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Item The evolution of Silence in Berlin(2015-08) Wolff, Matthew Craig; McCreery, Cindy; Kelban, StuartThis report recounts the development and creative process of writing the feature screenplay Silence in Berlin, from the seed of an idea to the conception of the story, from first draft to the completion of the final draft. Based on a true story, Silence in Berlin is historical fiction; as such, it presented its own set of challenges, which are described in this account. As I reflected on the process I went through to write this screenplay, I came to a clearer understanding of the decisions that I made in the process of writing and rewriting the script.Item Programs for the hearing impaired in state facilities for the mentally retarded.(Texas Tech University, 1974-05) Brannan, Arnold Clark,Not availableItem Syllable structure changes and fricative usage in hearing impaired children(Texas Tech University, 1984-08) Blocker, M. LeAnnThis study investigated syllable structure simplification (as evidenced by the presence of final consonant deletion, unstressed syllable deletion, consonant cluster reduction, and reduplication) and fricative usage in nine orally instructed eight to eleven year old hearing-impaired (HI) children. Subjects were assigned to one of three HI groups: moderate, moderately severe, or profound on the basis of pure tone averages (PTA) in the better ear. Data generated from conversational speech samples and a word elicitation task were used to determine the following: the presence and frequency of syllable structure simplification processes in each subject's speech; the fricative acquisition patterns and fricative error production patterns present in each subject's sentential productions and the difference, if any, between fricative production errors as a function of subject group, syllable shape, segment and/or word-initial vs. word-final position.Item The effect of early auditory deprivation on time estimation ability(Texas Tech University, 1982-05) Stall, Colleen HarmonNot availableItem The functional hearing inventory: criterion-related validity and interrater reliability(Texas Tech University, 2003-12) Broadston, Pamela MThe Functional Hearing Inventory (FHI), an observational instrument for functional hearing, provides information about how a deafblind child uses his/her residual hearing within his/her natural environment. This study obtained evidence of the validity and reliability of the FHI. In particular, criterion-related validity for the FHI was investigated by correlating it with teachers' and parents' ratings of functional hearing, and the traditional measure of hearing, the audiogram. Interrater reliability for the FHI was studied through correlating the FHI ratings of deafblind subjects by two trained evaluators using point-by-point and consensus methods. The two raters included the researcher and one other rater who was trained by the researcher. The raters observed students in their natural settings and recorded the information on the FHI observation form. The subjects for this study were a purposeful sample of students between the ages of three and twenty-one who were reported on the Federal Deafblind Census. There were 14 participants for whom there was complete information, comprising 6 females (43%) and 8 males (57%). The demographic section indicated that 57% of the participants were male, and 57% were Caucasian. The majority of the participants are in their teens with 21% being in the 7* grade. Over 42% of the participants had a primary disability of deafblindness and four of the participants had a secondary disability of either hearing or visual impairment. Cohen' s kappa was used to measure agreement for criterion validity as well as to determine interrater reliability. Null hypotheses of no relationship between the FHI and teachers' ratings, and between the FHI and parents' ratings were rejected, with a moderate relationship in the former case (K = 0.46, p = 0.0043), and with a somewhat weaker relationship in the latter case (K = 0.22, p = 0.01 ). The null hypothesis between the FHI and the audiogram could not be rejected (K = 0.13, p = 0.26). The null hypothesis for interrater reliability was rejected for environmental conditions/background noise, signal, and response levels. The respective kappas were 0.96 (p < 0.0000001), 0.85 (p < 0.0000001), and 0.81 (p < 0.0000001), all considered to be high levels of association.Item The use of operant techniques in listening therapy to improve the auditory response levels of congenitally deaf children(Texas Tech University, 1970-05) Simmons, Janet TroyNot available