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This study examined the relations between reading-related cognitive skills and word reading development of Chinese children with dyslexia in their Chinese language (L1) and in English (L2). A total of 84 bilingual children-28 with dyslexia, 28 chronological age (CA) controls, and 28 reading-level (RL) controls-particip…

Using data on young English learners (EL) who enroll in the New York City public school system, I examine how long it takes students to become minimally proficient in English and how the time to proficiency differs for students by their age of school entry. Specifically, I follow four recent entry cohorts of ELs ages 5…

This qualitative study sought a contemporary view of the development, facilitators of, and barriers to nursing scholarship in Japan from the perspectives of the scholars. In-depth interviews were conducted with 13 scholars across Japan, which were digitally recorded, and the data were subjected to content analysis. Fiv…

Recent work [Iverson et al. (2003) Cognition, 87, B47-57] has suggested that Japanese adults have difficulty learning English /r/ and /l/ because they are overly sensitive to acoustic cues that are not reliable for /r/-/l/ categorization (e.g., F2 frequency). This study investigated whether cue weightings are altered b…

The Parenting Stress Inventory (PSI) is a 101-item self-report questionnaire measuring stress in children and their parents. For several years, we have been administering the English and Spanish versions of the PSI to parents of children with >40% total body surface area burn at discharge, 6 months, 1 year, and every y…

PURPOSE: This study evaluates the extent to which bilingual children produce the same or overlapping responses on tasks assessing semantic skills in each of their languages and whether classification analysis based on monolingual or conceptual scoring can accurately classify the semantic development of typically develo…

The acceptability of routine psychosocial assessments to women and staff at an antenatal clinic of a public hospital in Sydney, Australia, was investigated. 104 English-speaking women had a telephone interview within a few days of the psychosocial assessment, and 65 of these women also participated in a telephone inter…

Our aim was to assess the impact of English language proficiency on Pap smear use among Hispanics. We performed a cross-sectional study using 2000 National Health Interview Survey data and included 2,331 Hispanic women, age >/=18 without a hysterectomy. After adjusting for sociodemographic and access factors, highly pr…

The Meaningful Auditory Integration Scale (MAIS) is a parent-report questionnaire for assessing auditory behaviour in aurally habilitated children. This study addressed the reliability and convergent validity of three different language versions of the MAIS: English, German, and Polish. In total, 114 parents (English,…

OBJECTIVES: Publication bias is widely appreciated, but considerable time and effort are needed to locate and obtain data from unpublished randomized controlled trials (RCTs), those published in non-English language journals or those reported in the gray literature; for this publication, we will call this collection of…

The university entry scores for school leavers admitted to the first year of the Bachelor of Applied Science (Health Information Management) degree at the University of Sydney in 1996 were examined to determine whether the Tertiary Entrance Rank (TER) was a good predictor of academic performance, as measured by grade p…

STUDY DESIGN: The Low Back Pain Symptom Check List identifies psychological disturbance in patients with low back pain. This report traces the development of a translation for Hispanic populations. OBJECTIVE: The study explores the reliability and assesses the equivalence of the translation in providing pain and psych…

This presentation offers historical and sociolinguistic perspectives regarding the origins of the language used by African-Americans. U.S. descendants of slaves of West and Niger Congo African origin should not be thought of as native speakers of English. To the extent that they have lived in de jure or de facto social…

PURPOSE: Code-switching, the practice of alternating between languages within a conversation or utterance, is common among bilingual speakers. However, many aspects of its role in language acquisition and the association between parent and child code-switching remain unclear. This study examined code-switching between…

BACKGROUND: Fluid therapy is central to sepsis management, yet recommendations on fluid type, volume, optimization, and de-escalation remain uncertain. The 2025 ESICM guidelines highlight major evidence gaps in sepsis fluid therapy. Although large language models (LLMs) show promise for guideline interpretation and cli…

UNLABELLED: This study interpreted and translated a home visiting parenting program,(PFR), from English into Spanish and assessed if participants' preferred language for PFR (Spanish, English) moderated its effect. This was a randomized controlled trial (PFR v. control) among 252 Spanish- and English-speaking mother-in…

BACKGROUND: Patient education contributes to improve public awareness of Helicobacter pylori. Large language models (LLMs) offer opportunities to revolutionize patient education transformatively. This study aimed to assess the quality of patient educational materials (PEMs) generated by LLMs and compared with physician…

BACKGROUND: In today's competitive job market, pharmacists must have a well-crafted curriculum vitae (CV), cover letter, and personal statement. However, non-native English speakers may face challenges in crafting effective job application documents. Jordan is one such country where English is a second language for man…

BACKGROUND: Establishing equitable access to COVID-19 clinical trials is an important step in mitigating outcomes disparities. Historically, language has served as a barrier to equitable clinical trial participation. METHODS: A centralized research infrastructure was established at our institution to screen potential…

OBJECTIVE: To measure duration of well-child care (WCC) visits at 2 federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), across 10 clinic sites, and determine if differences exist in visit duration for English- and Spanish-speaking parents. METHODS: Upon arrival to their child's 2- to 24-month well visit, a research team membe…