15 research outputs found
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder drugs and growth: an Italian prospective observational study.
Proposal for a protocol for epidemiological study of sleep-wake organization and disorders in the first three years of life
Improving the quality of parent-child shared book reading: An intervention program addressed to parents of preschoolers with specific language impairment
The quality of parent-child interaction with children with language impairment (LI) during shared book-reading--a context extensively documented as highly facilitative of language acquisition--has been found to be poorer than with typically developing children [1]. Training parents of children with LI to use interactive book-reading strategies has shown contrasting results (e.g.,[2] vs.[3]). This study examined the effectiveness of an intervention addressed to parents of preschoolers with SLI, aimed to (a) making parents aware of their role in promoting language acquisition, (b) training parents to use shared reading strategies facilitating the child\u2019s verbal participation, and then (c) increasing conversational participation and, possibly, oral language skills in their children.
Twenty families with children with SLI (aged 3;5-5;6) were engaged in a 10-week-intervention including individual and small group sessions of parent training, and implementation of shared book-reading at home (4 sessions weekly). Ten families participating in the research project, but not in the intervention, acted as control group. Mother-child book-reading were videotaped before, during, and after the intervention, and were coded to yield measures of maternal and child communicative functions and modalities, mothers\u2019 use of shared reading strategies, and children\u2019s active participation and linguistic production.
Results show that in the intervention group the durations of book-reading sessions and the mothers\u2019 use of some of the strategies learned --sharing control of the book with the child, offering utterances contingent to the child\u2019s focus, referring to familiar experiences, expanding the child\u2019s utterances-- increased significantly. These changes were associated with an increase in children\u2019s conversational participation, indexed by a significant increase of child initiations and linguistic production. However, no intervention effects were found in child lexical and morphosyntactic complexity. No significant changes were found for the control group. These findings suggest the effectiveness of combining speech-language therapy for children with interventions addressed to parents
L\u2019intervento con i genitori di bambini con disturbo specifico del linguaggio: sperimentazione e valutazione.
Efficacia e tollerabilit\ue0 del Topiramato in una popolazione di pazienti con epilessia, resistenti alla terapia convenzionale
Studio triveneto sulla lamotrigina: Correlazione tra efficacia del farmaco e durata dell'epilessia nelle varie forme sindromiche
We have correlated the length of refractory Epilepsy with efficacy of Lamotrigine used as add-on for a population of 389 patients treated for at least 2 years. Greater efficacy is observed with shorter history in Ctyptogenetic and Symptomatic Generalized Epilepsy, and in Partial Epilepsy