This critical review examines whether expressive language characteristics are able to distinguish children with Specific Language Impairment from children who are learning English as a Second Language. Overall, the research suggests that there is significant overlap between the two groups in the amount and types of errors made on expressive language tasks such as use of tense and morphology. Ho...

This critical review examines whether oral stimulation via NTrainer patterned orocutaneous therapy is more effective than a pacifier at establishing the non-nutritive suck (NNS) in order to accelerate the transition time to oral feeding in preterm infants. Overall, research suggests that both forms of oral stimulation establish the NNS and have a positive effect on feeding outcomes. However, it...

This critical review examines the effect of social-pragmatic treatment approaches on the language and communication skills of preschool-aged children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Study designs include three randomized controlled trials, two controlled trials, and three quasiexperimental cohort studies. Results revealed some inconsistencies in findings across studies. However, overall, r...

abstract introduction: critical thinking skills as thinking and judging self-regulation are purposeful and result in solving problems and making appropriate decisions. therefore, the importance of this subject and its role in the nursing profession and the clinical decision, this study was done to compare critical thinking skills of nursing students in continuous licentiate and bachelor- licent...

In this short review we look at recent advances in Schramm-Loewner Evolution (SLE) theory and its application to critical phenomena. The application of SLE goes beyond critical systems to other time dependent, scale invariant phenomena such as turbulence, sand-piles and watersheds. Through the use of SLE, the evolution of conformally invariant paths on the complex plane can be followed; hence a...

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