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Children's Book On Pragmatics, Emily Conners
Children's Book On Pragmatics, Emily Conners
Senior Honors Projects
Pragmatics of communication is the use of social language skills when communicating with others. These skills are important in learning how to appropriately communicate and in building relationships. This is one area of communication that children can have difficulties with when they are developing language skills.
This children’s book focuses on one pragmatic skill learned during development, using language to request permission, with the goal of teaching children aged two to five about its importance. I used my background knowledge in pragmatics and child development to write a story about a boy named Jacob that struggles to ask his Grandpa …
Ethnographic Insight Into The Developmentally Diverse Worlds Of Twins: “L & J”, Allison Gallant
Ethnographic Insight Into The Developmentally Diverse Worlds Of Twins: “L & J”, Allison Gallant
Senior Honors Projects
According to the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (2016), approximately 3 of every 1000 infants are born with a detectable level of hearing loss in one or both ears: with 90% of these infants being born to hearing parents. Immediately following the birth of a deaf child, parents are often bombarded with decisions regarding interventions to “fix” their child’s “disability”. This decision can impact how their child will experience the world and others. The situation is a very different stressor when a hearing child is born to deaf parents. Embracing one’s deaf identity and engaging in “deaf …