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Rüsseler, Jascha; Arendt, Denise; Münte, Thomas F.; Mohammadi, Bahram; Boltzmann, Melanie – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
Testing language abilities is common in the context of migration. It has been observed that approximately 6.2 million adults in Germany are low literate and that approximately 47% of this group does not have German as their L1. Similar findings have been reported for other modern Western societies with compulsory schooling and a well-developed…
Descriptors: Literacy, Illiteracy, Reading Ability, Brain
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Shriver, A. S.; Canady, J.; Richman, L.; Andreasen, N. C.; Nopoulos, P. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2006
Background: In a previous study from our lab, adult males with non-syndromic cleft lip and/or palate (NSCLP) were shown to have significantly lower temporal lobe gray matter volume than matched controls. The current study was designed to begin a regional analysis of specific subregions of the temporal lobe. The superior temporal plane (STP) is a…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Language Tests, Congenital Impairments, Intelligence Quotient