Sökning: "language disorders"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 59 avhandlingar innehållade orden language disorders.

  1. 1. Individuals with autism spectrum disorders : teaching, language, and screening

    Författare :Fredrika Miranda-Linné; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; Autism; autism spectrum disorders; Autism Behavior Checklist; language; test construction; factor analysis; teaching; discrete-trial; incidental teaching; generalization; spontaneous usage; Psykologi; Psychology; Psykologi; Clinical Physiology; klinisk fysiologi;

    Sammanfattning : The present dissertation on autism spectrum disorders (ASD) addressed several questions. First, the behavioral symptoms of speaking and mute individuals with ASD were compared on the Autism Behavior Checklist (ABC), a commonly used diagnostic instrument. In addition, questions about the construction of the ABC were investigated. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Language problems at 2½ years of age and their relationship with school-age language impairment and neuropsychiatric disorders

    Författare :Carmela Miniscalco; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :language screening; language development; language delay; longitudinal; neuropsychiatric disorders; narrative skill;

    Sammanfattning : Background: International research has shown that language delay (LD) is associated with social, cognitive, emotional and/or behavioural deficiencies, but there is still a need for extended knowledge about LD at early age and its relationship with long-term language impairment and neuropsychiatric disorders in Swedish children. Aims: To study (a) if children with a positive screening result or a negative screening result at 2½ years of age showed persistent or transient language difficulties at 6 years of age and, (b) whether or not children identified by language screening at 2½ years of age were diagnosed with language, neurodevelopmental and/or neuropsychiatric impairments at school age. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Language Of Space : The Acquisition And Interpretation of Spatial Adpositions In English

    Författare :Francesco-Alessio Ursini; Stephen Crain; Drew Khlentzos; Krizsta Szendroi; Na'ama Friedmann; Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science Faculty of Human Sciences Macquarie University; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Syntax; Semantics; Spatial Prepositions; Language Acquisition; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis by publication presents a study on English adpositions (e.g. to, in, at, from, in frontof, through). LÄS MER

  5. 4. Written language abilities of children with autism spectrum disorder or attention disorders

    Författare :Jakob Åsberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; autism; ASD; attention disorders; AD HD; written language; reading comprehension; word decoding; spelling; girls.;

    Sammanfattning : Prior research has indicated that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) or attention disorders (AD/HD and DAMP) are at risk for written language difficulties. But existing research is limited, especially so for ASD. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Disfluency in Swedish human–human and human–machine travel booking dialogues

    Författare :Robert Eklund; Lars Ahrenberg; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Speech; Speech disorders; Speech intelligibility; Speech perception; Computer linguistics; phonetic; Man-computer-interaction; Computational linguistics; Datorlingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis studies disfluency in spontaneous Swedish speech, i.e., the occurrence of hesitation phenomena like eh, öh, truncated words, repetitions and repairs, mispronunciations, truncated words and so on. LÄS MER