Sentence examples for decline in comprehension from inspiring English sources

In 2007, a major comparison of reading programs conducted by the Department of Education found that Voyager had "potentially negative effects," because students using it showed a decline in comprehension.

Exceeding the boundary of 225 wpm, there is an accelerating decline in comprehension by native listeners.

Comprehension of most hazard symbol labels increased after having received training, but there was a significant decline in comprehension performance after one month.

It is perhaps unsurprising that cases with semantic aphasia show a decline in comprehension for both words and pictures on cyclical matching tasks, since they have multimodal semantic control deficits (although the patients are not specifically recruited to show deficits in executive-semantic processing or effects of repetition/cycle).

This differs from previous studies which have reported age-related declines in comprehension using off-line measures, which make it difficult to dissociate age-related changes in language processing from age-related changes in other cognitive task components, such as memory (for review, see Burke and MacKay 1997).

63 Although no consensus has been obtained regarding the decline in metaphor comprehension with aging, 64– 69 previous reports have demonstrated that young adults make fewer mistakes in metaphor tests than healthy older adults.

AD is a degenerative brain syndrome characterized by a progressive decline in memory, thinking, comprehension, calculation, language, learning capacity, and judgment sufficient to impair personal activities of daily living.

"What we are losing in this country and presumably around the world is the sustained, focused, linear attention developed by reading," said Mr. Gioia of the N.E.A. "I would believe people who tell me that the Internet develops reading if I did not see such a universal decline in reading ability and reading comprehension on virtually all tests".

Regarding comprehension measures, we have suggested that poor comprehension by older adults on open-ended tests of warning symbol comprehension may reflect an age-related decline in verbal fluency, rather than a decline in warning symbol comprehension.

Dementia is characterized by a progressive decline in intellect, including memory, learning, orientation, language, comprehension and judgement [ 1].

Slower in speech, slower in comprehension, slower in movement.