INCARCERATED FATHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN: EFFECTS OF A RECIPROCALLY CONNECTED RELATIONSHIP

The present study was aimed at exploring the issues faced by previously incarcerated fathers and their children. A qualitative design utilizing face to face interviews was used to answer the question: according to previously incarcerate fathers, what are the differences between the reciprocal connectedness of fathers and their children prior to, during, and following incarceration? Interviews were conducted with 10 previously incarcerated fathers. Researchers found that all participants had positive relationships with their children at some point prior to incarceration. Furthermore, during incarceration the reciprocal connectedness of these relationships severely decreased due to limited or no contact. Following incarceration, fathers continued to have difficulty rebuilding the connection they once had with their children due to continued limited or nonexistent contact and mistrust by their children. Incarcerated fathers and their children are an underserved population in need of additional resources. The findings of the study add to the literature about the relationship between previously incarcerated fathers and their children, in hopes that further research and services will be developed

Local Temporal Regularities in Child-Directed Speech in Spanish

Published online: Oct 4, 2022Purpose: The purpose of this study is to characterize the local (utterance-level) temporal regularities of child-directed speech (CDS) that might facilitate phonological development in Spanish, classically termed a syllable-timed language. Method: Eighteen female adults addressed their 4-year-old children versus other adults spontaneously and also read aloud (CDS vs. adult-directed speech [ADS]). We compared CDS and ADS speech productions using a spectrotemporal model (Leong & Goswami, 2015), obtaining three temporal metrics: (a) distribution of modulation energy, (b) temporal regularity of stressed syllables, and (c) syllable rate. Results: CDS was characterized by (a) significantly greater modulation energy in the lower frequencies (0.5–4 Hz), (b) more regular rhythmic occurrence of stressed syllables, and (c) a slower syllable rate than ADS, across both spontaneous and read conditions. Discussion: CDS is characterized by a robust local temporal organization (i.e., within utterances) with amplitude modulation bands aligning with delta and theta electrophysiological frequency bands, respectively, showing greater phase synchronization than in ADS, facilitating parsing of stress units and syllables. These temporal regularities, together with the slower rate of production of CDS, might support the automatic extraction of phonological units in speech and hence support the phonological development of children. Supplemental Material: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.21210893This study was supported by the Formación de Personal Investigado Grant BES-2016-078125 by Ministerio Español de Economía, Industria y Competitividad and Fondo Social Europeo awarded to Jose Pérez-Navarro; through Project RTI2018-096242-B-I00 (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades [MCIU]/Agencia Estatal de Investigación [AEI]/Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional [FEDER], Unión Europea) funded by MCIU, the AEI, and FEDER awarded to Marie Lallier; by the Basque Government through the Basque Excellence Research Centre 2018-2021 Program; and by the Spanish State Research Agency through Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language Severo Ochoa Excellence Accreditation SEV- 2015-0490. We want to thank the participants and their children for their volunteer contribution to our study

How does collaborative media production on tablets enable and foster critical thinking in young children?

The lack of critical thinking (CT) in education has been observed for over 30 years. Corporations feel recent college graduates are overall deficient in CT and collaborative problem solving – two qualities deemed the most valuable assets an employee can bring. This is because teaching and assessing CT is challenging; the absence of one, unifying CT paradigm being a contributing factor. Student video production literature proposes to engage producers in CT – yet, the process of how this happens isn’t clear. This work involves a series of case studies in schools conducted across two projects: P1 in Mexico City, then P2 in London, UK. Both sought to identify, develop, and assess the CT process in six small groups of children aged 9-13 by them collaboratively producing a 5-minute video on iPads and iMovie. Compiled videos included images, music, and performed scenes about the topic of media that influences body image, thoughts, and behaviour, comprising content influential to them and their age group. P1 explored methods to achieve these aims, using a CT framework based on Bloom’s revised taxonomy and focusing on facilitating and identifying higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) in their productions. P2 was then informed by P1 and contained various developed methods, including a new, hypothesized model to analyse and evaluate CT in collaborative media production. Employing qualitative content analysis, results indicate how engagement in CT can be developed and assessed through participants’ collaborative productive practice, though facilitation is necessary. This work suggests that co-researching a meaningful video topic that is personally significant to each participant in a heterogeneous group inspires the CT disposition to solve the successive problem-solving scenarios (PSS’s) engendered by the productive practice itself, in which the promise of a future audience and due facilitation maintain the disposition to collectively make interdependent decisions by engaging in CT

Threads Bared

Title from PDF of title page, viewed May 18, 2018Thesis advisor: Hadara Bar-NadavVitaThesis (M.F.A.)--Department of English Language and Literature. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017This thesis is part response part exploration into the world of those fighting and losing the battle over addiction. It is meant to follow the progression of addiction, from the root causes beginning in early childhood trauma and abuse, to the continued need to numb and erase the memory of these traumas. These poems, all a blurring of imagining and real, are inspired by the experiences and memories of my sisters, Maria and Marcy, who succumbed to the fatal outcome of unresolved personal battles and addictions, and from the voices of women in recovery; women fighting every day to restore their lives and get their families back. Threads Bared is divided into three sections which follow the stages of addiction, crave, binge, and purge. “Crave” explores memories of the how and why someone begins using a substance, in this case drugs and alcohol. “Binge” follows with poems about addictions and the cycle of recovery and relapse. Finally, “Purge” continues with the subject of relapse and the end result of death. The voices in this collection are multiple and elliptical. Points of view include the many voices of addicts, the personification of the drug, and the voices from the outside, the witnesses. As addiction is cloaked in secrecy this body of work attempts to answer the why, expose the struggle, and inspire a positive outcome for those who read it.Introduction -- Crave: Threads Bared, Tool, Hollowant, Heathenly Girl, Bloom, Kudzu, Demi-god, The nihilist, Wheeling, Far from home, Thinking Man at the Colfax Tavern, NM, Gin angst, Sister suicide -- Binge: Solitude Tastes Like Opium, Hex, Golem, White rabbit, Malibu, Beached , Mutable Day Dream, Shooting stars, Scripture According to Jung, Scripture According to Laing, Lost out, ReSet Fail, Half-way home, Residue, Nexus of a Mythomaniac, Coming down -- Purge: Chapter X [Part 1], Today Her Apocalypse Begins, White Rabbit Returns, Project Dungeon, Chapter X [Part 2], Down the Rabbit Hole, Post-Apocalyptic Love, Hooligan, You Still Here?, Vaped, Lost road, Frieze, Willow, Shift, Echo}, Never will, Echo}}, Like Bare Elision, Echo}}}, Ekepepotamena [escape