Objectives: Auditory perception or hearing ability is critical for children in acquisition of language and speech hence hearing loss has different effects on individuals’ linguistic perception, and also on their functions. It seems that deaf people suffer from language and speech impairments such as in perception of complex linguistic constructions. This research was aimed to study the pe...

Objectives: The visual-motor skill is one of the major factors in the learning process. Visual-spatial and visual analysis skills are components of the visual motor skill. Any deficiency in Visual-Motor skills and their components often causes problem in writing and learning processes in children. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of occupational therapy (O.T.) intervention on...

This study explores the effects of early-life and middle-life conditions on exceptional longevity using two matched case-control studies. The first study compares 198 validated centenarians born in the United States between 1890 and 1893 to their shorter-lived siblings. Family histories of centenarians were reconstructed and exceptional longevity validated using early U.S. censuses, the Social ...

Adult humans show exceptional relational ability relative to other species. In this research, we trace the development of this ability in young children. We used a task widely used in comparative research-the relational match-to-sample task, which requires participants to notice and match the identity relation: for example, AA should match BB instead of CD. Despite the simplicity of this relati...

Most medical lives are spent being busy. When we are honest with ourselves, usually in the early hours of the morning, we know that we haven't given enough time to colleagues, wives, children and other members of our families. Outside medicine we all meet friends who say as much, usually with exceptional politeness. A successful academic colleague, the son of a retired general medical practitio...

Abstract Kawasaki disease (KD) is a vasculitis that mostly occurs in children, but rare cases adults have been reported. We describe the case of 43-year-old Swiss male who developed symptoms compatible with KD 7 weeks after leptospirosis, which was presumably acquired swimming creek Alps. performed literature review and identified 10 other (all children), Kawasaki-like diagnosed context leptosp...