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Building Speech Pattern 6: Picture Stimuli
Full text linkBuilding Speech Pattern 6: Picture Stimuli is part 6 of 8 in the picture stimuli to accompany the Building Speech & Quantifying Complexity documents. To see the full series, visit: https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/cgi/siteview.cgi/csdbuildingspeech
Building Speech & Quantifying Complexity is a dual approach to treating and evaluating articulatory complexity in child speech. It has two components: Building Speech and Quantifying Complexity. These two components can be used independently or together. When used together, the speech-language pathologist has a method for selecting goals and targets of varying levels of articulatory difficulty, plus a means for measuring changes in a child’s words, targeted and produced, at one point in time or over time.
The Building Speech & Quantifying Complexity materials include a manual, picture cards for each of the eight speech patterns, and worksheets for the Index of Phonetic Complexity. The manual provides speech-language pathologists with foundational information, so that they can individualize their assessments and interventions to meet the needs of the children on their caseloads with challenging speech sound disorders. It is not intended to be a lock-step program, but rather, an approach to be used creatively and flexibly by speech-language pathologists to address the needs of the individual children on their caseloads. Building Speech & Quantifying Complexity is designed to assess and treat speakers of American English, although the components can be adapted to fit the phonetics and phonology of other languages
Augustana Seniors Fall 1885: Joshua Anderson Edquist
Full text linkJoshua Anderson Edquist was a senior at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, in the fall of 1885. His name appears in the college catalog of 1885-1886, along with his birthplace, the year of his birth, and a few other facts. From this start, we researched the genealogy and family history of Joshua Anderson Edquist. This paper contains a short biography of Joshua, a report on his ancestors, a report on his descendants, and some open questions for further research
De-extinction: A Hopeful Dream or Hopeless Nightmare
Full text linkThis is an essay about de-extinction and what we should and should not do in order to remedy this
A Phoenix from the Ashes: Jackson Park’s Japanese Garden, Cultural Exchange, and the Endurance of Japanese Sites After Pearl Harbor
Full text linkJapanese gardens in the United States have a history that dates back to the World’s Fairs of the late 19th century, when Japan used the World’s Stage to project an image of itself as a powerful nation founded on both modern industrial techniques and traditional culture to compete with dominating Euro-American powers. The history of the Japanese garden in Chicago’s Jackson Park, gifted to Chicago by the Japanese government for the 1893 Columbian Exposition, tells the story of Midwesterners’ love and appreciation for the gardens while also demonstrating the implicit legacies of Executive Order 9066. The garden remained a crucial part of Midwestern cultural exchange in the early 20th century due to the public’s existing interest in the natural landscape of the Midwestern frontier. Using official narratives crafted by the Fair’s committee and photos of the Fair, the thoughts of the local Chicagoans expressed in the Chicago Daily Tribune, and a fictional account of the Fair by author Marietta Holley, this paper argues that the Midwestern public had an active interest in applying values of mysticism to the garden in the years leading up to Japan’s involvement in World War II, and shows the endurance of Japanese gardens thereafter
The TEPI Project: Searching for Antibiotic Producers in the Soil
Full text linkAntibiotics and antimicrobials have been at the cornerstone of human medicine before we even understood what a cell was. Throughout history there are endless examples of medicines used that can be traced to something akin to what we know of today as an “antibiotic”. From the widespread use of “mouldy bread” as a “topical application” throughout many ancient civilizations to the “magic bullet” called “Salvarsan” discovered by Paul Erlich, generations throughout humanity have been looking to cure the diseases that, quite literally, plague us (1). After the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming, the subsequent widespread discovery and production of antibiotics began at full force (1). Today, as we understand them, antibiotics are a staple to our medical industry. These miracle drugs do not come without cost, however. Much like how antibiotics were first naturally produced-- through competition on a molecular scale, the widespread use of antibiotics has put selective pressures on the pathogens that we are combatting today. These pressures are encouraging the growth of antibiotic resistant bacteria, many of which cause deadly nosocomial infections (2). These types of pathogenic bacteria are referred to as the ESKAPE pathogens, ESKAPE being an acronym for the most common species that exhibit antibiotic resistance (2). This is of great concern as the more antibiotic resistance which develops within the microbial world, the less effective (and possibly more dangerous) medical care becomes. Nosocomial infections, or infections contracted while in a hospital or hospital-like environment, are the bread and butter of these ESKAPE pathogens; many of which are easily transmissible and highly infectious to patients that are already susceptible to diseases. Today, the current strategies to combat these infections such as photodynamic light, metal nanoparticles, and antimicrobial peptides, are limited in success but give us hope towards paving a new era of medicinal treatment for these infectious diseases (3). While we are attempting to develop novel therapies not yet utilized, other projects are assisting in the discovery of antibiotics that can be effective against these bacteria (and others). TEPI, also known as the Tiny Earth Project Initiative, is an initiative in which researchers are coming together globally to search for new strains of bacteria (and antibiotics) while also cataloging soil microbial life (4). This project, combined with research on new fronts of medicine, can give us hope in the midst of this global antibiotic crisis that is afflicting society currently. In an effort to contribute to this fight, I and many others have worked together with Dr. Lori Scott in order to assist in the discovery and cataloging of antibiotic producing bacteria. This video essay is a cumulative capstone on my work for this project
At the Dinner Table
Full text linkA young woman and feminist analyzes privilege and prejudice through the experience of being at a family dinner. She questions the way that people view “controversial conversations” and why they are labeled that way. As she opens discussions that are “politically charged” and “inappropriate” at the dinner table, she is met with criticism and questions. By looking at the #Metoo movement, 97% movement, Black Lives Matter movement, and Health at Every Size movement, alongside a variety of other significant points, the woman reflects on silenced voices, minority identities and basic human rights in America
Building Speech Pattern 8: Picture Stimuli
Full text linkBuilding Speech Pattern 8: Picture Stimuli is part 8/8 in the picture stimuli to accompany the Building Speech & Quantifying Complexity documents. To see the full series, visit: https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/cgi/siteview.cgi/csdbuildingspeech
Building Speech & Quantifying Complexity is a dual approach to treating and evaluating articulatory complexity in child speech. It has two components: Building Speech and Quantifying Complexity. These two components can be used independently or together. When used together, the speech-language pathologist has a method for selecting goals and targets of varying levels of articulatory difficulty, plus a means for measuring changes in a child’s words, targeted and produced, at one point in time or over time.
The Building Speech & Quantifying Complexity materials include a manual, picture cards for each of the eight speech patterns, and worksheets for the Index of Phonetic Complexity. The manual provides speech-language pathologists with foundational information, so that they can individualize their assessments and interventions to meet the needs of the children on their caseloads with challenging speech sound disorders. It is not intended to be a lock-step program, but rather, an approach to be used creatively and flexibly by speech-language pathologists to address the needs of the individual children on their caseloads. Building Speech & Quantifying Complexity is designed to assess and treat speakers of American English, although the components can be adapted to fit the phonetics and phonology of other languages