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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Purpose: This randomized controlled trial evaluated the effectiveness of a play-based pragmatic language intervention for children with autism.
Methods: A sample of 71 children with autism were randomized to an ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2020)
The main purpose of the study is to analyze whether globally observed trends towards preschool expansion have impacted student achievement in primary and secondary school. We use data from multiple study cycles of two ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The aim of this study is to investigate whether maternal spatial support during two types of joint manipulative toy play tasks with 2-year-old children was longitudinally associated with math screening test scores in second ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This cross-sectional study investigated first (L1) and second (L2) language receptive and expressive vocabulary in a sample of 542 typically developing bilingual children of immigrants (age range 6–13), coming from six ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The article presents the preliminary analysis of Italian children’s diaries during the COVID-19 lockdown. The outbreak of the disease has posed great challenges to people’s daily lives and often children’s perspectives ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Correlational studies have played a major role in building our cumulative knowledge on child development. Yet as a result, we often have difficulty making causal inferences. The concern is selection effects: When children ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Den offentlige debatten om språkkartlegging av barnehagebarn er i stor grad preget av ytterpunkter, og argu mentene som brukes for eller mot kartlegging har ofte grunnlag i ideologiske motsetninger. Det er uheldig for ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)
Purpose: Given the barriers that inconsistent terminology poses for the Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) profession, this study aimed to develop an agreed-upon taxonomy with well-defined categories for describing language ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Aim
To determine the prevalence of drooling, swallowing, and feeding problems in persons with cerebral palsy (CP) across the lifespan.
Method
A systematic review was conducted using five different databases (AMED, CINAHL, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Department heads are increasingly responsible for instructional leadership. Therefore, it is important to understand the antecedents of self-efficacy in their work, which can motivate them to increase their leadership ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)
The study aimed to investigate variations in addition and subtraction fluency by observing grade three students in Norway (n = 253, Mage = 8.38 y.) and Finland (n = 209, Mage = 9.35 y.) while controlling for their age and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2020)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This study investigated how four 10th-grade students with dyslexia processed and integrated information across web pages and representations when learning in a multiple source multimedia context. Eye movement data showed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Learning to read is a milestone in a child's life, and reading ability is a strong predictor of academic outcomes. Some studies have revealed that individual differences in the capacity for implicit statistical learning ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Introduction
Research has recently focused on the relationships between working memory, negative affect (e.g., general anxiety, depressive symptoms) and personal assets (e.g., self-concept, academic and competence dimensions, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Objective
To estimate the effect of children's age of entry into early childhood education and care (ECEC) on parenting quality of mothers and fathers in a context of universal access to subsidized ECEC following a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Research on sex-related differences in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been impeded by small samples. We pooled 28 datasets from 18 sites across nine European countries to examine sex differences in the ASD phenotype ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The old controversy about the epistemic status of psychological sciences is useless and sterile. Psychology is ether a hard science nor a soft science. It is an ecological life science, whose object is the whole system of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The Inventory of Callous-Unemotional traits (ICU) is a widely used measure of the affective aspects of psychopathy in children and adolescents. Although a 3-bifactor model of the ICU has often been supported, method-variance ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)
Basically, the subject area of the present study is special needs education. Thus, the present study seeks (i) to explore how teachers’ gender, age, teaching experiences, grade level taught, class size and number of pupils ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Curriculum content, the issue of what to teach is fundamental. For students with intellectual disabilities (ID), the choice of educational content is crucial in a life span perspective. Curriculum research for this learner ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The study addressed to what extent behavioral engagement and textual integration may differ when undergraduate readers work with identical printed versus digital texts in preparation for an exam versus for pleasure. We ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
While a number of studies have found that an improvement in object shape recognition is associated with language growth in infants and toddlers, no published studies have investigated the longitudinal relation between early ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
For students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), learning social skills is an intricate but essential task to facilitate social inclusion and participation. Limited research is available on social skills interventions ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)
Mothers with a substance use disorder (SUD) are at risk for maladaptive parenting practices, and have heightened likelihood of having experienced childhood adversity themselves. In addition, parental reflective functioning ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Assessment of pragmatic language abilities of children is important across a number of childhood developmental disorders including ADHD, language impairment and Autism Spectrum Disorder. The Pragmatics Observational Measure ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Children with severe motor impairments who need augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) comprise a heterogeneous group with wide variability in cognitive functioning. Assessment of language comprehension will help ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The pandemic of COVID-19 has brought to the front a particular object: the face mask. I have explored the way people make-meaning of an object generally associated with the medical context that, under exceptional circumstances, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Objectives:
The objective of this study was to assess self-reported health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) in a group of children with cochlear implants (CIs) and to compare their scores to age- and gender-matched ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2020)
Purpose
This study investigated component skills in oral language development utilizing and validating a new assessment battery in a large (N = 800) and representative sample of Greek students 4–7 years of age.
Method
All ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The study examined school adjustment among 119 internationally adopted children in Norway. School adjustment included two main dimensions; school motivation and relationship in school. In the first part of the study, school ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2020)
Purpose
Prior studies have documented an adverse impact of stuttering on young children’s lives. These studies have relied primarily on parent reports, though different caregivers may have unique experiences with children. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The ability to accurately identify and label emotions in the self and others is crucial for successful social interactions and good mental health. In the current study we tested the longitudinal relationship between early ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Studies have identified concurrent, longitudinal, and bidirectional associations between language difficulties and internalizing problems. This is commonly explained by social exclusion or withdrawal from peers, but ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Purpose
This study reports outcomes from a stuttering therapy approach that combines value and awareness-based elements from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with those of stuttering and speech modification ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Abstract
Background
Training speech production skills may be a valid intervention target for minimally verbal autistic children. Intervention studies have explored various approaches albeit on a small ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article is part of the project “Teachers’ Skillful Coping with Disruptive Behavior in Norwegian and American Classrooms”. Questions raised are how disruptive behavior could affect teachers’ being-with-students and how ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Parent and preschool teacher ratings of the 10 noun categories of MacArthur-BatesCommunication Development Inventory (CDI) were used to study expressive languagein 2–4-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
When children start formal education, they are expected to be able to express complex thoughts. However, in order to do so, they need to be able to use both complex grammatical structures and a variety of words. One group ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Two explanations for resolving dyslexia were investigated, one assuming resolving underlying deficits and another assuming compensatory mechanisms based on cognitive strengths. Thirty-six Dutch gifted secondary-school ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Aspects of dyslexia definitions are framed as a contrast between the past and the future, focusing on implications for research and remedial education, highlighting assumptions that bias or limit research or clinical ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
In Norway, very few people with intellectual disability (ID) are employed, and most of them receive a disability pension. This suggests that they may not face a financial need for employment, but participation in the labor ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Denne artikkelens fokus er en analyse av hva studenter i gestaltterapiutdanningen ved Norsk Gestaltinstitutt Høyskole (NGI) svarte da de ble intervjuet etter å ha brukt et gestalt diagnostisk evalueringsskjema. Det gjøres ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This study aimed to enhance our knowledge of the constituent variables affecting invented writing skills in 5-year-olds by investigating the concurrent relationships among home literacy, underlying language skills, and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Objective. To assess the effectiveness of peer inclusion in interventions to improve the social functioning of children with ADHD. Methods. We searched four electronic databases for randomized controlled trials and controlled ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) are at an increased risk of speech and language deficits. Nonword repetition (NWR) is a potential predictor of problems with phonology, grammar and lexicon in DHH children. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
I denne artikkelen presenteres en oppsummering av normeringsarbeidet for kartleggingsverktøyet the Overall Assessment of the Speakers Experience of Stuttering – Adult version (OASES-A). Utprøving av verktøyet var del av ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The Myself-As-a-Learner scale (MALS) has been constructed to assess academic self-concept (Burden, R. L. [2000]. The Myself As a Learner Scale. Birmingham: Imaginative Minds; Burden, R. L. [2012]. The Myself As a Learner ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The aim of the study is to explore and develop knowledge about how educational psychological counsellors’ personal and private experiences appear in their counselling practice. We conducted four focus group interviews with ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
To investigate the long-term cognitive consequences of malignant pediatric brain tumor and its treatment, and factors explaining variability in cognitive functioning among survivors. Method: A geographical cohort of survivors ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The importance of parent engagement in children’s schooling is well documented, yet there is limited research on the quality of parent–teacher relationships specifically. In the present study, we aimed to help build knowledge ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Introduction: Social communication difficulties (SCDs) occur frequently after an acquired brain injury (ABI) and have disabling consequences, but effective interventions are scant. Group Interactive Structured Treatment ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Student-directed learning of literacy skills for students with intellectual disability
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Dichotic listening (DL) taps information on the brain's language laterality, processing, and attention. Research has shown that DL responses in dyslexia deviate from the typical pattern. Here, effects of DL training and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Children with hearing loss, and those with language disorders, can have excellent speech recognition in quiet, but still experience unique challenges when listening to speech in noisy environments. However, little is known ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
This article reviews contemporary research on multimedia learning that uses cognitive load theory as the major theoretical framework. In particular, we address the extent to which working memory has been conceptualized and ...