Objectives: Phonemic awareness skills have a significant impact on children speech and language. The purpose of this study was investigating the phonemic awareness skills of children with cochlear implant and normal hearing peers in primary school. Methods: phonemic awareness subscales of phonological awareness test were administered to 30 children with cochlear implantation at the first to ...

Reading and music instruction can form a symbiotic relationship to positively impact lower-elementary literacy increase student engagement. In this action research study, cross-curricular between reading at the 2nd grade elementary level was taught by both teacher. This study employed reading, rhythm, rhyme, instrumentation, writing, physical movement, song benefit students’ phonemic awareness ...

Developmental stuttering is a speech disorder in fluency characterized by repetitions, prolongations, and silent blocks, especially in the initial parts of utterances. Although their symptoms are motor related, people who stutter show abnormal patterns of cerebral hemispheric dominance in both anterior and posterior language areas. It is unknown whether the abnormal functional lateralization in...

A large number of studies dealing with phonology have focused their attention on phonological production at the expense of phonological perception which provides the foundation stone for phonological production. This study focuses on phonological perception at phonemic level. The purpose of the study is helping beginning learners improve their perception of the English phonemes which are confus...

BACKGROUND The early exposure to poor social and nutritional conditions may influence cognitive function during adult age. However, the relative impact of these factors has not yet been established and they can vary during the course of life. METHODS Analysis of data from 12,997 participants (35-64 years) of the baseline exams (2008-2010) of the Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil...

PURPOSE In this prospective study, we compared the long-term cognitive and behavioral effects of lamotrigine (LTG) and carbamazepine (CBZ) in patients with newly diagnosed or untreated partial epilepsy. METHODS This was a multicenter, open-label, randomized study that compared monotherapy with LTG and CBZ in newly diagnosed or untreated patients with partial epilepsy. We employed an 8-week ti...

Abstract Objective: To evaluate the clinical utility of Spanish versions memory vs. non-memory instruments in a Spanish-speaking sample; specifically, comparative performance for English amnestic MCI (aMCI) and cognitively unimpaired (CU) elders. Method: 255 Non-Hispanic speakers (NH-ES; 157 CU; 98 aMCI) 201 Hispanic (H-SS; 103 were classified using Clinical Dementia Rating Scale validated cult...

Background: In Parkinson’s disease, deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) or globus pallidus internus (GPi) produces comparable motor benefits. Although both increases risk cognition and verbal fluency (VF) decline, is greater following STN-DBS. The consequences stimulating these different sites on network activity unknown. We use functional magnetic resonance imaging (f...

BACKGROUND Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN DBS) is an increasingly common treatment for Parkinson's disease. Qualitative reviews have concluded that diminished verbal fluency is common after STN DBS, but that changes in global cognitive abilities, attention, executive functions, and memory are only inconsistently observed and, when present, often nominal or transient. We ...