BACKGROUND Recent findings of neuroimaging studies indicate that reading aloud and arithmetic calculation activate bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of humans. The purpose of this study was to measure the effect of reading aloud and arithmetic calculation, by elderly people who were clinically diagnosed with dementia Alzheimer type, on their brain functions and activities of daily living...

Evaluating children’s reading aloud proficiency is typically a task done by teachers on an individual basis, where reading time and wrong words are marked manually. A computational tool that assists with recording reading tasks, automatically analyzing them and outputting performance related metrics could be a significant help to teachers. Working towards that goal, this work presents an approa...

The study investigated teachers’ perception of the impact instructional strategies on pupils with reading difficulties in selected districts Central Region Ghana. A concurrent embedded mixed method design was used for this study. Proportionate stratified sampling procedure to select ninety-five (95) upper primary teachers response rate 100% representing 95 teachers. Data were collected using a ...

The effects of frequency altered feedback (FAF) on the reading comprehension levels and error types of normal children and children with reading disorders were examined. Participants read aloud third, sixth, and ninth grade level material in non-altered auditory feedback (NAF) and FAF conditions. Comprehension improved significantly when the reading disordered children read aloud under the FAF ...

of the word is not entirely familiar and requires effortful decoding. First the child says /i . . . i/, then /iz/, then /land/, then /iz land/, and all of a sudden she gets it right: she correctly reads island aloud. English is notorious for words like island, with spellings that only partly reveal how they are spoken. Nonetheless, the way a word is spelled almost always reveals something of ho...

In this paper, we proposed an ontology-based method for summarizing documents. Automatic summarization based on ontology is considered better than other methods. However, existing methods require the ontology to be manually constructed and maintained, which is subjective and time-consuming, so the ontology-based method is not used often. In addition, existing summarization methods consider only...

Recent findings from English and Russian have shown that grammatical category plays a key role in stress assignment. In these languages, some grammatical categories have a typical stress pattern and this information is used by readers. However, whether readers are sensitive to smaller distributional differences and other morpho-syntactic properties (e.g., gender, number, person) remains unclear...