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Pérez-Sánchez, María del Carmen; González-Nosti, María; Cuetos, Fernando; Álvarez-Cañizo, Marta – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: The expressiveness during reading is essential for a fluent reading. Reading prosody has been scarcely studied in an experimental manner, owing to the difficulties in taking objective and direct measures of this reading skill. However, new technologies development has made it possible to analyse reading prosody in an experimental way.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Neurological Impairments, Reading Fluency
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Alonso-Campuzano, Cristina; Iandolo, Giuseppe; Filosofi, Fabio; Tardivo, Angela; Sosa-González, Noelia; Pasqualotto, Angela; Venuti, Paola – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: Collaborative storytelling can be a helpful tool to promote cognitive and social skills in adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders. Aims: The current study aimed to explore the benefits of collaborative storytelling using traditional (TST), digital (DST), and tangible digital (TDST) methodologies. Materials and Methods: Fourteen…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Cooperation, Adolescents, Neurological Impairments
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Bausela Herreras, Esperanza – SAGE Open, 2019
The Behaviour Rating Inventory of Executive Function--Preschool Version (BRIEF-P) is a hand-storable instrument that permits evaluation of the executive functions in children between the ages of 2 years and 5 years 11 months by parents, teachers, or other usual child caregivers, thus facilitating early intervention. It is a standardized…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Behavior Rating Scales, Executive Function, Preschool Children
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Merker, Sören; Reif, Andreas; Ziegler, Georg C.; Weber, Heike; Mayer, Ute; Ehlis, Ann-Christine; Conzelmann, Annette; Johansson, Stefan; Müller-Reible, Clemens; Nanda, Indrajit; Haaf, Thomas; Ullmann, Reinhard; Romanos, Marcel; Fallgatter, Andreas J.; Pauli, Paul; Strekalova, Tatyana; Jansch, Charline; Vasquez, Alejandro Arias; Haavik, Jan; Ribasés, Marta; Ramos-Quiroga, Josep Antoni; Buitelaar, Jan K.; Franke, Barbara; Lesch, Klaus-Peter – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2017
Background: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common, highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorder with profound cognitive, behavioral, and psychosocial impairments with persistence across the life cycle. Our initial genome-wide screening approach for copy number variants (CNVs) in ADHD implicated a duplication of…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Neurological Impairments, Genetic Disorders, Physiology
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Blázquez Arribas, Leticia; Barros del Río, María Amor; Alcalde Peñalver, Elena; Sigona, Concetta Maria – Teaching English with Technology, 2020
This article analyzes the current situation of English language teaching (more particularly TESOL) to adults with Special Educational Needs (hereinafter SEN) in Spain from a double perspective. On the one hand, a qualitative study on teaching experiences with adult students with some type of disability is presented. The conclusions of this study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Rossi, Christy C.; Fuentes, Joaquin; Van de Water, Judy; Amaral, David G. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
Previous investigations found that a subset of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in California possessed plasma autoantibodies that reacted intensely with brain interneurons or other neural profiles. Moreover, for several cohorts of American women, maternal autoantibody reactivity to specific fetal brain proteins was highly specific to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Rivera-Navarro, Jesús; Cubo, Esther; Almazán, Javier – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2014
This article analyzes the perceptions of Spanish health professionals, children with Tourette's Syndrome (TS) and their parents about social, school and family problems related to the disorder. A qualitative research methodology was used involving Focus Groups (FGs) made up of children with TS (× 2 FGs), parents/caregivers of persons with TS (× 2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neurological Impairments, Allied Health Personnel, Childhood Attitudes
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Cuetos, Fernando; Samartino, Tamara; Ellis, Andrew W. – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2012
Age of acquisition is possibly the single most potent variable affecting lexical access. It is also a variable that determines the retention or loss of words in patients who have suffered brain injury, and in patients with Alzheimer's disease. But the norms of age of acquisition currently available have largely been obtained from university…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Diseases, Young Adults, Older Adults
Gadea, Marien; Martinez-Bisbal, M. Carmen; Marti-Bonmati, Luis; Espert, Raul; Casanova, Bonaventura; Coret, Francisco; Celda, Bernardo – Brain, 2004
Lower levels of N-acetylaspartate (NAA), a marker of axonal damage, have been found in the normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) patients with low physical disability. However, its relation to the clinical status of these patients remains unclear. We explored the association between NAA levels…
Descriptors: Physical Disabilities, Mild Disabilities, Attention, Cognitive Ability
Colomer, Marta; And Others – 1984
The monograph describes efforts carried out in the Department of Work Therapy of a center for cerebral paralysis in Barcelona, Spain. The rehabilitation program incorporated music and movement in an attempt to develop the musical ear, sensitivity, and a sensorial education. The program stresses rhythm, melody, harmony, voice, musical audition, and…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Foreign Countries, Motor Development, Movement Education
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Escoin Homs, Jordi – Educational Media International, 1993
Reviews the potential use of computer technology for the education, training, and occupational placement of people with severe motor neurone disorders (e.g., cerebral palsy) based on experiences in a program in Spain. Highlights include computer literacy, computer-assisted teaching, quality of output, software development, synthesized speech, and…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Information, Adult Learning, Artificial Speech