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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"perceptual training"”.
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The Effectiveness of Perceptual Training as a Corrective Measure for Reading Disability
This study compared the differences in perceptual development found between (1) normal readers and disabled readers, and (2) Indian children of a reservation cultural background and non-Indian children. Subjects were fifty-three children of both Indian and non-Indian backgrounds ranging from the …
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A Day Through My Eyes: Improving Visual Perceptual Training For School Staff Members Working With Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder
… This program addresses a need to improve the training, knowledge, and skills within the area of visual perception amongst school staff members working at Bridgeway Academy. This program contains three interrelated components to address these needs: an all staff training, development of an …
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The effects of perceptual and Piagetian training on the reading achievement of first grade pupils
… to investigate the effect of pairing cognitive training, developed from Piaget's theory, with perceptual training on reading achievement. Also investigated was the effect of cognitive and perceptual training by themselves, as well as that of a cont:col group on reading achievement. A second …
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The Effects of Two Methods on Training EFL University Students in Taiwan to Identify Three Non-Native Phonemic Contrasts
… and compared the effects of two methods on training 71 EFL university students in Taiwan to identify three non-native phonemic contrasts. The study also investigated whether the perceptual training effect could be generalized to new tokens, new talkers, and untrained final stop contrasts as …
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The perception and production of palatal codas by Korean L2 learners of English
… (Kuhl & Iverson, 1995; Kuhl, 2000), and the Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) (Best, 1994, 1995; Best, McRoberts & Goodell, 2001), have made predictions about the acquisition of a second language phonological system, but are mostly concerned with the acquisition of L2 segments and segmental …
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An In Depth Study of a Child with Visual Perceptual Problems and an Attempt to Determine the Effectiveness of Configuration Analysis as Related to Visual Perception
… to determine if the intensive use of visual perceptual training in the use of configuration analysis would improve the subject's reading power.
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A Study of Pupil Self-Concepts in a Three-Track Elementary School
… to determine if the intensive use of visual perceptual training in the use of configuration analysis would improve the subject's reading power.
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Brain plasticity in speech training in native English speakers learning mandarin tones
… phonetic learning based on an adaptive computer training program. The program utilized the acoustic characteristics of Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) to train monolingual American English-speaking listeners to perceive Mandarin lexical tones. Behavioral identification and discrimination tasks were …
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Interactive Effects of Perception and Production Training on L2 Phonetic Acquisition
… has found that perception and production training improve L2 speech perception (e.g., Bradlow et al., 1997) and production (e.g., Hattori, 2009), respectively, the interactive effects of these two types of training are still an open question. Furthermore, studies have shown mixed findings …
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Interactive Effects of Perception and Production Training on L2 Phonetic Acquisition
… has found that perception and production training improve L2 speech perception (e.g., Bradlow et al., 1997) and production (e.g., Hattori, 2009), respectively, the interactive effects of these two types of training are still an open question. Furthermore, studies have shown mixed findings …
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Learning novel vowel contrasts: experimental methods in classroom applications
This dissertation reports on perceptual training of tense-lax vowel contrasts in the context of an advanced-level ESL pronunciation class for Chinese and Korean international graduate students. The vowel contrasts were trained under four training paradigms designed to examine the effects of …
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Effectiveness of copying as a teaching method for adult novice learners of drawing : a study of students' perceptions
… I have looked at how copying was used in the training of artists, and how it eventually helped the artists display originality in their own work. Finally, I have looked at the diverging views held by art educators regarding the issue of copying, and its relation to creativity, originality, …
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Falls and multisensory processing: exploring multisensory perception as a potential rehabilitation avenue for fall-prone older adults
… first systematic review of the evidence base for training multisensory integration. We found 26 studies which collectively show multisensory integration can be trained (i.e., temporal acuity or task performance improved) in younger and older adults. Two training approaches were identified in the …
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Reliability Of The Concensus Auditory-perceptual Evaluation Of Voice On Pediatric Voices With Trained And Untrained Listeners
… were randomly selected to complete a perceptual training course prior to the evaluation session. Voice samples included 10 disordered and 2 normal voices from a population of children age 3-10 years old. The 12 voice samples were randomly repeated 3 times. Results of analysis of …
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Effects of four different modality training programs on IQ and reading readiness performance in the lower socio-economic level kindergarten child
Four perceptual training programs were incorporated into an individualized kindergarten curriculum for disadvantaged children. One program stressed general auditory and visual perceptual skills, a second auditory skills specific to decoding, a third visual skills specific to decoding, and a fourth …
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Pattern Recognition and Anticipation Expertise in Soccer
… the relative importance of the different perceptual-cognitive skills to anticipation performance, as a function of the unique constraints of the task. This was achieved by altering the distance between the performer and ball, and presenting stimuli in video and point-light format. Evidence …
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Pre-exposure Training as a Means to Reduce Vection Induced Symptoms of Motion Sickness
… procedure, the Coriolis illusion. Following this training period, all participants were exposed to the motion sickness testing environment; the optokinetic drum. Tests results were measured subjectively through a conventional motion sickness questionnaire and objectively through the use of a …
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Passive Categorisation Training for Tinnitus Management
… mechanisms of auditory categorisation training and its role in tinnitus management. 2. Assess the use of different sounds for appropriate/accurate tinnitus synthesis. 3. Evaluate an effortless personalised categorisation training approach relative to conventional ST using broadband …
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Cognitive flexibility training with severely and moderately mentally handicapped persons
… to measure the effects of Cognitive Flexibility Training with moderately and severely handicapped individuals.The first chapter starts by introducing various criteria adopted to classify mentally retarded people. This leads to discussion on the objectives, strategies and trends of research in …
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Late effects of treatment in survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
… also had an increased incidence of visual perceptual difficulty and more school prob 1 ems than survivors of solid tumours, particularly in early primary grades. Intellectual outcome and school performance in leukaemia survivors may be improved by early visual perceptual training. Children …