Indirect language therapy for children with persistent language impairment in mainstream primary schools: outcomes from a cohort intervention.

Background: A manualized language therapy developed via a randomized controlled trial had proved efficacious in the short-term in developing expressive language for mainstream primary school children with persistent language impairment. This therapy had been delivered to a predetermined schedule by speech and language therapists or speech and language therapy assistants to children individually or in groups. However, this model of service delivery is no longer the most common model in UK schools, where indirect consultancy approaches with intervention delivered by school staff are often used.

Performance reassessment of a real-time seizure-detection algorithm on long ECoG series.

Purpose: Automated seizure detection and blockage requires highly sensitive and specific algorithms. This study reassessed the performance of an algorithm by using a more extensive database than that of a previous study and its suitability for safety/efficacy closed-loop studies to block seizures in humans.

Methods: Up to eight electrocorticography (EcoG) channels from 15 subjects were analyzed off-line.