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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Wilms tumor (WT) treatment imposes a significant time burden on patients and their families. Time toxicity is a patient‐centered metric that quantifies the burden of healthcare interaction. We sought to define time toxicity in the first year after diagnosis of WT and hypothesized that it would increase as tumor stage and treatment ...
Caleb Q. Ashbrook +6 more
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Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionReading is an important academic skill. Children who exhibit reading difficulties are more likely to experience various negative professional and personal consequences.
Jelena Kuvač Kraljević +5 more
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The Effect of Second-Language Proficiency on Second Language Reading Comprehension
Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 1991 Data from a first-language reading test, a second-language reading comprehension test with questions from different cognitive levels, and from the TOEFL were submitted to partial correlation analysis to detennine whether there was a significant effect ...
Pohlmann, John T.
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JEES (Journal of English Educators Society), 2022 Phonemic Awareness has been reported to be one of the predictors to reading comprehension in English as a first language. However, it also comprises the second language reading comprehension.
Almaviana Ayu Listyarini +2 more
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The Neurocognition of Referential Ambiguity in Language Comprehension [PDF]
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2008 Abstract Referential ambiguity arises whenever readers or listeners are unable to select a unique referent for a linguistic expression out of multiple candidates. In the current article, we review a series of neurocognitive experiments from our laboratory that examine the neural correlates of referential ambiguity, and that employ the
Nieuwland, M., Van Berkum, J.
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To get hold of the wrong end of the stick : reasons for poor idiom understanding in children with reading comprehension difficulties. [PDF]
, 2008 Purpose: The aim was to identify the source of idiom understanding difficulties in children with specific reading comprehension failure. Method: Two groups (Ns=15) of 9- to 10-year-olds participated. One group had age-appropriate word reading and reading
Cain, Kate, Towse, Andrea S.
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Action in cognition: the case of language
, 2009 Empirical research has shown that the processing of words and sentences is accompanied by activation of the brain's motor system in language users. The degree of precision observed in this activation seems to be contingent upon (1) the meaning of a ...
Taylor, Lawrence +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) involvement in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is assessed by cell counting and cytomorphology from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and is used for treatment stratification worldwide. The ratio of “CNS2” patients in clinical trials ranges from 3% to 40%, with unclear prognostic significance ...
Laura Almási +14 more
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Comprehension problems in children with specific language impairment: does mental imagery training help? [PDF]
, 2007 Background. Children with specific language impairment (SLI) experience story comprehension deficits (Bishop and Adams, 1992; Botting and Adams, 2005; Norbury and Bishop, 2002).
Cain, K, Joffe, V, Maric, N
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Matthew effects in young readers : reading comprehension and reading experience aid vocabulary development [PDF]
, 2011 The authors report data from a longitudinal study of the reading development of children who were assessed in the years of their 8th, 11th, 14th, and 16th birthdays.
Kate Cain +5 more
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