29 research outputs found
Print Awareness Skills and Home Literacy Environment of Turkish Preschoolers
No full textIn the literature, the importance of early literacy experiences provided at home by parents to the development of early literacy skills is often expressed. Therefore, the study was aimed at identifying the possible relationships between home early literacy experiences and children's print awareness skills. The participants of the study comprised of 60 preschool children (48-68 months) whose native language is Turkish. The Home Early Literacy Environment Questionnaire (HLEQ) used for the assessment of home literacy skills were conveyed to the parents by the preschool teachers. The Early Childhood Print Awareness Checklist used for the assessment of children's print awareness skills were individually administered to each child. The results displayed a variation in early literacy skills within 48-68 months and indicated that variables pertaining to "writing" might have been effective in this variation. Another prominent finding was that demographic variables such as parental education and frequency of participation in social activities, as well as, most of the HLEQ variables correlated with each other at varying strengths. Similar studies specific to the Turkish language should be conducted in order to identify various predictors of both home literacy skills and print awareness. The study results were discussed in light of the existing literature
Relationship Between Syntax Comprehension and Verbal Working Memory of Children with Developmental Language Disorders
No full textWorking memory (WM) facilitates the choice of appropriate actions for coding stimuli from the environment, stores them for a short term and helps us use them purposefully in daily life. These rather complex but swift operations play a particularly important role in language related processing skills. This study aims to examine the relationship between complex syntax comprehension (CSC) skills and verbal WM in children with developmental language disorder and typically developing children. The study group comprised 12 Down Syndrome and 12 autistic and 24 typically developing children, who were matched in accordance with nonverbal intelligence. In order to evaluate the expressive language performance of the study group, language samples were collected and mean lenght utterance (MLU) was calculated. Children's verbal WM performance was established by using the nonword repetition list, and their CSC skills were evaluated by using the criterion referenced CSC skills assessment tool. The results showed that measurements such as chronological age, nonverbal intelligence and MLU are associated with verbal WM and CSC skills. In both groups, verbal WM and CSC skill were found to be related and the children in the developmental language disorder group had lower performance in both variables than their typically developing counterparts
Phonological Awareness Training in Pre-School Period
No full textStudies on typically developing children indicate that phonological awareness skill intervention is especially effective in reading skills. This study aims to analyze the effect of Phonological Awareness training given in pre-school period over the development of children's Phonological Awareness skills and the contribution of this training in the articulation and auditory discrimination skills. The research group of the study was composed of typically developing 29 children between 5 and 6 years old. "Phonological Awareness Skill Checklist" (PASC), Ankara Articulation Test and Auditory Discrimination Test were used and the "Phonological Awareness Skill Training Sessions" (PASTS) were designed. According to the findings of this study, the difference between the experiment and the control group was found to be significant
Home Literacy Environment and Phonological Awareness Skills in Preschool Children
No full textParticipating in activities such as book reading before learning to read makes it easier to learn the letters' names, shapes, and sounds. Individuals who have difficulty in recognizing letters experience problems in decoding words in the future. This study aims to analyze the differences between the knowledge of early literacy experiences of parents whose children are typically developing (TD) 5-6 year-olds and children who have language impairment (LI), and between children's existing phonological awareness skills and early literacy experiences. The sample of the study consists of a total of 20 preschoolers aged 5-6 (3 girls and 7 boys with LI, and 4 girls and 6 boys with TD). Ankara Development Screening Inventory was used to determine the developmental performance of children. The children were assessed by using the Phonological Awareness Checklist. Family Literacy Questionnaire is used in order to collect information about the characteristics of home literacy environment. The results from the study reveal that children with TD and children with LI differ in terms of phonological awareness and early literacy experiences within the family. It also reveals that children with LI and their families display lower performance in the related skills (p<.05)
Integrated Production and Transportation Scheduling Problem With Multiple Plants, Multiple Vehicles and Perishable Products
No full textThe integrated production and transportation scheduling problem is one of the interesting topics in the literature. This paper addresses Integrated Production and Transportation Scheduling Problems with Multiple Plants, Multiple Vehicles, and Perishable Products (PTSP-MP-MV). To the best of our knowledge, this problem has not been studied in the literature. In this problem, each plant has a different capacity and a different production rate. There is a single machine and a limited number of homogeneous vehicles in each plant. Each vehicle can be used more than once because of the vehicle capacity and planning horizon restrictions. Only one type of product is produced, and this product has a limited lifespan. The objective of the problem is to minimize the total cost including production, distribution, and vehicle costs. We propose a mixed integer programming (MIP) formulation for the problem and strengthen it with several valid inequalities to improve lower bounds. The performance of the formulation is calculated using a newly generated set of test instances. Computational results show that small-sized instances with 5 and 10 customers can be solved optimally in less than 90 s. Satisfactory results are obtained for the test instances up to 20 customers whose optimality gap values are calculated as 0.54% nearly 1 h. It is also shown that the valid inequalities are improved lower bounds about 3%. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.Acknowledgements. This study is derived from the author Gozde CAN ATASA-GUN’s PhD thesis entitled “The Coordinated Production and Transportation Scheduling Problem with Multiple Plants and Multiple Vehicles” (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ismail KARAOGLAN) which is supported by Konya Technical University Coordinatorship of Scientific Research Projects with the project number of 18101021 and has not been published elsewhere.Konya Teknik Üniversitesi, KTÜN: 1810102
Phonological awareness as an educational intervention approach: Effects on reading skills with mentally retarded children
No full textThis study aims to assess the effects of phonological awareness skills training given to children who have mild mental retardation on their reading skills. The sample of the study consisted of a total of 12 children, who are between 9 and 12 years old, have mild mental retardation, receive special education service and attend a mainstreaming classroom in a private institution, and have gained the initial literacy skills but have troubles in reading. The results gained through the study, which is formed by pre-test, intervention and post-test stages, indicate that the training given within the scope of the study was influential on the acquisition of receptive language skills, basic phonological awareness skills, the total reading duration of the whole text, the number of mistakes made while reading, reading mistakes based on the insufficiency of phonological awareness skills, substitution of words that are phonologically similar with each other and reading mistakes correction skills of the children who have mild mental retardation
Systematic Integration Of Urban Farming Into Urban Metabolisms: Waste As A Resource For Urban Food Production
No full textAs the global population rise, climate conditions get more and more unpredictable, natural resources deplete; cities need to take action in order to sustain healthy living conditions as well as to ensure food safety. Currently, cities are solely dependent on external sources and suburban areas for natural resources and food as well as waste management. This linear metabolism results in cities consuming 60-80% of natural resources and producing 50% of waste globally. (Tsui et al., 2021) This problem can be overcome by introducing urban farming into cities by utilising waste and underused space as a resource for urban food production. Waste can be circulated in the city in order to generate a network of waste producing functions and farms. There are urban farming systems which can digest waste and produce supplements for urban food production. However, the quest of choosing an urban farming system based on existing vacant spaces and waste flows is a complicated task. The complexity is a result of variables in the equation which may effect decision making such as different systems, waste types, vacant space characteristics as well as the size of spaces and the quantity of available waste. Moreover, in sites consisting of numerous vacant spaces and waste sources decision making is even more complex and laborious. If human designers were to perform this task then they would need to iterate countless times for each vacant space, each waste source close to it and each potential urban farming systems. However, when it comes iterating and repeating the same steps, computers are explicitly faster, time-efficient and error free. Therefore a decision making tool which can assist designers to choose urban farming systems based on existing conditions can be a practical resource. This paper investigates how to integrate urban farming into cities by utilising under-used spaces and existing waste sources via using a decision making tool. The design rules and the methodology are formed based on literature review regarding different farming systems, varying waste flows and computational approaches. A prototype of the tool is generated and tested on 2 case studies in order to showcase the potential of such an approach combining food production with waste management. Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology | Sustainable Desig
The Home Literacy Environments of Turkish Kindergarteners: Does SES Make a Difference?
No full textThis study investigated the possible differences in the home literacy environments (HLE) among Turkish kindergarteners from three different SES (socio-economic) strata. 341 parents of a total of 341 kindergarteners from 24 kindergarten classrooms in low, middle and high SES neighbourhoods across Ankara completed the Socio-Demographics Form and the Home Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ). Results of MANOVA and the Kruskal-Wallis test revealed significant differences among the three SES levels, with high SES scoring significantly higher than the middle and low SES and the middle SES scoring significantly higher than the low SES in all HLQ subscales. These findings imply that low and partly middle SES kindergarteners may be at a disadvantage for quality HLEs and so we educators have to look for ways to support these families. However results also point that all three groups fell within the "moderate HLE" range which shows that Turkish kindergarteners from all SES strata may need to be supported through systematic interventions.Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu (TUBITAK) [111K161]This research was funded by Grant 111K161 from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
My Birth Story is Like a Dream: A Childbirth Educator's Childbirth
No full textFear of childbirth is universal. Because of the stories of bad experiences passed down for years, many women fear childbirth. As a result, many women do not believe in the power of their own bodies and often hand over control of their bodies to health-care professionals, resulting in unhappy childbirth experiences because of unnecessary intervention during labor and birth. As a pregnancy trainer who prepares pregnant women for childbirth, the author wrote her personal childbirth story with an autoethnographic narrative method. Her aim is to help motivate pregnant women preparing for childbirth, health-care professionals preparing those pregnant women, and birthing staff
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