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The Comment, May 3, 2001, Bridgewater State College

The Comment

No abstract provided.

A Case Study In Augmentative And Alternative Communication: Usage By An Eight Year Old Male With Developmental Apraxia Of Speech, Marie E. Maine

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of using a sophisticated electronic voice output augmentative communication device with an eight-year-old male who has been diagnosed with Developmental Apraxia of Speech. The design of this research was a case study. Data collection measured the subject's academic, language, and social status before and after implementation of the augmentative communication device. Measures included standardized and criterion-referenced tests, adaptive behavior rating scales, structured observations, anecdotal data, interviews, and review of school records. Findings indicated the subject was able to participate in several assessments during the post-treatment condition that could not be …

A Study Of The Amount Of Training That Pre-Service And In-Service Special Education Teachers Receive In The Teaching Of Reading, Virginia Egbert

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if special education teachers at the pre-service and in-service levels have received and are receiving enough training to proficiently teach reading to their students, This study attempted to reveal the level of knowledge and training that special education personnel possess in the area of teaching reading. Data was gathered through a questionnaire, and then the responses for all of the participants were analyzed and presented in graphs. The responses were classified as those from in-service teachers or pre-service teachers in order to compare the data between the two groups.

The findings for …

The Effect Of Music In Education On Self-Esteem And Academic Achievement In Students With Special Needs, Tony E. Surrency

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to examine and support the premise that participation in a school instrumental music program can affect a student's self-esteem and academic achievement. I will review existing literature, applicable studies, and articles to support my proposal. The sample size is composed of ten students with special needs, nine are classified learning disabled and one is classified learning disabled with autism. The measurement instrument will be a survey questionnaire. Participants will be teachers in my district. Study results indicate that most Regular Education and Special Education teachers measured agree that music education can and does affect …

Mandala Vol. 20, Center For Southeast Asian Studies

Mandala

No abstract provided.

The Promethean, Volume 09, Number 02, Spring 2001, English Department, Concordia University-Portland

The Promethean

No abstract provided.

Participation In Graduate Level Coursework And Self-Efficacy Development Of Provisionally Licensed Special Education Teachers, Amy Corvello Mcginley

Theses & Honors Papers

The purpose of this study was to determine (a) whether participation in graduate level coursework increased the self-efficacy of provisionally licensed special education teachers, (b) whether participation in graduate level coursework increased the self-efficacy of general education teachers and, (c) if there was a difference between the self-efficacy beliefs of the two groups of teachers. A total of twenty-three provisionally licensed special education and general education teachers in rural Virginia responded to both a pre and post questionnaire consisting of 30 items designed to assist the teacher in assessing his/her self-efficacy beliefs. The working hypothesis was that the provisionally licensed …

Review Of English Grammar: Prescriptive, Descriptive, Generative, Performance By Kathryn Riley And Frank Parker, Frank Bramlett

English Faculty Publications

Riley and Parker's English Grammar served as the text in a dual-level course that I teach called The Structure of English. I had not taught this particular class before, and I was very interested in this book because it presents a variety of approaches to grammar in highly accessible language. The book also appeals to me pedagogically because it assumes little or no background knowledge of linguistics generally or even grammar specifically on the students' part. Riley and Parker (R&P) divide the text by theme; that is, the book begins with prescriptive grammar, continues with descriptive grammar and generative …

Naïve Thoughts On The Paradox Of Gödel, Philip J. Davis

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

The Dictionary Of Wordplay, Richard Lederer

Word Ways

I wouldn't be a rich letterer if I didn't tell you that the acronimble Peter Pangram who put together this dictionary is an alphabet male, paronamazing pun gent, alliterary anagrammarian, morpheme addict, onomatopetic onomasticator, his Lexcellency who lives in a Camel lot of palindromedaries, Uncle Rebus, and Charader of the Lost Art.

Stubborn Rhymes, Ove Michaelsen

Word Ways

It is said that there is no word in English that rhymes with MONTH, but GRUNTH, an alternate spelling of granth, rhymes perfectly is one of its pronunciations. Other rhymes for that word are millionth, billionth, trillionth and zillionth.

Designer Isomorphs, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

It is twenty years since isomorphs were given significant room in Word Ways; "A Pattern Word Quiz" by Mary and Harry Hazard, appears in the November 1980 issue. In view of this time lapse, readers might find it useful to be reminded of the terminology associated with isomorphs.

A Bombastic Christmas: Discussion... Food!, Ara Shirinyan

Word Ways

With foods of all kind giving that brown-wood dining room pulpit a slap of color, our family got into a jovial mood, drinks in hands, stomachs with nothing to complain about, fully conscious of a scrupulous and scrumptious gala awaiting all of us. So first, a full classification of our food, stuffs that chart a sort of map that shows a trail to Christ's kingdom.

Ladders Summary, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

As the number of letters in a word decreases, the number of ladders increase sharply, despite there being only one-tenth the number of four-letter words as there are ten-letter words. The sharply increased number means that more and more restrictions may be applied but still ladders can be found. The following table summarizes this effect. Looking down a column, it can be seen that decreasing the word length by one multiplies the number of ladders of a given type by hundreds of times.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 34 Issue 2

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

Planet Packing, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

Suppose that one has a list of words. What is the smallest string of letters needed to exhibit all of these words, each spelled out in order but not necessarily using adjacent letters in the string? For example, one, two, and three can be embedded in the eight-letter string thrwonee (or several others), but no seven-letter string is possible. It is easy to see that seven is the theoretical minimum, for six different letters appear once in any word, and one letter appears twice in a word. For longer lists, however, letter counts of individual words yield only a lower …

Kickshaws, Dave Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Charade Cubes, Christopher Mcmanus

Word Ways

Charades are one of the oldest, simplest, and most amusing forms of wordplay. Charades are simply dissections of a word into two or more words, preferably unrelated to the original. Our greatest amusement derives from surprise at the buried images; for example, leg ally from legally, rap a city from rapacity, stag nation from stagnation, and either no table or not able from notable.

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Stop Press! Newspaper Lanuage Lapses, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

My friend and fellow recreational linguist Richard Lederer is surely the master of amusing language gaffes and bloopers, having immortalized the form in his popular Anguished English series of books. But I trust that Dr. Lederer will forgive me for attempting to game him at his own beat.

The Oz Contradictionary: Part 2

Word Ways

"Anil" is the pen name of Dr. Charles Melton, a retired Oz (Australian) biologist who privately published in 1999 a 98-page booklet, up/dn, a dictionary and contradictionary of wordplay. This is part of a continuing series of excerpts from his book.

Four-Letter Super Connoisseur's Ladders, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

Four-letter words are famously well connected to each other. Fewer than one per cent of words connect to no other, whereas over 70 per cent in each of the four possible positions-on average, there are 23 neighbours for each word. For our present purpose, note that more than three-quarters are heterograms. This means that Connoisseur's Ladders (those with sequential replacement between heterograms, plus a relationship between the first and last words) become commonplace. On the other hand, the number of such ladders is restricted by the relatively small number (fewer than 20,000) of four-letter words available.

Five-Letter Connoisseur's Ladders, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

For five-letter words, over 60 per cent of words are heterograms, fewer than 2 per cent are isolanos, over a quarter onalosis, and each word has almost 13 neighbours on average--over two per letter. On the other hand, there are not many more than half the number of words to choose from compared to six-letter words. Also it is not possible to have sequential replacement between reversals: from ABCDE to EDCBA would proceed via EBCDE, EDCDE, then EDCDE again, and an implicit conditions of all our ladders is that no word should be repeated, so we will not find reversals …

Prime Time, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

What is a PRIME WORD? There are at least three possible answers to this question.

Anglophone Friend Or Foe?, Thomas L. Bernard

Word Ways

I watched a World War II program about how the Germans recruited a group of soldiers who could speak English (or thought that they could) to infiltrate American lines and cause havoc. Even though dressed in U.S. uniforms, they soon ran into difficulties as a result of their English language knowledge and usage; for example, some of them were only familiar with British English. This situation transported me in my mind back to the Revolutionary war. I doubted that there was a great deal of language difference in those days between the speech of the British and the Colonials, but …

Het Eten (The Eating), Hugo Brandt Corstius

Word Ways

The following text, in which the last two letters of each word are repeated in the first two of the next, appeared in De Volkskrant of December 4, 1998.

How Big Is English?, Chris Cole

Word Ways

The English language has a complement of somewhere between two million and three million "short" words ...

Palindromic Decalogues, Bill O'Connor

Word Ways

We all need a light to guide us in these troubled times. To this end i present here not one, but four palindromic decalogues, the first pair for the partisans of the gods, the second for those of the giants. Remembering the travails of Moses, the compiler makes no overt claim that either was written by the Finger of God (Exodus 31:18).

Lets Trade Phantom Monkeys, Hugo Brandt Constius

Word Ways

Two words are dual if for every position where one word has a vowel, the other has a consonant and vice versa. Eckler's near-alternating ten-letter words in the August 2000 WOrd Ways exhibit many examples: themselves-Euroaquilo, literature-anatomical, clubfooted-audiophile, etc.

Bananagrams 13, Edmund Conti

Word Ways

Bananagrams--anagrams to drive you bananas--consist of rhymed couplets, each one containing a pair of anagrams to be solved. One of the rhyming words will always be an anagram, and the couplet itself will offer clues to help solve the anagram. Answers can be found in Answers and Solutions at the end of this issue.