Master’s Theses

Lacey Donofrio

Lacey completed a project investigating teaching the relational concept “on” to children who use AAC. Her study utilized an animated scene and direct instruction methods to teach the concept.

Lacey graduated with a master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Ohio University in August, 2007.

Jackie Strauss

Jackie completed experimental study examining the effect of animated feedback on assisting typically developing children to locate verbs within a visual scene. She found that children perform well without animated feedback, when the concepts are appropriately embedded within the scene.

Jackie graduated with a master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Ohio University in December, 2007.

Laura Dempsey

Laura’s project examined the effect of exposure to personal narratives written by an individual with disabilities on the attitude of fifth grade students towards children who require AAC.

Laura graduated with a master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Ohio University in August, 2008.

Julia Smith

Julia completed a project which aimed to discover the joint attention abilities and behaviors of beginning communicators when the postion of an AAC device is altered in a one to one interaction.

Julia graduated with a master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Ohio University in August, 2008.