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Purpose: Developing and validating children's stories focused on health education in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences.
Methods: Cross-sectional, descriptive, quali-quantitative two-step study. 1st) elaboration of 10 children's stories, guiding questions, explanatory notes, and illustrations. 2nd) validation by judges (speech therapists, educators, and familiar) in two phases. In the first, the sample consisted of 42 judges and in the second, 28. To access the materials and the validation questionnaire, a website was made available. The questionnaire investigated the judges' personal data and the judges' perceptions regarding the contents, vocabulary, illustrations, structure, and motivation of the materials. A five-point Likert scale of the agreement was used, with spaces for suggestions in each question. The quantitative analysis was done using the Content Validity Index and the Content Validity Coefficient. The qualitative analysis was based on the comments of the judges. The minimum rate of agreement among the judges on the decision to change or not change the materials was 80%.
Results: The first phase pointed out the need for modifications in three titles and two vocabularies (bullying and dyke), and the need for increasing to five years of age the minimum age for access to the materials. The second phase revealed good acceptability in all changes made.
Conclusion: The materials developed were validated and can be used as health education tools by speech therapists and educators, as well as parents.
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Department of Psychiatry, Samsung Medical Center, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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Family Faculty, Education Program, Canuck Place Children's Hospice.
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Paediatr Child Health
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Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Although there is growing knowledge surrounding the value of involving patients and families in pediatrics residency training, based on a web-based survey of program directors (PDs) in Departments of Pediatrics across Canada, only 42% reported engaging patients and families in their formal residency curriculum. However, all respondents acknowledged the value of partnering with patients and families. Given this, we developed an educational intervention in partnership with our local Family Advisory Council members, that allows for (a) family voices to be heard and incorporated, and (b) direct interaction and conversation between families and pediatric residents.
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Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Purpose: Personal narrative production, or the ability to talk about past events that have been personally experienced, relies on a wide range of linguistic skills and is influenced by memory and socio-emotional traits. This study investigated the predictive role of memory mechanisms and socio-emotional functioning on personal narrative production in children with developmental language disorder (DLD) compared to children with typical language development (TLD).
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