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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Other Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere specified"”.
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Lexikal organisation hos en- och flerspråkiga skolbarn med språkstörning
… consequences for school success. Lexical size and lexical organization have both been found to be affected, with problems in lexical organization exceeding those in lexical size. The research on LI has had a long-standing focus on monolingual children, resulting in assessment routines …
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Cognition and communication in children/adolescents with cochlear implant
… about how hearing with a CI influences cognitive and communicative development and there is a need for development of methods for assessment. The general purpose of this thesis was to explore the interaction between cognition (working memory capacity) and phonological processing and more complex …
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Musculoskeletal pain rehabilitation A one-year follow-up of occupational performance, psychosocial functioning and disability
… programmes are found decreasing pain and improve back-to-work rates. There is, however, a lack of knowledge in several respects. The overall aim of this thesis was to study outcomes in terms of occupational performance, satisfaction with performance, psychosocial functioning, …
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There's more to the picture than meets the ear - Gaze behavior during communication in children with hearing impairment
Many children and adolescents with hearing impairment struggle to meet school demands. The difficulties can be traced to the characteristics of the hearing impairment, and to adverse consequences on language development, often overlooked in diagnostics and intervention. This thesis investigates the …
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Pragmatic ability in children with early onset brain damage and children with pragmatic language impairnent
… damage, i.e. children with cerebral palsy (CP) and children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus (SBH), and in a group of children with pragmatic language impairment (PLI). In study I and III children with CP, SBH and PLI were compared. In study I pragmatically related abilities were assessed. No …
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Shoulder pain after stroke: prevalence, contributing factors and consequences in daily life
… knowledge of prevalence, contributing factors and impact on the individual’s life could enhance the possibility to find more effective treatments and therefore more studies are needed. The overall aim of this thesis was to evaluate PSSP with a special focus on prevalence, contributing factors …
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Physical activity in persons with late effects of polio
Physical activity is beneficial for the health of persons with disabilities but the levels of such activity are lower than for persons without disability. In addition the level of physical activity decreases with increasing age. For persons aging with a disability it may be a challenge to engage in …