The Impact of a Clinic-Based Literacy Intervention on Language Development in Inner-City Preschool Children

Abstract Background Epileptiform activities can cause transient or permanent deficits that affect the children during development and may be accompanied by neurodevelopmental disorders like specific language impairment. Objectives The objective of this study was to find if there is a possible association and the impact of epilepsy and epileptiform activity in children with specific language impairment. Patients and methods The study was conducted on 80 children suffering from specific language impairment and 80 age and sex match healthy control children. Computed tomography brain was performed and electroencephalography was recorded for children. Intelligence quotient level, cognitive age, social, and phoniatric assessment were done for all patients. Results Eighty children with specific language impairment (51 males and 29 females) with a mean age of 4.11 ± 1.93. Patients with specific language impairment showed significantly higher rates of abnormal electroencephalography (P = 0.006) and epilepsy (P < 0.001) compared to the control group. Spearman correlation demonstrated a highly negative significant relationship linking the language, intelligence quotient with abnormal electroencephalography and epilepsy (r = − 0.91, P < 0.01 and r = − 0.91, P < 0.01 respectively). Also, there was a moderately inverse significant relationship linking the cognitive age, social with abnormal electroencephalography, and epilepsy (r = − 0.70, P < 0.05 and r = − 0.65, P < 0.05 respectively). Conclusion Epileptiform activities even without epilepsy in preschool children may alter normal language function. Specific language impairment was associated with lower intelligence quotient levels, social, and cognitive age. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT04141332

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On the Impact of Multi-language Development in Machine Learning Frameworks

2020 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) ◽

10.1109/icsme46990.2020.00058 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Manel Grichi ◽

Ellis E. Eghan ◽

Bram Adams

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Language Development ◽

The Impact ◽

Learning Frameworks

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The impact of coronavirus lockdown on oral healthcare and its associated issues of pre-schoolers in China: an online cross-sectional survey

BMC Oral Health ◽

10.1186/s12903-021-01410-9 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Chang Liu ◽

Shuang Zhang ◽

Chenzheng Zhang ◽

Baojun Tai ◽

Han Jiang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Preschool Children ◽

Health Status ◽

Oral Health ◽

Online Survey ◽

Oral Health Status ◽

Cross Sectional Survey ◽

Wuhan City ◽

The Future ◽

The Impact ◽

Children’S Oral Health

Abstract Background The sudden outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic influenced people’s daily life. During lockdown of Wuhan city, the oral health and its associated issues of preschool children were investigated and guidance for dental clinics when the epidemic were controlled in the future were also provided. Methods A national online survey was conducted among preschool children and completed by their caregivers. The questionnaire related to children’s oral health status and care behaviour, caregivers' attitudes. The information was statistically analyzed between Wuhan residents and others residents. Results 4495 valid questionnaires were collected. In oral health status, during Wuhan lockdown, 60.8%, 35.5% and 18.3% children had self-reported dental caries, toothache and halitosis respectively. In oral health attitudes, respondents who would increase attention to oral health was more than that would decrease. In oral hygiene behaviour, compared to non-Wuhan children, the children in Wuhan became more active in brushing their teeth. In utilization of dental services in the future, less Wuhan residents would choose to have dental visit directly, 28.5% Wuhan residents and 34.7% non-Wuhan residents agreed all of procedures could be done if proper protected. Conclusions Oral health status and associated issues of preschool children in Wuhan were significantly different from that of others during lockdown of Wuhan city and in the future. Effective measures should be taken as early as possible to protect children's oral health.

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Do Competence Skills Moderate the Impact of Social Influences to Drink and Perceived Social Benefits of Drinking on Alcohol Use Among Inner-City Adolescents?

Prevention Science ◽

10.1007/s11121-006-0054-1 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 65-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Jennifer A. Epstein ◽

Xi Kathy Zhou ◽

Heejung Bang ◽

Gilbert J. Botvin

Keyword(s):

Alcohol Use ◽

Inner City ◽

Social Influences ◽

Social Benefits ◽

The Impact

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Disruption, destruction and the creation of ‘the inner cities’: the impact of urban renewal on industry, 1945–1980

Urban History ◽

10.1017/s0963926816000730 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 44 (3) ◽

pp. 492-515 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

ALISTAIR KEFFORD

Keyword(s):

Inner City ◽

Urban Renewal ◽

Economic Activity ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Industrial Activities ◽

Inner Cities ◽

The Creation ◽

Post War ◽

The Impact

ABSTRACT:This article examines the impact of post-war urban renewal on industry and economic activity in Manchester and Leeds. It demonstrates that local redevelopment plans contained important economic underpinnings which have been largely overlooked in the literature, and particularly highlights expansive plans for industrial reorganization and relocation. The article also shows that, in practice, urban renewal had a destabilizing and destructive impact on established industrial activities and exacerbated the inner-city problems of unemployment and disinvestment which preoccupied policy-makers by the 1970s. The article argues that post-war planning practices need to be integrated into wider histories of deindustrialization in British cities.

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