Background: This study aimed to assess the knowledge and perception of the role of speech therapists by other medical professionals in public hospitals. Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited 200 healthcare professionals with >1year of job experience at the workplace of both genders and any age. Besides, the study subjects were selected using a non-probability convenience sampling appro...

Accent bias is a consequence of ethnocentrism. No studies have examined accent bias across educational levels in the U.S., much less across students and professionals in speech language pathology (SLP), a field that requires multicultural sensitivity training. This study examines nonnative accent perception among three groups—high schoolers, SLP students, and SLP professionals. One-hundred-and-...

For the International Association for the Study of Pain, pain is defined as: « an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage » (IASP 1979). Acute pain is useful and protective because it is an alarm signal and for the safeguarding of bodily integrity, in contrast to chronic pain. However, when the pain is r...

The Ethiopian development plans have dealt with education sector as a key strategic pillar. There have been a lot of educational efforts. Especially to cope with lack of qualified teachers, lack of good teaching models, and remote rural regions separated from educational benefits, Ethiopian Ministry of Education has made efforts in utilizing educational media such as satellite TV program for im...

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This past decade saw the birth of AIMAC, the International Association for Arts and Cultural Management, which held its fifth conference at the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, following previous conferences in Montreal, Paris–Jouy-en-Josas, London and San Francisco. With this birth, the question arises as to the possibility of the emergence of a new discipline – that o...

國際教育學習成就調查委員會(The International Association for the Evaluation of Education Achievement, 以下簡稱 IEA)[20]主要目的在於了解各國學生數學及科學(含物理、化 學、生物、及地球科學)方面學習成就、教育環境等,影響學生的因素,找出關聯性, 並在國際間相互作比較。自 1970 年起開始第一次國際數學與科學教育成就調查後,世 界各國逐漸對國際數學與科學教育成就研究感到興趣,IEA 便在 1995 年開始每四年辦 理國際數學與科學教育成就研究一次,稱為國際數學與科學教育成就趨勢調查(Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study,以下簡稱 TIMSS ),至今已辦理過 1995、 1999、2003 和 2007 共四屆,共有 38 個國家參加。