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Eastern New Mexico University

Communicative Disorders Student Research and Writing

 

Writing & Presentation Supports

ENMU has a fully staffed writing lab on campus to assist our students in developing and refining their written communication skills. The Writing Center can be found in the Jack Williamson Liberal Arts Center (JWLA) and is open Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m.–5 p.m., and on Fridays from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. It is available to all ENMU students.

ENMU also provides writing support for our distance students who are unable to travel to campus on a regular basis. The Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides tutoring and developmental writing services to students in need as requested.

Students often ask for information regarding American Psychological Association writing requirements. APA Style Resources and Writer's Workshop–Grammar, Writing & APA Style can help with these needs, as can the National Writing Center Association. Tips for oral presentations are also available online.

 

Special Project Workshop

An overview and question/answer session specifically addressing the special project process has been offered each August/September in the fall semester and each January/February in the spring semester. Our next workshop will occur in the fall semester. Departmental requirements for the special project process will be covered at this time. Specific requirements in addition to those outlined during this inservice may be imposed by your specific supervisor. Attendance is mandatory for all students supervised by Drs. Swift, Weems, and Bratcher.

 

ENMU Human Subjects

 

All CDIS research involving humans must be approved by the Human Subjects Committee prior to being conducted. The Human Subjects Committee is responsible for screening all studies that employ human subjects conducted under the auspices of Eastern New Mexico University. The screening guidelines employed are those set by DHHS and the ethical standards of the APA.

View the Protection of Human Subjects Policies and Guidelines and Screening Form. These documents outline the policies and procedures for the protection of human subjects in research, instruction, development and other activities conducted at or sponsored by Eastern New Mexico University. It also serves to implement the specific requirements of the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare (45 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 46) as revised April 1, 1977.

 

Note: The Human Subjects Committee meets the last Tuesday of each month. Proposals are due in the Grant and Contract Management Office the Thursday preceding the meeting.

 

ENMU Student Research Conference

The 35th Annual Student Research Conference was held on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 from 1 to 3 p.m. Please find details here. All students and faculty were invited to attend presentations.

There was a total of $2,700 in cash awards this year; $150 awards to graduate and undergraduate student winners in each category. Awards were presented at a banquet at 6:30 p.m. in the Campus
Union Ballroom. This banquet was mandatory for CDIS presenters.

Abstracts of papers were due April 7, 2009 to Dr. Anthony Schroeder, Communication Center, Room 104, ENMU Station 27 or via e-mail to anthony.schroeder@enmu.edu. Questions regarding the 36th Annual Student Research Conference should be directed to David Hemley or Suzanne Swift.

 

Student Research

Student Special Project Research Activities - Current

 

2009-10

  • Mandy Balderaz, Candance Harris, and Deanna Shovelin: How you talk: Listener perceptions of articulation errors. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher. Status: Data collection.
  • Vanessa Castillo: Stuttering therapy and support groups: What works best? Perceptions of Stutterers. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher. Status: Data collection.
  • Justine Delgado: Effects of music on reading comprehension: An experimental study. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher. Status: Data collection.
  • Benina Foley: Stuttering in 2 languages: Prevalence of stuttering characteristics in a Native American-Jemez Child. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher. Status: Data collection.
  • Jalaina Foster: Phonemic awareness: Effects on accent modification therapy. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher. Status: Data collection.
  • Tiffany Paneral Graham: Oral-motor programs for drooling and phonetic inventory: Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson versus Beckman. Supervisor: Bratcher/Swift. Status: Data collection.
  • Christina Hidalgo: Early literacy: Daily reading and expressive language development in 2 and 3-year-old children. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher. Status: Data analysis.
  • Etheline Jose: Navajo, Zuni, and English: A qualitative structuralist comparison of syntax/morphology and semantics. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher. Status: Data collection.
  • Tristin Kirkpatrick: Students in speech pathology: A survey of expectations and needs of future graduate students in CDIS. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher/Weems. Status: Data analysis.
  • Katherine Lossing: Dialectal differences: A descriptive study of select U.S. dialects. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher. Status: Data collection.
  • Christine McCoy: Caregiver Perspectives: A qualitative redefinition of meaningful relationships and communication in Alzheimer’s Disease. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher. Status: Data collection.
  • D'Lya Parsons: Listening programs: Does Earobics increase the efficacy of Hodson's Cycles Approach? Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher. Status: Data collection.
  • Bonnie Reynolds: B.A. Bar™ - the Speech-Generating Barcode Reader: Effects on speech initiation, imitation attempts, and phonetic inventory. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher. Status: Data collection.
  • Valerie Sanchez: Gross and fine motor flexion: The effectiveness of motor-based learning on /s/ and /r/ production. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher. Status: Data collection.
  • Louise Seiler: Do selected American popular musical works from 1941-1945 (a.k.a. the World War II Era) played in the background result in a change in the amount of verbal/vocal communication among nursing home resident peers born before 1930? Supervisor: Bird. In progress.
  • Greg Villar: The impact of non-speech oral motor articulation therapy on the phonemes /r/ and /s/. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher. Status: Data analysis.
  • Denise Wormser: Leveling courses in CDIS: Are you prepared for Graduate School? Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher. Status: Data collection.
  • Amber Wyman: Timed tests: Are they valid? Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher. Status: Data collection.

 

 

Student Special Project Research Activities - Complete

2008-9

  • Bonnie Ballard: Supervisor: Million. Completed 12/09.
  • Amy Bates: What does an SLP do? Perceptions of nurses. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher/Weems. Completed 5/09.
  • Ashley Canard: Speech characteristics and listener perceptions: Fundamental frequencies. Supervisor: Weems/Bratcher/Swift. Completed 5/09.
  • Kimberly Clark: The relationship of articulation/language disorders to reading and spelling: A case study. Supervisor: Bratcher/Swift/Weems. Completed 5/09.
  • Pia English: Asperger's Revisited: A Biographical Case Study of Tim Page. Supervisor: Bird. Completed 5/09.
  • Renee Garcia: Stuttering in two languages: Prevalence of stuttering characteristics in a Spanish- American adult male. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher/Weems. Completed 5/09.
  • Stephanie Hammond-Lebsack: Stuttering in two languages: Prevalence of stuttering characteristics in a Chinese-American adult male. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher/Weems. Completed 5/09. 2009 Research Conference Winner.
  • Sheri Cox-Kovacs Jeffcoat: An EBP meta- analysis of non-speech ortal motor efficacy. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher. Completed 5/09.
  • Colita Messer: Bridging the gap: A qualitative study on common social semantic themes with geriatric populations. Supervisor: Bratcher/Swift/Weems. Completed 5/09.
  • Caitlin Mock: Perceived vocal effects of firefighting. Supervisor: Weems/Bratcher/Swift. Completed 5/09.
  • Heather Rosson: Speech characteristics and listener perceptions: Geographical differences.. Supervisor: Weems/Bratcher/Swift. Completed 5/09.
  • Ailea Villanueva and Lindsey Broom: The Token, the TAPS, and the CELF: A few correlations. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher/Weems. Completed 5/09.
  • Michelle Whitehead: Auditory bombardment: Effects on articulation production. Supervisor: Bratcher/Weems/Swift. Completed 5/09.
  • Rebecca Wise: Prosodic features in normal versus sarcastic speech: A comparison of speech characteristics. Supervisor: Weems/Bratcher/Swift. Completed 5/09.

2007-8

  • Bridget Hanks: Diadochokinetic rate: Does this mean anything to you? Supervisor: Weems/Bratcher/Swift. Completed 2/08.
  • Barbara Myers: The PPVT and Language Performance: Some interesting correlations. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher/Weems. Completed 3/08. 2008 Research Conference Winner.

2006-7

  • Katherine Casaus: Oral motor therapy: The efficacy of Beckman Exercises on articulation production. Supervisor: Bratcher/Weems/Swift. Completed 03/07.
  • Tamara Dengler: Cerebral Palsy: Changes in New Mexico’s speech-pathology program curriculum. Supervisor: Bird. Completed 5/07.
  • Anthony Flores: Steven: A Longitudinal Case Study. Supervisor: Bird. Completed 12/06.
  • Ashley Golden: Is a True/False Test stimulus more or less valid than a multiple choice test stimulus? Supervisor: Bratcher/Swift/Weems. Completed 3/07.
  • Tabitha Gore: The role of phonetic/articulation training in auditory discrimination, memory, and phonetic/phonemic processing. Supervisor: Weems/Bratcher/Swift. Completed 3/07.
  • Amy Hartley: Perceptions of therapy: A survey of elementary, junior, and high school students receiving speech language pathology services. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher/Weems. Completed 5/07. 2007 Research Conference Winner.
  • Kathryn Klepper: Speech recognition/intelligibility differences: A Comparison of PPVT-III performance and reading passage intelligibility when Asian Influenced English and Standard American English are rated by primary Asian language speakers (ESL speakers). Supervisor: Weems/Bratcher/Swift. Completed 2/07.
  • Angie May: Perceived communication characteristics of teens having Asperger Syndrome: A survey of untrained observers. Supervisor: Swift/Bratcher/Weems. Completed 4/07.
  • Linda Moya: Lip reading variability: The effects of facial piercing on the lip-reading abilities of persons having hearing loss and persons with normal hearing. Supervisor: Weems/Bratcher/Swift. Completed 2/07.
  • Dejoundla Roberts: Stuttering therapy efficacy across settings. Supervisor: Bratcher/Weems/Swift. Completed 5/07.
  • Jessica Sanchez, Maria Sanchez, and Mavrina Sanchez: When do /l/ and /r/ emerge? A descriptive study of developmental norms for children ages 3-0 to 6-6. Supervisor: Swift/Weems/Bratcher. Completed 4/07.
  • Elizabeth Shafer: The effect of AAC on communicative forms in adults having developmental disabilities. Supervisor: Bratcher/Weems/Swift. Completed 03/07.
  • Sherry Thain: A comparison of verbal reinforcements and tangible reinforcements: The geriatric population. Supervisor: Bird. Completed 5/07.
  • Allyson Warrick: The role of phonetic/articulation training in novel sound production. Supervisor: Swift/Weems/Bratcher. Completed 4/07.

2005-6

  • Breanne Black: Vocal fatigue: The effectiveness of daily vocal warm-ups for reducing perceived vocal fatigue in early elementary teachers. Supervisor: Weems/Swift. Completed 5/06.
  • Mariola Clark: Speech recognition/intelligibility differences: A comparison of PPVT-III performance and reading passage intelligibility when discriminating Spanish Influenced English (SpIE) and Standard American English (SAE) productions. Supervisor: Swift/Weems. Completed 12/05.
  • Ashley Colston: Contrasting therapy schedules: Frequency versus duration of intervention. Supervisor: Swift/Weems. Completed 12/05.
  • Tiffany Huizenga and Johnna Garcia: Lights, Sound, Action! The effects of auditory and visual memory/coding skills on repetition tasks, following directions, and phonemic sequencing. Supervisor: Swift/Weems. Completed 04/06. 2006 Research Conference Winner.
  • Karen Lopez Walker: Augmentative-Alternative Communication in public school classrooms: A survey of knowledge and needs of general and special education teachers. Supervisor: Swift/Weems. Completed 04/06.
  • Jennifer Martinez: Articulation, language, and reading: The relationship between phonological processing ability scores and articulation/language production. Supervisor: Swift/Weems. Completed 04/06.
  • Tonya Rush: Moving ForWord: A computer generated school based language learning program. Supervisor: Bratcher. Completed 03/06.
  • Corey Walker: Restricting clinician speech: The effects of decreased therapist MLU and verbal narration on script therapy efficacy. Supervisor: Swift/Weems. Completed 04/06.
  • Robin Woodbury Pickering: Therapeutic horsemanship: Effectiveness in facilitating increased communication initiations. Supervisor: Swift/Weems. Completed 04/06.

2004-5

  • Janice Baca-Lujan: Educating caregivers of children with visual impairments about speech and language development: A case study. Supervisor: Swift. Completed 12/04.
  • Heidi J. Blackwell: The effects of behavior modification on adolescent language delays: Can reinforcement/punishment improve conversational maintenance/regulation and decrease conversational echolalia? Supervisor: Swift. Completed 5/05. 2005 Research Conference Winner.
  • Mandy McDaniel: Articulation intervention efficacy: A comparison of multiple phoneme and cycles approaches. Supervisor: Swift. Completed 5/05.
  • Melissa Pacheco: Do distractions and/or competing tasks influence an individual's word finding abilities? The effects of competing stimuli and distraction on word finding speed and accuracy. Supervisor: Swift. Completed 4/05.
  • Joanne Payne: Learning American Sign Language: The impact of auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning styles on student performance. Supervisor: Swift. Completed 11/04.