Background. With increasing sophistication and technology, survival rates hugely improved among preterm infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit. Nutrition and feeding remain a challenge and preterm infants are at high risk of encountering oral feeding difficulties. Objective. To determine what facts may impact on oral feeding readiness and competence and which kind of interventions...

Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments x Contributors xi Chapter 1. The Development in Neurodevelopmental 1 Treatment (NDT) for the SLP Fran Redstone How a child's motor milestones relate to achievement of functional oral–motor and cognitive/linguistic skills.

PURPOSE In this study, the authors evaluated the contribution made by dialect shifting to reading achievement test scores of African American English (AAE)-speaking students when controlling for the effects of socioeconomic status (SES), general oral language abilities, and writing skills. METHOD Participants were 165 typically developing African American 1st through 5th graders. Half were ma...

Although research has identified oral language, print knowledge, and phonological sensitivity as important emergent literacy skills for the development of reading, few studies have examined the relations between these aspects of emergent literacy or between these skills during preschool and during later reading. This study examined the joint and unique predictive significance of emergent litera...

Background: Feeding difficulties are common and important in premature infants. In order to identify neonatal feeding difficulties, clinicians and nurses require assessment tools to conduct an objective evaluation of infant oral feeding (breast/bottle-feeding). Early identification of infants with feeding difficulty is critical to implement appropriate therapies and op...

Abstract Many students struggle to acquire adequate reading comprehension and writing skills. Although word recognition spelling are needed fully actualize these skills, the oral language aspects of can be taught practiced without text. Oral storytelling is good for all students, but it may essential with code‐related disabilities limited proficiency in mainstream academic U.S. schools. The pur...

there has been extensive debates about the similarities and differences between urban planning educations in developed versus developing counties. some believe that increasing interdependence among nations, an ever greater need for cross – cultural cooperation,  is required to close the gap in skill and knowledge between developed and developing countries and shrinking international borders mak...