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Title: Effects of visual feedback on developmental stuttering.
Creator: Heidenreich, Jamie., College of Education, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Abstract/Description: Recent research has provided evidence that speech-related visual feedback presented to people who stutter may enhance fluency as effectively as well-established forms of altered auditory feedback. This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of visual feedback during speaking conditions that approximated naturalistic conversation. In order to determine what aspects of visual feedback may contribute to fluency enhancement, the feedback was manipulated in terms of synchronicity and linguistic...
Show moreRecent research has provided evidence that speech-related visual feedback presented to people who stutter may enhance fluency as effectively as well-established forms of altered auditory feedback. This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of visual feedback during speaking conditions that approximated naturalistic conversation. In order to determine what aspects of visual feedback may contribute to fluency enhancement, the feedback was manipulated in terms of synchronicity and linguistic congruence to the original signal. Participants included ten adults diagnosed with developmental stuttering with no concurring conditions. The study consisted of the following four conditions: synchronous visual feedback, asynchronous visual feedback, non-speech related visual feedback, and a control condition. Speech samples were analyzed for the percent of syllables stuttered per condition. Upon analysis of data, no statistically significant effect of visual feedback was found on stuttering frequency, although individual results varied greatly.
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Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3362379
Subject Headings: Stuttering, Physiological aspects, Communication disorders, Treatment, Assisitive computer technology
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: 2009-2010 Program Review Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Creator: Office of Institutional Effectiveness & Analysis, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Education
Date Issued: 2009-2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007900
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: 2013-2014 Program Review Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Creator: Office of Institutional Effectiveness & Analysis, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Education
Date Issued: 2013-2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007903
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: 2012-2013 Program Review Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Creator: Office of Institutional Effectiveness & Analysis, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Education
Date Issued: 2012-2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007902
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: 2010-2011 Program Review Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Creator: Office of Institutional Effectiveness & Analysis, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Education
Date Issued: 2010-2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007901
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: 2014-2015 Program Review Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Creator: Office of Institutional Effectiveness & Analysis, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Education
Date Issued: 2014-2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007904
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: 2015-2016 Program Review Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Creator: Office of Institutional Effectiveness & Analysis, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Education
Date Issued: 2015-2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007905
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: 2016-2017 Program Review Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Creator: Office of Institutional Effectiveness & Analysis, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Education
Date Issued: 2016-2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007906
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: PERCEIVED QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION AND EFFECTIVENESS BEFORE AND AFTER THE SPEAK OUT!® & LOUD CROWD® PROGRAM.
Creator: Flechaus, Cassidy, Porcaro, Connie, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Education
Abstract/Description: Parkinson's disease is an incurable, progressive neurodegenerative brain disorder. Individuals living with Parkinson's disease often face considerable challenges in managing the progressive decline of their symptoms and maintaining their quality of life (Broadfoot et al., 2019). During the progression of PD, 75-90% of individuals will have a speech and voice disorder (National Center for Voice and Speech, 2019). The communication disorder most commonly associated with PD is hypokinetic...
Show moreParkinson's disease is an incurable, progressive neurodegenerative brain disorder. Individuals living with Parkinson's disease often face considerable challenges in managing the progressive decline of their symptoms and maintaining their quality of life (Broadfoot et al., 2019). During the progression of PD, 75-90% of individuals will have a speech and voice disorder (National Center for Voice and Speech, 2019). The communication disorder most commonly associated with PD is hypokinetic dysarthria (HKD). Many individuals with PD may have significant difficulty communicating and participating effectively in a variety of speaking situations due to their communication deficits (Dykstra et al., 2015). Addressing an individuals perceived quality of communication and their perceived communication effectiveness should be an essential target during intervention due to the implications it has on the psychological well-being and prognosis for people with PD. Participants in this study were recruited from individuals previously diagnosed with Parkinson's disease attending the SPEAK OUT! & LOUD Crowd® program. The research questions included (1) Does the implementation of the SPEAK OUT! ® and the LOUD Crowd® program have a positive effect on participants’ perceived quality of communication (PQOC), and (2) Do these programs have a significant positive effect on participants perceived communicative effectiveness (PCE)? The Voice Handicap Index (VHI) and the Communicative Effectiveness Survey- Revised (CESR®) were utilized in this research study. The surveys were administered prior to the SPEAK OUT!® training and following the completion of this portion of the program. They were administered every 16 weeks while the participant was in the LOUD Crowd® training during the duration of this project. It was hypothesized that participants' PQOC related to their voice and their PCE will improve following the implementation of this program. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, results from this study only considered baseline scores and post-test 1 scores following the completion of the SPEAK OUT!® program. The results from this study support the hypothesis that the SPEAK OUT!® program has a positive effect on the participants’ PQOC.
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Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013759
Subject Headings: Parkinson Disease, Dysarthria, Speech Therapy--methods
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Newspaper bias in the 1994 Florida gubernatorial campaign: An analysis of coverage from two Florida daily newspapers.
Creator: Barnes, Gregory, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Abstract/Description: This study examined 1994 gubernatorial election coverage by two Florida daily newspapers, The Miami Herald and The Sun-Sentinel, to determine if their coverage was biased. The author conducted content analyses of the titles and terms both papers used to describe the candidates, the total column inches devoted to each candidate, and the number of times the candidate's name appeared in headlines. The results of the analyses were inconclusive for both elections, but in the Republican primary The...
Show moreThis study examined 1994 gubernatorial election coverage by two Florida daily newspapers, The Miami Herald and The Sun-Sentinel, to determine if their coverage was biased. The author conducted content analyses of the titles and terms both papers used to describe the candidates, the total column inches devoted to each candidate, and the number of times the candidate's name appeared in headlines. The results of the analyses were inconclusive for both elections, but in the Republican primary The Miami Herald appeared to show slight favoritism for Jeb Bush, a Miamian. The Sun-Sentinel provided relatively equal coverage for all four major candidates. In the general election both papers mentioned Lawton Chiles more frequently with more attention directed to his stand on issues possibly because of his incumbency.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15448
Subject Headings: Journalism, Political Science, General, Mass Communications
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Fashion and power: The representation of gender in store window displays.
Creator: Barrett, Kami T., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Abstract/Description: Fashion and dress have a complex relationship to identity. The clothes we choose to wear can express our identities in terms of gender, race, class, and/or sexuality, among other things. This study examines how gender, race, and class are used to interpellate primarily female shoppers through store window advertising in the city of London, England. Using a feminist cultural and media studies approach, I analyze eight store window display advertisements as texts, and how their portrayals of...
Show moreFashion and dress have a complex relationship to identity. The clothes we choose to wear can express our identities in terms of gender, race, class, and/or sexuality, among other things. This study examines how gender, race, and class are used to interpellate primarily female shoppers through store window advertising in the city of London, England. Using a feminist cultural and media studies approach, I analyze eight store window display advertisements as texts, and how their portrayals of women are presented to consumers. This study concludes that stereotypical, degrading, humiliating and violating representations of women and femininity abound in store window displays. Women are most likely to be portrayed as sex objects and signs of beauty. By representing store mannequins in sexual and fetishized poses, advertisers commodify female sexuality by associating it closely with beautiful, young bodies and the trappings of a glitzy lifestyle.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13288
Subject Headings: Business Administration, Marketing, Women's Studies, Mass Communications
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Party gaze/male gaze: (Re)construction of femininity in post-communist Romanian women's magazines.
Creator: Birzescu, Anca N., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines how post-communist Romanian women's magazines engender a particular representation of women in transition. This is both a challenge to the previous communist ideology which promoted an asexual type of femininity, and the product of a hegemonically masculine culture revived by the reality of the newly born capitalist Romanian society. By means of a feminist semiotic analysis, the study concentrates on visual and textual discourses of femininity in two popular Romanian...
Show moreThis thesis examines how post-communist Romanian women's magazines engender a particular representation of women in transition. This is both a challenge to the previous communist ideology which promoted an asexual type of femininity, and the product of a hegemonically masculine culture revived by the reality of the newly born capitalist Romanian society. By means of a feminist semiotic analysis, the study concentrates on visual and textual discourses of femininity in two popular Romanian women's magazines. It concludes that Romanian women's publications during transition advance a concept of femininity constructed through a passivity/power complementariness. On the one hand, constructed images of femininity, according to Western norms, replicate a patriarchal system of values; on the other hand, agency becomes available to women by their own control over their embodied subjectivity, prompted by anxieties accumulated and repressed during the years of communism.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13266
Subject Headings: Women's Studies, Mass Communications
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Gender, race, class and the problem of meaning: Black female rappers as a site for resistance.
Creator: Biferie, Michelle Joanne, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Abstract/Description: The issue of oppression becomes all the more complicated when it is realized that the language used by the dominant culture and, to a certain extent, those who are subordinate to that culture, is not only race- and class-biased but phallogocentric as well. It is primarily through language that social customs, beliefs and practices are normalized and viewed as "common sense" by the people engaging in them. Since it plays an integral role in constructing the "reality" for any given group of...
Show moreThe issue of oppression becomes all the more complicated when it is realized that the language used by the dominant culture and, to a certain extent, those who are subordinate to that culture, is not only race- and class-biased but phallogocentric as well. It is primarily through language that social customs, beliefs and practices are normalized and viewed as "common sense" by the people engaging in them. Since it plays an integral role in constructing the "reality" for any given group of individuals, language is anything but a benign method of communication among human beings. Certain groups, however, often manage to break with the dominant discourses and rewrite the language. From within the hip-hop subculture, black female rap artists emerge as a challenge to misogyny and racial bigotry by resisting the hegemonic modes which construct and control the human subject.
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Date Issued: 1993
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14891
Subject Headings: Women&#039;s Studies, Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mass Communications
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Hands off "our" black men: Black women's discourse on black man/white woman relationships.
Creator: Antonin, Ronald Jules, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Abstract/Description: If black men and women, and some white women were--to some extent--successful in forming a coalition to fight some sociopolitical battles much as anti-slavery, civil rights, women's movement, etc., it appears that romantic interracial relationships--particularly between black men and white women--are on the verge of undermining this necessary coalition to "cross the bridge to the twenty-first century." Judging from three perspectives: (1) historical sexual-relations between blacks and whites;...
Show moreIf black men and women, and some white women were--to some extent--successful in forming a coalition to fight some sociopolitical battles much as anti-slavery, civil rights, women's movement, etc., it appears that romantic interracial relationships--particularly between black men and white women--are on the verge of undermining this necessary coalition to "cross the bridge to the twenty-first century." Judging from three perspectives: (1) historical sexual-relations between blacks and whites; (2) the black female audience's attitude toward black man and white woman romance; and (3) media (movies and literature) portrayals of black women's reactions to black men who date or marry white women, this thesis argues that some black women appear to incorporate stereotypical themes in their "objectionable" discourse to black man/white woman romantic relationships. It further argues that these stereotypes appear to support the causes of racism and patriarchy through the pitting; of black women against black men and white women, and undermine black men and women relations, as well as racial unity between black and white women.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15446
Subject Headings: Black Studies, Women's Studies, Language, Rhetoric and Composition, Mass Communications
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The rhetoric of a resignation: A rhetorical analysis of Mikhail S. Gorbachev's last five months in office using crisis rhetoric and apologia.
Creator: Boychuk, Angela N., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Abstract/Description: This study focuses on four major speeches of the final five months of the Gorbachev era. Three are concerned with the putsch of August 1991, and one is concerned with the December 1991 resignation. First the three major speeches given by Gorbachev immediately following the putsch are analyzed using the components of crisis rhetoric. Next the resignation speech is examined using the concepts found in apologia rhetoric. Finally, based on these four speeches, interrelationships between the two...
Show moreThis study focuses on four major speeches of the final five months of the Gorbachev era. Three are concerned with the putsch of August 1991, and one is concerned with the December 1991 resignation. First the three major speeches given by Gorbachev immediately following the putsch are analyzed using the components of crisis rhetoric. Next the resignation speech is examined using the concepts found in apologia rhetoric. Finally, based on these four speeches, interrelationships between the two rhetorical forms are attempted using clues found within the actual rhetoric.
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Date Issued: 1994
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15039
Subject Headings: Biography, Speech Communication, History, Modern
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A power beyond words: An examination of the rhetoric of cartoon art about Ronald Reagan.
Creator: Attisani, Della J., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the rhetorical effects created by political cartoonists through their depictions of Ronald Reagan. A representative sampling of these cartoons demonstrates that the pictorial and symbolic language in their visual dialogue was extrapolated from the heroic, mythic character types Reagan portrayed during his film career and with which he sought to be identified. This thesis argues that because cartoons depicted and caricaturized Reagan as an archetypal hero, they touched a...
Show moreThis thesis examines the rhetorical effects created by political cartoonists through their depictions of Ronald Reagan. A representative sampling of these cartoons demonstrates that the pictorial and symbolic language in their visual dialogue was extrapolated from the heroic, mythic character types Reagan portrayed during his film career and with which he sought to be identified. This thesis argues that because cartoons depicted and caricaturized Reagan as an archetypal hero, they touched a responsive chord in the electorate and persuaded them to regard Reagan favorably.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15279
Subject Headings: Psychology, Social, Political Science, General, Mass Communications
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Strategies for effective communication with Hispanic students: An analysis of student responses to recruitment viewbooks used by colleges and universities.
Creator: Botero, Nancy Renee, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Abstract/Description: This study examines effective strategies of communication with Hispanic students through the use of printed material, specifically recruitment viewbooks used by colleges and universities. The Hispanic market is significant in south Florida. As colleges and universities begin to seek to communicate the benefits of their institutions to this population, it is important to produce printed communication in a manner that appeals to members of the Hispanic culture. Using a qualitative approach...
Show moreThis study examines effective strategies of communication with Hispanic students through the use of printed material, specifically recruitment viewbooks used by colleges and universities. The Hispanic market is significant in south Florida. As colleges and universities begin to seek to communicate the benefits of their institutions to this population, it is important to produce printed communication in a manner that appeals to members of the Hispanic culture. Using a qualitative approach through focus group research, Hispanic freshmen students of a community college and upper division students at a public university were asked a series of open-ended questions about their preferences in the use of language, photographs and several design elements of three publications. One college viewbook represented a majority enrollment of Hispanics. The second viewbook represented a university that is culturally diverse. A third viewbook represented a university that has Hispanic enrollment of less than 4%.
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Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15621
Subject Headings: Business Administration, Marketing, Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mass Communications, Education, Higher
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Language and Visual Perception Associations: Meta-Analytic Connectivity Modeling of Brodmann Area 37.
Creator: Ardila, Alfredo, Bernal, Byron, Rosselli, Monica
Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000181
Format: Citation

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