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Timothy L. Hodgson; Frouke Hermens; Gemma Ezard – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) can affect social interaction and communication as well as motor and cognitive processes. Speech is affected in PD, as is the control of voluntary eye movements which are thought to play an important role in 'turn taking' in conversation. Aims: This study aimed to measure eye movements during spoken…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neurological Impairments, Eye Movements, Nonverbal Communication
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Jennifer L. Proper; Haitao Chu; Purvi Prajapati; Michael D. Sonksen; Thomas A. Murray – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
Drug repurposing refers to the process of discovering new therapeutic uses for existing medicines. Compared to traditional drug discovery, drug repurposing is attractive for its speed, cost, and reduced risk of failure. However, existing approaches for drug repurposing involve complex, computationally-intensive analytical methods that are not…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Meta Analysis, Prediction, Drug Therapy
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Miriam Hattle; Joie Ensor; Katie Scandrett; Marienke van Middelkoop; Danielle A. van der Windt; Melanie A. Holden; Richard D. Riley – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
Individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis projects obtain, harmonise, and synthesise original data from multiple studies. Many IPD meta-analyses of randomised trials are initiated to identify treatment effect modifiers at the individual level, thus requiring statistical modelling of interactions between treatment effect and participant-level…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Randomized Controlled Trials, Outcomes of Treatment, Evaluation Methods
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Yarden Ashkenazi; Nava Stainer; Lyle Tadmor; Lilach Yaakov; Inbal Friedman; Roni Rips; Oshrat Sella Weiss – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: SPEAK OUT! has been shown to enhance various aspects of voice such as intensity, prosody, voice quality and perception of voice. However, their impacts on expiration and communication effectiveness have not yet been evaluated. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Hybrid SPEAK OUT! method on aerodynamic measurements and…
Descriptors: Diseases, Audio Equipment, Blended Learning, Outcomes of Treatment
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Yiran Li; Tian Xie; Harold Snieder; Catharina A. Hartman – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Autistic children often have comorbid somatic problems. However, in adulthood, this has been much less studied. We investigated the associations between autistic symptoms and irritable bowel syndrome, food allergy, pain, and fatigue in adulthood and examined sex and life-course differences herein. A total of 35,048 adults aged from 18 to 90 from…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Comorbidity, Diseases, Allergy
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Xin-yan Zhang; Karen Spruyt – Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Rett syndrome (OMIM #312750) is a progressive neurodevelopmental disease with clinical manifestations including loss of spoken language and apraxia. We summarized per PRISMA guidelines findings on their non-verbal social skills. Twelve studies (n = 479 females, 1.6-52 years) were sorted into a (non-)interventional design including video-coding,…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Evaluation, Psychomotor Skills
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Qin, Xiaoting; Zahran, Hatice S.; Leon-Nguyen, Michelle; Kilmer, Greta; Collins, Pamela; Welch, Paige; Malilay, Josephine – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: Asthma is one of the leading causes of school absenteeism. Schools can play an important role in coordinating asthma care. The purpose of this study was to assess the implementation of asthma-related school health policies and practices across states and how they have changed over time. Methods: Data were analyzed from 36 states that…
Descriptors: Diseases, School Policy, Health Promotion, Program Implementation
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Lowe, Ashley A.; Phan, Hanna; Hall-Lipsy, Elizabeth; O'Shaughnessy, Scott; Nash, Bradley; Volerman, Anna; Gerald, Lynn B. – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: Children with asthma should have immediate access to rescue medication. Yet, <15% of children have access to this life-saving drug while at school. Methods: A search was conducted in the all states database of Westlaw to identify which the US states, territories, and the District of Columbia have a law for K-12 schools. Terms…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Drug Therapy, Diseases, State Legislation
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Aldossari, Ali Tared – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
This study investigates the inclusion of health education concepts in biology textbooks in the United States of America and Singapore. It employs a content analysis methodology to examine biology textbooks, considering the theme as a unit and dividing health concepts into four main fields. The findings for both countries indicate that the field of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Education, Biology, Textbooks
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Lam, Arena C.; Berliner, BethAnn; Barrat, Vanessa X. – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2021
Even before COVID-19, school districts wanted to understand if school-based telemedicine services met student health needs during the school day and helped keep students in school all day, every day. Specifically, districts were interested in knowing if telemedicine enabled students with a school-day health issue to return to class instead of…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Urban Schools, Age Differences, Instructional Program Divisions
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Zou, Rong; Wang, Yuezhu; Duan, Mengmeng; Guo, Min; Zhang, Qiang; Zheng, Huajun – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
In this study, we tested the feces of children with ASD and those of healthy children, and the overall changing of the community was observed in ASD children compared with controls. However, there were no abundant fungi populations showed significant variations between the ASD and Control group both at phylum and class level. Among the 507 genera…
Descriptors: Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Human Body
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Carolyn Baylor; Jingyu Linna Jin; Helen Mach; Deanna Britton – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: The Communicative Participation Item Bank (CPIB) is a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) designed to measure the extent of interference, or difficulty, experienced by adults with communication disorders participating in their day-to-day communication activities. To date, there is limited evidence regarding sensitivity of the CPIB…
Descriptors: Speech Therapy, Neurological Impairments, Participation, Diseases
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Tuija Aro; Reeta Neittaanmäki; Elisa Korhonen; Heli Riihimäki; Minna Torppa – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
The present study examined whether learning disabilities (LD) in reading and/or math (i.e., reading disability [RD], math disability [MD], and RD+MD) co-occur with other diagnoses. The data comprised a clinical sample (n = 430) with LD identified in childhood and a sample of matched controls (n = 2,140). Their medical diagnoses (according to the…
Descriptors: Comorbidity, Learning Disabilities, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Mental Disorders
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Helen Urpi Wagner-Coello; Maria Elena Villar; Matthew DeGennaro – Discover Education, 2024
Citizen science is recognized as an important tool to engage the public in important scientific and environmental issues that impact them. Mosquito surveillance-based citizen science in college curricula have not received much attention even though its usage has the potential to actively engage students in inquiry and elevate student support for…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Scientific Research, Undergraduate Students, College Science
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Helbert Rondon-Berrios – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
This article introduces an innovative teaching and learning tool called "Edelman Gamblegrams" that aims to help medical learners better understand disorders related to water/plasma tonicity homeostasis, i.e., hyponatremia and hypernatremia. Gamblegrams, named after physician James L. Gamble, are bar diagrams displaying the relative…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods, Diseases
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