E-Learning promotes the exchange of experiences and knowledge that facilitate the learning of students without the time and space restrictions imposed by traditional models. The potential for reusability is a primary attraction for educators when discussing about learning objects. Reusing learning objects is as old as retelling a story or making use of libraries and textbooks. In electronic for...

Aims and objectives: This study was designed to assess whether bilingual caregivers, compared with monolingual modify their nonverbal gestures match the increased communicative and/or cognitive-linguistic demands of language contexts – as would be predicted based on ‘Facilitative Strategy Hypothesis’. Methodology: We examined rate (i.e., representational beat gestures) in caregivers when retell...

Purpose Narrative intervention has not been extensively investigated with children hearing loss, but it shown to improve a broad range of language skills variety disabilities and needs. Therefore, the purpose this study was investigate effect narrative on retelling vocabulary use loss. Method A multiple baseline design (for retelling) repeated acquisition vocabulary) were used fulfill study. Pa...

Abstract Eyewitnesses typically talk about the crimes they have seen. The different ways in which a witness talks can also influence later recollections. Indeed individuals can talk about crimes in order to cope with their negative emotions or to provide a detailed report. In the current study we investigated the role of factual vs. emotional retelling on memory accuracy of individuals who have...

A significant body of evidence from cross-linguistic and developmental studies converges to suggest that co-speech iconic gesture mirrors language. This paper aims to identify whether gesture reflects impaired spoken language in a similar way. Twenty-nine people with aphasia (PWA) and 29 neurologically healthy control participants (NHPs) produced a narrative discourse, retelling the story of a ...

A computer-based Spoken Spanish Test (SST) was developed to provide an accurate and convenient assessment of speaking and listening for learners of Spanish. The SST is intended to measure a candidate’s receptive familiarity with a variety of forms of Spanish and the candidate’s facility in speaking Spanish. The SST test takes between 15 and 20 minutes to complete, all the items are presented in...

PURPOSE People with high-functioning autism (HFA) have qualitative differences in facial expression and prosody production, which are rarely systematically quantified. The authors' goals were to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze prosody and facial expression productions in children and adolescents with HFA. METHOD Participants were 22 male children and adolescents with HFA and 18 typic...

Two groups of children who were slow in expressive language development (SELD) at age 2 and a matched group of toddlers with normal language were re-evaluated at age 4. Assessment included measures of productive syntactic skills in spontaneous speech and narrative abilities in a standard story retelling task. Four-year-olds who continued to perform below the normal range in sentence structure p...