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Item Sibling mediated communication intervention for children with neurodevelopmental disorders(2015-08) Longino, Deanna Tamika; O'Reilly, Mark F.; Falcomata, Terry S; Patton, James; Nericcio, Mary Anne; Suizzo, Marie-AnneNeurodevelopmental disorders are characterized by impairments of personal, social, academic, or occupational functioning. The range of deficits varies from specific limitations of learning to global impairments of social skills. Individuals who have difficulty acquiring and using language lose opportunities to benefit from basic social interactions such as sharing or other intimate components of peer relationships. Interactions between siblings are viewed as important opportunities to develop skills necessary for communication, socialization and the acquisition of cultural norms. Developing social relationships can be challenging when there is a language or communication deficit present. Delayed or deficient language acquisition affects social relationships and sibling relationships in many ways. The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of including a sibling in the intervention package of children with neurodevelopmental disorders. A multiple baseline design was used across three sibling dyads to examine the effectiveness of the intervention. The siblings were taught skills to elicit communication during play. Generalization probes were conducted with one sibling dyad and indicated the sibling was able to generalize the skills in a different setting. Results showed positive increases in communicative interactions between siblings. Ratings by observers who were naïve to the study documented the social validity of the intervention effects and showed positive changes in the sibling's communicative interactions.Item The significance of siblings on language development in bilingual Spanish-English children(2015-05) Faz, Andrea Patricia; Peña, Elizabeth D.; Bedore, Lisa M.The purpose of this study was to investigate if there was a relationship between birth order and language proficiency in English and Spanish bilingual children. This study used data from a preexisting dataset. Participants included 49 Spanish-English bilingual children (age 4;6-7;0), who had at least one sibling. Participants were recruited from school districts in Texas, California, and Pennsylvania during the original study. The investigator examined relationships among birth order, number of children, and language measures. Semantic and morphosyntactic language abilities were measured through the participant’s performance on the corresponding subtests of the Bilingual English Spanish Assessment (BESA) (Peña, Gutiérrez-Clellen, Iglesias, Goldstein & Bedore, 2014) and through English productivity measures collected from language samples. These measures included: total number of words (TNW), number of different words (NDW), and mean length of utterances in words (MLUw). Significant correlations were found between birth order and number of children and English measures of semantics. The findings in this current study suggest that earlier born siblings and fewer siblings in the family were related to higher English semantics scores. In addition, these variables were also linked to higher levels of English proficiency as determined by their performance in TNW and NDW.Item The weight of expectations : deciphering baggage and defining character in “Olivia’s retreat”(2012-08) Ashworth, Stacey Pamela; Kelban, Stuart; Thorne, Beau“The Weight of Expectations: Deciphering Baggage and Defining Character in ‘Olivia’s Retreat’” charts the conception and development of Stacey Ashworth’s feature length sibling drama while also discussing the subsequent lessons she learned over its seven month evolution.