background: autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that onset in the first 3 years of life and led to lifelong disability.despite the early onset of symptoms, diagnosis of thissyndromedoes not happenuntil severalyears later, somany childrenlosethe opportunityfor earlyintervention.there arevarious toolsforscreening anddiagnosis, buttheirdesign, strengths and weaknesses aredifferent. the aim of ...

objective to determine the changes in thyroid function tests in children who underwent antiepileptic therapy in shahid beheshti hospital, kashan, in 2008. materials & methods this analytical-observational study was carried out in a cohort fashion without an external control group (self controlled) on 45 children with new onset epilepsy who had not been previously treated with antiepileptic medi...

Objectives: Phonological awareness is an extensive skill for detecting, manipulating, or analyzing the components of oral language, apart from their referents. The phonological awareness consists of different levels from the simplest to the most difficult level. We considered two Persian phonological awareness tests (visual and auditory) with different subtests. This research aimed to investiga...

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the authenticity of IELTS academic tests. Bachman and Palmer (1996, p. 23) define authenticity as “the degree of correspondence of the characteristics of a given language test task to the features of a target language task”. Authenticity is then an important aspect of testing since it describes the relationship between the test and the real world. Th...