Sentences with phrase «for language impairments»

Few treatments for language impairments have been developed, White said, because scientists have only a poor understanding of the molecular basis for vocal communication.

Led by Professor Norbury, SCALES is the first UK population study of risk for language impairment at school entry.

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There, she developed and taught a language enrichment program for all kindergartners in the district and provided speech and language therapy for the two special education classes, as well as serving those students from kindergarten to sixth grade having articulation, fluency, voice, cleft palate, hearing impairment and language delays.

As Larry Leverenz, Ph.D, ATC, a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 study (4) that was the first to identify such athletes noted, because such athletes have not suffered damage to areas of the brain associated with language and auditory processing, they are unlikely to exhibit clinical signs of head injury (such as headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memory.

Effective Communication: The Executive Chamber will generally, upon request, provide appropriate aids and services leading to effective communication for qualified persons with disabilities so they can participate equally in Executive Chamber programs, services, and activities, including qualified sign language interpreters, documents in braille, and other ways of making information and communications accessible to people who have speech, hearing, or vision impairments.

Indeed, research suggests that it not only remains largely intact but also compensates for diverse impairments in five common conditions that are rarely studied in conjunction: autism spectrum disorder, obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD), Tourette's syndrome, dyslexia and developmental language disorder (which is often referred to as specific language impairment, or SLI).

«You need language for jobs, for negotiating with people, for problem - solving — so people with language impairments are at much greater risk of not being to get or maintain employment,» she says.

A new Concordia study goes further, however, focusing specifically on the effects of knowing a second language for patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI; a risk state for AD).

A new study published in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry, by researchers at Cardiff University School of Medicine and the University of Bristol, suggests that there is a spectrum of attention, hyperactivity / impulsiveness and language function in society, with varying degrees of these impairments associated with clusters of genes linked with the risk for ADHD.

Inclov also accommodates for certain impairments, by providing larger text, different colours for colour blind singles, a video call feature for those who use sign language, and voice notes to help people who may not be able to type.

His cutesy - wounded affection for his son, who suffers a hearing impairment, doubles the maudlin factor and gives us the groan - inducing running motif of father and son gesturing the sign language for «I love you forever.»

In 2005, we began a new program to for Miami - Dade Public Schools to introduce students with autism, learning disabilities, and visual, physical, language and emotional impairments to dance instruction by developing a new and unique dance residency program.

Lesaux's research focuses on the reading development and the health and well - being of children who are at risk for learning difficulties, including children from language - minority and low socioeconomic backgrounds, and children with language impairments.

A training booklet describing many strategies for the most common additional learning needs I have come across in schools and FE colleges, including Autism, behavioural issues, hearing / visual impairments, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, handwriting difficulties and language needs.

Other provisions that lend a more credible basis to the view that inclusive education has been promoted in the Act, are provisions such as Section 28 which provides for designing and developing new assistive devices, teaching aids, special teaching materials and other such items necessary to provide «equal opportunities in education'to a child with disability; and clauses (f), (g), (h) of Section 29, which provides for suitable modification in the examination system through elimination of purely mathematical questions for the benefit of blind students and those with low vision (f); restructuring of curriculum for the benefit of children with disabilities (g); restructuring the curriculum for benefit of students with hearing impairment to facilitate them to take only one language as part of their curriculum (h).

In related work, Morgan et al. have investigated the relationship between race and special education services for speech or language impairments and found similar patterns.

The district classification rate for specific learning disability (SLD) and speech - language impairment (SLI) combined was no more than one percentage point above the state combined rate as reported in the fall of 2010 (approximately 9 %)

The speech and language therapist may provide direct service or consultation for children who have articulation, fluency or language impairments.

Imagine Learning is a great tool used at Lafayette for our English Language Learners and Special Education scholars, particularly those identified with a specific learning disability in reading comprehension and / or a language impairment.

The John Cardinal O'Connor School is a private Catholic school dedicated to providing an affordable, language - based academic curriculum for children in grades 2 — 8 with learning disabilities, speech or language impairments or other health impairments.

The Nate Rogers Scholarship for Students with Disabilities Program, which provides a voucher for students with speech - language impairments.

Computer - supported phonological awareness intervention for kindergarten children with specific language impairment.

Nevertheless, recent studies have begun to question whether incidental instruction through book reading may be substantial enough to significantly boost children's oral vocabulary development.19 Several meta - analyses, for example, have reported only small to moderate effects of book reading on vocabulary development.20 One group of researchers examined the added benefits of dialogic reading, an interactive reading strategy, on children's vocabulary growth and reported only modest gains for 2 - to 3 - year - olds.21 Further, these effects were reduced to negligible levels when children were 4 to 5 years old or when they were at risk for language and literacy impairments.

Oral language impairments also place children at risk for difficulties in reading comprehension.

The matter eventually made its way to the Court of Appeal, which agreed with Ms. Pastore's position that the SABS language did not require marked impairments in all four areas for a catastrophic impairment designation.

Early identification of a hearing impairment is vital, especially for a child's speech and language development.

Evidence - based diagnosis and treatment for specific learning disabilities involving impairments in written and / or oral language.

Parents who have hearing or language impairments or who are experiencing severe mental health concerns (for example, a condition characterized by hallucinations or delusions) may see little to no improvement from PCIT.

During the prenatal and infant periods, families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on families from lower socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills, poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional skills.

PurposeTo determine risk and protective factors for speech and language impairment in early childhood.

Finally, for ease of interpretation, we opted for the ADOS Module classification as a measure of functional language in a sample where the majority of children had basal scores on formal language tests; this precluded a more fine - grained analysis of language impairment as a predictor variable.

To determine risk and protective factors for speech and language impairment in early childhood.