2010 CASLPA Clinical Research
Grant Recipients
2009 Clinical Research Grant Recipients
2008 Clinical Research Grant Recipients
2007 CASLPA Clinical Research
Grant Recipients
2010 CASLPA Clinical
Research Grant Recipients
Kathy Packford - Remote ABR via Telehealth: A study
in improving patient access to audiology services.
Abstract:
This research will involve provision of diagnostic Auditory
Brainstem Response (ABR) services from the Glenrose Rehabilitation
Hospital (Alberta) via telehealth to patients referred for this
testing from more remote or distant areas and to measure the
efficacy of this method of service delivery using a questionnaire.
Noreen Simmons - The impact of cochlear implantation
on parents' communication choices for their preschoolers
Abstract:
Secondary data of preschool children with cochlear implants
will be analyzed to identify age at implantation, mode of communication
before and after implantation, and language outcomes. Results
from the study will provide information on the impact of changing
technology and early identification on the mode of communication
choices used with Deaf/hearing loss children.
CASLPA would like to thank AON for their generous sponsorship
and support of clinical research in Canada.
2010 Community
Rehab Inc. Clinical Research Grant Recipient
Merrill Tanner - Vocalization therapy for speech and
voice disorders in idiopathic Parkinson's disease
Abstract:
A single group pretest-posttest study will examine a vocalization
and choral singing program designed to improve the voices and
speech of 32 people with Parkinson's disease. Participants attend
two sessions per week for six weeks. Outcomes to be examined
include communication functioning (perceptually judged voice
quality and self assessed intelligibility) and voice related
quality of life in community living.
CASLPA would like to thank Community Rehab Inc. for their
generous sponsorship and support of clinical research in Canada.
2009 CASLPA Clinical
Research Grant Recipients
Congratulations to Marshall Chasin and Mojgan Owliaey (co-recipient
Benoît Jutras), who each received a grant of $2,500.
Of the many differences between languages, subject-object-verb
(SOV) languages such as Korean have post-positions which tend
to have lower intensity than English (or SVO) prepositions.
Marshall Chasin's research will test the hypothesis that compression
circuitry should be set to yield more gain for low level inputs
for Korean than for English.
Mojgan Owliaey along with Benoît Jutras will focus their
research on auditory processing. The research questions they
will investigate are the following: How do children with an
APD benefit from hearing in noise training, in terms of neurophysiology
and auditory behaviours? Does therapy impact on the social participation
of children with an APD?
CASLPA would like to thank AON for their generous sponsorship
and support of clinical research in Canada.
2009 Community
Rehab Inc. Clinical Research Grant Recipient
Congratulations to Vaneysa Hansen.
The purpose of Vaneysa Hansen's research study is to determine
the effect of specific respiratory muscle training on speech
intelligibility, vocal intensity, maximal respiratory pressures,
lung volume and communication success in 5 patients with Parkinson's.
Subjects will train on a device for 10 weeks in an ABAB within-subject
withdrawal design study.
CASLPA would like to thank Community Rehab Inc. for their
generous sponsorship and support of clinical research in Canada.
2008 CASLPA Clinical
Research Grant Recipients
Congratulations to Shelagh May Davies and Deidre Sperry,
who each received a grant of $2,500.
Shelagh's research will focus on furthering the development
of the Transgender Self-evaluation Voice Questionnaire (TSEQ)
by evaluating its concurrent and face validity, internal consistency
and test-retest reliability.
Deidre's research will focus on beginning the final
phase of psychometric testing of the Self Assessment of Communication
Skills (SACS) (i.e., reliability and validity) as a useful measure
of functional communication to be used by S-LPs with acquired
brain injury clients.
CASLPA would like to thank AON for their generous sponsorship
and support of clinical research in Canada.
2008 Community
Rehab Inc. Clinical Research Grant Recipient
Congratulations to Lynn Dales from the University of Western
Ontario.
Lynn's graduate research is based on the use of alternative
and augmentative communication (AAC) systems and how they can
be used to encourage phonological and semantic development in
children diagnosed with autism. There is currently little research
that exists in this area and little understanding of the benefits
that AAC systems may have on language development.
CASLPA would like to thank Community Rehab Inc. for their
generous sponsorship and support of clinical research in Canada.
2007 CASLPA Clinical
Research Grant Recipients
Congratulations to the 2007 recipients Stephen Fraser
and Nicole Moore who each received a grant of $2,000.
Stephen’s clinical research is on the effect of
chin down positioning on aspiration/penetration in adults with
dysphagia.
Nicole’s research focused on evaluation of an adaptive
integrated model of speech and language services in Headstart
preschools
