The Composition Of Normative Groups And Diagnostic Decision Making: Shooting Ourselves In The Foot [PDF]
Purpose: The normative group of a norm-referenced test is intended to provide a basis for interpreting test scores. However, the composition of the normative group may facilitate or impede different types of diagnostic interpretations.
Pena, Elizabeth D. +2 more
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ABSTRACT Objective This study aims to identify both fluid and neuroimaging biomarkers for CSF1R‐RD that can inform the optimal timing of treatment administration to maximize therapeutic benefit, while also providing sensitive quantitative measurements to monitor disease progression.
Tomasz Chmiela +13 more
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Development of a clinical feeding assessment scale for very young infants in South Africa
Background: There is a need for validated neonatal feeding assessment instruments in South Africa. A locally developed instrument may contribute to standardised evaluation procedures of high-risk neonates and address needs in resource constrained ...
Mari Viviers +2 more
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Measures of narrative performance in Spanish-speaking children on the test of narrative language-Spanish [PDF]
textIn the field of speech-language pathology, there is an increasing need for valid and appropriate assessment measures for Spanish-speaking students that can reliably be given by examiners with a wide range of Spanish knowledge and scoring experience ...
Perme, Amanda Lee
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ABSTRACT Objective Super‐Refractory Status Epilepticus (SRSE) is a rare, life‐threatening neurological emergency with unclear etiology in many cases. Mitochondrial dysfunction, often due to disease‐causing genetic variants, is increasingly recognized as a cause, with each gene producing distinct pathophysiological mechanisms.
Pouria Mohammadi +2 more
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Developing a contextually relevant ECD milestone guide for South African practitioners
Background: Two hundred and fifty million children under five in low- and middle-income countries are at risk of not achieving their developmental potential.
Keren Charge +7 more
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Background: South Africa presents with high preterm birth (PTB) and low birth weight (LBW) rates (14.17%). Numerous conditions characterised by language impairment are associated with LBW and/or PTB.
Lauren C. Fouché +2 more
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Conflict Resolution and Goal Maintenance Components of Executive Attention are Impaired in Persons With Aphasia: Evidence from the Picture-Word Interference Task [PDF]
The relationship between language processing and attention has been a topic of research in linguistics, psychology and speech-language pathology for a very long time.
Dickey, Michael Walsh +4 more
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Semantic Complexity In Treatment Of Naming Deficits In Aphasia: Evidence From Well-Defined Categories [PDF]
Purpose: Our previous work on manipulating typicality of category exemplars during treatment of naming deficits has shown that training atypical examples generalizes to untrained typical examples but not vice versa. In contrast to natural categories that
Johnson, Lauren, Kiran, Swathi
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Real‐World Performance of CSF Kappa Free Light Chains in the 2024 McDonald Criteria
ABSTRACT Objective Kappa free light chains (KFLCs) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have a similar performance to CSF‐restricted oligoclonal bands (OCB) for multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis. To help with implementation, we set out to resolve several remaining uncertainties: (1) performance in a real‐world cohort and the 2024 McDonald criteria; (2 ...
Maya M. Leibowitz +11 more
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