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Dylman, Alexandra S.; Champoux-Larsson, Marie-France – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022
Learning new information constitutes a fundamental part of children's school years. Recently, studies have found beneficial effects of emotion on learning and memory. Here, we specifically examined the effect of positive emotional prosody on content learning in two groups of Swedish school children (ages 8-10 and 11-13 years). The participants…
Descriptors: Children, Foreign Countries, Auditory Stimuli, Age Differences
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Samson, Ineke; Schalling, Ellika; Herlitz, Agneta; Lindström, Elisabeth; Sand, Anders – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: We aimed to cross-sectionally describe the impact of stuttering on persons who stutter (PWS): children, adolescents, and young adults. Based on previous research on PWS and psychosocial health in the general population, we hypothesized that (a) the adverse impact of stuttering in PWS would be larger among adolescents than children and…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Gender Differences, Children, Adolescents
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Lagerberg, Tove B.; Anrep-Nordin, Elin; Emanuelsson, Helena; Strömbergsson, Sofia – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2021
Background: Intelligibility can be defined as the speakers' ability to convey a message to the listener and it is considered the key functional measure of speech. The Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) is a parent rating scale used to assess intelligibility in children. Aims: To describe normative and validation data on the ICS in Swedish and…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Rating Scales, Intelligibility, Construct Validity
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Hellquist, Anna; Tammimies, Kristiina – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Clinical genetic testing is recommended for individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. There are only a few reports of how these recommendations are followed and especially missing for European countries. We aimed to analyze the rate of access, utilization, and awareness of clinical genetic testing among autistic individuals in Sweden…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Genetic Disorders, Screening Tests
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Elsner, Tahli L.; Krysinska, Karolina; Andriessen, Karl – School Psychology International, 2022
Experiencing bereavement due to the death of a close person is rife in the lives of young people. This review aimed to investigate how bereavement affects educational outcomes of students at various educational levels and what factors may be involved in moderating these outcomes. The systemic review was conducted according to the PRISMA guidelines…
Descriptors: Grief, Death, Barriers, Academic Achievement
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Achermann, Sheila; Nyström, Pär; Bölte, Sven; Falck-Ytter, Terje – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
Atypical motor development has frequently been reported in infants at elevated likelihood for autism spectrum disorder. However, no previous study has used detailed motion capture technology to compare infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder and infant siblings with no familial history of autism spectrum disorder. We investigated…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Infants, Toddlers
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Nowak, Herawati I.; Broberg, Malin; Starke, Mikaela – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
A random sample of parents of children with disabilities (n = 144) from three Swedish municipalities participated in a structured telephone interview including seven questions on child participation and 156 professionals from the same municipalities completed a web-based survey including six questions on child participation. The aim of the study…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Participative Decision Making, Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes
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Lagerberg, Tove B.; Lam, Jenny; Olsson, Rikard; Abelin, Åsa; Strömbergsson, Sofia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the intelligibility of children's atypical speech in relation to listeners' language background. Method: Forty-eight participants listened to and transcribed isolated words repeated by children with speech sound disorders. Participants were divided into, on the one hand, a multilingual group (n = 29) that…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Swedish, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
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Özerk, Kamil – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2018
The prevalence of autism/autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been increasing across the world. Previous studies in Norway reported, that the prevalence rate for 0-10-year-old children is 1 in 166, and in the case of 11-year-old children it is 1 in 125. Moreover, another nationwide study discovered that 1 in 192 males and 1 in 695 females between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Incidence
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Keller, Lena; Preckel, Franzis; Brunner, Martin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
It is well-documented that academic achievement is associated with students' self-perceptions of their academic abilities, that is, their academic self-concepts. However, low-achieving students may apply self-protective strategies to maintain a favorable academic self-concept when evaluating their academic abilities. Consequently, the relation…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, High Achievement, Low Achievement
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Putnick, Diane L.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Zelli, Arnaldo; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bombi, Anna Silvia – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Promoting children's prosocial behavior is a goal for parents, healthcare professionals, and nations. Does positive parenting promote later child prosocial behavior, or do children who are more prosocial elicit more positive parenting later, or both? Relations between parenting and prosocial behavior have to date been studied only in a narrow band…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Prosocial Behavior, Child Behavior, Child Rearing
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Özerk, Kamil – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2016
From a purely educationist perspective, gaining a deeper understanding of several aspects related to the prevalence of autism/ASD in a given population is of great value in planning and improving educational and psychological intervention for treatment, training, and teaching of children with this disorder. In this article, I present and discuss…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Incidence, Clinical Diagnosis
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Niklasson, Laila; Sandberg, Anette – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2010
In this article we will discuss the outdoor environment for younger children with the help of two different concepts. The first concept, affordance, is well known in the discussion about outdoor environments. What the affordance in the outdoor environment is perceived as can differ between actors. How the affordance is used can be another source…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Children, Childhood Attitudes, Space Utilization
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Brunnegard, Karin; van Doorn, Jan – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2009
This study was conducted to establish normative nasalance values for Swedish speaking children as measured with the Nasometer[TM] II, and to investigate differences due to regional dialect, gender, and age. Two hundred and twenty healthy children aged 4-5, 6-7, and 9-11 years were included. Group mean nasalance scores for four speech stimuli were…
Descriptors: Swedish, Dialects, Gender Differences, Age Differences
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Buhler-Niederberger, Doris; Van Kreiken, Robert – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2008
This article analyses the central themes running through the collection of papers in this special issue of Childhood, which were all given as papers at the XVI Durban World Congress of Sociology, 23-29 July 2006. These themes encompass the ways in which global processes of social change combining modernity with tradition have become important for…
Descriptors: Children, Global Approach, Social Change, Foreign Countries
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