Silence, self-interruptions, or hesitations in spontaneous speech are often interpreted as markers of oral disfluency they lead to difficulties delivering a message and processing it. The main purpose this study is examine how such discourse structure factor into the overall fluency 58 US Spanish heritage language learners enrolled classes at college level. Participants were grouped according a...

This study examined the generalized effects of three treatment conditions (performance based, skill based, and a combination of the two) on oral reading fluency by an elementary school student. Results indicated equal effectiveness of all treatments, maintenance, and possible evidence of generalization across passages.

The present study investigates the impact of meaningful input on L2 learners’ vocabulary use and their fluency in oral performance (immediate repeat tasks), as well whether effects are mediated by prior knowledge working memory. Ninety university students learning English a foreign language were randomly assigned to one three groups: (N = 29), repetition 32), no-input (i.e., baseline group) 29)...

Objective: Verbal fluency is a cognitive function that can be easily assessed in bedside and provide useful data for clinical assessment of a variety of cognitive functions. We decided to provide a standardized test for the assessment of verbal fluency in Persian language, including both phonemic and semantic fluency subtests.  Method: First, three letters (P, D, and Sh) and three categories (...

BACKGROUND Subjects with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) have often difficulties to accept dental treatments. The aim of this study is to propose a dental care protocol based on visual supports to facilitate children with ASDs to undergo to oral examination and treatments. MATERIAL AND METHODS 83 children (age range 6-12 years) with a signed consent form were enrolled; intellectual level, ve...

Understanding a written text requires some higher cognitive abilities that not all children have. Some children have these abilities, since they understand oral texts; however, they have difficulties with written texts, probably due to problems in reading fluency. The aim of this study was to determine which aspects of reading fluency are related to reading comprehension. Four expositive texts,...

This meta-analysis aims to quantitatively synthesize the relation between essential components of reading and comprehension in children whose first language is Spanish who are learning read a monolingual setting. Searches were conducted WOS, Scopus, ERIC from 2000 2021. We used random effects model Fisher’s z as an index effect size. found 33 studies involving 146 sizes comprehension. The inclu...

INTRODUCTION Peripheral arterial disease, as measured by the ankle-brachial index (ABI), is prevalent among the elderly, and is associated with functional performance, assessed by the 6-minute walk test (6MWT). Executive cognitive function (ECF) impairments are also prevalent in this population, but no existing study has investigated the association between ECF and functional performance in an ...