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Reading Comprehension6

• New PLAY ATTENTION Edufeedback system - for Attention, Focus, Concentration, Active and Short Term Memory, Hyperactivity Reduction, Reading Comprehension - uses the same feedback science and technology perfected for NASA astronauts and US Air Force pilots. (biof.com)
• Getting students to find evidence in the text to answer questions is one of the best ways to improve reading comprehension. (classroomfreebiestoo.com)
• Another less widely recognized reading disorder impacting many with ADHD is specific reading comprehension deficit. (chadd.org)
• In this article, I focus on those with a specific reading comprehension deficit, hoping to shed light on this often missed disorder. (chadd.org)
• In the past several years, there has been a growing interest in the connection between reading comprehension and executive function. (chadd.org)
• Researchers such as Laurie Cutting from Vanderbilt University and Kelly Cartwright, author of the book Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension: A Guide for Educators, have found significant evidence that executive function skills can affect reading comprehension. (chadd.org)

Aphasia17

• Aphasia is a language disorder that often involves speech comprehension impairments affecting communication. (jefferson.edu)
• This study investigated the benefit of visual information accompanying speech for word comprehension in people with aphasia (PWA) and the neuroanatomic substrates of any benefit. (jefferson.edu)
• These findings provide initial insights into our understanding of the impact of audiovisual information on comprehension in aphasia and the brain regions mediating any benefit. (jefferson.edu)
• First, we study how often and in which ways speakers with aphasia produce direct speech constructions. (rug.nl)
• Comparing the results to those of a control group, we find that people with aphasia produce more direct speech constructions than "healthy" speakers. (rug.nl)
• Furthermore, depending on their aphasia type, individuals with aphasia use different forms of direct speech constructions. (rug.nl)
• The larger proportion and adapted use of direct speech by individuals with aphasia is suggested to be an adaptation strategy to get around specific linguistic impairments. (rug.nl)
• Now that we know that speakers with aphasia produce relatively many direct speech constructions, the question arises what their effects are one the listener. (rug.nl)
• Is this also true for speech produced by people with aphasia? (rug.nl)
• John said that he had to leave) affect discourse comprehension differently in Dutch and English-speaking people with and without aphasia. (rug.nl)
• This is indeed the case in Dutch: narratives containing direct speech are easier to comprehend than narratives with indirect speech for listeners with and without aphasia. (rug.nl)
• I had the pleasure of trying out Comprehension Aphasia by the Virtual Speech Center . (blogspot.com)
• You can see the home screen of Comprehension Aphasia above. (blogspot.com)
• According to the description, Comprehension Aphasia "focuses on auditory comprehension of increasingly longer and complex yes-no questions and directions with the ability to turn on background noise. (blogspot.com)
• Head, H. Aphasia and Kindred Disorders of Speech (Cambridge Univ. (nature.com)
• Aphasia is language dysfunction that may involve impaired comprehension or expression of words or nonverbal equivalents of words. (msdmanuals.com)
• Aphasia is distinct from developmental disorders of language and from dysfunction of the motor pathways and muscles that produce speech (dysarthria). (msdmanuals.com)

Affect their speech1

• Individuals with auditory processing disorders may struggle with language comprehension, which can affect their speech and listening comprehension abilities . (carlsonlab.org)

Listening Comprehension23

• Discover the Surprising Differences Between Speech Comprehension and Listening Comprehension - Gain Insights Now! (carlsonlab.org)
• Understand the difference between speech comprehension and listening comprehension . (carlsonlab.org)
• Speech comprehension refers to the ability to understand spoken language, while listening comprehension refers to the ability to understand spoken language in context. (carlsonlab.org)
• Risk factors for poor listening comprehension include attentional focus difficulties and lack of contextual cues . (carlsonlab.org)
• Understand the role of language comprehension in speech and listening comprehension. (carlsonlab.org)
• Language comprehension is the ability to understand language, and it is essential for both speech and listening comprehension. (carlsonlab.org)
• High cognitive load can interfere with both speech and listening comprehension. (carlsonlab.org)
• Understand the role of attentional focus in listening comprehension. (carlsonlab.org)
• Good attentional focus is essential for effective listening comprehension. (carlsonlab.org)
• Understand the role of semantic memory in speech and listening comprehension. (carlsonlab.org)
• Good semantic memory is essential for both speech and listening comprehension. (carlsonlab.org)
• Good working memory is essential for both speech and listening comprehension. (carlsonlab.org)
• Understand the role of bottom-up and top-down processing in speech and listening comprehension. (carlsonlab.org)
• Both bottom-up and top-down processing are essential for effective speech and listening comprehension. (carlsonlab.org)
• Understand the importance of contextual cues in listening comprehension. (carlsonlab.org)
• Good contextual cues are essential for effective listening comprehension. (carlsonlab.org)
• Language comprehension plays a crucial role in speech and listening comprehension . (carlsonlab.org)
• Auditory processing is essential for speech and listening comprehension as it allows individuals to distinguish between different sounds and understand spoken language. (carlsonlab.org)
• Individuals with auditory processing disorders may struggle with speech and listening comprehension due to difficulties in processing sounds. (carlsonlab.org)
• Semantic knowledge is crucial for speech and listening comprehension as it allows individuals to understand the meaning of spoken language. (carlsonlab.org)
• Can Strategy Instruction Improve Listening Comprehension Foreign Language Annals, 29, 331-342. (scirp.org)
• Can Strategy Instruction Improve Listening Comprehension? (scirp.org)
• study supplement contains listening comprehension exercises, crossword puzzles, and an answer key. (bc.edu)

Answered comprehension questions1

• Participants listened to speech in quiet and in the presence of noise (time-reversed speech) and answered comprehension questions. (nih.gov)

Effective speech comprehension2

• Good phonemic awareness is essential for effective speech comprehension. (carlsonlab.org)
• Classroom acoustics and speech intelligibility in children have also gained renewed interest because of the importance of effective speech comprehension in noise on learning. (cdc.gov)

Perception4

• The development of multisensory speech perception continues into the late childhood years. (rochester.edu)
• However, no previous study has examined brain oscillations during performance of a continuous speech perception test. (frontiersin.org)
• Hearing in humans is normally quantified using pure tone audiometry, which measures absolute sensitivity across a wide range of pure tone frequencies centered on those thought most useful for speech perception ( Moore, 2013 ). (frontiersin.org)
• Key aspects are speech comfort: the ability of the teacher to be heard through sufficient sound environment (acoustics and background / activity sounds) and with effective voice and communication (voice load, voice quality, nonverbal communication) and listening effort: the child's potential effort in perception of the spoken and language understanding in relation to the child's cognitive capacity. (lu.se)

Cognitive13

• Risk factors for poor speech comprehension include hearing loss , phonemic awareness difficulties, and cognitive load . (carlsonlab.org)
• Language comprehension involves various cognitive processes that enable individuals to understand spoken language. (carlsonlab.org)
• Although much evidence has suggested that domain-general cognitive control and working memory resources are sometimes recruited during language comprehension, many aspects of this relationship remain elusive. (frontiersin.org)
• I argue that we should stop asking whether domain-general cognitive control mechanisms play a role in language comprehension, and instead focus on characterizing the division of labor between the cognitive control brain regions and the more functionally specialized language regions. (frontiersin.org)
• That said, much behavioral and neuroimaging evidence (to be reviewed in section Narrowing Down the Hypothesis Space for the Relationship between Language Processing Mechanisms and Cognitive Control Mechanisms) suggests that domain-general cognitive control mechanisms do sometimes get recruited during language comprehension . (frontiersin.org)
• and (ii) whether this engagement is necessary for comprehension (i.e., whether understanding linguistic input requires domain-general cognitive control mechanisms, or whether those mechanisms are helpful but non-essential). (frontiersin.org)
• I then introduce two questions about the relationship between language comprehension and cognitive control and define the hypothesis space for each. (frontiersin.org)
• Understanding speech in noise (SiN) is a complex task involving sensory encoding and cognitive resources including working memory and attention. (frontiersin.org)
• As the elderly are particularly vulnerable to the effects of noise, an understanding of the interplay between auditory, cognitive, and social factors and its effect on speech communication and social participation is also critical. (cdc.gov)
• Several physiological changes in the speech production process in old age have been documented, yet studies of cognitive changes are few and inconclusive. (lu.se)
• 2002), whereas the cognitive aspects of language production, such as speech fluency, have been studied markedly less in relation to aging (Searl et al. (lu.se)
• 2002). If speech fluency is affected by age, it might entail that certain aspects of the cognitive speech production process change throughout the lifespan. (lu.se)
• First of all, disfluencies, defined as interferences in the otherwise fluent flow of speech, arise from errors or delays in the cognitive speech production process and are consequently relevant to general theories of language production (Fraundorf et al. (lu.se)

Successful comprehension2

• The current multimodal speech comprehension paradigm demonstrates recruitment of a wide comprehension network in the brain, in which posterior STS and fusiform gyrus form sites for convergence of auditory, visual and linguistic information, while left-dominant sites in temporal and frontal cortex support successful comprehension. (uni-luebeck.de)
• And is this engagement necessary for successful comprehension? (frontiersin.org)

Abstract1

• Abstract neural representations of language during sentence comprehension: Evidence from MEG and Behaviour. (mpi.nl)

Sentence4

• Interestingly, I have often found that when a student loses comprehension during a reading-misreads a sentence, for example-they will abandon the attempt to understand the text. (chadd.org)
• The rhymes that the reader perused confused the meaning: Phonological effects during on-line sentence comprehension. (mpi.nl)
• Research on written language comprehension has generally assumed that the phonological properties of a word have little effect on sentence comprehension beyond the processes of word recognition. (mpi.nl)
• Typical symptoms include slowed speech with normal articulation, impaired comprehension of sentence syntax as well as impaired naming of things. (ucsf.edu)

Audiologists and Speech-Language Pat2

• Telepractice is an appropriate model of service delivery for audiologists and speech-language pathologists (ASHA, n.d.) and may be the primary mode of service delivery or may supplement in-person services (known as hybrid service delivery). (asha.org)
• Services delivered by audiologists and speech-language pathologists are included in the broader generic term telerehabilitation (American Telemedicine Association, 2010). (asha.org)

Pathologists4

• Houle, G.R. (1988) Computer usage by speech-language pathologists in public schools. (biof.com)
• Where Speech-Language Pathologists come to discover and share speech therapist tools and resources. (speechtherapisttools.com)
• Since older adults constitute a progressively larger segment of the population, it is vital for speech-language pathologists to be able to differentiate and make diagnostic distinctions between normal and pathological speech processes in relation to aging (Searl et al. (lu.se)
• If task complexity disproportionately affects speakers of a certain age, speech pathologists must be aware of the potential influence of this factor to create balanced tests. (lu.se)

Pathology2

• Please see ASHA State-by-State for further information on issues related to audiology and speech-language pathology at state and local levels. (asha.org)
• The interference of noise with communication can have significant social consequences, especially for persons with hearing loss, and may compromise safety (e.g. failure to perceive auditory warning signals), influence worker productivity and learning in children, affect health (e.g. vocal pathology, noise-induced hearing loss), compromise speech privacy, and impact social participation by the elderly. (cdc.gov)

Neural5

• Delta band RIN may serve as a neural metric of speech in noise comprehension beyond the effects of pure tone averages and working memory. (nih.gov)
• Recent neurolinguistic research has found, using various techniques, several neural substrates that are associated with idiom comprehension, such as the left temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex. (wikipedia.org)
• Our specific aims were to investigate the neural responses to these different information sources, alone and in interaction, and further to use behavioural speech comprehension scores to address sites of intelligibility-related activation in multifactorial speech comprehension. (uni-luebeck.de)
• A Computational Analysis of Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Maturation of Multisensory Speech Integration in Neurotypical Children and Those on the Autism Spectrum. (rochester.edu)
• Neural representation of speech segmentation and syntactic structure discrimination. (mpi.nl)

Linguistic4

• Speech comprehension is a complex human skill, the performance of which requires the perceiver to combine information from several sources - e.g. voice, face, gesture, linguistic context - to achieve an intelligible and interpretable percept. (uni-luebeck.de)
• We describe a functional imaging investigation of how auditory, visual and linguistic information interact to facilitate comprehension. (uni-luebeck.de)
• In contrast, language comprehension (i.e., the process of extracting meaning from the linguistic signal) is, or at least can be, a more "passive," automatic process: just like we can't help but recognize a face upon seeing a face-like configuration (e.g. (frontiersin.org)
• Development of an auditory passage comprehension task for swedish primary school children of cultural and linguistic diversity. (lu.se)

Researchers1

• The researchers note that "these results have implications for everyday communicative situations, such as in educational contexts (both teachers and students), persuasive messages (political speeches, advertisements), and situations of urgency (first aid, cock pit conversations). (eurekalert.org)

Cortical3

• The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which individual differences in pure tone averages, working memory, and cortical tracking of the speech envelope relate to speech in noise comprehension in older adults. (nih.gov)
• Cortical tracking of continuous speech was assessed using electroencephalography in older adults (60 to 80 years). (nih.gov)
• A recent fMRI study of the interaction between noise and semantic predictability has identified a cortical network involved in speech comprehension. (princeton.edu)

Difficulty4

• Speech and language difficulty commonly affects individuals with dementia and other neurological conditions. (ucsf.edu)
• Patients may experience deficits in the form of verbal expression (i.e., word-finding difficulty) or comprehension (i.e., difficulty understanding speech). (ucsf.edu)
• For example, a person with a normal pure tone audiogram may still experience difficulty understanding speech in a noisy and reverberant room ( Ruggles and Shinn-Cunningham, 2011 ). (frontiersin.org)
• Changes in speech and language can also occur, such as problems using the correct word and difficulty with language comprehension. (medlineplus.gov)

Cues1

• Listening to speech amidst noise is facilitated by a variety of cues, including the predictable use of certain words in certain contexts. (princeton.edu)

Individual Differences4

• Individual differences in pure tone averages and working memory are known to be critical indicators of speech in noise comprehension. (nih.gov)
• The relationship between RIN and speech in noise comprehension was assessed while controlling for the effects of individual differences in pure tone averages and working memory. (nih.gov)
• These findings demonstrate that the magnitude of delta band RIN relates to individual differences in speech in noise comprehension in older adults. (nih.gov)
• Finally, an individual differences analysis showed that greater comprehension performance in the scanning participants (measured in a post-scan behavioural test) were associated with increased activation in left inferior frontal gyrus and left posterior STS. (uni-luebeck.de)

Spoken language1

• Coordination of spoken language production and comprehension: How speech production is affected by irrelevant background speech. (mpi.nl)

Temporal2

• A multivariate lesion-symptom mapping analysis for the degraded speech condition showed that lesions to superior temporal gyrus, underlying insula, primary and secondary somatosensory cortices, and inferior frontal gyrus were associated with reduced benefit of audiovisual compared to auditory-only speech, suggesting that the integrity of these fronto-temporo-parietal regions may facilitate cross-modal mapping. (jefferson.edu)
• PPA is caused by degeneration in the parts of the brain that control speech and language (the left, or "dominant," side of the brain in the frontal, temporal and parietal regions that normally control language function). (ucsf.edu)

Insights1

• 2014) as the type and location of disfluencies can reveal insights into the problems we encounter when producing speech (Lickley, 2015). (lu.se)

Noisy3

• Multisensory Audiovisual Processing in Children With a Sensory Processing Disorder (II): Speech Integration Under Noisy Environmental Conditions. (rochester.edu)
• Impaired multisensory processing in schizophrenia: deficits in the visual enhancement of speech comprehension under noisy environmental conditions. (rochester.edu)
• Exploring visual enhancement of speech comprehension in noisy environments. (rochester.edu)

Participants1

• We found that visual speech information was more beneficial for neurotypical participants than PWA, and more beneficial for both groups when speech was degraded. (jefferson.edu)

Recognition1

• The toolbar includes a range of tools to support inclusion such as mind mapping, screen masking, word prediction, talking dictionary, text-to-speech, Save as MP3 and voice recognition. (cpsd.us)

Classroom2

• Classroom Freebies Too: Speech Bubbles and a Comprehension Graphic Organizer! (classroomfreebiestoo.com)
• Even a small amount of hearing loss can have profound, negative effects on speech, language comprehension, communication, classroom learning, and social development. (cdc.gov)

Processes1

• Because rTMS was guided by language production-related activity, these results provide the first causal evidence that maintenance in VWM directly depends on the long-term representations and processes used in speech production. (mpi.nl)

Working memory1

• Verbal working memory (VWM), the ability to maintain and manipulate representations of speech sounds over short periods, is held by some influential models to be independent from the systems responsible for language production and comprehension [e.g. (mpi.nl)

Interact1

• For a copy of the article "Two Sides of the Same Coin: Speech and Gesture Mutually Interact to Enhance Comprehension" and access to other Psychological Science research findings, please contact Barbara Isanski at 202-293-9300 or [email protected] . (eurekalert.org)

Skills3

• Teachers can use Speechify to create audio lessons or convert text-based resources into audio format, while students can use the app to improve their comprehension and listening skills. (camerontours.com)
• Reluctant readers of all ages and those reading below grade level are sure to have fun while they improve their skills with Comprehension Quickies! (speechcorner.com)
• Perhaps damage to the circuitry underlying language comprehension results in the growth of compensatory skills in recognizing non-verbal behaviour. (nature.com)

Communication1

• Hearing plays an essential role in communication, speech and language development, and learning. (cdc.gov)

Citations1

• Citations to clinical research on using computer software for speech & language therapy treatment. (biof.com)

Wernicke's2

• Wernicke's region is responsible for processing words to give meaning to speech and writing. (medicinenet.com)
• Wernicke's area is primarily involved in the comprehension. (ucsf.edu)

Intelligibility2

• Finally, substantial work has been made in developing models aimed at better predicting speech intelligibility. (cdc.gov)
• This summary of the last three years' research highlights some of the most recent issues for the workplace, for older adults, and for children, as well as the effectiveness of warning sounds and models for predicting speech intelligibility. (cdc.gov)

Production3

• We compare production and comprehension of singular and plural verb forms in French monolingual and French-Swedish bilingual children (n = 58) aged five to ten. (jbe-platform.com)
• Broca's area , located in the left hemisphere, is associated with speech production and articulation. (ucsf.edu)
• Disfluencies, pauses, speech errors and speech rate are connected to the production of language. (lu.se)

Improve2

• Once students recognize that text needs to make sense, they are ready for strategies to improve comprehension when reading. (chadd.org)
• For workers, attempts have been made to: 1) Better define the auditory performance needed to function effectively and to directly measure these abilities when assessing Auditory Fitness for Duty, 2) design hearing protection devices that can improve speech understanding while offering adequate protection against loud noises, and 3) improve speech privacy in open-plan offices. (cdc.gov)

Adults2

• Understanding speech in adverse listening environments is challenging for older adults. (nih.gov)
• Despite its name, this app is not just for adults, but can be used with children who have comprehension issues as well! (blogspot.com)

Frontal2

• Damage to a discrete part of the brain in the left frontal lobe (Broca's area) of the language-dominant hemisphere has been shown to significantly affect the use of spontaneous speech and motor speech control. (ucsf.edu)
• Broca's discovery of the speech center on the left frontal side forced Flourens' ideas into oblivion. (encyclopedia.com)

Verb forms1

• Constantly drawing comparisons with English construction, it covers all of the important points in French grammar (verb forms and tenses, parts of speech, negative sentences, possessives, partitive construction, etc.) fully and logically, and with refreshing clarity. (doverpublications.com)

Children4

• When children are behind in speech or comprehension, Zeltsman says the likely culprit is hearing loss due to recurrent ear infections. (webmd.com)
• Children who are exposed to more than one language also may have expressive speech delays, but usually catch up around age 2. (webmd.com)
• Severe multisensory speech integration deficits in high-functioning school-aged children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their resolution during early adolescence. (rochester.edu)
• Sex differences in multisensory speech processing in both typically developing children and those on the autism spectrum. (rochester.edu)

Stimuli2

• We investigated brain activity in 3-5-year-old preschoolers as they listened to connected speech stimuli in Japanese (first language), English (second language), and Chinese (a rarely exposed, foreign language) using near-infrared spectroscopy. (researchgate.net)
• Elicited speech from six young, six middle-aged and five older speakers of Swedish describing five simple and five complex stimuli is analysed for disfluencies, speech errors and speech rate. (lu.se)

Patients1

• Patients are typically unaware that their speech is incomprehensible to others. (msdmanuals.com)

Gene1

• Common variation in the autism risk gene CNTNAP2, brain structural connectivity and multisensory speech integration. (rochester.edu)

Ability2

• Damage to this region can impair your ability to talk, interpret language, or generate coherent speech. (medicinenet.com)
• The ability to produce words is impaired, but comprehension and ability to conceptualize are relatively preserved. (msdmanuals.com)

Listeners1

• Our listeners couldn't adapt well to our speech. (goethe-verlag.com)

Review1

• This article will review Speechify, an application for text-to speech that is popular due to its user-friendly interface and innovative features. (camerontours.com)

Word1

• Benefit of Visual Speech Information for Word Comprehension in Post-st" by Anna Krason, Gabriella Vigliocco et al. (jefferson.edu)