Publications by authors named "Felicidad Garcia"
Using Active Learning Strategies to Strengthen Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Training in Communication Sciences and Disorders Programs.
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April 2023
Purpose: Training in cultural competence is an accreditation requirement for graduate programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD; Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, 2020). Cultural and linguistic diversity (CLD) instruction within CSD programs and current instructional models may not provide students with effective training in this area (Hammond et al., 2009; Higby et al.
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- This study investigates how speakers of African American English (AAE) and Mainstream American English (MAE) process morphosyntactic features differently using neurophysiological methods, specifically EEG, to analyze brain responses and grammatical acceptability judgments.
- Participants included bidialectal speakers of AAE and MAE, and monodialectal MAE speakers, who listened to sentences with varying grammatical structures while their brain activity was recorded, focusing on P600 responses as a measure of error detection in relation to dialect.
- Results showed that monodialectal speakers exhibited a clear P600 response when encountering AAE features, indicating error detection, whereas bidialectal speakers did not have this response, suggesting they process
Background: The identification of an early and objective marker of language impairment in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has the potential to lead to earlier language intervention for affected children. The mismatch negativity (MMN), a passive auditory evoked potential, offers insight into the brain's ability to direct attention to novel sounds. Since exposure to speech is necessary for learning to map meaning onto phonemes, we predicted slower MMN responses to speech sounds would indicate presence of language impairment in ASD.
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