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.
Not exact matches
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.