Cunningham Memorial Libraryhttp://hdl.handle.net/10484/792024-03-29T00:14:02Z2024-03-29T00:14:02ZPhonological Awareness Intervention in Bilingual Language DevelopmentBonham, Emmahttp://hdl.handle.net/10484/137392023-03-01T02:16:25Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZPhonological Awareness Intervention in Bilingual Language Development
Bonham, Emma
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship of phonological awareness in the spelling and reading skills in bilingual language development to improve speech and language services. This study sought out to reach the research goal of understanding whether or not phonological awareness skills improve reading and spelling abilities in bilingual children.
Method: Nine universities with speech and language programs were chosen. Three of which were from the Midwest, three from the East, and the remaining three from the South. In total, eight speech language pathologists who have worked with bilingual children completed an online survey regarding their demographics, opinions, and experiences in working with this population.
Results: Overall, the speech language pathologists that have integrated phonological awareness intervention in therapy with bilingual children have noticed an improvement in spelling and reading skills. The speech language pathologists noticed these improvements in both of the child’s languages rather than in only one language. Many respondents, including those who did not target phonological awareness for reading and spelling deficits, recommended using this method with bilingual children.
Conclusion: The limited sample size created the challenge to generalize the information found to the overall population. A correlation between increased phonological awareness and improvements in spelling and reading was still found, however. Using phonological awareness intervention may be an important first step for speech language pathologists in working with bilingual children. It may be important that teachers stay informed on this intervention as well and possibly use more phonological awareness tasks in the classroom. Rhyming, segmenting, and blending are tasks that participating speech language pathologists recommend.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZImplications of decriminalising domestic violence in Iran and KazakhstanBukova, Anastasiahttp://hdl.handle.net/10484/137382023-03-01T02:16:10Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZImplications of decriminalising domestic violence in Iran and Kazakhstan
Bukova, Anastasia
The problem of domestic violence has unique characteristics depending on the social, religious, and political environments in which it takes place, however, it is also an issue that disregards borders and impacts both developing and developed nations. One pattern that is present among cases across the world is that domestic violence disproportionately affects women. The United Nations defines violence against women as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.". This definition includes intimate partner violence or domestic violence – any behaviour that is used to gain or maintain power and control over a partner through the means of physical, sexual, or psychological violence. While the problem is still persistent in the western world, a special focus should be dedicated to domestic violence in developing nations due to their deep-rooted nature, environmental factors and larger economic impact. This paper will be focusing on domestic violence in Iran and Kazakhstan because of the absence of laws criminalising it, as well as both countries having similar cultural patterns such as the shared religion of Islam and colonial pasts. An analysis of reasons and risk factors specific to these societies is included, as well as discussions on the development’s and globalisation’s impact on the problem. This paper will be focusing on domestic violence among heterosexual couples due to the place where the abuse happens – as Iran has laws criminalizing homosexuality and Kazakhstan maintains a huge stigma surrounding such relationships, it is almost impossible to analyse violence within homosexual couples due to the lack of data and high secrecy within LGBTQ+ community in those countries. It also focuses specifically on violence inflicted on women by men due to highly patriarchal societal structures and general trends.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZUnited States Subnational Flags: Flags of Territories, States, Counties and Municipalities. Flags of Native Americans ReservationsMcGiverin, Rollandhttp://hdl.handle.net/10484/125572022-07-06T02:06:40Z2022-07-05T00:00:00ZUnited States Subnational Flags: Flags of Territories, States, Counties and Municipalities. Flags of Native Americans Reservations
McGiverin, Rolland
2022-07-05T00:00:00ZUnited States Subnational Flags: Flags of Territories, States, Counties and Municipalities. Panama Canal Zone through WyomingMcGiverin, Rollandhttp://hdl.handle.net/10484/125562022-07-06T02:06:34Z2022-07-05T00:00:00ZUnited States Subnational Flags: Flags of Territories, States, Counties and Municipalities. Panama Canal Zone through Wyoming
McGiverin, Rolland
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