Auditory neuropathy is defined as a sensorineural hearing loss characterized by normal cochlear hair cell function and absent or abnormal auditory brainstem evoked potentials. These people can hear the sound but can not understand it. They have neural hearing loss and the auditory rehabilitation approach for these people may be different from those who have sensorineural hearing loss. Therefore...

Fast food is popular among children and adolescents; however, its consumption has often been associated with negative impacts on nutrition and health. This study examined current fast food consumption status among middle school students and explored factors influencing fast food consumption by applying Theory of Planned Behavior. A total of 354 (52.5% boys) students were recruited from a middle...

OBJECTIVE To perform early detection of visual impairment in schoolchildren and to investigate its association with academic performance. METHODS Cross-sectional study using a sample of third-grade students from public elementary schools of the municipality of Juiz de Fora, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Students performed the visual acuity (VA) test using the Snellen chart. We also analyzed ...

This research aimed to measure social emotional adjustment of hearing impaired children from both primary and elementary levels in Bahawalpur Division. Social Emotional Assessment Inventory (SEAI) was used to collect data from teachers of randomly selected 256 hearing impaired children studying at primary and elemntary levels. Descriptive statistics and t-test were applied to analyse the data. ...

langacker provided new schema-based descriptions of linguistic categories when he was questioning traditional theories of categorization. langecker's model of grammar deals with the reflection of grammatical subsystems of concepts related to space and time in language. also he explains how phenomena such as attention and point of view are encoded in language. the present research aimed to ...