Karen M Devries SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
1000 OAKLAND DR FL 3 KALAMAZOO MI, 49008About
Dr. Karen Devries is a speech language pathologist practicing in KALAMAZOO, MI. Dr. Devries specializes in speech, language and swallowing disorders in patients. As a speech language pathologist, Dr. Devries evaluates, diagnoses and treats patients with communication and swallowing troubles. These conditions may be due to developmental delay, brain injury, hearing loss, autism, stroke or other diseases and injuries. Dr. Devries helps patients make sounds and improve their voices through various methods. Speech language pathologists also work with patients to strengthen muscles used to speak and swallow, and work with individuals and families to help cope with their conditions.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Smoking cessation for pregnant women: current Canadian programs and future development.
- Factors associated with condom use among Aboriginal people: a systematic review.
- Factors associated with the sexual behavior of Canadian Aboriginal young people and their implications for health promotion.
- Factors associated with pregnancy and STI among Aboriginal students in British Columbia.
- 'I told him not to use condoms': masculinities, femininities and sexual health of Aboriginal Canadian young people.
- Do messages of scarcity increase trial recruitment?
- Intimate partner violence during pregnancy: analysis of prevalence data from 19 countries.
- Are those who join a trial in response to a scarcity message more likely to drop out?
- Boyfriends and booty calls: sexual partnership patterns among Canadian Aboriginal young people.
- Preventing smoking relapse using text messages: analysis of data from the txt2stop trial.
- Intimate partner violence and incident depressive symptoms and suicide attempts: a systematic review of longitudinal studies.
- The Good Schools Toolkit to prevent violence against children in Ugandan primary schools: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.
- School violence, mental health, and educational performance in Uganda.
- Intimate partner violence victimization and alcohol consumption in women: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Associations between intimate partner violence and health among men who have sex with men: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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