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PURPOSE: To examine the difference of eye closed learning (iCLOL) time (time during which vision is not required), and the interblink interval (IBI), depending on the learning content, in order to consider the possibility of applying iCLOL to learning. METHODS: To examine iCLOL time during the listening, writing, and…

The effects of psycholinguistic variables on reading development are critical to the evaluation of theories about the reading system. Although we know that the development of reading depends on both individual differences (endogenous) and item-level effects (exogenous), developmental research has focused mostly on aver…

This study identified cognitive processes that underlie individual differences in working memory (WM) and mathematical problem-solving accuracy in emerging bilingual children (English learners). A battery of tests was administered in both English and Spanish that assessed problem solving, achievement, and cognitive pro…

This study set out to compare patterns of relationships among phonological skills, orthographic skills, semantic knowledge, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension in English as a first language (EL1) and English language learners (ELL) students and to test the applicability of the lexical quality hypothesis…

Achieving English language proficiency, while key to successful adaptation to a new country for internationally educated nurses (IENs), has presented more difficulties for them and for educators than previously recognized. Professional communication within a culturally diverse client population and maintaining collabor…

PURPOSE: Speech perception continues to develop throughout school age and plays a fundamental role in language and reading development. Recent findings in English-speaking children suggest that speech categorization consistency-the stability of a listener's percept across multiple encounters with a speech sound-predict…

PURPOSE: Universal screening for developmental language disorder (DLD) is a promising preventative approach for decreasing negative educational outcomes associated with DLD. Unfortunately, schools with multilingual student populations often face barriers in following best-practice guidelines for language testing and sc…

BACKGROUND: While large language models (LLMs) perform well in medical education, their ability to accurately interpret and answer English and Arabic dental multiple-choice questions (MCQs) remains underexplored. AIMS: This study evaluated the performance of advanced LLMs in answering dental MCQs in both languages, id…

PURPOSE: This study aims to examine how language background and grade level influence the voiceless sibilant fricative production of two groups of children enrolled in a Mandarin-English bilingual school in Canada. One group of children was exposed to Mandarin at home as heritage language (HL), and the other group had…

BACKGROUND: Psychosocial risk in pediatric cancer includes consideration of broader systems. The Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT) is a brief caregiver report screener of family psychosocial risk. Based on the Pediatric Psychosocial Preventative Health Model (PPPHM), scores are classified into tiers-Universal, Targete…

OBJECTIVE: Studies that evaluate YouTube videos on hydrocephalus often exclude non-English-language videos, even though hydrocephalus is more prevalent in low- and middle-income countries where English may not be widely understood. This study had two aims: to analyze the engagement, content, and quality of YouTube vide…

OBJECTIVE: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a prominent musculoskeletal disorder that affects approximately 303 million people worldwide. The challenges that language barriers present to the Latina population in regard to the diagnosis and treatment of OA remain largely unknown. The objective of this study was to examine dispari…

BACKGROUND: Accessing professional medical interpreters for brief, low risk exchanges can be challenging. Machine translation (MT) for verbal communication has the potential to be a useful clinical tool, but few evaluations exist. OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the quality of three MT applications for English-Spanish and Eng…

OBJECTIVE: The National Institutes of Health Toolbox Cognition Battery (NIHTB-CB) has both English- and Spanish-language versions producing crystallized and fluid cognition composite scores. This study examined measurement invariance between languages of administration. If established, measurement invariance would indi…

In the field of education, the development of educational big data has become an important strategic choice to promote the construction of the digital campus and educational reform, and educational big data has become a new driving force in the field of education that cannot be ignored. Based on the theoretical basis o…

The Malay version of the Yatt Suicide Attitude Scale (YSAS) was found to be reliable and valid for use in the Malaysian context. This study aims to validate and determine the cut-off points of the English version of the YSAS for a wider application by English-speaking researchers and practitioners.The English version o…

PURPOSE: This paper's purpose is to provide a resource for clinicians and researchers of select voice-related patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) available in the English language. METHOD: A systematic search for voice-related PROMs was conducted between September 2020 and July 17, 2021. Databases included APA P…

BACKGROUND: Diabetes technologies, such as insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors (CGM), have been associated with improved glycemic control and increased quality of life for young people with type 1 diabetes (T1D); however, few young people use these devices, especially those from minority ethnic groups. Curren…

In recent years, people increasingly are accessing health information on the Internet. A significant percentage of the United States (US) population has limited English proficiency with Spanish being the most common other language spoken. There is limited research on the presence or quality of Spanish-language health i…