Prosody

Apraxia is a speech disorder impacts people of various ages, including young children ages 0-7. There is a deficient amount of literature focused on elementary aged children. This paper will review various treatments used for young children before proposing intervention for elementary teachers to consider when working with a student with apraxia. The early intervention of therapy is put in place, which usually focuses on repetition, sound sequencing, and movement patterns. The intervention…

On March 16th 2017, Natalie Daguiam delivered a persuasive speech to the Speech 2001 class of 25 people at Western University on why sugar is an addictive substance using a PowerPoint presentation as a visual aid. Natalie began her speech with some effective hooks, noticeably grabbing the attention of the audience. This was done in a two-step process, in which she first asked the audience “How do you live a good life?” a general question which seemed to attract some audience attention. She then…

What if one day you went to the dentist to get a simple operation done and you woke up speaking with a foreign accent? Well that is exactly what happened to a woman living in Oregon who has never been to Europe or even lived in a foreign country. Karen Butler woke up from surgery that was just getting a couple teeth removed and noticed that she had started talking weirdly. The Dentist said it would go away in a few days, but after a month she still was talking strangely. Karen Butler had…

Comparative Paper Introduction Oral fluency in reading has been linked to higher levels of comprehension; hence many studies on this subject seek to find the best practices to facilitate overall reading fluency, including comprehension. As a reading educator I am always enquiring about better ways to enhance the learning trajectory of my students; therefore, my curiosity about this topic. The purpose of this comparative paper is to discover insightful information in regards of qualitative and…

The poem goes down from top to form a single stanza with no rhyme scheme unlike most early nineteen century African poems. Though most of the poem’s lines are under the iambic meter, the poem lies under the qualitative type of prosody in which it does not measure the number of syllables rather depends upon duration of syllables, which we can determine by amount of time used on pronunciation and is very common with free verse poems that consists of unmeasured lines. The poet inserted…

Ms. Martin is a twenty-one year old Caucasian female, single has no children was referred to Evolutions Treatment facility for her Substance abuse usage. She reported being born in Staten Island, New York and raised in Jackson, New Jersey. She was primarily raised by her biological parents. She stated she relocated to Port St. Lucia, Florida one and half years ago for her substance abuse problems. Ms. Martin resides in West Palm Beach, Florida with her boyfriend. The client described her…

The cuisine of pork and plums, blends the theme of food in, “Ode to Pork” by Kevin Young and “The Word Plum” by Helen Chasin, and are displayed through tone, assonance, and imagery. First on the menu, poet Young writes a love letter to all things pork, and takes us into his taste buds through assonance. Lastly on the menu, poet Chasin takes readers into her mind on binging plums, and tosses onomatopoeia and imagery to depict her sense of eating plums. In “Ode to Pork,” Kevin Young sings an ode…

with little adjustment for dialectal variations. BEV is attributed to several West African languages brought to the United States during the era of slave trade, and differs from standard English in many ways including: syntax, morphology, phonology, prosody, and pragmatics. Despite…

A list of strengths include positive attitude towards reading and writing, enjoys books that are funny or about Science, and can read with prosody. He recognizes that some texts are written to signal a change in tone. He uses positive metacognition skills by recognizing himself as a reader making progress and noting that his understanding of readings are different from his peers. He was able…

The most recent 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual categorizes Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as a pervasive developmental disorder (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013.) The term “spectrum” indicates that there are several disorders under the general umbrella of ASD that vary by severity or the amount of support needed. Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome are two disorders on opposite ends of the continuum. Autism is more severe and presents with restricted, repetitive…