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Effective early literacy skill development for young Spanish-speaking English language learners: an experimental study of two methods.

29 Apr 2009 Ninety-four Spanish-speaking preschoolers (M age = 54.51 months, SD = 4.72; 43 girls) were randomly assigned to receive the High/Scope Curriculum (control n = 32) or the Literacy Express Preschool Curriculum in English-only (n = 31) or initially in ...
rec_pub_19489898-effective-early-literacy-skill-development-young-spanish-speaking.htm


"The sheath" versus "the axillary tunnel": a conflict of states and understanding.

29 Apr 2009
rec_pub_19436191-the-sheath-versus-axillary-tunnel-conflict-states-understanding.htm


Mental models or methodological artefacts? Adults' 'naïve' responses to a test of children's conceptions of the earth.

29 Apr 2009 Vosniadou and Brewer (1992) claim that children's drawings and answers to questions show that they have naive, theory-like 'mental models' of the earth; for example, they believe it to be flat, or hollow with people inside. However, recent studies ...
rec_pub_18680639-mental-models-methodological-artefacts-adults-na-ve-responses-test.htm


Neurocognitive abnormalities during comprehension of real-world goal-directed behaviors in schizophrenia.

29 Apr 2009 Origins of impaired adaptive functioning in schizophrenia remain poorly understood. Behavioral disorganization may arise from an abnormal reliance on common combinations between concepts stored in semantic memory. Avolition-apathy may be related to ...
rec_pub_19413402-neurocognitive-abnormalities-comprehension-real-world-goal-directed.htm


Appropriate methodologies for empirical bioethics: it's all relative.

29 Apr 2009 In this article we distinguish between philosophical bioethics (PB), descriptive policy orientated bioethics (DPOB) and normative policy oriented bioethics (NPOB). We argue that finding an appropriate methodology for combining empirical data and ...
rec_pub_19338525-appropriate-methodologies-empirical-bioethics-s-relative.htm


Empirical ethics as dialogical practice.

29 Apr 2009 In this article, we present a dialogical approach to empirical ethics, based upon hermeneutic ethics and responsive evaluation. Hermeneutic ethics regards experience as the concrete source of moral wisdom. In order to gain a good understanding of ...
rec_pub_19338524-empirical-ethics-dialogical-practice.htm


Understanding of sport concussion by the parents of young rugby players: a pilot study.

29 Apr 2009 OBJECTIVE: Establish the knowledge and beliefs of the parents of high school rugby players about concussion. DESIGN: Descriptive cross-sectional intercept style face-to-face pilot survey. SETTING: The survey was conducted during high school rugby ...
rec_pub_19423976-understanding-sport-concussion-parents-young-rugby-players-pilot-study.htm


Phonological and orthographic spelling in high-functioning adult dyslexics.

29 Apr 2009 Despite a history of reading or spelling difficulties, some adults attain age-appropriate spelling skills and succeed at university. We compared the spelling of 29 such high-functioning dyslexics with that of 28 typical students, matched on general ...
rec_pub_18489012-phonological-orthographic-spelling-high-functioning-adult-dyslexics.htm


The incidence of dyslexia among young offenders in Kuwait.

29 Apr 2009 This paper investigates the incidence of dyslexia among young offenders in Kuwait. A total of 91 children/young adults from 8 juvenile delinquent welfare centres across Kuwait were interviewed and tested. A measure of non-verbal reasoning ability ...
rec_pub_18433005-the-incidence-dyslexia-young-offenders-kuwait.htm


Ambiguous idiom comprehension in Alzheimer's disease.

29 Apr 2009 Ambiguous idiom comprehension was examined in 15 patients with mild probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) by means of two tasks: a string-to-picture matching task and a string-to-word matching task. In the first, patients had to choose among four ...
rec_pub_18618358-ambiguous-idiom-comprehension-alzheimer-s-disease.htm

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