OBJECTIVES Children with hearing loss are at risk of developing psychopathology, which has detrimental consequences for academic and psychosocial functioning later in life. Yet, the causes of the extensive variability in outcomes are not fully understood. Therefore, the authors wanted to objectify symptoms of psychopathology in children with cochlear implants or hearing aids, and in normally he...

The TiM project intends to develop and to adapt computer games for visually impaired children. To describe the user’s needs is the first step of this project. This analysis will allow us to define two important points: the soft architecture & the authoring tools and the computer Human Interface for children and the resources (audio, tactile,...). This paper presents TiM’s approach concerning to...

First of all, ‘GOR’ should be distinguished from ‘GOR disease’ or ‘pathological GOR’. ‘GOR’ usually refers to an episode of reflux of the gastric contents into the oesophagus. This is a normal phenomenon at all ages. Classifying it as pathological GOR or GOR disease is dependent on the severity as defined by various objective criteria. I infer from the article that the authors implicitly refer ...

Dr. Regina Vasconcellos Department of Geography/University of Sao Paulo C.P.8105 Sao Paulo SP Brazil 05508-900 Fax: 55118183159 E-mail: [email protected] The paper presents the results of five years of research on tactile mapping for visually impaired children carried out at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Based upon empirical research, the author has developed a model for tactual cartograph...

Neuropsychological functions were assessed in 174 children participating in a longitudinal study of low-level lead exposure. At age 5 1/2 years, children were administered the Working Memory and Planning Battery of the Cambridge Neuropsychological Testing Automated Battery. Measures of sociodemographic characteristics of the family, prenatal and perinatal risk, quality of caregiving and crowdin...

A prospective longitudinal mixed-method study was undertaken to evaluate an intergenerational community program involving older adults and school aged-children. Data were collected from nine children, 18 non-frail, frail, cognitively impaired adults. Quantitative data interactions self-ratings (0–10) assessed satisfaction, while qualitative included 89 session observations, then both integrated...

Speech technology has enabled computer accessibility for users with visual impairments but the language barrier poses a great challenge. This project is an effort to overcome the hurdles faced by visually impaired people, in terms of language barrier, by providing them access to digital information through software which can communicate with them in Urdu. A survey was conducted in schools for b...

Overweight children seem to have cognitive impairment. Since there is a relationship between motor and visual-spatial ability and because of the reduced motor abilities of overweight children we assumed that these children might show an impaired mental rotation performance. Sixteen overweight children (10 years of age) and 16 control children (10 years of age) were matched by age, gender, and s...