Word Learning With Orthographic Support in Nonspeaking and Minimally Speaking School-Age Autistic Children.

Purpose: Previous research has demonstrated that typically developing children, verbal children with a diagnosis of autism, children with Down syndrome, children with developmental language disorder, and children with dyslexia can all benefit from orthographic support during word learning tasks. This study sought to determine if minimally speaking or nonspeaking children with a diagnosis of autism would also demonstrate an orthographic facilitation effect during a computer-based remote word learning task.

Method: Twenty-two school-age children with a diagnosis of autism and little to no spoken language learned four novel words by contrasting the words with known objects.

The propensity to sign-track is associated with externalizing behavior and distinct patterns of reward-related brain activation in youth.

Externalizing behaviors in childhood often predict impulse control disorders in adulthood; however, the underlying bio-behavioral risk factors are incompletely understood. In animals, the propensity to sign-track, or the degree to which incentive motivational value is attributed to reward cues, is associated with externalizing-type behaviors and deficits in executive control. Using a Pavlovian conditioned approach paradigm, we quantified sign-tracking in 40 healthy 9-12-year-olds.

Kivalliq Inuit women travelling to Manitoba for birthing: findings from the Qanuinngitsiarutiksait study.

Background: The Qanuinngitsiarutiksait study aimed to develop detailed profiles of Inuit health service utilization in Manitoba, by Inuit living in Manitoba (approximately 1,500) and by Inuit from the Kivalliq region of Nunavut who travel to Manitoba to access care not available in Nunavut (approximately 16,000 per year).

Methods: We used health administrative data routinely collected in Manitoba for all services provided and developed an algorithm to identify Inuit in the dataset. This paper focused on health services used by Inuit from the Kivalliq for prenatal care and birthing.

Language intervention in bilingual children with developmental language disorder: A systematic review.

Background: Although there is a growing body of literature on cognitive and language processing in bilingual children with developmental language disorder (DLD), there is a major gap in the evidence for language intervention. Critically, speech-language therapists are often required to make clinical decisions for language intervention on specific domains, such as phonology, vocabulary, morphosyntax and literacy.

Aims: To examine evidence for language intervention and cross-language transfer effects in bilingual children with DLD.

Association of perinatal outcomes among pregnant patients with gestational diabetes receiving benefits from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.

Background: Treatment of gestational diabetes mellitus has been demonstrated to improve perinatal outcomes. However, the role of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children in maternal and neonatal outcomes for qualifying patients with gestational diabetes mellitus is less understood.

Objective: The objective of this study is to observe the relationship of enrollment in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children with pregnancy outcomes in patients with gestational diabetes.

Unforeseen benefits: outcomes of the Qanuinngitsiarutiksait study.

Scientific publications predominantly focus on research outcomes. Increasingly, community partnerships and relationships are mentioned, especially in research conducted with Indigenous communities. In partnership-based research, Indigenous communities expect researchers to contribute in a multitude of ways that go beyond .

Expectant management of preterm premature rupture of membranes at 34 weeks: a cost effectiveness analysis.

Objective: To examine the outcomes and cost effectiveness of expectant management versus immediate delivery of women who experience preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) at 34 weeks.

Methods: A cost-effectiveness model was built using TreeAge software to compare outcomes in a theoretical cohort of 37,455 women with PPROM at 34 weeks undergoing expectant management until 37 weeks versus immediate delivery. Outcomes included fetal death, neonatal sepsis, neonatal death, neonatal neurodevelopmental delay, healthy neonate, maternal sepsis, maternal death, cost, and quality-adjusted life years.

Risk of COVID-19 Disease, Dialysis Unit Attributes, and Infection Control Strategy among London In-Center Hemodialysis Patients.

Background And Objectives: Patients receiving in-center hemodialysis treatment face unique challenges during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, specifically the need to attend for treatment that prevents self-isolation. Dialysis unit attributes and isolation strategies that might reduce dialysis center COVID-19 infection rates have not been previously examined.

Design, Setting, Participants, & Measurements: We explored the role of variables, including community disease burden, dialysis unit attributes (size and layout), and infection control strategies, on rates of COVID-19 among patients receiving in-center hemodialysis in London, United Kingdom, between March 2, 2020 and May 31, 2020.

Orthographic Support for Word Learning in Clinical Populations: A Systematic Review.

Purpose A systematic review was performed to determine the extent to which orthographic facilitation, a strategy to improve word learning, has been demonstrated in the literature for children and adolescents from clinical categories such as developmental language disorders (DLD), autism spectrum disorders (ASD), Down syndrome, dyslexia, hearing impairment, intellectual disability, and cerebral palsy. Method Five databases were searched for all studies published through December 2019. Eligible studies included participants from a clinical population (DLD, ASD, dyslexia, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, hearing impairment, etc.

Spinal adhesive arachnoiditis mimicking sarcoid myelitis with nodular dural enhancement: A case report.

Spinal adhesive arachnoiditis (SAA) is a rare, but often devastating, cause of compressive myelopathy. We report a patient with SAA resulting in a longitudinally extensive T2-hyperintense spinal cord lesion with initial nodular pial and dural enhancement mimicking neurosarcoidosis. Neurologists should be aware of this entity, especially in patients who have pertinent risk factors, such as prior meningitis, spinal cord trauma, or surgery.

Bacterial Endocarditis of the Pulmonic Valve in a Dog.

An 11 yr old female spayed golden retriever weighing 30.3 kg presented for evaluation of progressive lethargy, anorexia, tachypnea, stiff gait, and nonlocalized pain. On physical exam, the patient was febrile and tachycardic, and an arrhythmia with pulse deficits was noted.