Sentences with phrase «language comprehension processes»

In the Australian study, participating staff were trained to administer Catch Up sessions, before working with two or three students using a book - based approach to activate two dimensions of reading — word recognition processes (including phonics) and language comprehension processes.

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But it is now clear that the right hemisphere plays a significant role in language processing as well, and that language comprehension and production involve many regions of the brain.
This release is based on the findings from from «Using electroencephalography to characterise shallow processing in language comprehension», funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and carried out by Professor Hartmut Leuthold and Professor Anthony Sandford at Glasgow University.
A postmortem analysis of human brain tissue, for example, conducted by Witelson and her colleagues at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster, revealed that women's neurons were 11 percent denser than men's in the prefrontal cortex and in a region of the temporal cortex that is involved with language processing, comprehension, and memory.
Misdiagnosis commonly happens when students start learning to read in the first and second grades, and as English - language learners continue through the grade levels, the demand for the application of such executive control processes such as working memory and language increases as reading comprehension requirements become more complex.
Older test takers are equally capable of other tasks that do not depend on speed, such as language comprehension and processing.
«Reading comprehension is a very complex process that draws mainly upon one's oral language skills,» says Lesaux.
The program trains subjects by using seven computer - based training exercises that emphasize different aspects of oral language, including auditory attention, discrimination, and memory, as well as phonological processing and listening comprehension.
Instruction in problem - solving skills should put less stress on understanding of cue words and more on situated language comprehension and information processing, because cue words sometimes misguide students.
Effective use of school time is especially important in all areas of learning connected with the advancement of language comprehension, which is inherently a slow process.
This study was funded by the Children's Foundation and involved measuring the relationship between brain processing of speech sounds, nonverbal emotion recognition, and other social - emotional comprehension skills in both typically - developing children and children with a range of clinical diagnoses (e.g., ASD, ADHD, reading disorders, language disorders) who are in grades K - 3.
I provide detailed interventions and recommendations that target specific cognitive processes (e.g., working memory, processing speed, planning, organization, etc.), higher level language and comprehension skills, and basic academic skills required for efficient learning.
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