FROM INFANCY TO THE ELDERLY: COMMUNICATION THROUGHOUT THE AGES -- FROM INFANCY TO THE ELDERLY: COMMUNICATION THROUGHOUT THE AGES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 SOUND SPECTROGRAPHIC CRY ANALYSIS AND MOTHERS PERCEPTION OF THEIR INFANT'S CRYING -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- CRY RECORDING AND ANALYSIS -- SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY -- Durational Features -- Latency Period -- Duration -- Second Pause -- Crying Time -- Fundamental Frequency Characteristics -- Maximum Fundamental Frequency -- Minimum Fundamental Frequency -- Shift -- Mean Fundamental Frequency -- Melody Type -- Continuity of the Signal -- Voice -- Vibrato -- Glottal Roll -- Double Harmonic Break -- Biphonation or Diplophonation -- Gliding -- Furcation -- Noise Concentration -- Jitter -- Glottal Plosive -- CRYING OF HEALTHY NEWBORN INFANTS -- CRYING OF PREMATURES -- ANALYSIS OF CRIES IN ONE DAY TO TWO MONTHS OLD INFANTS -- Material and Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- CRYING OF NEWBORN INFANTS WITH DIFFERENT DISEASES -- PERCEPTION OF CRYING -- PERSISTENT INFANT CRYING -- A STUDY OF MOTHERS' PERCEPTION OF CRYING -- Material and Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 THE ROLE OF SYMBOLIC PLAY IN EARLY LITERACY DEVELOPMENT -- ABSTRACT -- EARLY LITERACY -- LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND EARLY LITERACY IN SYMBOLIC PLAY AND VARIOUS PRESCHOOL ACTIVITIES -- CHILD'S LANGUAGE IN THE CONTEXT OF PRESCHOOL CURRICULUM: A SLOVENIAN STUDY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 AGING AND THE USE OF ELECTRONIC SPEECH GENERATING DEVICES IN THE HOSPITAL SETTING -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- STUDY METHOD -- Design -- Procedure -- Instruments -- Patient Characteristics -- Outcome Measures -- Setting/Sample -- Data Analysis -- RESULTS -- Patient Characteristics -- Communication Frequency and Content -- SGD Usage -- Communication Quality -- Communication Ease.

Satisfaction with SGDs -- Barriers to Communication with SGDs -- Study Limitations -- CONCLUSION -- Patient Characteristics -- SGD Usage Patterns and Message Content -- Communication Quality -- Ease -- Satisfaction with SGDs -- Barriers to SGD Use -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FUNDING -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 UNHEARD EMOTIONS AND UNSEEN DEPRESSION: IMPROVING CAREGIVER AWARENESS OF DEMENTIA PATIENTS' AFFECTS -- ABSTRACT -- AFFECT IN DEMENTIA -- THE EFFECTS OF CAREGIVER-PATIENT RELATIONSHIPS ON PATIENT SYMPTOMATOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR -- IDENTIFYING DEPRESSED MOOD IN LATE-STAGE DEMENTIA -- TREATING THE CAREGIVER-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 ASSESSING THE END-OF-LIFE-CARE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF ELDERLY DEAF PERSONS: LESSONS ON LANGUAGE AND CULTURE FOR RESEARCHERS AND HEALTH PRACTITIONERS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION: THE LESSONS INSPIRING COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH -- COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH -- HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND THE DEAF COMMUNITY -- SIGNED LANGUAGE AND DEAF CULTURE -- Implications of Signed Language for Health Research and Care -- Health Literacy and Deaf Culture -- Signed Language and Community-Based Participatory Research -- THE STUDY -- Overview -- Using CBPR to Develop the Questionnaire -- GLOSS-Successful Interview Training and Reliable Data -- Adaptation of Likert Scales -- Questionnaire Layout -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- Blank Page.