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A shared reading intervention: Changing perceptions of caregivers in a semi-rural township

South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Many caregivers from low-middle income (LMI) households consider that preschool children are too young for shared book reading. Thus, many caregivers are unaware of their potentially powerful role in their children’s emergent literacy and ...
Tarryn Coetzee, Sharon Moonsamy, Joanne Neille   +2 more
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‘We are in this together’ voices of speech-language pathologists working in South African healthcare contexts during level 4 and level 5 lockdown of COVID-19

South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2021
Background: SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has had a significant impact on every South African but more specifically healthcare professionals, including speech-language pathologists (SLPs).
Skye N. Adams, Jaishika Seedat, Kim Coutts, Kelly-Ann Kater   +3 more
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Manipulating image luminance to improve eye gaze and verbal behavior in autistic children

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022
Autism has been characterized by a tendency to attend to the local visual details over surveying an image to understand the gist–a phenomenon called local interference.
LouAnne Boyd, Vincent Berardi, Deanna Hughes, Franceli Cibrian, Jazette Johnson, Viseth Sean, Eliza DelPizzo-Cheng, Brandon Mackin, Ayra Tusneem, Riya Mody, Sara Jones, Karen Lotich   +11 more
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The Impact of Maternal Anxiety on Early Child Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Background: Maternal prenatal anxiety is among important public health issues as it may affect child development. However, there are not enough studies to examine the impact of a mother's anxiety on the child's early development, especially up to 1 year ...
Ljiljana Jeličić, Ljiljana Jeličić, Mirjana Sovilj, Ivana Bogavac, Ivana Bogavac, And̄ela Drobnjak, Olga Gouni, Olga Gouni, Maria Kazmierczak, Miško Subotić   +9 more
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Speech-language assessment in a linguistically diverse setting: Preliminary exploration of the possible impact of informal ‘solutions’ within the South African context

South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2012
Speech-language therapists (SLTs) working in the context of cultural and linguistic diversity face considerable challenges in providing equitable services to all clients.
Joanne Barratt, Katijah Khoza-Shangase, Kwandinjabulo Msimang   +2 more
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Antibacterial therapy of infections in ear surgery

Медицинский совет, 2018
Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) remains one of the main causes of severe hearing loss in children and people of working age, which makes it socially significant.
S. V. Ryazantsev, I. M. Dyakov, O. I. Konoplev   +2 more
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The Picture Book and its Role in Preschool Mathematics Education

Revija za Elementarno Izobraževanje, 2023
The paper examines the role of the picture book as a learning resource in preschool mathematics education and illustrates the possibilities for its application.
Sanja Maričić, Mirjana Stakić
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Longitudinal Developments in Bilingual Second Language Acquisition and First Language Attrition of Speech: The Case of Arnold Schwarzenegger

Languages, 2021
The purpose of this investigation was to trace first (L1) and second language (L2) segmental speech development in the Austrian German–English late bilingual Arnold Schwarzenegger over a period of 40 years, which makes it the first study to examine a ...
Lisa Kornder, Ineke Mennen
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Socialization of younger students: updated priorities and content characteristics [PDF]

Вестник Самарского государственного технического университета. Серия: Психолого-педагогические науки, 2023
The paper presents theoretical and methodological grounds that enhance the development of updated priorities and content characteristics of socialization of younger students. Problems and risky situations of social formation of growing subjects have been
Zarina I. Cherginskaya
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Preservation of residual hearing after cochlear implant surgery: an exploration of residual hearing function in a group of recipients at cochlear implant units

Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, 2019
Introduction: The preservation of residual hearing is becoming increasingly important in cochlear implant surgery. Conserving residual hearing is a positive prognostic indicator for improved hearing abilities.
Katherine Gautschi-Mills, Katijah Khoza-Shangase, Dhanashree Pillay   +2 more
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