Honors Program Theses
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Open Access Honors Program Thesis
First Advisor
Lindsey Squires, Honors Thesis Advisor
Keywords
Speech disorders in children; Bilingualism in children; Speech therapy for children; Cognate words;
Abstract
The focus of this thesis was to generate a comprehensive list of age-appropriate words to use in therapy for children ages 3-8 years old. Additionally, the research involved identifying words that are cognates in both Spanish and English. Word similarity was analyzed across languages to identify cognates using a well-known tool, the Crosslinguistic Overlap Scale of Phonology (COSP; Kohnert et al., 2004), which will be described in the methodology. Ideally, these target words will be used in speech therapy by a SLP who is serving preschoolers and early elementary-aged students with identified SSDs. As such, the research question addressed was: What are developmentally-appropriate words that are cognates that can be used when generating a treatment plan for young Spanish-English speaking children with speech sound disorders?
Year of Submission
2021
Department
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
University Honors Designation
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the designation University Honors
Date Original
5-2021
Object Description
1 PDF file (23 pages)
Copyright
©2021 Janessa A. Klein
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Klein, Janessa A., "Identifying Spanish-English cognates as intervention targets for speech sound disorders with bilingual children" (2021). Honors Program Theses. 473.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/hpt/473
