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    Internet-of-Things Devices in Support of the Development of Echoic Skills Among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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    A significant therapeutic challenge for people with disabilities is the development of verbal and echoic skills. Digital voice assistants (DVAs), such as Amazon鈥檚 Alexa, provide networked intelligence to billions of Internet-of-Things devices and have the potential to offer opportunities to people, such as those diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), to advance these necessary skills. Voice interfaces can enable children with ASD to practice such skills at home; however, it remains unclear whether DVAs can be as proficient as therapists in recognizing utterances by a developing speaker. We developed an Alexa-based skill called ASPECT to measure how well the DVA identified verbalization by autistic children. The participants, nine children diagnosed with ASD, each participated in 30 sessions focused on increasing vocalizations and echoic responses. Children interacted with ASPECT prompted by instructions from an Echo device. ASPECT was trained to recognize utterances and evaluate them as a therapist would鈥攕imultaneously, a therapist scored the child鈥檚 responses. The study identified no significant difference between how ASPECT and the therapists scored participants; this conclusion held even when subsetting participants by a pre-treatment echoic skill assessment score. This indicates considerable potential for providing a continuum of therapeutic opportunities and reinforcement outside of clinical settings

    General Course Catalog [2022/23 academic year]

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    General Course Catalog, 2022/23 academic yearhttps://repository.stcloudstate.edu/undergencat/1134/thumbnail.jp

    Catalog | 2022-2023

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    (2022-2023). In its early years as the State Normal School, JSU produced a variety of publications (announcements, bulletins, and catalogs) that contain course information combined with the types of information that would later be found in yearbooks. Examples include historical information about the school, lists of enrolled students and club officers, photographs of athletic teams and literary clubs, notes on alumni, faculty and campus facilities, and more.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_bul_bulletin/1221/thumbnail.jp

    Catalog | 2021-2022

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    (2021-2022). In its early years as the State Normal School, JSU produced a variety of publications (announcements, bulletins, and catalogs) that contain course information combined with the types of information that would later be found in yearbooks. Examples include historical information about the school, lists of enrolled students and club officers, photographs of athletic teams and literary clubs, notes on alumni, faculty and campus facilities, and more.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_bul_bulletin/1220/thumbnail.jp

    Catalog | 2020-2021

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    (2020-2021). In its early years as the State Normal School, JSU produced a variety of publications (announcements, bulletins, and catalogs) that contain course information combined with the types of information that would later be found in yearbooks. Examples include historical information about the school, lists of enrolled students and club officers, photographs of athletic teams and literary clubs, notes on alumni, faculty and campus facilities, and more.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_bul_bulletin/1219/thumbnail.jp

    Acquisition des formes pronominales "il" et "elle" : efficacit茅 d'une approche pragmatique

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    Th猫se num茅ris茅e par la Direction des biblioth猫ques de l'Universit茅 de Montr茅al

    Acceso l茅xico en la lectura de personas con par谩lisis cerebral usuarias de comunicaci贸n aumentativa y alternativa

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    [Resumen] La ortograf铆a como sistema de comunicaci贸n aumentativa y/o alternativa (CAA) constituye un medio privilegiado para una comunicaci贸n sin restricciones. Sin embargo, esta no es una opci贸n generalizada entre las personas con par谩lisis cerebral sin habla porque presentan enormes dificultades en la adquisic贸n de la lectura y la escritura. En este sentido, esta investigaci贸n se realiz贸 con el objetivo de conocer como la capacidad comunicativo-ling眉铆stica y la capacidad de memoria operativa influyen en la resoluci贸n de tareas de conciencia fonol贸gica, de acceso l茅xico en la lectura y en la escritura. Para ello, se reclut贸 una muestra formada por 16 personas con par谩lisis cerebral sin habla usuarias de sistemas de CAA. Los resultados indican que la capacidad comunicativo-ling眉铆stica es la variable de mayor relevancia en la lectura y en la escritura, que la capacidad de memoria operativa influye en la escritura y que la interacci贸n de ambos factores influye en la recodificaci贸n fonol贸gica en el deletreo; sin embargo, ninguno de los anteriores factores influye en la conciencia fonol贸gica. Se derivan importantes implicaciones educativas que tienen que ver con los materiales de evaluaci贸n y de intervenci贸n, as铆 como con las actuaciones en el aula y fuera de ella para comunciarse con las personas con par谩lisis cerebral usuarias de Sistemas Alternativos de Comunicaci贸n
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