"The more they focus on quick comprehension of short passages, the more the notion of narrative and context gets lost".
The questions on the child's skills and development cover items on cognition (e.g., means-end task and object categorization), communicative gesture (e.g., to draw someone's attention, negation/headshaking), gross and fine motor skills (e.g., climbing up steps, stacking of toy blocks) as well as language (e.g., size of productive vocabulary, comprehension of short instructions).
In a study comparing digital and print comprehension of a short nonfiction text, Rakefet Ackerman and Morris Goldsmith found that students fared equally well on a post-reading multiple-choice test when they were given a fixed amount of time to read, but that their digital performance plummeted when they had to regulate their time themselves.
To facilitate comprehension of the algorithm, a short MATLAB program is provided in the Appendix.
Convergence insufficiency is associated with near visual symptoms, including eyestrain, headaches, blurred vision, diplopia, difficulty concentrating, and loss of comprehension after brief short periods of reading or performing near work activities [ 21- 23].
This, however, is nothing we should be concerned about: "For, though the comprehension of our understandings comes exceeding short of the vast extent of things; yet we shall have cause enough to magnify the bountiful author of our being, for that proportion and degree of knowledge he has bestowed on us, so far above all the rest of the inhabitants of this our mansion" (I, I, 5).
Going to the bar twice in The Master Builder would both be expensive and potentially ruinous to the comprehension of the final act, while the short suspensions in Uncle Vanya provide time for either a tea or a pee but not both.
21 The Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA) uses a series of short, written instructions and medical forms to measure patients' reading comprehension and numeracy skills.
The results revealed most notably (i) significant improvements of naming and auditory comprehension after a short period of therapy, and (ii) ultra-rapid (50 ms post-deviation point) changes in cortical activation associated with the processing of words following therapy, manifest as an increase in left lateralisation of the MMNm word response over perilesional areas.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of singing versus reading a short story on the short- and long-term reading comprehension of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Our finding is inconsistent with models of short-term memory that segregate auditory short-term memory from the on-line comprehension of spoken language (Baddeley, 2003).
