purpose : design and establishment of persian near reading card for clinical use and practice methods : at first, card dimension, word and character size and specifications were calculated. then, english near reading card, richmond product inc, was considered as a template. context and syntax contribute to reading accuracy and efficacy of the richmond card was considered for designed persian ca...

Purpose To develop and validate the Functional Reading Independence (FRI) Index, a new patient-reported outcome measure assessing reading activities in individuals with geographic atrophy (GA) due to age-related macular degeneration. Methods The Index was developed through expert consultation and qualitative patient interviews. Reliability, validity, and responsiveness were tested with data f...

In the analysis by Brown and colleagues that compared the current rnammography reading policy at St. Margaret's Hospital (double reading with consensus required for recall) with 2 alternative hypothetical strategies, the authors showed that the current strategy used is the most cost-effective. 2 elements of this study must he considered when attempting to generalise the conclusions to other set...

There is some evidence for a role of music training in boosting phonological awareness, word segmentation, working memory, as well as reading abilities in children with typical development. Poor performance in tasks requiring temporal processing, rhythm perception and sensorimotor synchronization seems to be a crucial factor underlying dyslexia in children. Interestingly, children with dyslexia...

In the analysis by Brown and colleagues that compared the current rnammography reading policy at St. Margaret's Hospital (double reading with consensus required for recall) with 2 alternative hypothetical strategies, the authors showed that the current strategy used is the most cost-effective. 2 elements of this study must he considered when attempting to generalise the conclusions to other set...

This article presents a critical analysis of empirical studies assessing literacy and other domains of academic achievement among children with cochlear implants. A variety of recent studies have demonstrated benefits to hearing, language, and speech from implants, leading to assumptions that early implantation and longer periods of implant should be associated with higher reading and academic ...

Abstract Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have consistently showed poor performances in reading comprehension. Extending from previous studies that presented pure-text, this study aims to test the of graphic novel reading. We tested 24 Chinese children who been diagnosed as DLD and typical readers matched age nonverbal IQ. These were asked complete a battery tests assessing c...

Clinical trials are a relatively underused form of investigation in family medicine. This paper presents an overview of those considering conducting or assessing a clinical trial. A bibliography for further reading is also provided. Topics covered include aspects of: the development of a protocol; design such as randomization and binding; the special role of non-drug studies in family medicine;...

Short answer questions for reading comprehension are a common task in foreign language learning. Automatic short answer scoring is the task of automatically assessing the semantic content of a student’s answer, marking it e.g. as correct or incorrect. While previous approaches mainly focused on comparing a learner answer to some reference answer provided by the teacher, we explore the use of th...

Tasks assessing perception of a phonemic contrast based on voice onset time (VOT) and a nonspeech analog of a VOT contrast using tone onset time (TOT) were administered to children (ages 7.5 to 15.9 years) identified as having reading disability (RD; n 5 21), attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD; n 5 22), comorbid RD and ADHD (n 5 26), or no impairment (NI; n 5 26). Children with RD, ...