Facilitation Of Language Acquisition Viewed Through An Interpretative Lens: The Role Of Authenticity

A paradigm is the conceptual framework or lens one uses to view reality. The field of speech-language pathology is traditionally rooted in the empirical paradigm, which believes that language can be fragmented into isolated skills and taught in a hierarchal fashion. This belief has resulted in service delivery models that remove students from naturalistic contexts for decontextualized exercises. Progress in language acquisition is measured objectively. The empirical belief is exemplified by the accountability requirements in special education law (e.g., IEP). It is compounded by the realities of public school speech-language pathologists (SLPs), such as high caseload numbers, multiple buildings, and paperwork/meetings required. These realities, viewed through the empirical paradigm, frequently cause SLP\u27s to feel ineffective with students. The interpretative paradigm views language acquisition holistically. It takes into account contextual/personal factors involved in a child\u27s communication success. This belief encourages SLPs to facilitate language acquisition in authentic environments (e.g., classroom), using a collaborative service delivery model. In this paradigm, qualitative research methods are valued. This methodology views language as a dynamic phenomenon that cannot be separated from the context and culture of an individual. The purpose of this study was to rethink the role of context in the facilitation of language acquisition by SLPs. Writing conferences were held with three third grade students diagnosed with language learning impairments. Authentic inquiry, critical moment teaching, and scaffolding were used to facilitate language growth and measured qualitatively. The growth was described in relation to the student\u27s IEP goals/objectives. A rich description of the findings showed that authentic contexts and techniques do support language growth for students with language learning impairments. Fieldnotes, teacher/student/SLP interviews, and student artifacts were used to triangulate the data from transcribed conferences. A discussion on realistic ways that SLPs can use authentic contexts, goals, and techniques with students to best understand language ensues. Suggestions on ways to transfer qualitative data to the objective requirements of IEPs are given. The study encourages school-based SLP\u27s the view their position through an interpretative lens to facilitate systematic change in the child\u27s communicative context

Death as a problem of meaning: A study of problems encountered by mothers and nurses when a child dies

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

They had no key that would fit my mouth : women\u27s struggles with cultural constructions of madness in Victorian and modern England and America.

Since Elaine Showalter’s publication of The Female Malady in 1985, various scholars have addressed the association between women and mental illness in Victorian and Modern culture. However, little attention has been devoted to how this association impacted the lives of actual women. In this dissertation, I analyze how the gendered construction of mental illness affected the lives of individual women living in Victorian and Modern England and America. My study reveals that the cultural association between women and madness made women vulnerable to unwarranted institutionalization. Women who rebelled against social conventions were particularly at risk, and the public was aware of this risk. In addition to analyzing how the public responded to the threat of unnecessary incarceration, I also analyze how women responded to incarceration themselves. Moreover, I explore how some women who experienced mental illness responded to the treatment they received. I lay the foundation for the dissertation by exposing how the association between women and madness in Victorian and Modern England and America was both reflected in and perpetuated by theories and categories of mental illness and the visual art of the Pre-Raphaelites. I then illustrate how this gendered construction of madness hastened the institutionalization of rebellious women in America by examining nineteenth-century asylum narratives and the case of Mary Lincoln. British women were also vulnerable to institutionalization for the same reasons, as an inspection of the nineteenth-century lunacy panics and the literature that arose from those panics suggest. An analysis of The Women in White (1860) and Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) reveals that some people were alarmed by the institutionalization of women, while others interpreted it as a necessary means of social control. Finally, I consider how Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Virginia Woolf, both of whom suffered from mental illness, responded to the treatment they received from doctors and the public. This study ultimately reveals that some women actively protested the diagnoses and treatments they received

Obstacles and opportunities : labour emigration to the ‘British World’ in the nineteenth century

Peer reviewedPostprin

Chronicles of Oklahoma

Article describes the history of a group of Wichitas visitors from Spain called Tayovayas. Elizabeth Ann Harper discusses their relations with the French and Spaniards in the eighteenth century, which ranged from peaceful trade negotiation to military skirmishes

The Long Arm of the Law

In this paper, we offer something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. You decide which is which! This session heard from legal experts about topics, such as: the Supreme Court\u27s decision at the end of March 2013 in the Kirtsaeng case; the various spillovers arising from the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust enforcement action against Apple and various e-book publishers for price fixing, including substantial settlement(s), subject to court approval; an intellectual property overview focused particularly on MOOCs; and a close look at some seemingly shifting (over time) court views about fair use, particularly transformative uses. All of these have been much in the news and as usual, we will have some of the most informed and library-savvy presenters on these topics