Background: Early detection and remediation of language disorders are important in helping children to establish appropriate communicative and social behaviour and acquire additional information about the world through the use of language. In the Netherlands, children with (a suspicion of) language disorders …

Only a small number of children with atypical language development who can benefit from early intervention are actually identified before reaching school age. Our aim was to explore perceptions of caregivers of monolingual and multilingual children with and without atypical language development in order …

Within the Netherlands, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in foreign language teaching can be considered a sibling of 'Language Oriented Content Teaching' (LOCT), a pedagogy in mainstream classes with second language learners of Dutch, where Dutch is used as language of instruction. This …

We present a multilingual, open source system for cancer forum thread analysis, equipped with a biomedical entity tagger and a module for textual summarization. This system allows users to investi- gate textual co-occurrences of biomedical entities in forum posts, and to browse through summaries of long …

De integratie en participatie van Roma in Nederland verloopt stroef. In deze scriptie wordt de plek die de minderheidstaal en –cultuur van Roma in het basisonderwijs krijgt en zou kunnen krijgen onderzocht, door een ander onderwijsmodel, het MTB-MLE model (Mother Tongue Based- Multilingual Education), …

Purpose: The Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA), including the PG-SGA Short Form (SF, aka ‘abridged’), was originally developed in the mid 1990’s as a scored, patient self-report, paperbased instrument and has been widely validated. The PG-SGA (SF) has been used for screening, assessment …

Verschillende studies hebben aangetoond dat taalvaardigheid een sterke invloed heeft op schooluitval en een verminderd studierendement onder meertalige hbo-studenten. In dit project hebben wij een taalscreeningsinstrument genormeerd voor volwassen NT2- sprekers, met als doel het vroegtijdig signaleren …

This article looks at the use of ICST in two multilingual and deaf/hearing teams in an educational and research environment.

During the existence of Hemels Publishers (since 1994), new clients have always come to Hemels Publishers on their own initiative. However, at this point the management feels the acquisition of clients needs to be structured and streamlined within the company and therefore developed a new marketing plan …