Aim To investigate the utility of the Insight Inventory (a structured clinical inventory completed by caregivers) for assessment of children with cerebral visual impairment; and to investigate effectiveness of tailored habilitational strategies derived from the responses to the Insight Inventory. Method Fifty‐one eligible children (26 males, 25 females;
Asimina Tsirka +6 more
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Classic infantile Pompe patients approaching adulthood: a cohort study on consequences for the brain
Aim To examine the long‐term consequences of glycogen storage in the central nervous system (CNS) for classic infantile Pompe disease using enzyme replacement therapy. Method Using neuropsychological tests and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), we prospectively assessed a cohort of 11 classic infantile Pompe patients aged up to 17 years.
Berendine J Ebbink +9 more
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Despite being identified as a high risk cohort for psychosis, there has been relatively little research on the clinical presentation and assessment of Schizotypal Personality Disorder (SPD) in childhood. The current study aimed to develop a measure of childhood SPD (Melbourne Assessment of Schizotypy in Kids (MASK)) and assess discriminant validity ...
Harvey P. Jones +6 more
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Psycholinguistic abilities of children with Williams syndrome [PDF]
The objective of this study was to investigate the psycholinguistic abilities of children with Williams syndrome (WS) and typically developing children using the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA).
Giacheti, Célia M. +4 more
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Aplicação do Inventário de Comportamentos Autísticos: a concordância nas observações entre pais e profissionais em dois contextos de intervenção [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: To determine the agreement between responses on the Autism Behavior Checklist by mothers and healthcare professionals. METHOD: Twenty-three mothers of children from the autism spectrum (DSM-IV-TR, 2002) were interviewed. The children were part
Chiari, Brasilia Maria +4 more
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Análise do desempenho de crianças em risco ambiental na WPPSI-R [PDF]
[Resumo] Regista-se, actualmente, um interesse crescente em relação ao risco ambiental, isto é, em relacção crianças em cuja história pessoal e familiar se encontram ambientes familiares alterados ou problemas sociais graves.
Albuquerque, Cristina Petrucci +2 more
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Characterization of the linguistic profile of a family with Perisylvian Syndrome [PDF]
BACKGROUND: perisylvian syndrome refers to a variety of clinical manifestations associated to lesions in the perisylvian or opercular regions. Polymicrogyria is the most common structural malformation found. The syndrome may be inherited and the clinical
Brandão-almeida, Iara Lêda +6 more
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Intelligibility as a clinical outcome measure following intervention with children with phonologically based speech-sound disorders [PDF]
The effectiveness of two treatment approaches (phonological therapy and articulation therapy) for treatment of 14 children, aged 4;0-6;7 years, with phonologically based speech-sound disorder (SSD) has been previously analysed with severity outcome ...
Hall, A. +3 more
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Executive Functioning in Children With Developmental Dyslexia [PDF]
The term "executive function" has been used to describe several higher-order cognitive processes. This study examined the processing speed, shifting, planning, and verbal fluency of a sample of 50 Portuguese children with developmental dyslexia (DD) and ...
Moura, Octávio +2 more
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Competências de literacia, de numeracia e sociais em dois períodos do desenvolvimento da criança: no pré-escolar e no 1º ano de escolaridade [PDF]
[Resumo] O presente estudo inserese no projecto “Contextos e Transição”, desenvolvido no Centro de Psicologia da Universidade do Porto, e pretende analisar a relação existente entre três grupos de competências de literacia, de numeracia e sociais em dois
Aguiar, Teresa, Leal, Teresa
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