Faculty Opinions recommendation of [Philosophical orientations in speech and speech intervention. The current challenge of discharge.]

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Ricci Maccarini ◽  
Alfonso Gianluca Gucciardo ◽  
Flavio Pieri
Keyword(s):  
Current Challenge ◽  
Speech Intervention ◽  
Philosophical Orientations

Externalizing Faith: Countering Individualism Through an Embodied Emphasis

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-102
Author(s):  
Dejan Aždajić
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Propositional Content ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Current Challenge ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Embodied Theology

While the importance of an embodied theology has been recognized, in light of recent literature that sees a growing modern-day shift from emancipated individuality to ideological individualism, the aim of this article is to deepen the theological reflection on the urgent need for a more intentional embodied emphasis. This strategic approach is particularly significant, since in spite of the current challenge there remains a tendency toward a disembodied, anti-liturgical orientation that prioritizes words and cognition, locating theological truth on the inside of the autonomous individual thinking subject, who remains free to either accept or reject its propositional content. Drawing from relevant literature that provides a conceptual framework, this article argues that especially in today’s context, an overt emphasis on the externalization of faith and the embodiment of theological normatives performed together in community offers more promising pedagogical effectiveness. A bodily focus is principally important since it provides an experiential platform for the communal enactment and consequent appropriation of religious knowledge, thus potentially circumventing the present challenge of increasingly rigid individualism.

Autonomy and Emancipation: The Challenge of Identity Construction

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-06
Author(s):  
Mariana Malvezzi ◽  
Tassara Tassara
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Cellular Basis ◽  
Humanities Education ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Current Challenge ◽  
The World ◽  
Easy Answer ◽  
Present World

Identity acts as a nucleus to the subject's references, their memories, their choices of life, to the construction of their history. Identity is, therefore, a minimal cellular basis from which life develops in its poetics of creation. The construction of identity thus has potential for the development of a critique, the establishment of a grammar of rules and conditions, for standing before the world. The path towards emancipation implies in exercising an external look at one's identity, the inherent existing narrative, to discover the paradigm of the minimum base from which one's life develops. With the increasing complexity of the postcolonial world, no straight or easy answer is at hand. The effort should draw towards the construction of conceptual tools that can enable reflection and critique. The humanities education, is one possible tool towards autonomy and emancipation once it encourages knowledge, construction and appraisal. The reflections brought to light through this work intends to fertilize the discussions about identity construction in the Brazilian present day context, characterized by a discourse that foster ruptures and decreases the possibilities of one’s identity. For this purpose, the current challenge of emancipation, will be developed through 6 analytical semantic dimensions which express the diversity and complexity of the actual scenario: Understanding identity, (CIAMPA, 1987; RICOEUR, 1990), as the synthetic goal of existence has the dynamism to give new possibilities to the frontier-men (HARTOG, 2004; LEVINÁS, 1972), whose challenge is the gain of consciousness of one’s own movement in the world. Marked by perversity (HONNETH, 2003) the present world enforces political, social, motivational, and subjective domination (CASTORIADIS, 1987). This scenario compels the frontier-men towards an emptied signifier alienating his possibilities of recognition. The search for emancipation (HABERMAS, 1983) asks for a critical look at the current formation of people's strategic thinking.

Is High-Intensity Speech Intervention Better? A Comparison of High-Intensity Intervention Versus Low-Intensity Intervention in Children With a Cleft Palate

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Cassandra Alighieri ◽  
Kristiane Van Lierde ◽  
Anne-Sophie De Caesemaeker ◽  
Kris Demuynck ◽  
Laura Bruneel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cleft Palate ◽  
High Intensity ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Velopharyngeal Insufficiency ◽  
Dose Frequency ◽  
Baseline Design ◽  
Low Intensity ◽  
Session Duration ◽  
Speech Intervention ◽  
Over Time

Purpose The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of speech intervention provided with a low intensity with speech intervention provided with a high intensity on the speech and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Dutch-speaking children with a cleft palate with or without a cleft lip (CP ± L) between 4 and 12 years. Method A longitudinal, prospective, randomized controlled trial with a multiple baseline design was used. Twelve children with a CP ± L ( M age = 8.0 years, SD = 1.54) were divided into two groups using block randomization stratified by age and gender: One group received low-intensity speech intervention (LISI; n = 6) and one group received high-intensity speech intervention (HISI; n = 6). Children in the LISI group received intervention with a session duration of 1 hr, a dose frequency of 1 session per week, and a total intervention duration of 10 weeks. Children in the HISI group received intervention with a session duration of 1 hr, a dose frequency of 5 sessions per week, and a total intervention duration of 2 weeks. The cumulative intervention intensity was kept constant. Both groups received identical therapy programs provided by the same experienced speech therapist. Perceptual speech assessments were performed on baseline and posttreatment data points. Changes in HRQoL were assessed using the Velopharyngeal Insufficiency Effects on Life Outcomes (VELO) questionnaire. Both groups were compared over time using (generalized) linear mixed models. Results No significant Time × Group interactions were observed for the percentage of correctly produced consonants at the word and sentence levels, indicating no differences in evolution over time among the two groups. The variables speech understandability, speech acceptability, and the total VELO scores significantly improved following HISI, but not following LISI. Conclusions Children in the HISI group made equal and, for some variables, even superior progress in only 2 weeks of therapy compared to children in the LISI group who received 10 weeks of therapy. HISI is a promising strategy to improve speech outcomes and HRQoL in a shorter time period.

C0096: Measuring Plasma Levels of New Oral Anticoagulants. A Current Challenge for Hemostasis Laboratories

2014 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
pp. S37
Author(s):  
N. Alkadi Fernández ◽  
L. Arango ◽  
D. Leza Bruis ◽  
María J. Escobar ◽  
L. Romero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Levels ◽  
Oral Anticoagulants ◽  
New Oral Anticoagulants ◽  
Current Challenge ◽  
A Current

scholarly journals The Indispensable Role of Systematic Philosophical Reflection in Scholarship

Phronimon ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 95-114
Author(s):  
Daniel Francois Strauss
Keyword(s):  
States Of Affairs ◽  
Philosophical View ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Formal Schemes ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
Theoretical Thinking ◽  
Philosophical Orientations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Systematic Thinking

Sometimes systematic theoretical thinking is identified with abstract (formal) schemes. This opposition is also found in Malan and Goosen’s dismissal of Dooyeweerdian reformational thinking. This article aims at making a contribution to this issue by analysing the indispensable role of systematic philosophical reflection within the world of scholarship. One way in which systematic thinking could be justified is to highlight the need for consistency and the role of logical principles in achieving it. It is argued that, since we are living in the same world, all philosophical orientations have to account for shared states of affairs. At this point attention is given to the question whether or not these “states of affairs” are “static or dynamic.” An alternative for the distinction between static and dynamic is proposed by alternatively considering the relationship between constancy and change. Von Weizsäcker articulates the problem aptly by pointing out that although our experience exhibits constant change, something exists that remains unchanged through all these changes. In conclusion it is pointed out that scholars have only two options: either they give an account of the philosophical presuppositions and systematic distinctions with which they work—in which case they have a philosophical view of reality, or implicitly (and uncritically) they proceed from one or another philosophical view of reality—in which case they are the victims of a philosophical view. The primary aim of this article is, therefore, to highlight the indispensability of systematic thought by referring to some of the main distinctions included in such a system of thought.

scholarly journals Supporting Children With Speech Sound Disorders During COVID-19 Restrictions: Technological Solutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 1805-1808
Author(s):  
Sharynne McLeod ◽  
Kirrie J. Ballard ◽  
Beena Ahmed ◽  
Nicole McGill ◽  
Michelle I. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
Speech Sound ◽  
Waiting Lists ◽  
Speech Development ◽  
Speech Pathology ◽  
Speech Sound Disorders ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Speech Intervention ◽  
The Impact

Purpose “Children are the hidden victims of the COVID-19 pandemic” (United Nations Children's Fund, 2020). Timely and effective speech intervention is important to reduce the impact on children's school achievement, ability to make friends, mental health, future life opportunities, and government resources. Prior to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, many Australian children did not receive sufficient speech-language pathology (SLP) services due to long waiting lists in the public health system. COVID-19 restrictions exacerbated this issue, as even children who were at the top of lengthy SLP waiting lists often received limited services, particularly in rural areas. To facilitate children receiving speech intervention remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence from randomized controlled trials regarding three technological solutions are examined: (a) Phoneme Factory Sound Sorter (Sound Start Study), (b) Waiting for Speech Pathology website, and (c) Apraxia World. Conclusions For the first two technological solutions, there were similar gains in speech production between the intervention and control groups, whereas, for the third solution, the average magnitude of treatment effect was comparable to face-to-face SLP therapy. Automated therapy management systems may be able to accelerate speech development and support communication resilience to counteract the effects of the COVID-19 restrictions on children with speech sound disorders. Technology-based strategies may also provide a potential solution to the chronic shortage of SLP services in rural areas into the future.

scholarly journals TRADISI IJTIHAD: MENGEMBALIKAN SEMANGAT PROGRESIVITAS ISLAM

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ah. Fawaid
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Current Challenge ◽  
The Times

<p>The tradition of <em>ijtihad</em> became a rare activity conducted. This tradition on the other hand seems to be the authority of the religious elite and another hand, yet the tradition of <em>ijtihad</em> which should be further developed. It became the spirit of Islamic progressivity. Without this tradition, Islam seems to be frozen and stutter for the challenges of the times. It must be realized that the current challenge may be resolved not merely refer to the creativity of the past. Contemporary challenges must be faced and solved by the present creativity as well. Creativity is a time only in the context of time resolve the problem and not always just as drawn to the matter at different times. Any period has a different way and solution in accordance with the challenges of his time. Similarly, each community has a different solution when faced with problems, even at the same time and same problem. This is where the interpretation of reality gave birth to the diversity of interpretation of a role as well as the diversity of truth. And moving the tradition of <em>ijtihad</em> is one of the efforts to mobilize Islam.</p>

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