BACKGROUND In the field of speech-language therapy, limited research has been conducted with regards to health literacy and client recall. However, speech-language therapists frequently provide a considerable amount of information for clients to understand, apply and review in order to manage their (or their child's) health. AIMS This study aimed to investigate (1) issues around clients' heal...

OBJECTIVES To introduce a multi-site assessment of oral health literacy and to describe preliminary analyses of the relationships between health literacy and selected oral health outcomes within the context of a comprehensive conceptual model. METHODS Data for this analysis came from the Multi-Site Oral Health Literacy Research Study (MOHLRS), a federally funded investigation of health litera...

The development of reading ability in a group of deaf children was followed over a three year period. 29 deaf children, aged 7-8 years old at the first assessment, participated in the study and every 12 months they were given a battery of literacy, cognitive and language based tasks. Earlier vocabulary and speechreading skills predicted longitudinal growth in reading achievement. The relations ...

Health literacy has come to play a critical role in health education and promotion, yet it is poorly understood in adolescents and few measurement tools exist. Standardized instruments to measure health literacy in adults assume it to be a derivative of general literacy. This paper reports on the development and the early-stage validation of a health literacy tool for high school students that ...

This study synthesizes 79 standardized mean-change differences between control and treatment groups from 17 independent studies, investigating the effect of morphological interventions on literacy outcomes for students with literacy difficulties. Average total sample size ranged from 15 to 261 from a wide range of grade levels. Overall, morphological instruction showed a significant improvement...

A high-stakes Portfolio-Based Language Assessment (PBLA) protocol that was fully implemented in all Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) programs 2019 requires instructors and students set language-learning goals complete, compile, reflect on numerous authentic language tasks. Due the barriers incurred when communicating with beginner English-as-a-second-language literacy learners (BELLs)...

Vocabulary is a complex intermediate component between oral and written language, which the influence on associated skills general language abilities (e.g., decoding processing, comprehension) has been largely studied in children, suggesting its important role literacy. The main aim of this article to review some questions vocabulary assessment stimulation children identify advantage new techno...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to present the Information Literacy Instruction Assessment Cycle (ILIAC), to describe the seven stages of the ILIAC, and to offer an extended example that demonstrates how the ILIAC increases librarian instructional abilities and improves student information literacy skills. Design/methodology/approach – Employing survey design methodology, the researcher and ...

Three converging lines of evidence have suggested that cerebellar abnormality is implicated in developmental language and literacy problems. First, some brain imaging studies have linked abnormalities in cerebellar grey matter to dyslexia and specific language impairment (SLI). Second, theoretical accounts of both dyslexia and SLI have postulated impairments of procedural learning and automatis...