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van de Velde, Daan J.; Frijns, Johan H. M.; Beers, Mieke; van Heuven, Vincent J.; Levelt, Claartje C.; Briaire, Jeroen; Schiller, Niels O. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: Relative to normally hearing (NH) peers, the speech of children with cochlear implants (CIs) has been found to have deviations such as a high fundamental frequency, elevated jitter and shimmer, and inadequate intonation. However, two important dimensions of prosody (temporal and spectral) have not been systematically investigated. Given…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Gender Differences, Hearing Impairments
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van den Heuvel-Panhuizen, Marja; Elia, Iliada; Robitzsch, Alexander – Educational Psychology, 2016
This article describes a field experiment with a pretest-posttest control group design which investigated the potential of reading picture books to children for supporting their mathematical understanding. The study involved 384 children from 18 kindergarten classes in 18 schools in the Netherlands. During three months, the children in the nine…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Kindergarten, Mathematics Achievement, Pretests Posttests
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Peters-Scheffer, Nienke; Didden, Robert; Sigafoos, Jeff; Green, Vanessa A.; Korzilius, Hubert – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2013
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have particular difficulty with behavioral flexibility, but the knowledge base on behavioral flexibility in children with a diagnosis of ASD plus intellectual disability (ID) compared to children with ID only is still scarce. The aim of the present study was to assess behavioral flexibility in 111…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Adjustment (to Environment), Interpersonal Relationship, Autism
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Houtveen, Thoni; van de Grift, Wim – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2012
In The Netherlands, the percentage of struggling readers in the 1st year of formal reading instruction is about 25%. This problem inspired us to develop the Reading Acceleration Programme. To evaluate the effectiveness of this programme, a quasi-experiment is carried out. The teachers in the experimental group have been trained to improve their…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Sentences, Foreign Countries, Followup Studies
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Zachariah-Wolff, J. Leslie; Hemmes, Kas – Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 2006
Interest in a hydrogen economy has grown significantly in the past decade. However, the success of old technologies that are being re-engineered to work on hydrogen, as well as the creation of new hydrogen-based technologies, hinges upon public interest in and demand for such technologies. With increasing investments in the research and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economics, Research and Development, Energy