairments, Children
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