PURPOSE This study investigated the impact of syntactic complexity and task demands on construction of utterances using picture communication symbols by participants from 3 age groups with no communication disorders. METHOD Participants were 30 children (7;0 [years;months] to 8;11), 30 teenagers (12;0 to 13;11), and 30 adults (18 years and above). All participants constructed graphic symbol u...

ABSTRACT Purpose: to verify family literacy practices with preschoolers from a public school in municipality of the Northeast Region Brazil. Methods: 21 parents/guardians pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students participated this study. A questionnaire 18 items on parents’/guardians’ participation was develop for research. The resulting data underwent descriptive inferential analysis, signifi...

This study investigates the provision of two types auditory elaborative automated digital feedback (metalinguistic and informational) in context a game for reading skills development English as foreign language. Nineteen 11-year-old Spanish-Catalan school children played through minigames while their eye-movements were tracked. When they made an error, received either metalinguistic or informat...