Nasalance Scores for Normal Persian-Speaking Girls

Background: Obtaining normative nasalance scores is essential in the process of assessing and treating resonance disorders. The purpose of this study was to obtain nasalance scores in Persian-speaking girls aged 4-6 years and investigate the age-related differences. Materials and Methods: All participants (n=40) were screened to identify any overt problems relating to resonance, hearing, voice quality, or speech and language skills. The mean nasalance scores were obtained from normal-speaking girls during the repetition of the Persian version of the Simplified Nasometric Assessment Procedures (SNAP) test subtests. The Nasometer II (model 6450) was used to obtain the nasalance scores. Results: The mean nasalance score for the SNAP test subtests was obtained. Group mean and standard deviation (SD) nasalance scores of girls for oral and nasal sentences were 12.59±3.74 and 50.52±6.39, respectively. There was no significant difference between age groups (4, 5 and 6 years old) (P<0.05). Conclusion: Our results provided normative nasalance scores based on the SNAP test that can be used for the evaluation and treatment of resonance problems in Persian-speaking girls.

Lesia Ukrainka: spirit and body (linguistic reception of spiritual and body modes in the poetry of Lesia Ukrainka)

The article is a linguistic attempt to reconsider the traditional image of Lesіa Ukrainka as first of all a courageous and indomitable person. The priorities of the writer’s life in the traditional reception are strong spirit, will, courage, steadfastness. We want to present a different image of the writer - emotionally vulnerable, sensual, life-loving, passionate nature. She perceives the world not only spirit, but first of all the body as the first attribute of life, biological existence. We received all the information necessary for semantic decoding in the linguistic, in particular lexical and grammatical organization of Lesіa Ukrainka’s poetic texts. We used not only linguistic-stylistic, contextual, interpretive analysis of contexts, but also the bodily-mimetic method, which is relevant in modern literary criticism. The follower of this method is the Ukrainian literary critic Felix Steinbuk, his work became the theoretical basis for the analysis of linguistic material. We placed special emphasis on the poetic representation of the categories of corporeality in the writer’s texts: ontological (life, heart) and epistemological categories (sight, eye; hearing, voice). After conducting research in the selected strategies, we proposed the image of another Lesіa Ukrainka, which to some extent opposes the canonical versions. We have actualized in this image not the power of the spirit, but the powerful power of the body, hence the vital energy, the love of life, the manifestation of its pathos.

Silencing/Voicing Transgender People at Work: An Organizational Perspective

Narratives are a means of voicing in organizations. What it follows is a short reflection concerning the challenge taken by narratives of being the lens through which hearing voice from transgender people in organizations. This paper is aimed to scrutinize in what extent the role of transgender people narratives aids inclusion in organizations, through an organizational account of the underlying meanings in writing organizational stories. The reflection is mainly based on two concepts: the first one is silence, as a way to hide themselves in the workplace, and the second one is identity, as an apparatus of comparison between individual and organizational subjectivity. In this reflection, transgender people played the role of being a source of knowledge, triggering a debate concerning voice and silence in organizations.

ACCEPTANCE OF MUSIC STIMULATION THERAPY FOR AUDITORY HALLUCINATION PATIENTS

Introduction.The majority of increasing rates of mental illness cases cause by recurrence. Music stimulation therapy on patients with hallucinations is one of the modalities of therapy in nursing care. The purpose of this study was to reduce the recurrence rate of patients experienced with hearing voices.Methods.Patients were asked to listen to music when hallucinations appeared. The nurse was accompanying and observing during therapy. After completion of therapy, patients were interviewed using an open ended question how the response toward the music therapy. Interview data were analyzed using narrative strategies of inquiry. In addition the patients were also measured a number of hallucinations that appeared before therapy. The intervention was applied for one month, and then the patients are repeated its measures by the appearance of hallucinations. The Wilcoxon test was utilized to compare differences between before and after intervention.Result. The themes finding that can be developed were the music therapy shows specific responses and the music therapy disrupts hallucinations. While the quantitative analysis, there were the differences mean between before and after the intervention, but the statistical test showed insignificant value.Discussion. Stimulation therapy of hearing voice panned out and eliminated ongoing hallucinations in patients with a medical diagnosis of undifferentiated schizophrenia, but the response of paranoid schizophrenia patients were unsuccessful.Key words: Nursing modalities therapy, schizophrenia, auditory hallucinations

Impact of learning difficulties on moroccan students academic achievement

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of hearing, voice disorder, stuttering and dyslexia on the academic performance, the feeling of social rejection, self-confidence of hard science major students in universities in Morocco. 229 students belonging to the University Hassan II Mohammedia –Casablanca representing a biology college and an engineering school participated in the survey. The average age of students is 22 years and suffers no physical or mental disability. Our results indicate that these disorders are related to low self-confidence, developed the feeling of social rejection and this considered major difficulties for success in studies. The majority of students say that they encountered difficulties to continue their studies, which suggests that the disorder leads to a form of academic failure. Keywords: Communication disorder, learning difficulties, academic performance, self- confidence