Defining Support: Families of Children with Special Needs and the Role of the Speech-Language Pathologist

Speech and language disorders are the most common reason for early intervention services in children under the age of five because these impairments can occur in isolation or with other disabilities. Early intervention seeks to lessen or even eliminate the need for therapy later in the child’s life by providing therapy for the child and education for the parents on how to foster their child’s language development. Parents of children with special needs often have more complex needs than families with typical children. This qualitative study seeks to determine what emotional supports families with children who have special needs require, and to examine how well speech-language pathologists are able to meet the needs of these families. The relationship between the speech-language pathologist and parents has been compared to a dance, with each partner bringing their own talents and grace to the floor (Brotherson et al., 2010). It is anticipated that speech-language pathologists are well equipped to provide information and resources to families, but may not be as comfortable providing emotional support. The results of this study could serve as a training tool for speech-language pathologists in meeting the needs of the families they serve

Photography Practicum: Learning The Basics Of Managing A Fine Art Photography Studio

The photography practicum provides Art and Design student researchers with the practical experience of managing a fine art photography studio. Students learn how to operate, manage, and maintain industry standard fine art archival inkjet printers as well as a twelve-station traditional black and white darkroom. This project provides essential expertise and knowledge that students, as lab monitors, both share with other students and incorporate into their own fine art practice and professional activities. Student researchers learn how to mix, store, and dispose of photographic chemistry, provide daily assistance to undergraduate and graduate photography students, and generate ideas for improvements to the lab. Additionally, students improve their knowledge of various analog and digital photographic processes through self-directed research with the goal of helping other students learn how to further develop and understand their work. Students also contribute to the ongoing revision of the Photography Lab Manual, which specifies best practices and operating procedures for future photography lab monitors. The practical knowledge gained from this experience is highly valuable to colleges, universities, community colleges, artist co-ops, and professional photography labs that seek to employ individuals to manage and teach both digital and analog photographic practices. This research was funded with an Undergraduate Research Fellowship.https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/celebration_posters_2021/1031/thumbnail.jp

The use of the anecdote in the critical study of aboriginal literature

This paper examines the use of the anecdote in critical scholarship as an ethical approach to studying Aboriginal literature. As many scholars are now becoming aware of the damage that has been done to texts by critiquing Aboriginal literature from the position of cultural outsiders, this paper suggests that anecdotal theory proposed by Jane Gallop is an ethical approach to Aboriginal literature. The use of story to generate theory explored by Aboriginal scholars of literature is compared to anecdotal theory, which implies that the use of anecdotes is an ethical approach suggested by Aboriginal culture. Anecdotal theory, the practice of recording a personal anecdote and then “reading” it to generate theory, offers non-Aboriginal scholars as well as Aboriginal scholars a way to connect to the text. Using anecdotal theory helps scholars remain more responsible to the texts they are critiquing; anecdotes make scholars more self-aware and ground them in real experience, due to the anecdote’s embodied nature and use of humour. This paper focuses on Aboriginal texts and scholars from North America. Helen Hoy’s critical work How Should I Read These: Native Women Writers in Canada is analysed for her use of the personal anecdote to examine its effectiveness. While Jane Gallop coins the term “anecdotal theory,” this paper attempts to connect personal anecdote, scholar, and literature in a way that Gallop does not

Photography Practicum: Learning the Basics of Managing a Fine Art Photography Darkroom

The photography practicum provides Art and Design student researchers with the practical experience of managing a fine art photography studio. Students learn how to operate, manage, and maintain industry-standard fine art archival inkjet printers as well as a fourteen-station traditional black and white darkroom. This project provides essential expertise and knowledge that students, as lab monitors, both share with other students and incorporate into their own fine art practice and professional activities. Student researchers learn how to mix, store, and dispose of photographic chemistry, provide daily assistance to undergraduate and graduate photography students, and generate ideas for improvements to the lab. Additionally, students improve their knowledge of various analog and digital photographic processes through self-directed research with the goal of helping other students learn how to further develop and understand their work. Students also contribute to the ongoing revision of the Photography Lab Manual, which specifies best practices and operating procedures for future photography lab monitors. The practical knowledge gained from this experience is highly valuable to colleges, universities, community colleges, artist co-ops, and professional photography labs that seek to employ individuals to manage and teach both digital and analog photographic practices. This research was funded with an Undergraduate Research Fellowship and supervised by Dr. Robyn Moore.https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/celebration_posters_2024/1059/thumbnail.jp

Photography Practicum: Learning the Basics of Managing a Fine Art Photography Darkroom

This research project provides the students with practical experience in the management of a fine art photography lab and darkroom. The students will learn how to mix and store photographic chemistry, provide assistance to undergraduate and graduate photography students, and generate ideas for improvements to the lab. The students will contribute to the revision of a lab manual that specifies best practices and operating procedures for photography lab monitors. The students will also assist other students with digital printing, as needed. Additionally, the student will improve his/her knowledge of various analog and digital photographic processes through selfdirected research with the goal of helping other students learn how to further develop and understand their work.https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/celebration_posters_2023/1033/thumbnail.jp

A Theory of Challenge and Threat States in Athletes: a revised conceptualization

The Theory of Challenge and Threat States in Athletes (TCTSA) provides a psychophysiological framework for how athletes anticipate motivated performance situations. The purpose of this review is to discuss how research has addressed the 15 predictions made by the TCTSA, to evaluate the mechanisms underpinning the TCTSA in light of the research that has emerged in the last ten years, and to inform a revised TCTSA (TCTSA-R). There was support for many of the 15 predictions in the TCTSA, with two main areas for reflection identified; to understand the physiology of challenge and to re-evaluate the concept of resource appraisals. This re-evaluation informs the TCTSA-R which elucidates the physiological changes, predispositions, and cognitive appraisals that mark challenge and threat states. First, the relative strength of the sympathetic nervous system response is outlined as a determinant of challenge and threat patterns of reactivity and we suggest that oxytocin and neuropeptide Y are also key indicators of an adaptive approach to motivated performance situations and can facilitate a challenge state. Second, although predispositions were acknowledged within the TCTSA, how these may influence challenge and threat states was not specified. In the TCTSA-R it is proposed that one’s propensity to appraise stressors as a challenge that most strongly dictates acute cognitive appraisals. Third, in the TCTSA-R a more parsimonious integration of Lazarusian ideas of cognitive appraisal and challenge and threat is proposed. Given that an athlete can make both challenge and threat primary appraisals and can have both high or low resources compared to perceived demands, a 2x2 bifurcation theory of challenge and threat is proposed. This reflects polychotomy of four parts; high challenge, low challenge, low threat, and high threat. For example, in low threat, an athlete can evince a threat state but still perform well so long as they perceive high resources. Consequently, we propose suggestions for research concerning measurement tools and a reconsideration of resources to include social support. Finally, applied recommendations are made based on adjusting demands and enhancing resources.N/

Photography Practicum: Learning the Basics of Managing a Fine Art Photography Studio

During this practicum, we\u27ve acquired unique skills in managing and maintaining a black and white darkroom and two fine art archival inkjet printing stations. Our responsibilities included providing feedback, reviewing equipment usage, mixing chemicals, and maintaining printers, all while navigating our own coursework and individual research about different photographic processes. All the while, creating a productive, supportive, and safe environment for our peers.https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/celebration_posters_2025/1066/thumbnail.jp

Resting metabolic rate and lung function in wild offshore common bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, near Bermuda

© The Author(s), 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Frontiers in Physiology 9 (2018): 886, doi:10.3389/fphys.2018.00886.Diving mammals have evolved a suite of physiological adaptations to manage respiratory gases during extended breath-hold dives. To test the hypothesis that offshore bottlenose dolphins have evolved physiological adaptations to improve their ability for extended deep dives and as protection for lung barotrauma, we investigated the lung function and respiratory physiology of four wild common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) near the island of Bermuda. We measured blood hematocrit (Hct, %), resting metabolic rate (RMR, l O2 ⋅ min-1), tidal volume (VT, l), respiratory frequency (fR, breaths ⋅ min-1), respiratory flow (l ⋅ min-1), and dynamic lung compliance (CL, l ⋅ cmH2O-1) in air and in water, and compared measurements with published results from coastal, shallow-diving dolphins. We found that offshore dolphins had greater Hct (56 ± 2%) compared to shallow-diving bottlenose dolphins (range: 30–49%), thus resulting in a greater O2 storage capacity and longer aerobic diving duration. Contrary to our hypothesis, the specific CL (sCL, 0.30 ± 0.12 cmH2O-1) was not different between populations. Neither the mass-specific RMR (3.0 ± 1.7 ml O2 ⋅ min-1 ⋅ kg-1) nor VT (23.0 ± 3.7 ml ⋅ kg-1) were different from coastal ecotype bottlenose dolphins, both in the wild and under managed care, suggesting that deep-diving dolphins do not have metabolic or respiratory adaptations that differ from the shallow-diving ecotypes. The lack of respiratory adaptations for deep diving further support the recently developed hypothesis that gas management in cetaceans is not entirely passive but governed by alteration in the ventilation-perfusion matching, which allows for selective gas exchange to protect against diving related problems such as decompression sickness.Funding for this project was provided by the Office of Naval Research (ONR YIP Award No. N000141410563, and Dolphin Quest, Inc. FHJ was supported by the Office of Naval Research (Award No. N00014-1410410) and an AIAS-COFUND fellowship from Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies under the FP7 program of the EU (Agreement No. 609033)

EAT5 Drinks - An investigation into the drink intake of five-year old children living in New Zealand

Background: Children’s drink intake has been assessed in a number of international studies, and frequency of consumption of drinks has been assessed in several New Zealand surveys, the most recent being the 2002 Child Nutrition Survey and 2007 New Zealand Children’s Food and Drinks Survey. However the volume of children’s drink intake has not been reported in New Zealand in national surveys. The quantity of drinks consumed is important, as drinks are an integral part of a child’s diet, providing hydration, nutrients and energy. Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the types and amounts of drinks being consumed by 65 five-year old New Zealand children, their contribution to energy and nutrient intake, and the extent to which they meet New Zealand Ministry of Health recommendations. Design: Data was used from two previous EAT5 component studies, in addition to data that the candidate has collected (total n=65). A total of 65 children aged 5 years old attended two clinic visits one month apart with their parent. During the first appointment anthropometric measurements were taken, an FFQ administered and a three-day weighed diet record was handed out with instructions. At the second appointment the same FFQ was administered and the weighed diet record was collected. Data from the weighed diet records were analysed using Kai-culator (dietary software) to calculate energy, nutrients and the contribution of drinks in the diet. Results: Only two children (3%) in the study met the World Health Organization and Ministry of Health recommendation of 1200mL from drinks per day for five-year olds. No child in the EAT5 study consumed the New Zealand Ministry of Health recommended maximum of 500mL of milk per day. Overall drinks contributed a small amount of daily energy intake (6%), but a substantial percentage of daily nutrient intake, in particular calcium (21%). There was a relatively high percentage of five-year olds consuming drinks that are not recommended (63%), the majority being flavoured milk. However, these drinks were only consumed in relatively low amounts, or not consumed daily, and thus contributed relatively little to overall energy intake. Conclusion: In conclusion, this study has shown that drinks are an integral component of a five-year olds diet, providing a small proportion of daily energy intake, but a substantial proportion of daily calcium intake. Public awareness of the negative nutritional implications of flavoured milk is needed, and these drinks should be included as a drink to limit in the Ministry of Health public resource ‘Eating for Healthy Children Aged 2 to 12 years’ as flavoured milks were consumed by a high proportion of children but are currently not included in this resource. Daily fluid intake from drinks was low, so future investigation into the hydration status of New Zealand children may be warranted