Despite the availability of evidence-based treatment models for adolescent behavior problems, little is known about the effectiveness of these programs for adolescents with callous-unemotional (CU) traits. Defined by lack ...

Passing is the research of oneself by trying to look and to be seen as a member of a social group by assuming its features. Individuals performing this process are willing to undergo several physical and behavioural changes ...

Objectives The primary aim was to examine how event-related potentials (ERPs) and mismatch negativity (MMN) change and develop over time among children with hearing loss (HL) using hearing aids (HAs) or cochlear implants ...

Background There is increasing recognition of the contribution of morphological skills to the development of reading fluency. However, theoretical models and recent research raise questions about how different language ...

Across two experiments, an adult informant presented 220 preschoolers (34–71 months of age) with either a correct claim or an incorrect claim about how to activate a music box by using one of two toy figures. Children were ...

Animacy hierarchies conventionally descend from subjectivity and integrated animacy down towards insensate or dead matter. John Williams’ 1965 novel Stoner upends these hierarchies, positing aestheticized inanimacy as an ...

This study explored whether there were long‐term hearing and vestibular outcome differences between five pairs of identical twins who had been infected with the congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection before birth. Data ...

Superheroes are often disabled, either literally or metaphorically. Their exceptional powers and abilities may be balanced by weakness in order to engender audience sympathy or identification, or to provide a source of ...

Intervention effects on moderate and severe problem behavior in and outside the classroom context, on classroom climate and inclusion, and on perceived collective efficacy, self-efficacy, and disciplinary practices among ...

The present study (a) addressed difficulties in speech fluency in children with Down syndrome and typically developing children at a similar non-verbal level and (b) examined the association between difficulties with speech ...

This cross-linguistic study investigated the impact of spelling errors on reading behavior in five languages (Chinese, English, Finnish, Greek, and Hebrew). Learning theories predict that correct and incorrect spelling ...

We examined the concurrent relationship between narrative skills (the Renfrew Bus Story Test) and core language measures (vocabulary, grammar and verbal memory) at age 4 and the longitudinal relationship between core ...

Local government mergers are an important policy issue in many countries, yet empirical evidence of the effects of merging and of local government size on the production and quality of local public services is scarce. We ...

Children with Down syndrome are at risk of reading difficulties. Reading skills are crucial for social and academic development, and thus, understanding the nature of reading in this clinical group is important. This ...

Over the last decade, the lack of qualified teachers in schools has been the subject of both research and political debate in many countries. In this study, we have investigated the factors that predict beginning teachers’ ...

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine potential differences in the predictors of expressive vocabulary development between children with Down syndrome and typically developing children to support preparation ...

In a sample of 455 Taiwanese upper‐secondary school students, latent variable structural equation modeling was used to test hypothesized relationships between beliefs about knowledge in science, beliefs about justification ...

There is consensus about the positive effects of high quality Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) on children’s development, particularly for children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. However, limited knowledge ...

To determine the effects of non-pharmacological randomised controlled trials in adults with autism, a systematic review was conducted across five electronic databases. A total of 3865 abstracts were retrieved, of which 41 ...

Introduction Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is among the most common mental disorders in children and adolescents, and it is a strong risk factor for several adverse psychosocial outcomes over the lifespan. ...

The article presents the results of an exploratory-qualitative study about children´s conceptions of ecology in relation to media messages. The objective of the study has been to identify the role of ecologism and environmental ...

Både årsakene til dysleksi og måten vanskene framtrer kan være sammensatte og heterogene og dette øker behovet både for ulike metodiske innfallsvinkler i planlegging av tiltak og individuell tilpasning av undervisningen. Dette ...

Children (N = 278, 34–71 months, 54% girls) were told which of two figurines turned on a music box and also observed empirical evidence either confirming or conflicting with that testimony. Children were then asked to sort ...

The current thesis consists of three papers that, through examination of different samples and perspectives, aimed to evaluate health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) in children 5-12 years old with different degrees of ...

Matematikkvansker er et felt det generelt er forsket mindre på enn for eksempel lese- og skrivevansker. Når det kommer til matematikkopplæring for elever med utviklingshemming er dette et felt det finnes enda mindre forskning ...

Denne oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i personlige erfaringer hos foreldre, knyttet til utagerende atferd hos barnet deres med autismediagnose. Bakgrunnen for oppgavens temavalg er personlig arbeidserfaring med denne gruppen ...

This study draws on data collected as a part of the research project "Improving language comprehension in preschool children with language difficulties: a cluster randomised trial" at the Department of Special Needs ...

Background The development of automatic tools based on acoustic analysis allows to overcome the limitations of perceptual assessment for patients with head and neck cancer. The aim of this study is to provide a systematic ...

Temaet for dette prosjektet har vært sosial inkludering for elever med lærevansker i småskolen. Overordnet formål for prosjektet var å undersøke hvordan lærere på småskolen legger til rette for at elever med lærevansker, ...

Bakgrunn og formål Ménièrespasienter forteller at de føler seg som en kasteball i helse Norge. De opplever diffuse og sammensatte plager, med svimmelhet, hørselstap og tinnitus som de mest fremtredende symptomene. ...

Det ble valgt å skrive en artikkelbasert masteroppgave. I hovedsak inneholder kappen teoretisk forankring og metode. Den teoretiske forankringen beskriver blant annet alderdom, komorbiditet, aldersbetinget hørselstap, ...

Denne masteroppgaven besår av to ulike deler, en kappe og et artikkelutkast. Kappen presenterer bakgrunnsinformasjon, og går i tillegg inn på hva som har blitt tidligere på feltet. Den gjør rede for valg av problemstilling, ...

The ability to construct meaning from texts is the core of reading. We report a meta-analysis and a systematic review of 64 longitudinal studies tracing the development of reading comprehension from preschool. Previous ...

Det ble valgt å skrive en artikkelbasert masteroppgave. I hovedsak inneholder kappen teoretisk forankring og metode. Den teoretiske forankringen beskriver blant annet alderdom, komorbiditet, aldersbetinget hørselstap, ...

I denne oppgaven rettes fokus mot fravær og frafall fra yrkesfaglige videregående skoler i Oslo, med lave inntaksgrenser. Frafall fra videregående opplæring er et aktuelt og mye omdiskutert tema i skolen. For den enkelt ...

Dette er en masteroppgave i fordypning i audiopedagogikk innenfor emnet hørsel, språk og kommunikasjon. Formålet med oppgaven er å se på nytteverdi av cochleaimplantat hos barn med alvorlig nedsatt hørsel og autismespekt ...

Aims: Child maltreatment (CM) is a serious public health issue, affecting over half of all children globally. Although most CM is perpetrated by parents or caregivers and their reports of CM is more accurate than ...

The serial advantage, defined as the gain in naming rate in the serial over the discrete task of the same content, was examined between grades and types of content in English and Greek. 720 English- and Greek-speaking ...

I dette prosjektet er målgruppen elever med lett grad av utviklingshemming. Mennesker med utviklingshemming omfatter en stor gruppe mennesker med ulike tilstander som medfører en intellektuell funksjonsnedsettelse (NOU ...

Background: Post-stroke aphasia is a communication disorder where existing evidence favors intensive therapy methods. Telerehabilitation represents a service model for geographically remote settings, or other barriers to ...

Informasjon om problemstilling: Ved hjelp av cochleaimplantat kan barn med store hørselstap få mulighet til å høre og dermed utvikle talespråk, det er likevel vist et stort spekter av utfall i språkutviklingen for denne ...

The present study aims to investigate individual differences in children’s inhibitory control firstly by attempting to answer whether we can replicate the findings of age differences in a sample of Norwegian 3-5-year-olds. ...

Denne masteroppgaven er en del av forskningsprosjektet "Teachers' Skillful Coping with Disruptive Behavior in Norwegian and American Classrooms", som ledes av Professor Liv Duesund og Postdoktor Magnar Ødegård ved Institutt ...

Formålet med dette masterprosjektet var å undersøke prevalensen av stemmevansker blant norske korsangere. Det ble også undersøkt hvilke symptomer på stemmevansker korsangere opplever, og om noen korsangere er mer utsatt ...

Shy children can present challenges for teachers aiming at inclusive classrooms. Their educational attainments can be lower than their peers, they may have difficulties in adjustment to school and they can be at risk of ...

Efficient word processing requires rapid activation of phonological and semantical codes, assumed to be achieved by developing automaticity at the word-level. Researchers have by this definition conceptualized automaticity ...

In this paper, the task-related fMRI problem is treated in its matrix factorization form, focusing on the Dictionary Learning (DL) approach. The proposed method allows the incorporation of a priori knowledge that is ...

This study aims to test the effectiveness of the International Child Development Program (ICDP) to improve teachers’ attitudes toward refugee students in Rohingya Refugee Camp, Bangladesh. The goal of using ICDP is to ...

Low academic achievements are predicted by early disadvantages. Because achievement gaps typically escalate with age, early efforts to prevent future academic disadvantages are called for. The current study examines whether ...

Sammendrag Det anslås at cirka 100 barn per år lever i en familie hvor minst en av foreldrene har diagnosen utviklingshemming, og de fleste av disse foreldrene vil ha lett grad av utviklingshemming (Tøssebro, Midjo, ...

Background and research question Reading comprehension in one’s first language is a broadly researched phenomenon. However, technological, social and economic changes have led to an increase of people learning to read in ...

Barnehagen har et viktig samfunnsmandat som skal sikre at barn får ta del i et rikt språkmiljø som skal gi optimale betingelser for en god språkutvikling. Da er det viktig at barn møter voksne som ser betydningen av det ...

We investigated whether children born preterm are at risk for language delay using a sibling-control design in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), conducted by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. ...

Child maltreatment (CM) is global public health issue with devastating lifelong consequences. Global organizations have endeavored to eliminate CM; however, there is lack of consensus on what instruments are most suitable ...

Viktigheten av god livskvalitet for utvikling og læring er godt dokumentert (Helsedirektoratet, 2015). Imidlertid vet vi lite om livskvaliteten til barn og unge med variasjon i kroppslig kjønnsutvikling i Norge, og om ...

Flere studier har undersøkt sammenhengen mellom språkferdigheter og matematikkferdigheter og funnet ut at elevenes språkferdigheter predikerer senere matematikkferdigheter. Hvilke matematikkferdigheter språk predikerer ...

Pilot a definitive randomized controlled trial of speech-language telerehabilitation in poststroke aphasia in addition to usual care with regard to recruitment, drop-outs, and language effects. Pilot single-blinded ...

Purpose Stuttering affects people in individual ways, and there are multiple factors which may influence a person’s goals when seeking therapy. Even though there is a common consensus that speech-language pathologists ...

Andelen barn som mottar nevroutviklingsforstyrrelsen ASF (autismespekterforstyrrelse), har vært økende de seneste årene. Noe som gir økte insentiver for å vite mer om hjelpebehovet til disse barna og deres familier. Formålet ...

Tema for denne masteroppgaven har vært samtalen. Vi har alle behov for å uttrykke våre tanker og meninger, bli lyttet til og bli forstått. Stamming kan være en hindring for dette og vanskelig å leve med. Ungdomstiden kan ...

Mind-wandering is a quite common psychological experience that raises a number of issues, when occurring for instance at school. Is it a productive or disruptive phenomenon? The current research focuses on pre-post methods ...

Bakgrunn og formål: Forskning viser at mennesker med utviklingshemming i mindre grad er representert på ulike fritidsarenaer, deriblant idrettsrelaterte aktiviteter (Schalock, 2004). Målet med prosjektet er å belyse hvordan ...

Selvmord er et økende samfunnsproblem, fra 2017 til 2018 steg antallet med 79 menneskeliv tapt (FHI, 2013). Selvmordstanker blant unge er et relativt vanlig fenomen, til tross for at dette blir ansett som et tabu. Et norsk ...

Aim Evidence suggests that cochlear implants are beneficial for language development, but there is no consensus about the ideal age for surgery. We investigated how language development and surgical safety were affected ...

Å være foreldre til barn med taleflytvansken løpsk tale kan erfares utfordrende, fordi det er en lite kjent vanske blant fagpersonell, i skoleverket og hos befolkningen generelt (St. Louis, 1996). Dette kan skape utfordringer ...

Background Peer-mediated pragmatic language interventions can be of benefit to children with autism as they simultaneously target an individual child’s pragmatic language skills and contextual factors related to social ...

Background Low educational attainment in parents is associated with child psychopathology. It is not clear whether the associations are due to risk factors that family members share or due to effects of maternal or ...

At present there is no validated tinnitus questionnaire available in Norway. The aim of the present study was to psychometrically evaluate and report on a Norwegian translation of the Tinnitus Sample Case History Questionnaire ...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a revision of the well-known Campbellian system for causal research. The revised system, termed the COPS model, applies to both applied and basic research. Five validities are included, ...

Det å kunne regne blir ansett som en «grunnleggende ferdighet som går på tvers av fag» (Udir, 2018), og norske skoler følger det lovfestede prinsippet om tilpasset opplæring (Lovdata, 2020), for å kunne møte disse kravene, ...

Formålet med dette prosjektet har vært å belyse og beskrive mangfoldet i foreldres refleksjoner, erfaringer og synspunkter knyttet til skolevalg for deres barn med lett grad av utviklingshemming. Det var samtidig ønskelig ...

Problemstilling De siste årene har pårørende gjennom offentlige statlige føringer fått en større og tydeligere plass i helse-og omsorgstjenesten. Også innenfor logopedifeltet er pårørende av afasirammede en viktig part i ...

Sammendrag Det anslås at cirka 100 barn per år lever i en familie hvor minst en av foreldrene har diagnosen utviklingshemming, og de fleste av disse foreldrene vil ha lett grad av utviklingshemming (Tøssebro, Midjo, Paulsen ...

Formål og problemstilling: Taleapraksi er en kommunikasjonsvanske som vanligvis behandles av logopeder. Det eksisterer mange ulike tilnærminger til behandling av vansken, og ulike metodologiske innfallsvinkler regnes som ...

Sammendrag: Tittel: «Den opplevde stemmen»: En narrativ litteraturstudie om opplevelsen av egen stemmevanske Bakgrunn, formål og problemstilling: Forskning viser at vansker med stemmen er noe mange opplever grunnet at ...