Phonetics

Natalie is a fourteen year old girl who not only suffers from depression, mild PTSD that stems from traumatic childhood experiences, but also battles with nightmares and thoughts of self –harm. She lives with her mom and dad (they are still together), older brother and sister, and her emotional support dog, Ginger. Natalie is primarily home/cyber schooled, but is in the process of transitioning at least to part time brick and mortar school attendance. She has a very strong, loving, and…

The client arrived on time and appeared to be in a good mood. The client and clinician participated in a Mardi Gras activity. The client and clinician watched a video and discussed Mardi Gras culture. The client and clinician continued to target the front vowels. The client participated in an auditory discrimination task for all the front vowels. The client was able to distinguish between the vowels with 96% (22/23). Regarding drilling at the word level for the vowel /i/ (level 3 of Complexity…

The phrase “low expectations” usually has a negative connotation. This makes sense, because people have associated low expectations with unhappiness and failure. This is not always the case, however; sometimes having low expectations can be viewed as pleasant and helpful, whereas having high expectations can cause disappointment. Even William Shakespeare once said that expectations are the root of heartache. Lowering expectations can positively impact happiness by changing one’s outlook on life,…

Background Information Carmen is a seven-year-old second-grade student in Mrs. F class. According to Mrs. F, Carmen’s reading current reading level is performing at a low first-grade reading level. She is extremely social inside and outside of the classroom. When in class, Carmen likes to help her peers when she is given the opportunity. Outside with her friends, Carmen is social with any student that is interested becoming her friend. Carmen is focused on her school studies and does not give up…

The first time I went to Walmart it was an eye opening experience. People there are not as loud as in my country. Having just moved to the U.S, the only thing I desired was to fit in. When my mother shouted “MICHELLE!” in the middle of Walmart. I wanted to die. Growing up in a very close Mexican family is loud. What that means is that I grew up going to family reunions at least once a week. Those reunions involve a lot of shouting for various reasons. One is that there was music all the time so…

Knowing all these problems as common errors in English pronunciation, this was kept in mind. The first thing I noticed is the mispronunciation of interdentals by replacing them with Ta and da. Both interdentals are replaced by alveolar consonants. However, this may be just a manner of articulation problem. She isn’t putting her tongue between her teeth enough. What’s odd is sometimes she actually pronounces the interdental consonants. It may have been there was more focus on those words since it…

The sculptural portrait of Faustina the Elder is made of marble and was sculpted between the years of 140 and 160 A.D. She is a Roman piece by an unknown artist, and is housed in the Getty Villa. Faustina is composed of strong lines and shapes to draw the viewer into the vertical dominant composition. Multiple forms break down into triangular shapes that bring the eye up and down the length of the piece, in order to add some movement to her otherwise static pose. Faustina the Elder stands…

A filthy window above his cluttered worktable on the fourth floor of the Leather Works afforded Randy Scott an occasional diversion to watch clouds pass by and wonder what a new year would bring. Winter’s thaw and March’s storms were ushering in the first warm days of a new decade, 1860. Randy was hopeful this new decade would also usher in a better life for him than he had experienced so far. The ninth of July would be his fourteenth birthday, and most boys his age were on their own by then.…

In some cases this is true. Some people cannot use English Phonetic systems because they are disabilities. The strongest case for the importance of Braille is linked to the 'literacy argument,' which advocates that Braille allows users to learn spelling, punctuation, and gain an understanding of how text is formatted…

writing he noticed that it was a mixture of ideograms and phonetic signs, just as Young had argued for Demotic. He argued that if the script was completely ideographic it would require more separate signs as Greek text. There was much less this implied that the ideographic and the phonetic signs were mixed. This helped François to disengage from the notion that different scripts had to be either completely ideographic or completely phonetic and that they couldn’t mix. He realized that the sign…