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The Acquisition Of Functional Sign Language By Non-Hearing Impaired Infants, Kerri Haley-Garrett
The Acquisition Of Functional Sign Language By Non-Hearing Impaired Infants, Kerri Haley-Garrett
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Research shows that young children, typically developing with no developmental delays, hearing impairments or visual impairments, can acquire sign language to communicate their wants or needs prior to their ability to communicate through spoken language. However, much of the research reviewed focused on whether it was normative for young children to use signs or symbolic gestures to represent objects, make requests, or to express other wants or needs. In addition, many of the studies reviewed lacked scientific rigor and were primarily anecdotal in that much of the data relied on parent reports of his/her child's production of signs or symbolic …
Communicating Change: An Ethnography Of Women's Sensemaking On Menopause, Hormone Replacement Therapies, And The Women's Health Initiative, Linda Vangelis
Communicating Change: An Ethnography Of Women's Sensemaking On Menopause, Hormone Replacement Therapies, And The Women's Health Initiative, Linda Vangelis
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
As a result of the recent findings of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), many women who have been on hormone replacement therapies (HRT) have begun to renegotiate their understandings and strategies of this stage of their lives. The WHI findings suggested that the risks of HRT outweighed the benefits for healthy menopausal women. This study examined women's emerging sensemaking regarding HRT and menopause in light of the WHI findings. Seven women in the Tampa Bay area, who were in various stages of menopause, participated in three focus group sessions and two one-on-one interviews to discuss their lives in menopause. Based …