To investigate the effects of different glossing conventions on vocabulary recognition and recall, 158 participants were given a pre-test to make sure that they did not have any prior knowledge of the target words. Reading passages with four different glossing conventions (interlinear, marginal, pre-text, and post-text) were given to eight groups. Four groups received interlingual glosses and f...

The present study is an in-depth examination of receptive vocabulary in individuals with Down syndrome (DS) in comparison to control groups of individuals of similar nonverbal ability with typical development (TD) and non-specific etiology intellectual disability (ID). Verb knowledge was of particular interest, as it is known to be a predictor of later syntactic development. Fifty participants ...

introduction: in early typical language development, children understand words before they are able to use them in speech. children with autism spectrum disorders (asd) generally show impairments in both the comprehension and the production of language. however, the relative degree of delay or impairment in each of these sub-domains may also be atypical and remains less well-understood. materia...

introduction: the purpose of this study was comparison of three different methods of presenting tv programs and their impacts on receptive language of deaf people in two stages of consideration in isfahanian population. (1- providing program by sign language and lip reading method; presented by a deaf interpreter 2- providing program by lip reading method; presented by a tv broadcaster 3- provi...