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1978 Transactions, American Dental Association

ADA Transactions

This item is part of the Transactions of the ADA, a serial publication of the annual activities of the ADA House of Delegates (HOD)/Board of Trustees (BOT). It is from the Transactions section, one of three subtitles that make up the full publication. Generally, the ADA Transactions are published in multiple volumes throughout the year. Pages from the Annual Reports and the Transactions are numbered consecutively (e.g. Annual Reports volume ends pg. 500 and Transactions volume starts at pg. 501). NOTE: All three subtitles are collectively known as the Transactions of the ADA or, alternatively, the ADA Transactions. Transactions refers …

Postsecondary Education For The Deaf And Its Supportive System: The United States In Comparison To Japan, Akira Honda

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper examines available post-secondary education and supportive systems for the deaf in Japan as compared to the United States.

Effect Of Amplification Bandwidth On Speech Intelligibility, Marcelle M. Karstaedt

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper was a study to examine the effect of bandlimiting on speech intelligibility.

The Use Of Dramatization To Teach Social Studies To Hearing-Impaired Children, Timothy M. Lamb

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper reviews a study to determine the effectiveness of dramatization in teaching social studies to hearing impaired children.

Language Behavior Of The Young Hearing Impaired Child, Catherine Law

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses a study of language development of hearing impaired children.

Hit The Target: Language Activities Designed To Develop Simple Grammatical Structures, Mary Ellen Nevins

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses language therapy activities for helping hearing impaired children acquire language.

The Psycholinguistic Communication Strategies Of A Mother Of A Hearing-Impaired Infant, June C. Chan

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses a study to provide a descriptive analysis of the linguistic environment of a deaf infant during his first year of life.

The School And The Social-Emotional Adjustment Of Hearing-Impaired Adolescents, Lisa Brown

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper reviews the social and emotional issues of hearing impaired adolescents.

Integration Of Duration And Frequency In Discrimination Between Pure Tones, Blas Espinoza-Varas

Independent Studies and Capstones

This dissertation investigates discrimination between pure tones. Three questions were investigated: can listeners integrate frequency and duration information in the discrimination of pure tones; how does the discriminability of duration-frequency compounds relate to the discriminability of the changes in the individual dimensions; and how is the integration of these two dimensions affected by the parameters of the stimuli in which the changes in duration and frequency are introduced.

A Follow-Up Study Of The Academic Achievement Of Hearing Impaired Children, Beth Sugarman

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses a study to evaluate the academic progress of former students from CID including those who remained in special programs and those who were mainstreamed into regular public schools.

An Analysis Of Four Reading Series At The Third Grade Reading Level, Loryn M. Solomon

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses a study of four reading series at the third grade reading level for hearing impaired children.

Cross-Modality Temporal Resolution For Auditory, Vibrotactile, And Visual Stimuli, Donal Gene Sinex

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper reviews a study of cross-modalities and within-modalities and their effects on speech perception.

Outlook Magazine, March 1978

Outlook Magazine

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Outlook Magazine, June 1978

Outlook Magazine

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Outlook Magazine, October 1978

Outlook Magazine

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Outlook Magazine, December 1978

Outlook Magazine

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Two Techniques For Evaluating The Development Of Syntax In Children's Language: Developmental Sentence Analysis And The Cid Grammatical Analysis Of Elicited Language: Simple Sentence Level, Barbara W. Hemphill

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper compares two language evaluation tests--Development Sentence Analysis and the CID Grammatical Analysis of Elicited Language: Simple Sentence Level.

Effects Of The Medication Reminder Record With Counseling And The Daily Medication Package On Drug Compliance By Ambulatory Psychiatric Patients, Albert T. Gazzar

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Drug default is the failure of a patient to comply fully with medication regimens and is major unsolved problem confronting health care providers oday. Drug default is also known as medication noncompliance.

Very few studies have been reported comparing the effects of counseling and the unit dose packaging upon compliance. Further, no studies have been reported on the effects of counseling and unit dose packaging upon compliance in ambulatory psychiatric patients. The present investigation was undertaken to (i) evaluate the effectiveness of the Medication Reminder Record, a type of patient calender sheet, with counseling as a means of improving compliance …

Louisiana State University Medical Center - December 1977 - Commencement, Office Of The Registrar, Lsu Health Sciences Center-No

Graduation & Commencement Programs

The program for the December 1977 Commencement of LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans held December 17th, 1977.

An Investigation Of The Consistency Of Judgments Regarding Successive Approximations Of /R/, Scott Robert Lane

Dissertations and Theses

This investigation sought to determine the accuracy and consistency of judgements made by three groups of judges, relative to successive approximations of /r/. The three groups were made up of speech pathologists, student trainees, and untrained individuals, respectively. It was the task of these judges to rank order three /r/ productions into the following categories: correct; partially correct; and incorrect. This task is basically the same as reinforcing approximations of /r/ within the therapy situation, and appears not to require extensive training. Many authors have found little difference between trained and untrained listeners in identifying correct versus incorrect articulation. An …

Analysis Of The Two Word Stage Of Language Development: An Ideographic Study, Lou Ann Mccoy

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this longitudinal, ideographic clinical research project was to analyze a corpus of expressive language emitted by a child at the two word stage of language development via grammatico-semantic relationships (Brown, 1973) and via Developmental Sentence Analysis (Lee, 1974).

Oral Roberts And You Broadcast Transcript: The City Of Faith 12.3.1977, Oral Roberts

City of Faith

This is a transcript of the December 3, 1977 Oral Roberts and You television broadcast where Oral Roberts describes his vision to build the City of Faith.

Information Interface - Volume 2, Issue 7 - December/January 1977, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Information Interface (1976 - 2009)

News and information about Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library of interest to users.

Front Matter

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Ariel - Volume 8 Number 3, David Gastfriend, Martin Trichtinger, Richard J. Perry, Michael J. Grimes, George Risi, Scott A. Waldman, Gail Orner, Jamie Lockard, Dick Moberg, Robert L. Brent, John A. Timour, Patrick Sokas, Shahab Minassian

Ariel

Executive Editor

James W. Lockard, Jr.

Business Manager

Neeraj K. Kanwal

University News

Richard J . Perry

World News

Doug Hiller

Opinions

Elizabeth A. McGuire

Features

Patrick P. Sokas

Sports Desk

Shahab S. Minassian

Managing Editor

Edward H. Jasper

Managing Associate

Brenda Peterson

Photography Editor

Robert D. Lehman. Jr.

Graphics

Christine M. Kuhnle

A Descriptive Analysis Of Individuals With Congenital Palatal Insufficiency, Judith Dabkowski

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Colonoscopic Polypectomy In A Preschool-Age Child, Carlos A. Ricotti, Bernard M. Schuman

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Colonoscopy Is a procedure used worldwide in the adult population. Here we report the case of a colonoscopic polypectomy in a preschool-age child, and we show once more that the procedure Is a safe one to perform In children if the appropriate precautions are taken.

Studies On Uveitis Part I: Aqueous Studies, Philip C. Hessburg

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Aqueous microbiological and cytological studies were performed on 134 anterior chamber taps done on 118 patients both with and without uveitis. Cell wall defective bacterial forms (CWDF) were recovered from about 40% of these aqueous specimens and classical bacteria were recovered from 12%. A statistically significant difference could not be found between the incidence of bacterial cell wall defective forms in the various anatomical types of uveitis. There were hints from this work that the presence of CWDF In the aqueous was more frequent in younger patients with uveitis, early in the uveitis attack, if there were multiple foci of …

Effect Of Steroids On Patients With Postoperative Bowel Anastomotic Dysfunction, Luis H. Toledo-Pereya, Ignacio Guzman, Earl G. Yonehiro

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Ten patients who developed anastomotic edema following large or small intestinal anastomosis had a rapid recovery after treatment with dexamethasone. The clinical and radiologic picture of adynamic ileus disappeared rapidly. There were no Immediate or long-term (more than two years) complications or side effects associated with the use of dexamethasone. This preliminary report indicates that dexamethasone may be a beneficial agent In the control of anastomotic edema.

Legionnaires' Disease: Description Of A Sporadic Case, Louis D. Saravolatz, Gene Tilchen

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

This first case of Legionnaires' disease seen at Henry Ford Hospital is described. A previously healthy 72-year-old man developed progressive pneumonia in September, 1977; it was unresponsive to treatment with cephalothin. However, he rapidly recovered when the treatment was changed to oral erythromycin. Diagnosis was established by serologic studies done at the Center for Disease Control. This pneumonia occurred in a sporadic form with no evidence of secondary cases.