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CCC-SLP, Director of the Lavi Institute for Research and Professional Development, USA

Biography

Dr. Adriana Lavi is a Director of the Lavi Institute for Research and Professional Development, USA.Dr. Adriana Lavi has published numerous research papers and articles in reputed journals and has various other achievements in the related studies. Dr. Adriana Lavi has extended valuable service towards the scientific community with extensive research work.

Publications

• Research Article   
  The Efficacy of a Visual Auditory Bombardment Intervention (VABI) Versus Traditional Video Modeling Intervention (VMI) in Students with Pragmatic Language Impairments
  Author(s): Adriana Lavi*
  
  Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Asperger Syndrome (AS), and Social Communication Disorder (SCD) have deficits in the area of pragmatic (i.e., social) language. Individuals may have difficulty staying on topic, changing topic, providing appropriate comments/questions, using appropriate eye contact, and interpreting and utilizing nonverbal language such as facial expressions, gestures, as well as, changes in prosody/intonation. As speech and language assessments have become more distinguished, intervention approaches have also become more specialized. The current study aims to evaluate a visual auditory bombardment intervention (VABI) designed to target pragmatic language and compare this intervention to a traditional video modeling (VMI) condition, as well as a no-treatment condition (CON). Results of the current study revealed significant differences between the VABI .. View More»
  

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