Speech and Hearing Awareness…
Who: Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists…
What: Speech and Hearing Awareness Month 2014…
Where: in Canada…
A major focus of Speech-Language and Audiology of Canada’s (SAC) campaign this year is early identification and intervention of speech, language and hearing disorders. Here is how some of our faculty are involved in paediatric Speech Language Pathology and Hearing…
Dr. Eriks-Brophy’s research focuses on the contributions of society, culture and context to descriptions and perceptions of communication impairment, along with the theoretical and clinical impact of these variables on assessment and intervention in speech-language pathology. Her research interests build on her experiences as an itinerant teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing and an early intervention specialist working with children with hearing loss, as well as over twenty five years of experience as a classroom teacher, consultant and researcher working with Aboriginal communities in Canada.
Dr. Girolametto’s research interests include: mother-child interaction, educator-child interaction, caregiver-administered language intervention, and investigations of the effectiveness of group language intervention for young children.
Dr. Mainela-Arnold’s research investigates why some children are poor at learning language. She studies cognitive mechanisms involved in language development, the way in which these mechanisms interact with information in the language learning environment, and how this interaction might help explain individual differences in language ability. Her past and current work focuses on working memory, attention, procedural and statistical learning, gesturing, motor coordination and reasoning in children and adolescents with specific language impairment.
Here are some recent posts about their contributions to SLP and Hearing…
Childhood Hearing Loss Lab – 1, 2, 3 Talk to me!
Dr. Alice Eriks-Brophy and her team in the Childhood Hearing Loss Laboratory are using an exciting new technology, the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) System, to investigate the language socialization practices of families of minority language-speaking preschool children with and without hearing loss. This novel collection tool [ Read More ]
Child Language Lab –Helping Parents Help Their Children
Some strategies that parents use while interacting with their children are particularly helpful for children presenting with a language disorder. Dr. Stefano Rezzonico (in Dr. Girolametto’s lab) is helping to develop a tool that speech-language pathologists will use to evaluate what strategies parents actually use. This tool will [ Read More ]
Language and Cognitive Development Laboratory-
Do children use the same memory system for learning language structures and bike riding?
A recent article from Dr. Mainela-Arnold’s Language and Cognitive Development Laboratory appearing in the Journal of Child Language suggests that they do (Mainela-Arnold & Evans, 2013). This study examined the [ Read More ]