Executive function and general intellectual functioning in dyskinetic cerebral palsy: comparison with spastic cerebral palsy and typically developing controls

Aim: To comprehensively describe intellectual and executive functioning (EF) in people with dyskinetic cerebral palsy (DCP), by comparing their performance with that of: 1) age and sex-matched typically developing controls (TDC); and 2) participants with spastic cerebral palsy (SCP) matched for age, sex, term/preterm and gross motor function classification system (GMFCS). Method: This cross sectional study was conducted by the University of Barcelona in collaboration with five institutions. Participants were people with DCP (n = 52; 24 females, median age 20.5 y: 5mo, interquartile range [IQR] = 13.75 y: 7mo; GMFCS I-V). As comparison groups, participants with SCP (n = 20; 10 females, median age = 20.5 y: 5.5mo, IQR = 13.75 y 9mo; GMFCS I-V) and TDC (n = 52; 24 females, median age = 20 y: 4mo, IQR = 12 y 7mo) were included. Intelligence and EF were assessed using common tests in all participants. Results: Both CP groups had lower intelligence than TDC and performed poorer in almost all EF tasks. Intelligence was higher in DCP than SCP (z = -2.51, p = 0.01). Participants with DCP also performed significantly better in goal-setting tasks (z = 2.27, p = 0.03) and information processing (z =-2.54, p = 0.01) than those with SCP. Conclusion: People with DCP present lower general intellectual functioning and poorer EF across multiple domains than typically developing controls. People with DCP have higher general intellectual functioning and better EF than people with SCP when levels of motor severity are similar

Measuring intellectual ability in cerebral palsy: The comparison of three tests and their neuroimaging correlates

Standard intelligence scales require both verbal and manipulative responses, making it difficult to use in cerebral palsy and leading to underestimate their actual performance. This study aims to compare three intelligence tests suitable for the heterogeneity of cerebral palsy in order to identify which one(s) could be more appropriate to use. Forty-four subjects with bilateral dyskinetic cerebral palsy (26 male, mean age 23 years) conducted the Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices (RCPM), the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test -3rd (PPVT-III) and the Wechsler Nonverbal Scale of Ability (WNV). Furthermore, a comprehensive neuropsychological battery and magnetic resonance imaging were assessed. The results show that PPVT-III gives limited information on cognitive performance and brain correlates, getting lower intelligence quotient scores. The WNV provides similar outcomes as RCPM, but cases with severe motor impairment were unable to perform it. Finally, the RCPM gives more comprehensive information on cognitive performance, comprising not only visual but also verbal functions. It is also sensitive to the structural state of the brain, being related to basal ganglia, thalamus and white matter areas such as superior longitudinal fasciculus. So, the RCPM may be considered a standardized easy-to-administer tool with great potential in both clinical and research fields of bilateral cerebral palsy

La inteligencia emocional una propuesta para sensibilizar la relación pedagógica y potenciar el liderazgo en las estudiantes

El siguiente articulo pretende hacer una reflexión sobre la intención pedagógica del área de Ciencias sociales en el marco del Paradigma Educativo Rosarista, la pedagogía Saturniniana en la forma-ción del ciudadano comprometido con su patria, y la inteligencia emocional (intra e Inter Personal).Toda acción pedagógica tiene una intencionalidad que debe contribuir en la formación holista de las estudiantes, para brindarles herramientas de tipo conceptual, axiológico y hermenéutico, hacia la praxis de la vida en sociedad.La contribución de esta reflexión en la misión que como educadores se ha emprendido, es ayudar en la cualificación de la persona, la sociedad y la pa-tria, reconociendo la individualidad dentro de una colectividad

A half century of Romance linguistics: Selected proceedings of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages

The present volume presents a selection of the revised and peer-reviewed proceedings articles of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 50) which was hosted virtually by the faculty and students from the University of Texas at Austin. With contributions from rising and senior scholars from Europe and the Americas, the volume demonstrates the breadth of research in contemporary Romance linguistics with articles that apply corpus-based and laboratory methods, as well as theory, to explore the structure, use, and development of the Romance languages. The articles cover a wide range of fields including morphosyntax, semantics, language variation and change, sociophonetics, historical linguistics, language acquisition, and computational linguistics. In an introductory article, the editors document the sudden transition of LSRL 50 to a virtual format and acknowledge those who helped them to ensure the continuity of this annual scholarly meeting

A half century of Romance linguistics: Selected proceedings of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages

The present volume presents a selection of the revised and peer-reviewed proceedings articles of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 50) which was hosted virtually by the faculty and students from the University of Texas at Austin. With contributions from rising and senior scholars from Europe and the Americas, the volume demonstrates the breadth of research in contemporary Romance linguistics with articles that apply corpus-based and laboratory methods, as well as theory, to explore the structure, use, and development of the Romance languages. The articles cover a wide range of fields including morphosyntax, semantics, language variation and change, sociophonetics, historical linguistics, language acquisition, and computational linguistics. In an introductory article, the editors document the sudden transition of LSRL 50 to a virtual format and acknowledge those who helped them to ensure the continuity of this annual scholarly meeting

A half century of Romance linguistics: Selected proceedings of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages

The present volume presents a selection of the revised and peer-reviewed proceedings articles of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 50) which was hosted virtually by the faculty and students from the University of Texas at Austin. With contributions from rising and senior scholars from Europe and the Americas, the volume demonstrates the breadth of research in contemporary Romance linguistics with articles that apply corpus-based and laboratory methods, as well as theory, to explore the structure, use, and development of the Romance languages. The articles cover a wide range of fields including morphosyntax, semantics, language variation and change, sociophonetics, historical linguistics, language acquisition, and computational linguistics. In an introductory article, the editors document the sudden transition of LSRL 50 to a virtual format and acknowledge those who helped them to ensure the continuity of this annual scholarly meeting

A half century of Romance linguistics: Selected proceedings of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages

The present volume presents a selection of the revised and peer-reviewed proceedings articles of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 50) which was hosted virtually by the faculty and students from the University of Texas at Austin. With contributions from rising and senior scholars from Europe and the Americas, the volume demonstrates the breadth of research in contemporary Romance linguistics with articles that apply corpus-based and laboratory methods, as well as theory, to explore the structure, use, and development of the Romance languages. The articles cover a wide range of fields including morphosyntax, semantics, language variation and change, sociophonetics, historical linguistics, language acquisition, and computational linguistics. In an introductory article, the editors document the sudden transition of LSRL 50 to a virtual format and acknowledge those who helped them to ensure the continuity of this annual scholarly meeting

A half century of Romance linguistics: Selected proceedings of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages

The present volume presents a selection of the revised and peer-reviewed proceedings articles of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 50) which was hosted virtually by the faculty and students from the University of Texas at Austin. With contributions from rising and senior scholars from Europe and the Americas, the volume demonstrates the breadth of research in contemporary Romance linguistics with articles that apply corpus-based and laboratory methods, as well as theory, to explore the structure, use, and development of the Romance languages. The articles cover a wide range of fields including morphosyntax, semantics, language variation and change, sociophonetics, historical linguistics, language acquisition, and computational linguistics. In an introductory article, the editors document the sudden transition of LSRL 50 to a virtual format and acknowledge those who helped them to ensure the continuity of this annual scholarly meeting

A half century of Romance linguistics: Selected proceedings of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages

The present volume presents a selection of the revised and peer-reviewed proceedings articles of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 50) which was hosted virtually by the faculty and students from the University of Texas at Austin. With contributions from rising and senior scholars from Europe and the Americas, the volume demonstrates the breadth of research in contemporary Romance linguistics with articles that apply corpus-based and laboratory methods, as well as theory, to explore the structure, use, and development of the Romance languages. The articles cover a wide range of fields including morphosyntax, semantics, language variation and change, sociophonetics, historical linguistics, language acquisition, and computational linguistics. In an introductory article, the editors document the sudden transition of LSRL 50 to a virtual format and acknowledge those who helped them to ensure the continuity of this annual scholarly meeting. The proceedings can be found at the publisher website: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/369Table of Contents: Acknowledgements (p. iii) -- The digital transformation of the LSRL: The first 50 years of Romance linguistics in the Americas ends virtually / by Barbara E. Bullock, Cinzia Russi & Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (p. v) -- For an integrative approach to variation and change in French nasal vowel systems / by Zsuzsanna Fagyal (p. 1) -- Assessing change in a Gallo-Romance regional minority language: 1PL verbal morphology and referential restriction in Picard / by Julie Auger & Anne-José Villeneuve (p. 21) -- The partial loss of free inversion and of referential null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese / by Mary A. Kato & Maria Eugenia Lammoglia Duarte (p. 41) -- The antipassive as a Romance phenomenon: A case study of Italian / by Karina High (p. 63) -- The role of SE in Spanish agreement variation / by Irene Fernández-Serrano (p. 85) -- Object control into temporal adjuncts: The case of Spanish clitics / by Katie VanDyne (p. 107) -- Overt vs. null subjects in infinitival constructions in Colombian Spanish / by Kryzzya Gómez, Maia Duguine & Hamida Demirdache (p. 131) -- Oblique DOM and co-occurrence restrictions: How many types? / by Monica Alexandrina Irimia (p. 157) -- A superlative challenge for a syntactic account of connectivity sentences / by Nicoletta Loccioni (p. 181) -- Revisiting sociophonetic competence: Variable spectral moments in phrase-final fricative epithesis for L1 & L2 speakers of French / by Amanda Dalola & Keiko Bridwell (p. 195) -- Does social identity play a role in the L2 acquisition of French intonation? Preliminary data from Canadian French-as-a-second-language classroom learners / by Hilary Walton (p. 221) -- Sociophonetic analysis of mid front vowel production in Barcelona / by Annie Helms (p. 249) -- Prosodic correlates of mirative and new information focus in Spanish wh-in-situ questions / by Carolina González & Lara Reglero (p. 269) -- Mechanical vs. functional processes in subject pronoun expression in Spanish second language learners / by Ana de Prada Pérez & Nick Feroce (p. 299) -- Frequency and efficiency in Spanish proverbs / by Ernesto R. Gutiérrez Topete (p. 323) -- Index (p. 347)Linguistic