Download or read book Rib Cage and Abdominal Movement During Utterance Production in Infants Around the First Year of Life written by Jennifer R. Pike and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: The chest wall is composed of two primary components: the rib cage and the abdomen. In healthy adults, these two mechanisms are coupled during both breathing at rest and speech breathing. However, with regards to infants the coupling that is observed in adults is not yet present in infants. Little is known about when during human development the coupling of the two components occurs. This study explored the contribution to chest wall movement that each component plays during single-syllable utterances by infants around the first year of life. Methods: Vocalizations and breathing kinematics were recorded from 10 infants between 9 and 16 months of age during vocal play with their mothers. The movement of both the rib cage and the abdomen were measured during production of single-syllable utterances. The relative contributions of the rib cage and abdomen were compared to see how they impacted chest wall movement during utterance production. Contributions were measured as a percentage of total chest wall movement. Results: For the infants in the study, it was determined that the abdomen contributed to a greater degree than the rib cage during the total respiratory cycle and the inspiratory phase, and that both the rib cage and the abdomen contributed to differing degrees during the expiratory phase. Discussion: The findings relate the role of the rib cage and abdomen to total chest wall movement during utterance production. This study adds information about how breath support for utterance production develops during infancy. By studying further this particular aspect of chest wall development, knowledge may be gained that could aid in the early identification of infants who might be developing atypically.

Download or read book The Relationship Between Timing of Single syllable Utterances and Breath Support in Infants Around the First Year of Life written by Alissa M. Brady and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: The relationship between speech production and the respiratory system in infancy is not well understood. A potentially informative aspect of infant speech development is the timing between vocalization and expiration. It is an empirical question whether different utterance types are initiated and/or terminated at similar expiratory times and volumes. This study explored respiratory patterns in timing for single-syllable utterances in infants around the first year of life. Methods: Vocalizations and breathing kinematics of 10 infants between 9 and 16 months of age were recorded while the infants interacted with their mothers. Two variables related to utterance timing during the expiratory phase were measured: (a) the lag between the start of expiration and the start of the utterance, and (b) the lag between the end of the utterance and the end of expiration. Scatterplots of the two variables were used to explore patterns for both individual infants and infants grouped into a younger or older age category. Results: There were distinguishable patterns in the relationship between the timing of single-syllable utterances and the breath support. Whereas, younger infants tended to have little variability in their respiratory timing-to-utterance production patterns, older infants showed greater variability in these patterns. At least one infant in each age category had patterns that resembled those of the other group. Discussion: This study revealed that patterns in respiratory timing for single-syllable utterances in infancy are both detectable and informative. The findings help explain the relationship between breathing and vocal production late around the first year of life. Pattern variation may be explained by additional factors that might help identify atypical development in infancy via an explanatory model of normally developing infants engaged in speech production.

Download or read book The Relationship Between Timing of Single syllable Utterances and Breath Support in Infants During the Second Year of Life written by Heidi M. Drechsler and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critical window for language development is in the first three years of life. Throughout the second year, speech development is more rapid than at any other stage. The second year of life is marked by the emergence of increasingly complex utterances and vocabulary growth. Infants at this stage have growing demands on their respiratory system. This study explored the relationship between the timing of expiration and the timing of utterance production in infants in the second year of life. Single-syllable utterances of six healthy infants (17 to 25 months) were identified along with the expiratory phases underlying them. The coders then measured and tabulated (a) the lag between the start of expiration and the start of each single-syllable utterance, and (b) the lag between the end of the utterance and the end of expiration. The collected data was plotted on scatterplots with the lag between the expiratory phase start and the utterance start on a y-axis, and the lag between the utterance end and the expiratory phase end on the x-axis and examined for patterns. Visualization of these infants' data suggested some patterns in respiratory timing for single-syllable utterances. There was some individual variation among the infants, but in general the older infants demonstrated more flexibility in the timing of respiration to support speech production. More research is needed to help explain how typically developing infants learn to produce speech, as well as identify possible physiological markers for increased language complexity in later infancy.

Download or read book Preclinical Speech Science written by Thomas J. Hixon and published by Plural Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preclinical Speech Science: Anatomy, Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception, Third Edition is a high-quality text for undergraduate and graduate courses in speech and hearing science. Written in a user-friendly style by distinguished scientists/clinicians who have taught the course to thousands of students at premier academic programs, it is the text of choice for instructors and students. Additionally, it is applicable to a broad range of courses that cover the anatomy and physiology of speech production, speech acoustics, and swallowing as well as those that cover the hearing mechanism, psychoacoustics, and speech perception. The material in this book is designed to help future speech-language pathologists and audiologists to understand the science that underpins their work and provide a framework for the evaluation and management of their future clients. It provides all the information students need to be fully ready for their clinical practicum training. KEY FEATURES: Describes scientific principles explicitly and in translational terms that emphasize their relevance to clinical practice.Features beautiful original, full-color illustrations designed to be instructive learning tools.Incorporates analogies that aid thinking about processes from different perspectives.Features "sidetracks" that contain clinical insights and relate interesting historical and contemporary facts to the discipline of speech and hearing science.Provides a framework for conceptualizing the uses, subsystems, and levels of observation of speech production, hearing, and swallowing.Includes material that is ideal for preparing both undergraduates and graduates for clinical study. NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION: Three new, up-to-date, and comprehensive chapters on auditory anatomy and physiology, auditory psychophysics, and speech physiology measurement and analysis.All chapters fully revised, including updated references and new full-color, detailed images.*Disclaimer: Please note that ancillary content (such as documents, audio, and video, etc.) may not be included as published in the original print version of this book.

Download or read book The Actor Speaks written by Patsy Rodenburg and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Actor Speaks, Patsy Rodenburg takes actors and actresses, both professional and beginners, through a complete voice workshop. She touches on every aspect of performance work that involves the voice and sorts through the kinds of vexing problems every performer faces onstage: breath and relaxation; vocal range and power; communication with other actors; singing and acting simultaneously; working on different sized stages and in both large and small auditoriums; approaching the vocal demands of different kinds of scripts. This is the final word on the actor's voice and it's destined to become the classic work on the subject for some time to come.

Download or read book An Introduction to Language and Linguistics written by Ralph Fasold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible textbook offers balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of modern linguistics.

Download or read book The Symbolic Species The Co evolution of Language and the Brain written by Terrence W. Deacon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998-04-17 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book Review This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed man's newfound access to other people's thoughts and emotions. Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. It injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human.

Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Download or read book World Of The Newborn written by Daphne Maurer and published by New York : Basic Books. This book was released on 1988-03-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prominent psychologist known for her work on infant behavior and a science writer-photographer together provide a remarkable picture of infancy from the baby's own perspective.

Download or read book Investigating Spoken English written by Štefan Beňuš and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining coverage of the key concepts and tools within phonetics and phonology with a systematic introduction to Praat, this textbook provides a lively and engaging 'way in' to the discipline. The author first covers the fundamentals of the articulatory and acoustic aspects of speech and introduces Praat as the main tool for examining and visualising speech. Next, the unit of analysis is gradually expanded (from syllables to words to turns and dialogues) and excerpts of real dialogues exemplify the core concepts for discovering how speech works. The final part of the book brings all the concepts and notions together with commentaries to the transcription of several short excerpts of dialogues. This book will be essential reading for students on undergraduate courses in phonetics and phonology.

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Download or read book Neonatal Care A Compendium of Aap Clinical Practice Guidelines and Policies written by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neonatal Care: A Compendium of AAP Clinical Practice Guidelines and Policies, 2nd Edition, contains the collected AAP clinical practice guidelines, policy statements, and clinical and technical reports related to the quality care of newborns and infants. Find more than 50 of the most recent and trustworthy recommendations from the AAP Committee on Fetus and Newborn, organized into 9 sections for easy reference including the highly anticipated "Clinical Practice Guideline Revision: Diagnosis and Management of Hyperbilirubinemia in the Newborn Infant 35 or More Weeks of Gestation." Each statement or report contains an abstract overview, a concise presentation and critique of the available data, and a summary of the findings and/or recommendations, along with a current and comprehensive bibliography.

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics written by Rachael-Anne Knight and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonetics - the study and classification of speech sounds - is a major sub-discipline of linguistics. Bringing together a team of internationally renowned phoneticians, this handbook provides comprehensive coverage of the most recent, cutting-edge work in the field, and focuses on the most widely-debated contemporary issues. Chapters are divided into five thematic areas: segmental production, prosodic production, measuring speech, audition and perception, and applications of phonetics. Each chapter presents an historical overview of the area, along with critical issues, current research and advice on the best practice for teaching phonetics to undergraduates. It brings together global perspectives, and includes examples from a wide range of languages, allowing readers to extend their knowledge beyond English. By providing both state-of-the-art research information, and an appreciation of how it can be shared with students, this handbook is essential both for academic phoneticians, and anyone with an interest in this exciting, rapidly developing field.

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Download or read book The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge written by Charles Knight and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pediatric Disorders of Regulation in Affect and Behavior written by Georgia A. DeGangi and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pediatric Disorders of Regulation in Affect and Behavior, second edition is a skills-based book for mental health professionals working with children experiencing disorders of self-regulation. These children are highly sensitive to stimulation from the environment, emotionally reactive, and have difficulty maintaining an organized and calm state of being. Children with these struggles often have difficulty adapting to changing demands at home and school. The child may additionally struggle with bipolar or mood disorder, anxiety, depression, obsessive–compulsive disorder, Asperger’s syndrome, eating or sleep disorders, and/or attention-deficit disorder. This book will help professionals integrate treatment strategies that address the individual’s regulatory, sensory integration, and mental health problems. The book is organized with each chapter discussing a different form of dysregulation in eating, sleep, mood regulation, anxiety, attention, and behavioral control. Chapters begin with developmental and neurobiological underpinnings of the problem, include clinical observations, and close with diagnosis and treatment strategies. Recommended treatments integrate aspects of dialectical behavioral therapy, mind–body therapies and sensory integration techniques, and interpersonal therapy. Checklists for diagnosis and treatment planning are included at the conclusion of each chapter with an appendix of 20 skill sheets for use in treatment. Practical skill-based treatment book for mental health and occupational therapists Addresses eating, sleep, mood, attention, and behavioral control Presents integrated treatment using sensory integration, DBT, interpersonal therapy, and more Includes checklists and skill sheets for use in treatment