Search for dissertations about: "listening skills"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the words listening skills.
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1. Nondirective Counseling : Effects of Short Training and Individual Characteristics of Clients
Abstract : Nondirective counseling is to listen, support, and advise, without directing a client’s course of action. It has been influenced by humanistic theories in the tradition of Carl Rogers, but techniques used in nondirective counseling are common in many forms of psychological counseling and treatment today. READ MORE
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2. Effects of environmental acoustic factors, individual differences and musical training on speech perception in simulated classrooms
Abstract : Formal learning takes place primarily through speech perception in classroom environments and is therefore dependent on the listener’s ability to cope with a number of acoustic factors that interfere with the speech signal. As classrooms are inclusive spaces accommodating learners with a broad range of abilities and backgrounds, this research investigated some of the ways in which individual differences in supporting cognitive skills are related to speech perception outcomes in various challenging acoustic environments. READ MORE
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3. Employees with Aided Hearing Impairment : An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Abstract : In Sweden 13% of the general adult population (16-84 years), with or without hearing aids (HAs), report that they have difficulties following a conversation when more than two people are involved. This means that more than one million people in Sweden (9 500 000 inhabitants in total) report subjective hearing difficulties. READ MORE
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4. Literacy an comprehension in school-aged children: Studies on autism and other developmental disabilities
Abstract : The present thesis consists of five studies and addresses literacy and comprehension skills in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD, including Asperger’s disorder) and, to a lesser extent, attention disorders (eg. Attention Deficits Hyperactivity Disorder; ADHD). READ MORE
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5. Instructional work in textile craft : Studies of interaction, embodiment and the making of objects
Abstract : The focus for this thesis is instructions and their role in guiding students’ activities and understandings in the context of textile craft. The empirical material consists of video recordings of courses in textile craft offered as part of teacher education programs. READ MORE