Date of Award

5-2024

Degree Type

Honors College Thesis

Academic Program

Speech Pathology and Audiology BA

Department

Speech and Hearing Sciences

First Advisor

Audra Classen, Ph.D.

Second Advisor

Steven Cloud, Ph.D.

Advisor Department

Child and Family Studies; Speech and Hearing Sciences

Abstract

This author aims to determine the speech-language pathologist’s perspective on the use of full-body movements during speech therapy sessions with children with autism. A survey was distributed to speech-language pathologists and speech-language pathology aides/ speech-language teachers. The author used the source, Qualtrics, to obtain and analyze data. The findings of the current study were promising, as most speech-language pathologists were incorporating full body-movements and reported beliefs that this positively impacted children’s engagement. This study provided additional knowledge about the benefits of using full-body movements in speech treatment sessions and some insight on how much time is misused when full-body movements are not utilized.

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