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Improving the quality of parent-child shared book reading: An intervention program addressed to parents of preschoolers with specific language impairment
No full textThe quality of parent-child interaction with children with language impairment (LI) during shared book-reading--a context extensively documented as highly facilitative of language acquisition--has been found to be poorer than with typically developing children [1]. Training parents of children with LI to use interactive book-reading strategies has shown contrasting results (e.g.,[2] vs.[3]). This study examined the effectiveness of an intervention addressed to parents of preschoolers with SLI, aimed to (a) making parents aware of their role in promoting language acquisition, (b) training parents to use shared reading strategies facilitating the child’s verbal participation, and then (c) increasing conversational participation and, possibly, oral language skills in their children.
Twenty families with children with SLI (aged 3;5-5;6) were engaged in a 10-week-intervention including individual and small group sessions of parent training, and implementation of shared book-reading at home (4 sessions weekly). Ten families participating in the research project, but not in the intervention, acted as control group. Mother-child book-reading were videotaped before, during, and after the intervention, and were coded to yield measures of maternal and child communicative functions and modalities, mothers’ use of shared reading strategies, and children’s active participation and linguistic production.
Results show that in the intervention group the durations of book-reading sessions and the mothers’ use of some of the strategies learned --sharing control of the book with the child, offering utterances contingent to the child’s focus, referring to familiar experiences, expanding the child’s utterances-- increased significantly. These changes were associated with an increase in children’s conversational participation, indexed by a significant increase of child initiations and linguistic production. However, no intervention effects were found in child lexical and morphosyntactic complexity. No significant changes were found for the control group. These findings suggest the effectiveness of combining speech-language therapy for children with interventions addressed to parents
L’intervento con i genitori di bambini con disturbo specifico del linguaggio: sperimentazione e valutazione.
No full textUn ampio progetto di ricerca (PRIN 2008) ha costituito la sperimentazione di un intervento con i genitori di bambini con disturbo specifico di linguaggio. Lo studio ha affrontato le questioni del rapporto gesti-linguaggio nei bambini con DSL e dell’efficacia delle strategie conversazionali utilizzate con questi bambini in età prescolare. Il confronto dell’interazione madre-bambino durante la lettura congiunta di un libro di immagini con bambini con DSL espressivo e bambini con sviluppo tipico (ST) appaiati ai primi per età cronologica ed età linguistica ha permesso di considerare se, e a quali condizioni, la lettura congiunta può essere contesto di promozione di abilità comunicativo-linguistiche anche per i bambini con DSL. I primi risultati indicano che il modello di intervento sperimentato può essere efficace nel promuovere un aumento della partecipazione attiva alle conversazioni e della produzione linguistica dei bambini d’età prescolare con DSL. L’insieme di questi risultati, dei feedback di alcuni genitori relativi alle ricadute dell’intervento nel sistema familiare, e dei feedback di professionisti dei servizi sanitari coinvolti suggerisce l’opportunità di affiancare un intervento di questo tipo alla riabilitazione logopedica dei bambini con DSL
L’intervento con i genitori di bambini con disturbo specifico del linguaggio: sperimentazione e valutazione.
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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