The Expressive and the Receptive One Word Picture Vocabulary test (EOWPVT & ROWPVT). (A combine pilot study and validation of the tests’ in normal Greek population aged from 9 years till 9 years and 11 months) Dionysios tafiadis, Georgia Zafeiropoulou, Maria Tafiadi From 1 International Congress on Neurobiology and Clinical Psychopharmacology and European Psychiatric Association Conference on T...

PURPOSE To assess prospectively language and speech ability in children with benign partial epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes (BCECTS). To evaluate academic performance and social competencies both during the active disease and after remission. METHODS Right-handed school children with typical BCECTS and a control group matched by age, sex, handedness and socioeconomic status were examined...

A meta-analysis was carried out of interventions for children with primary developmental speech and language delays/disorders. The data were categorized depending on the control group used in the study (no treatment, general stimulation, or routine speech and language therapy) and were considered in terms of the effects of intervention on expressive and receptive phonology, syntax, and vocabula...

PURPOSE This study was designed to examine the relationships among minority dialect use, language ability, and young African American English (AAE)-speaking children's understanding and awareness of Mainstream American English (MAE). METHOD Eighty-three 4- to 8-year-old AAE-speaking children participated in 2 experimental tasks. One task evaluated their awareness of differences between MAE an...

The Expressive and the Receptive One Word Picture Vocabulary test (EOWPVT & ROWPVT). (A combine pilot study and validation of the tests’ in normal Greek population aged from 18 years till 18 years and 11 months) Dionisios Tafiadis, Maria Zizika, Maria Tafiadi From 1 International Congress on Neurobiology and Clinical Psychopharmacology and European Psychiatric Association Conference on Treatmen...

Cochlear implants (CIs) provide children with profound hearing loss access to sounds and speech. Research on the effects of CI on speech and language development in mainland China is scarce due to the lack of standardized tests. This study aims at developing a vocabulary measure, the Mandarin Expressive and Receptive Vocabulary Test (MERVT), for pre-school children with CIs. Using responses fro...

Background Recent studies indicate that school-age children's patterns of performance on measures of verbal and visuospatial short-term memory (STM) and working memory (WM) differ across types of neurodevelopmental disorders. Because these disorders are often characterized by early language delay, administering STM and WM tests to toddlers could improve prediction of neurodevelopmental outcomes...

The Expressive and the Receptive One Word Picture Vocabulary test (EOWPVT & ROWPVT). (A combine pilot study and validation of the tests’ in normal Greek population aged from 6 years till 6 years and 11 months) Dionysios tafiadis, Euaggelia Karagianni, Maria Tafiadi From 1 International Congress on Neurobiology and Clinical Psychopharmacology and European Psychiatric Association Conference on Tr...

The Expressive and the Receptive One Word Picture Vocabulary test (EOWPVT & ROWPVT). (A combine pilot study and validation of the tests’ in normal Greek population aged from 17 years till 17 years and 11 months) Dionisios Tafiadis, Emmanouil Pantazis, Maria Tafiadi From 1 International Congress on Neurobiology and Clinical Psychopharmacology and European Psychiatric Association Conference on Tr...

Introduction. According to the lexical restructuring model, development of vocabulary initiates phonological representations. Therefore, it can be predicted that children with developed will possess very specific representations words. Aim. The aim this research was determine significance awareness, verbal working memory, and rapid automatic naming as indicators expressive receptive in preschoo...