To examine the validity of different theoretical assumptions about the neuropsychological mechanisms and lesion correlates of phonological dyslexia and dysgraphia, we studied written and spoken language performance in a large cohort of patients with focal damage to perisylvian cortical regions implicated in phonological processing. Despite considerable variation in accuracy for both words and n...

BACKGROUND The prevalence and impact of long term conditions continues to rise. Care planning for people with long term conditions has been a policy priority in England for chronic disease management. However, it is not clear how care planning is currently understood, translated and implemented in primary care. This study explores experience of care planning in patients with long term condition...

Children affected by dyslexia exhibit a deficit in the categorical perception of speech sounds, characterized by both poorer discrimination of between-category differences and by better discrimination of within-category differences, compared to normal readers. These categorical perception anomalies might be at the origin of dyslexia, by hampering the set up of grapheme-phoneme correspondences, ...

The Norwegian language community is characterized by a considerable public interest in linguistic issues. Standardization of the written language has been an issue of controverse during more than a century, and in the Post-War period, the growing influence from Anglo-American culture has been of concern to the public opinion. Lexical elaboration of the national language is, consequently, consid...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In response to the established notion that improvement of language functions in chronic aphasia only can be achieved through long-term treatment, we examined the efficacy of a short-term, intensive language training, constraint-induced aphasia therapy (CIAT). This program is founded on the learning principles of prevention of compensatory communication (constraint), masse...

Abstract Published here for the first time, Neo-Babylonian tablet BM.35434 sheds new light on transmission history of Sumero-Akkadian balaĝ-prayer a-gal-gal buru₁₄ su-su || butuqtu muṭebbât ebūri “Flood that drowns harvest” dedicated to Nergal, god pestilence and war. Due its exceptional colophon, makes an interesting case study in first-millennium scribal practices context ritual lamenting Eme...

The Akkadian language is rich in many forms, including the GT form. These two symbols refer to meanings foreign languages, especially English (G) meaning (gerund) and (t) represent augmenting on basic formula, formula (Gt) a natural product born from womb of need expand meanings, so when does not meet or fails perform specific connotation , linguists resort fill deficiency, it believed that the...

This study examined the effects of aural and written prompts under two planning conditions (i.e. pre-task planning and no planning) on complexity, accuracy, and fluency of test takers' writing production. Forty learners in an English institute, who had already been classified as intermediate according to the Oxford Placement Test, were assigned to two planning conditions (i.e. no planning and p...