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Measuring Family Involvement In Early Intervention Services For Children Who Are Dhh: A Scoping Review, Marie Martinez, Blair Richlin, Kristina Blaiser

Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention

Background: Family involvement after a child has been identified as deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) is often recommended as “best practice” for Family Centered Early Intervention (FCEI; Szarkowski et al., 2024) and a catalyst for improved outcomes. Defining actions of a family will inform high-quality family support programs. This scoping review aims to explore and document family involvement as well as the current systems of measurement used in early intervention DHH family-centered services.

Purpose: The specific aim of this scoping review was to identify the operational definitions of family involvement and metrics used with families of children who are …

Exploring Speech-Language Pathologists’ Development Of Hearing Loss Health Literacy, Ellie Cooper, Krystal L. Werfel

Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention

Purpose. This qualitative study examined how speech-language pathologists (SLPs) develop hearing loss health literacy through academic training and on-the-job experience. Specifically, it explored SLPs’ perspectives on how graduate coursework and clinical exposure contributed to their readiness to work with children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH).

Method. Participants included 48 SLPs with a range of specialty academic coursework and on-the-job experience working with children who are DHH. SLPs were categorized into four groups: with/without specialty academic training in aural (re)habilitation and more/fewer than three years of experience with at least ten children who are DHH. Semi-structured interviews were …

Early Childhood Access To Language Acquisition Services In Arizona, Kendra Benedict, Wendy Steuerwald, Najwa Ghattas, Cheryl Johnson

Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention

This investigation reviewed existing services and gaps for young children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) in Arizona and explored community-based approaches to improve access to language development resources. The study was conducted in two phases, each focusing on different approaches for language acquisition based on surveys of parents and providers. Phase I, completed in 2024, addressed listening and spoken language (LSL) as a methodology for language acquisition while Phase II, completed in 2025, focused on the use of American Sign Language (ASL). Findings from Phase I surveys found that 63% of parents reported using LSL as the …

Journal Of Early Hearing Detection And Intervention: Volume 11 Issue 1, Pages 1-80

Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention

No abstract provided.

Towards Designing And Performing Biological Sex: Explorations Of The Cyborg And The Inanimate, Beja Puskas

Theatre and Dance Honors Projects

While gender has been largely debunked as a form of performance, biological sex remains an irreducible point of departure. This essay challenges biological sex as a category through the Foucauldian lens of bio-power and technologies of the self. It merges findings from interviews surrounding intersectionally marginalized experiences with menstruation with trans and disability studies. Utilizing Mel Chen’s theory of animacies, and Margrit Shildrick’s human-technology amalgamation theory, this essay blurs the biological-artificial binary. While there are obstacles, limiting what is biologically possible for humans, the body can be significantly augmented through imagination, body modification, and the invention of newly gendered practices.

Grounding Dependency Within Case Study Of Tourism In Cuba, Abby Mccarroll

Sociology Honors Projects

The research investigates the tourism industry in Cuba as a case study for dependency theory as articulated by Milton Santos’s Toward an Other Globalization. The research examines interactions between tourists and locals, and how Cubans navigate the contradictions of a socialist project embedded in a capitalist economy. Through an analytical macrosociological lens, the research contributes to wider considerations of dependency, economic sovereignty, and the uneven impacts of globalization. I argue that the case study of tourism in Cuba expands Santos’ theories to demonstrate how a country that refutes neoliberal ideology still finds itself trapped within the dynamic of dependency.

Acs3 Results And Lesson Learned, Philip Shih, Olive Stohlman, Ivan Bertaska, Andres Dono Perez

Small Satellite Conference

ACS3 (Advanced Composite Solar Sail System) was a technology demonstration mission for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration¹, to demonstrate the deployment of a solar sail of size 80m² from a new NASA-developed compact deployable composite boom² packaged in a 12U CubeSat. The extended objective of the mission was to perform attitude control and orbit maneuvering. ACS3 was successfully launched on 24 April 2024 local time via Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B in Mahia, New Zealand. Following four months of commissioning operations, the solar sail was deployed on 28 August …

Melodizing Modern Power: Giacomo Puccini And The Demands Of Thematic Development, Claire Kelly

Music Honors Projects

This paper examines Italian composer Giacomo Puccini’s processes of thematic development in three operas, La Bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), and Il Tabarro (1918). Puccini’s thematic development has been a point of contention for many musicologists and critics. Critics of his own time found his thematic development style to be inconsistent; some regarded his melodies as fragmented and lacking cohesion. Since then, biographers and critics such as Michele Girardi, Mosco Carner, and Alexandra Wilson have reiterated and re-examined these claims. Taken together, my three case studies conclude that Puccini’s multivalent style of thematic development is meant to depict the various effects …

An Analysis Of The Effects And Implementations Of The Early Literacy Grant In Arizona, Alicia Severiano Perez

Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Honors Projects

Over the years, states have implemented Science of Reading (SoR) frameworks to address low literacy levels. The Early Literacy Grant (ELG) in Arizona funds and supports such frameworks for schools serving low-income students. This paper is the first to explore the grant through interrupted time series modeling to evaluate effectiveness and text analysis to understand its implementation. We do not find clear evidence of positive effects caused by the grant, other than some cases, such as Yuma County. Schools typically allocate funds toward salaries and hiring instructors. These findings raise questions about whether its allocations should be closely monitored.

Las Alas, Jayce Yutzy

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

A transgender youth resource center

Supplementing Community Health Assessments: Comparing Statewide Survey Data With Local Youth Listening Sessions In A Rural County In Ohio, Camryn Mcglumphy

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

The purpose of this study is to compare youth listening sessions from a rural county with the OHYES! statewide survey results to compare youth perceptions on county health and the benefits and limitations of both methods in obtaining youth data.

Counting My Nutrition (Cmn) Improved Appalachian Third Graders’ Nutrition Knowledge, But Had Little Effect On Food Attitudes And Dietary Intake: A Pilot Study, Julia Peter

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

This study evaluates whether a 10-week school-based, math-integrated nutrition education curriculum improves the nutrition knowledge, food attitudes, and dietary intake of Appalachian third-graders in order to support their long-term health.

Lead (Pb) Contamination In And Around Cerro De Pasco, Peru: Processes, Impacts, Implications, And Future?, Hailey Barnette

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

A secondary research poster about the effects of lead in the mining town and surrounding area of Cerro de Pasco, Peru.

Maltreatment And Aggression In Children And Adolescents: A Meta-Analytic And Systematic Review, Lauren Staigers

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

This research project aims to organize the body of research on the micro-level relationship between adverse childhood experiences and aggression in children under the age of eighteen.

Efficiency Of Medicaid, Wic, And Home Visiting Implementation: A County-Level Dea Of Infant Mortality Reduction In Ohio (2023), Olivia Kaiser

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

To identify where program implementation must improve to achieve equitable infant mortality reduction in Ohio, this data envelopment analysis compares each county’s efficiency to the most effective county in using Medicaid, WIC, and Home Visiting resources to reduce infant mortality in 2023.

Flashpoint: A Narrative Inquiry Of The East Palestine Train Derailment, Three Years Later, Alexandra Hopkins

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

A comprehensive look into the response and recovery of the East Palestine community through three distinctive perspectives.

Mapping Food Insecurity In Appalachian Ohio: A Spatial Analysis For Policy And Community Action, Christian Swart

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

This project aims to identify areas in Appalachian Ohio where residents may lack access to fresh, affordable foods, to inform future research or policy intervention.

The Lasting Impact Of Adolescent Health Insurance, Mk Blevins

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

I use the ADD Health Longitudinal Study to evaluate the importance of health insurance as an adolescent for adult health outcomes.

Beacon House, Brooke Popies

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

This thesis project, Beacon House, is a three-story mental-health focused dormitory designed to support student wellbeing.

Anxiety Does Not Affect Oculomotor Reaction Time In Collegiate Athletes, Braeden Carolan

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

Comparison baseline oculomotor reaction time in collegiate athletes with and without anxiety.

Reclaiming The Body: Fibroids, Autoethnography And Feminist Theory And Collective Testimony, Jessie Gongolo

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

*Reclaiming the Body* is an autoethnographic feminist health communication project that weaves my lived experience with fibroids together with narratives from other women, using the theoretical insights of Audre Lorde, Judith Butler, bell hooks, and Alice Walker to position embodied illness narratives as collective testimony and resistance.

Silence And Visibility: Media Framing Of Industrial Pollution And Health Risks  In Appalachian And Niger Delta Print Media, Adetola Fajembola

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

Communities living near oil extraction and coal mining sites face serious environmental and health risks, yet these risks are often absent from public conversation. This study examines how print media cover industrial pollution-linked health risks in two regions defined by extractive industries — the Niger Delta in Nigeria and Appalachia in the United States — between 2011 and 2020. Although these regions are geographically and culturally different, both bear the environmental and health costs of extraction while remaining underrepresented in media coverage that shapes public awareness and policy response. Using mixed methods content analysis of eight legacy print newspapers, the …

Implementing Vr Simulations And Custom Ai Chatbots In Nursing Education And Clinical Training, Oussema Dhieb

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

Nursing students take a pre-test and a post-test to measure the impact of using VR simulations and chatbots.

Blue Space As Amenity And Disamenity: Disparity In Interstitial Water Bodies, Mara Pirone

Geography Honors Projects

Access to environmental amenities is distributed unevenly across urban areas, often due to discriminatory institutional practices such as redlining and racial covenants. Urban blue spaces (lakes, streams, rivers) can serve as either an environmental amenity or dis-amenity, depending on development and investment strategies. This paper explores how institutional racism, measured by variables such as historic redlining and racial covenant practices, shapes access to blue space as an amenity in the Twin Cities. Our results show that access to large, well-maintained, and well-invested blue space is distributed unevenly. Studying this relationship shows how cities continue to promote environmental injustice in interstitial …

Covid-19, Politicization, And Vaccine Hesitancy: A Spatiotemporal Analysis Of Non-Medical Exemptions In Minnesota, 2014-2024, Benjamin Arnold

Geography Honors Projects

Vaccination rates have declined due to the growing hesitancy by many parents to vaccinate their children, signified by an increasing amount of non-medical exemptions. While there has been previous spatial analysis of exemption patterns as a threat to herd immunity, there has not been much post-COVID. This analysis provides a modern analysis of changing exemption clustering in Minnesota, while also considering the impact of public health being increasingly politicized. We used kindergarten vaccination data for 1475 elementary schools to analyze the evolution of clustering and predictors of NMEs across space and time in Minnesota, from 2014 to 2024.

The Role Of Civil Society Organizations In Climate Action In Africa: A Case Study Of The “Yle Foundation”, Ahmed Fathy, Kareem Tonbol

Blue Economy

Africa is responsible for a small part of the emissions of greenhouse gases around the globe; however, it is still one of the regions that are most susceptible to the impacts of climate change. Civil Society Organizations (CSO) play an important role in initiating measures that target the reduction of climate change effects in Africa. Nonetheless, existing research in this area is limited and fails to compare findings from CSO initiatives in several countries on the continent. The research presented aims to investigate the role of CSOs in climate action in Africa through a case study of the initiatives implemented …

Somewhere Far And Somewhere Near: A Short Story Collection, Jizelle Villegas

English Honors Projects

Somewhere Far and Somewhere Near is a short story collection that positions body horror, “where corporeality constitutes the main site of fear, anxiety and disgust,” alongside Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of la facultad, or “see[ing] deeper realities within surface phenomena,” which is heightened in the Latina body. Stories range from depicting realistic body horror like cancer and disordered eating to the grotesque and supernatural, like spirits and vampires. I draw on Latina speculative fiction writers, Tejana scholars and my own lived experiences to explore how location and identity presses upon the emotional and psychological stakes of my Latina characters

The Business Of Open Access: Economic Inequities And Unsustainable Models In Scholarly Publishing, Harpreet Kour

Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEU

No abstract provided.

Syringocystadenoma Papilliferum Of Left Cheek In A 66 Year Old Adult, Bifica Sofia Lyngdoh, Thangjam Ruchika Devi, Bibenthung S Odyuo, Neizekhotuo Brian Shunyu, Sankappa P Sinhasan

Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEU

Syringocystadenoma papilliferum (SCAP) also known as papillary syringadenoma are rare tumors that are thought to arise from the apocrine or the eccrine sweat glands or both and occur usually in the head and neck region of children and adolescents. Hereby we report a case of a 66-year-old lady who presented with a 20-year history of a lesion on the left cheek. Despite the clinical appearance similar to basal cell carcinoma, histopathological examination identified it as Syringocystadenoma papilliferum. Since the tumor can undergo malignant transformation, complete excision is necessary.

Reduction In Albumin-Creatinine Ratio Following Integrative Ayurvedic Care In Elderly Woman With Type 2 Diabetes And Masld: A Case Report, Aman Singhal, Shivani Ghildiyal, Vanshika Sharma, Vaidehi Dutt

Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEU

Background: Metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) frequently coexists with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T₂DM) and early diabetic kidney disease, and the combination accelerates both hepatic and renal risk. Conventional care is centred on glycaemic and lipid control and renin–angiotensin blockade, but residual symptom burden and incomplete biomarker control are common, prompting interest in adjunctive whole-system approaches.
Case presentation: An elderly woman aged 70 years with recently detected T₂DM, long-standing nephrolithiasis and dyslipidaemia presented to an Ayurvedic hospital with anorexia, bilateral hypochondrial pain after meals, acidity and headache. Baseline evaluation (July 2025) showed HbA1c 7.5%, LDL-cholesterol …