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Work community support in professional language learning among culturally and linguistically diverse nurses: Implementation of action research in a hospital setting 在不同文化和语言背景的护士中开展专业语言学习的工作社区支持：在医院环境中实施行动研究

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-11-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2024.10.003

Johanna Komppa , Katriina Eronen , Eveliina Korpela

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What drives task performance in fluency tasks in people who had COVID-19? 是什么促使 COVID-19 患者在流畅性任务中表现出色？

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-11-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2024.10.001

Adrià Rofes , Marta Almeria , Barbara Sampedro , Roel Jonkers , Joan Deus , Jerzy Krupinski

{"title":"What drives task performance in fluency tasks in people who had COVID-19?","authors":"Adrià Rofes , Marta Almeria , Barbara Sampedro , Roel Jonkers , Joan Deus , Jerzy Krupinski","doi":"10.1016/j.laheal.2024.10.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.laheal.2024.10.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Some people who had COVID-19 have been shown to perform below a normative sample on fluency tasks. Unveiling the factors driving performance in this population can explain their underlying impairments. In this article we assess (1) whether people who had COVID-19 are impaired in animal or letter fluency relative to a normative sample; and (2) whether performance (total correct word count) can be explained by demographic factors, common COVID-19 symptoms, number of switches, mean cluster size, and word properties of fluency tasks.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Eighty-four Spanish-speaking people who had COVID-19 responded to an animal and a letter fluency task, 10–35 days after hospital discharge or self-quarantining. We obtained demographic, common symptom/factors, and calculated number of switches, mean cluster size and eight word properties for each correct word. A comparison of correct words with a normative sample was used to address Aim 1, and Random forests/Conditional inference trees for Aim 2. The last method is not affected by multicollinearity.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>People who had COVID-19 were not impaired in fluency tasks compared to normative data collected before the pandemic. Number of switches predicted total number of correct words in both fluency tasks. In addition, frequency, age of acquisition, and familiarity predicted animal fluency scores; and concreteness predicted letter fluency scores. No other measure showed as important.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Number of switches and word properties predicted the performance in fluency tasks of people who had COVID-19. Concreteness was not expected to predict letter fluency and may indicate a specific linguistic pattern in people who had COVID-19.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100865,"journal":{"name":"Language and Health","volume":"2 2","pages":"Article 100031"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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What do(n’t) hospital patients like about using professional interpreting services? 医院病人喜欢（不喜欢）使用专业口译服务吗？

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-11-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2024.10.002

Jim Hlavac , Emiliano Zucchi , Yue Hu

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A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of socio-cultural values in Chinese and English social stories for autistic individuals 针对自闭症患者的中英文社会故事中的社会文化价值观的语料库辅助话语分析

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-11-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2024.08.002

Jesse W.C. Yip

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Moments of silence at the beginning stage of psychotherapy with young adult clients: A conversation analysis 年轻成人心理治疗开始阶段的沉默时刻：对话分析

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-11-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2024.07.002

Shuangquan Tan , Bingqing Nie , Zhaoqi Xu

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Narrative modulations in patient-practitioner communication: Exploring attunement and misattunement in supported self-management 患者与医生交流中的叙事调节：探索辅助自我管理中的调和与误调

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2023.11.002

Mimi Huang

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Cognitive-linguistic difficulties in adults with Long COVID: A follow-up study 长COVID成人的认知语言障碍：一项后续研究

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2023.09.001

Louise Cummings

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Exploring women’s chronic disease experiences: A mixed-methods analysis of endometriosis narratives 探索妇女的慢性病经历：对子宫内膜异位症叙述的混合方法分析

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2024.02.001

Viviane Ito , Mariana Pascual

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Expressive language variation, growth and predictors in Mandarin-exposed young children with autism spectrum disorder 接触过普通话的自闭症谱系障碍幼儿的表达性语言变异、发展和预测因素

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2024.03.001

Yi (Esther) Su , Qian-qian Xie , Hong-hui Yao

{"title":"Expressive language variation, growth and predictors in Mandarin-exposed young children with autism spectrum disorder","authors":"Yi (Esther) Su , Qian-qian Xie , Hong-hui Yao","doi":"10.1016/j.laheal.2024.03.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.laheal.2024.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Utilizing the Putonghua Communicative Development Inventory-Toddler Form, this longitudinal study assessed expressive language development (including lexicon, grammar, and decontextualized language) twice over a year’s span in two subgroups (high verbal, low verbal) of 77 2–6-year-old Mandarin-exposed children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Both subgroups showed the steeper increase of structural language (lexicon and grammar) vs. the flatter growth of decontextualized language. Moreover, children’s initial language skills (but not autism severity or language environment) predicted language outcomes one year later in both groups. The use of decontextualized language also predicted structural language development in the low verbal group. These findings confirmed the uneven expressive language growth across multiple language domains in subgroups of children with ASD and underscored the contribution of early language skills to their expressive language development. Moreover, the slow growth and significant predictivity of decontextualized language warrant targeted intervention in promoting children with ASD’s talk beyond the ‘here-and-now’ situation in communication.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100865,"journal":{"name":"Language and Health","volume":"2 1","pages":"Pages 39-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949903824000058/pdfft?md5=0ea77269ee23f31c2c213a9152593583&pid=1-s2.0-S2949903824000058-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141322998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Interpreters as facilitators of emotional expressions in multilingual medical interactions: Observations from Italian healthcare practices 口译员在多语言医疗互动中促进情感表达：意大利医疗实践观察

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2024.01.002

Federico Farini

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