Sentences with phrase «of language deficits»

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One stereotypical knock against conservatives who speak in the language of economics, especially if they focus on deficits, debts and taxes, is that they couldn't care less about the poor.

According to the statute's own language, it was designed with the «purpose of reducing the need for future tax increases, maintaining the highest possible bond rating, reducing the need for short term borrowing, providing available resources to meet State obligations whenever casual deficits or failures in revenue occur, and providing the means of addressing budgetary shortfalls.»

They include «rules of origin,» or the percentage of parts that must be made in North America for a product to qualify for free - trade status; language on how to settle disputes affecting foreign investors; changing Mexican labor standards; and Trump's stated goal of reducing U.S. bilateral trade deficits.

Understanding deficit patterns very early, particularly speech and language delays, cognitive - intellectual deficits, sensory - motor impairments and a rough estimate of the «stage of psychological development or trauma» will help plot out the most appropriate treatment interventions.

and Focus On Transition (two therapeutic programs for individuals with aphasia and cognitive - linguistic deficits), Hear It, Say It, Learn It (a children's program for developing language and literacy), and co-author of a best - selling textbook Acquired Language Disorders: A Case - based Approach, in its 2nd edition.

The DSM - V defines is as having «persistent difficulties in the acquisition and use of language... due to deficits in comprehension or production.»

Laziridis says New Democracy is committed to bringing the deficit down and to «much of the structural change suggested by the troika» but calls some of the proposals «ill - advised» and warns in colourful language that: «if Greece explodes, it will be 100 % blame on those who do not let a country breathe before they operate.»

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Reading research, he observes, has long shown that a key aspect of dyslexia is the child's difficulty in understanding the sounds of language — a deficit that is similar to the faulty number sense seen in dyscalculia.

«We believe that our findings have implications for prediction and diagnosis of later language deficits and for intervention that may improve language skills,» explained lead author Susan Goldin - Meadow, the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in Psychology at the University.

One of Kuhl's first important clues that social deficits might hinder language acquisition in autism came from her 2005 study of «Motherese» — the exaggerated, sing - song baby talk that parents instinctively shower on their children.

People with ASD can have varying levels of impairment across three common areas, which might include: deficits in social interactions and reciprocal understanding, repetitive behaviour and narrow interests, and impairment in language and communication.

Some studies show that children who were exposed to tiny amounts of mercury in utero have slower reflexes, language deficits, and shortened attention spans.

Since 1990, scientists have been studying three generations of the «KE» family, many members of which have an inherited language deficit.

«The results of this study are exciting because this technology has the potential to improve pre-diction of psychosis and ultimately help us prevent psychosis by helping researchers develop re-mediation and training strategies that target the cognitive deficits that may underlie language dis - turbance,» said the study's first author, Cheryl Corcoran, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Program Leader in Psychosis Risk, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Now Cecilia Lai, Simon Fisher and colleagues, reporting in todays Nature, show that a gene on chromosome 7, which they call FOXP2, is mutated in the affected members of the KE family, as well as in an unrelated patient with a similar language deficit.

Deficits in language comprehension, working memory, decision making, or executive function would have prevented successful completion of the imagery tasks.

To test whether clinicoanatomic heterogeneity in AD is driven by the involvement of specific networks, network connectivity was assessed in healthy subjects by seeding regions commonly and specifically atrophied in three clinical AD variants: early - onset AD (age at onset, < 65 y; memory and executive deficits), logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia (language deficits), and posterior cortical atrophy (visuospatial deficits).

The study has argued that it is not just the responsibility of the Department for Education (DfE) alone and that the UK was struggling with a skills deficit on foreign languages that would have «wide - reaching economic, political and military effects».

According to Strickland, despite a great deal of research, there is a persistent notion that a different home language or dialect is an automatic deficit.

Reports repeatedly highlight (and often note as «alarming») the deficit of language learners and teachers.

Deficit and race - based assumptions in Indigenous education: At Thornbury Primary School in Victoria, all students (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) are taught the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people — the traditional owners of the land the school is on.

If you're familiar with Hirsch's work, his many books including The Knowledge Deficit and The Making of Americans; if you understand the connection between background knowledge and language proficiency that he has championed for many decades, then Louisiana's move is as obvious to you as it is overdue.

But Families for Excellent Schools, a charter backer, said they are enrolling an increasing number of kids with disabilities and English - language deficits who are outpacing public - school students.

These results suggest that a partial remediation of language - processing deficits, resulting in improved reading, ameliorates disrupted function in brain regions associated with phonological processing and produces additional compensatory activation in other brain regions.

These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological component of language that is often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities and the provision of effective classroom instruction.

Assuming that all students leave high school fully fluent in English, these considerations suggest that the optimal choice of language acquisition program depends on a tradeoff between acquiring curricular skills on the one hand and accumulating language deficits on the other.

This is because clearing the language deficit leaves less of their time for everything else (including math).

«Deficits in reading and language skills due to poor classroom acoustics are cumulative the effects of poor classroom acoustics on the very young student can be devastating.»

Proposition 58 seeks to overturn this flaw in the system and build upon the natural assets of English language learners — their home language and culture — as the foundation for their education, rather than treating it as a deficit.

Impairment to language acquisition because of excessive noise during classroom instruction also can lead to deficits in reading skills according to a study by Evans, G. W. and Maxwell, L. First - and second - grade students exposed to chronic noise scored lower on standardized reading tests taken in quiet conditions.

The large majority of students with disabilities are classified as having relatively mild disabilities like dyslexia, speech and language impairments and attention deficit disorders.

While each of these studies may have specific methodological strengths and weaknesses, in general there is some evidence that higher incidences of reading and / or language deficits are seen in such occupations or expertise.

Exclusion factors such as mental retardation, sensory deficits, serious emotional disturbance, language minority children (where lack of proficiency in English accounts for measured achievement deficits), and lack of opportunity to learn should be considered.

Palmer acknowledged a much wider range of potential resource deficits, including class size, language instruction, technology, intervention for at - risk students, and a safe and secure learning environment.

The use of assistive technology and an array of other ever - present tools help bridge deficits in executive function and language processing and allow students to learn and explore in a manner consistent with their skills and interests.

(g) Language development and communication skills to include normal sequence of expressive and receptive language development and identification of communication deficits and appropriate interventions;

For a big question like the rating of the US Government, the language has been negative for a decade or more, ever since we went deep into permanent deficit mode.

That makes five years in a row that the size of the deficit has shrunk, or in non-government language, not grown as much as it did the year before.

Artists will learn: - Methods of organizing community around social impact through arts and culture emphasizing available assets over deficits - Tools and activities to engage dialogue, break down barriers, and create a shared language among key stakeholders - Incorporation of art into city planning and urban development - How to negotiate, read / build contracts, and build robust budgets that both account for all aspects of project expense, including artist fee, and reflect the story of your project to funders and stakeholders.

Documenta faces deficit of $ 7 million following 14th edition Documenta 14 has run significantly over budget, leaving the parent company that runs the quinquennial art exhibition with a deficit of around $ 7 million, reports local German newspaper Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine (German language article).

Documenta team issues statement defending financial management Earlier this week it was reported (German language article) that this year's edition of Documenta had left the parent company responsible for the quinquennial art exhibition with a deficit of around $ 7 million, and awaiting confirmation of a cash bailout from the city of Kassel and the state of Hesse.

Since the Combines represented a profound shift in pictorial language, they also exposed the deficits in the critical terms of art history, and as such posed a formidable challenge to the discipline's leaders.

Using language that echoes popular blogs and books, and that offers a deficit - model view of science policy and public understanding, the small group of rapid - response scientists appears to view the climate change issue via the prism of a partisan - fueled «war,» one that pits science versus «anti-science.»

Skills listed on example resumes of Speech Pathologists include treating children with speech and language deficits in their homes, and participating in social events with patients and their families.

• Assist pediatric patients who have deficits in the areas of swallowing / feeding, voice production, speech sound articulation, language comprehension or expression, and fluency.

We can also teach a child with social skills deficits to recognize non-verbal social cues and the meaning of colloquial and idiomatic language (so they don't take certain statements expressed by their peers too seriously or literally), and to initiate and sustain appropriate conversations with peers and adults.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

Professor Kerry Arabena, Chair of Indigenous Health at The University of Melbourne, admonished some conference presenters for using deficit language and framing, describing the trauma this inflicts upon Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Things that they've looked at is higher levels of aggression, poor sleep patterns, higher stress, worse vocabulary and language deficits, more conduct disorders, conduct problems, more issues around attention deficit hyperactivity symptoms.