Electronic thesis

Collection of nine short stories in which the theme of absence both unifies and distinguishes the stories, influencing the narratives in varying degrees: parents, communication, adulthood, requited love, and objects with sentimental value are examples of absences in effect. --Abstract.

First six chapters of a novel about Kikai Sato, a Japanese-American bookmaker struggling to make it in New York. She is asked by Akiyo, her yakuza-boss brother, to return to Kyoto to do him one last favor: Take out their father's eyes and return them to him for a cash reward.--Abstract.

"This collection of stories explores our fraught relationship with the past, and the ways in which we try to reconcile our memories--those elusive, shimmery ghosts--with the often dim, unsatisfactory present. In their examination of the intricate threads which bind us to our bygone days, these stories are at once an elegy for times and selves lost, and a celebration of that which urges us onward." --Abstract.

"Otherisms is a website featuring short videos covering topics that don't receive widespread coverage from mainstream media. This website combines the power of storytelling and journalism to deliver content in a non-traditional format. "Otherisms" is an umbrella term denoting the various systemic processes, in conjunction with white supremacy, which contribute to the "othering" of Black/African Americans, leaving them at a social, economic and political disadvantage." --Abstract.

"This single case study investigated speech and language outcomes for an adult with aphasia and apraxia of speech after she participated in treatment using modified Motor Learning Guided (mMLG) treatment delivered via telepractice...Overall findings suggest that a combined speech and language approach, as represented in mMLG, yielded improved outcomes in language and comprehensibility for [the] client." --Abstract.

"Overcoming is a documentary in which Traumatic Brain Injury survivors delve into the experience after having sustained such an injury, supported by facts from medical professionals about TBI. The documentary explores how the TBI survivors cope with the consequences and what keeps them going." --Abstract.

"Oyate is an observational nonfiction film about life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. The movie follows three families as they go about their daily activities over the course of a single summer. Meanwhile, the difficult realities of modern reservation life encroach upon them." --Abstract.

"Paper Dolls is a collection of nine personal essays exploring author Catie Joy's emotional and political growth, from early childhood to emerging adulthood. Several linked essays in the collection trace the author's coming of age as a domestic adoptee." --Abstract.

"Para Las Latinas is a collection of short stories told in multiple perspectives on the themes of identity, womanhood, misogyny, and culture. My experimentation with point-of-view in this collection ranges from second, roving third, and omniscient to gain a deeper sense of characters, plot, and societal commentary. The collection challenges the reader to enter worlds they are uncomfortable or unfamiliar with through bilingualism, relationship dynamics, and setting." -- Abstract

"The purpose of this study is to determine whether parents of children with ASD offer a similar quality of linguistic complexity to their children as parents of typically developing children and if they coordinate structural aspects of their speech in relation to the expressive language abilities of their child." --Abstract.

Communication development may be best represented in terms of the parent-child dyad, reflecting the cyclical nature of parent-child communication. The construct of "parental mind-mindedness" examines the parent-child dyad to describe parent sensitivity to and verbalization about a child's mental state. This research sought to elucidate differences in parental mind-mindedness within family, between siblings, and according to the clarity of child communication. --Abstract.