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2024
Exploring Cultural Competence as a Best Practice in K-12 Public Schools, Twyla J. Baylor | Education and Special Education
Exploring the Effects of the Television Shows, Bluey and Blippi, on Young Children's Language Development: A Mixed Methods Study, Kerry H. Bender | Education and Special Education
What Determines Investment into Fine Arts Programs in Public High Schools?, Tiandra Bland | Education and Special Education
Examining the Factors Contributing to the Teacher Shortage Crisis in the U.S., Alicia K. Green | Education and Special Education
An Exploration of Dress Codes in Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Programs, Brumbaugh Klaire | Education and Special Education
Individual Placement and Review Committee Process: Perceptions of Parents of Students Who Are Both Deaf and Autistic, Elyza Polsky | Education and Special Education
Connecting Emotional Intelligence Training for Corporate Leadership to Employee Job Performance, Ashley Shannon | Education and Special Education
From Absence to Insight: A Convergent, Mixed-Methods Descriptive Study Examining the Lived Experiences and Decision-Making Factors of US K-12 Substitute Teachers Regarding Their Decisions to Accept, Decline, or Drop Job Offers, John S. Trankle | Education and Special Education
Manifestation Determination Reviews: What Is the Role of the Speech Language Pathologist and Are the Language Abilities of the Student Considered?, Joan Turner | Education and Special Education
2023
Talking the Talk: Barriers to Culturally Responsive Iconographic Selection on Augmentative Alternative Communication Devices, Aaron Doubet | Education and Special Education
How Backstories Influence the Way Teachers Speak To and About Traumatized Students: A Case Study, Keona Nicole Griffin-King | Education and Special Education
Caregiver Experiences in the Implementation of Learning in Early Intervention for Children with Hearing Loss, Melissa D. Jensen | Education and Special Education
2022
The Impact of Educator Empathetic Mindset on Expectations of Students and Perceptions of Student Performance, Julie Demsko | Education and Special Education
Culturally Responsive Teaching Preparedness: Differences and Similarities Among Preservice and Inservice Educators, Colleen Kinsella | Education and Special Education
Lessons Learned Working With A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Survivor, William Blake Klenke | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
Communication-related quality of life: Perspectives of people with aphasia and speech-language pathology students, Ethan Kristek | Education and Special Education
The Craft of Constructing a Classroom Library: Student Collaboration in Book Selection for the Classroom Library, Meredith Murray | Education and Special Education
Caregiver Engagement in Early Intervention for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children: Does Provider Identity Matter?, Cole M. Renn | Education and Special Education
Examining Educators’ Perceived Impact of Trauma-Informed Training and Professional Development in the Classroom and Related Classroom Behavior Management Practices, Katherina Margaret Roeder | Education and Special Education
2021
Sweetened Blood, Sweat and Tears, Nathan Celestine | History, Philosophy, and Religion
The Nature of Learning in a Virtual Literacy Camp for Students Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Paula E. Gross | Education and Special Education
Intertwining Personal and Professional Domains: Examining Challenges, Strategies, and the Impact of Mentoring on Careers of Women in Higher Education Senior Leadership, Janice M. Johnson | Education and Special Education
The Public Spectacle of Death: An Essay on Public Execution, Jesse Stone McClanahan | History, Philosophy, and Religion
Higher Education and COVID-19: Impact on Nontraditional Students Following a Traditional Path, R. Lauren Miller | Education and Special Education
Exploring Sense of Belonging in Online Learning Environments Through Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicators, Jennifer Moore | Education and Special Education
Staring at Myself Through a One-Way Mirror, Carrie Steingruby | English and Communication
2020
Diaphragmatic Breathing for Acquired Neurogenic Stuttering, Olivia Brown | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
Assessing Classroom Readiness Post-Concussion in College Student-Athletes: Comparing the ImPACT to Standardized Cognitive Assessments, Isabel Hotop | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
International Early Childhood Education and Care Professionals Practices to Engage Family Members of Young Children with Special Education Needs: A Comparative Study of Professional Practices in China and the United States, Jami Louise Swindell | Education and Special Education
2019
Amplification for People with Aphasia, Devin Lee Fisher | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
The Current State of Collaboration Between Speech-Language Pathologists and Behavior Therapists, Elisabeth Hickle | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
Prevalence and Demographics of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Users Birth-21: A Survey of Speech-Language Pathologists Serving Learners with Complex Communication Needs (CCN), Allison T. Phelps | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
2018
Aphasia and Transcoding: When 145 is Said, "154", Aubrey Atwater | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
Early Language Delays and Effects on Literacy, Amanda DeWitt | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
Aphasia and Mental Health: Counselors and Psychologists' Knowledge, Experience and Confidence in Providing Effective Services for People with Aphasia, Ian F. Farmer | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
The Impact of Caretaker Training on Frequency and Accuracy of Augmentative and Alternative System Use, John Fletcher | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
Reported Practices of Speech-Language Pathologists Working with Diverse Users of Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Claire Gunn | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
Reconceptions of 'Home' and Identity within the Post-War Bosnian Diaspora in the United States, Adna Karamehic-Oates | Other
Measures of English Syntax in Mono- and Multilingual Writers, Loren M. Kreher | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
2017
Socioeconomic Status (SES) and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC): The Relationship between Familial SES and the Acquisition of Speech Generating AAC Devices, Mark N. Brown | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
Using AAC to Teach Job Skills to Young Adults Who Have Autism Spectrum Disorders, Elizabeth Cannon | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
Having Enough: Experiences of Students Utilizing a Campus Food Pantry, Jamie Daugherty | Family and Consumer Sciences
Failure to Fail in Dietetics Education: A Descriptive Study, Dena B. French | Family and Consumer Sciences
The Impact of Participation in Extracurricular Activities on Children with Speech and/or Language Disorders, Emily Barton Maher | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
A Review of Geriatric Content in Accredited Nutrition & Dietetic Programs, Melissa Ramel | Family and Consumer Sciences
The Impact of Training Siblings of Students Who Use AAC, Christine Rich | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
A Semantic Ambiguity Instruction to Improve Reading Comprehension in Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Kelly Roy | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
2016
Quality of Life of Children who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication: A Comparison of Child, Sibling, and Caregiver Ratings, Rebecca C. Hrad | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
Differences Between Left and Right Hemispheric Performance on a Word Generation Task Among Varying Levels of Non-Verbal Intelligence Scores, Amy Scibona | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
2015
Examination of Parental Involvement on Augmentative and Alternative System Use at Home, Loretta Dunkmann | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
Examining White Privilege: Participatory Action Research in Higher Education, Heather French | Education and Special Education
Language-Action Games: A Probing Activity for Word Finding Accuracy by People with Aphasia, Ethan Kristek | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
Putting Government in its Place: Cultural Racism, Sentiment, and Neoliberalism in Contemporary United States Responses to Natural Disasters Abroad, Corinne Wohlford Mason | History, Philosophy, and Religion
Increasing Communication Effectiveness Between Bosnian-Speaking Clients and English-Speaking Clinicians, Sumeja Seferovic | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
2014
Academic Content of Goals and Objectives Included in AAC User's IEPs, Julie Griswold | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
Paraphrasing in Conversations of People with Aphasia and Communication Partners, Kate Howard | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
The Use of Language Cuing Systems, Natural Reading Strategies, and Self-Identification of Miscues by School-Aged Children who are Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing, Monica Christine Kleekamp | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
Effect of Retrieval Practice on Applied Knowledge: Evidence from a Professional Training Program, Jenna M. Voss | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
2013
Preserving the Sponsoring Tradition: A Study of Catholic Colleges and Universities Founded by Religious Orders, John Michael Pressimone | Other
2012
Measures of Executive Function, Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia, and Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Amanda K. Morlock | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
2011
Alcohol Consumption at Missouri Postsecondary Institutions and the Socio-Ecological Model of Prevention, Janelle Densberger Julian | Other
2009
Aphasia and Reading: Two Case Studies Utilizing the Reading Miscue Inventory, Heather Dahlem | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
The College President as Moral Leader in Faith Based Institutions, John Michael Pressimone | Other
2006
New Families of Embedded Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces of Genus Three in Euclidean Space, Adam G. Weyhaupt | Math and Computer Science
2005
Determining the Impact of Self-Directed IEP Instruction on Secondary IEP Documents, Jamie Van Dycke Doronkin | Education and Special Education
1998
Communicative Interactions Between Mothers and Children with Cochlear Implants, Susan T. Lenihan | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
A Project Examining Strategies to Maximize Profitability Through Customer Loyalty, Sidney B. Morice | Business Administration
1996
Employee Training Effectiveness, Melissa Anne Berner | Business Administration
A Study of Effective Strategic Planning and Management Control in the Computer Industry, Chwen-Ming Chang | Business Administration
The Internet as a Business Tool and Its Effect on Information and Communication Management, Raul Fernandez | Business Administration
A Multi-Criteria Decision Making in Facility Location, Lucksiri Lerchaichanakul | Business Administration
The Use of High Risk Corporate Bonds in Mergers and Corporate Takeovers, Jon Kevin Lostutter | Business Administration
Organizational Behavior: Managerial Processes and its Effect on Adapting Organizations to Change, Tammy Dee Lyons | Business Administration
Thailand's Gemstone and Jewelry Export Industry, Pimolpun Wuttikrai | Business Administration
1995
A Description of Language Stimulation Provided by Direct Care Staff in Neonatal Intensive Care Units, Aimee M. Calvillo | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
An Evolution of Taiwan's Economic Development in the 1990s, Pei Ling Chang | Business Administration
Direct Foreign Investment in China: A Comparison of Investment from Taiwan, Hongkong and Macao to that from Western Developed Countries, Lei Chen | Business Administration
The Economic Consequences of HIV/AIDS on the Infected Person and Upon Society, Katherine Brown Collins | Business Administration
A Prespective on the US Rail Freight Industry, Dennis F. Eckelkamp | Business Administration
Corporate Management of Employee Healthcare Costs, Thomas F. Edler | Business Administration
An Evaluation of Barriers Impeding Women in the Workplace, Jacqueline R. Friedman | Business Administration
Business Process Reengineering as it Relates to the Accounts Payable System of the United States Postal Service, Joseph E. Gribat | Business Administration
An Examination of the Role of Workplace Testing for Position, Placement and Job Evaluation on Affirmative Action, Disabled Workers and Clerical/Secretarial Workers, Gloria Howard-Clark | Business Administration
An Evaluation of Mail Order Marketing in the United States, Pao-Yuan Hsieh | Business Administration
The Implementation and Effects of Instituting a 360-Degree Performance Appraisal Method, Cheryll K. Keller | Business Administration
Japanese Investments in ASEAN 1980-1992, Narayan M. Kuppusamy | Business Administration
Factors Influencing Corporate Information System Decentralization, Dolruedee Lenukul | Business Administration
Implementing and Maintaining a Diversity Program in Corporate America, Bobette Gipson Luckett | Business Administration
A Study of the Globalization of the American Fast Food Industry, Kamva Makuta | Business Administration
A Study of the Changing Trends in the Death-Care Industry, Jon Dominic Marcallini | Business Administration
Total Quality Management: Philosophies and Techniques Used in the Implementation Process, Gregory Jerome Menke | Business Administration
International Joint Ventures in the Automobile Manufacturing Industry, Cengiz Metin | Business Administration
Allocating Equipment in Response to Forcasted Call Volume in a Telemarketing Environment, C. Joseph Nower | Business Administration
The Identification and Impact of Fraudulent Claims in the Insurance Industry, Joyce Christine Rogers | Business Administration
The Use of Regulation and Economic Incentives to Manage Air Pollution in Thailand, Monthai Sawetawan | Business Administration
The Study of Advertising Focused at African-Americans, Darrell J. Scott | Business Administration
Law and Economics in Professional Sports as it Applies to Major League Baseball, Chris Shadowens | Business Administration
Alternative Sources in the Financing of Nongovernment Schools, Mary Ellen Smith | Business Administration
A Study of the Effect of Transactional Costs on Franchising Viability, Nawapun Surathin | Business Administration
The Plywood Industry in Indonesia, Ali Surya | Business Administration