This extensive, well-researched and clearly formatted lexicon of a wide variety of linguistic terms is a long overdue. It is an extremely welcome addition to the bookshelves of sign language teachers, interpreters, linguists, learners and other sign language users, and of course of the Deaf themselves. Unique …

Objectives: The purpose of the current study was to assess the short-term effectiveness of short and intensive speech therapy provided to patients with cleft (lip and) palate (C(L)P) in terms of articulation and resonance. Methods: Five Ugandan patients (age: 7.3-19.6 years) with non-syndromic C(L)P …

This article presents the results of a survey on the internationalization of Bachelor’s education in social work, which was carried out at 33 schools of social work across Europe. Many universities are seeking to “internationalize” their social work curriculum. However, although many social work educators …

Road and City Mobility (RCM) is a business unit of Siemens Netherlands. RCM’s core business is to provide infrastructure solutions for its customers. Generally, 80% of RCM’s revenue is generated by projects; the other 20% of the overall revenue is generated by the sales of products (e.g. electronic variable …

This research analyses the situation of the Russian minority in Lithuania. Lithuania is a post-soviet country and a neighbour of the Russian Federation that has been feeling threats due to Russia´s actions in Ukraine and its overall policies for its near abroad and compatriots. As a country with a Russian …

When designing for FPGAs a lot of knowledge about hardware design and FPGA technology is required. In order to try and reduce the required knowledge, TNO researches two manners of simplifying that design process. One of which is OpenCL, the other is the HDL Coder from The MathWorks. A graduation project …

PURPOSE: The Nasality Severity Index 2.0 (NSI 2.0) forms a new, multiparametric approach in the identification of hypernasality. The present study aimed to investigate the correlation between the NSI 2.0 scores and the perceptual assessment of hypernasality. METHOD: Speech samples of 35 patients, representing …

Background: Children with auditory processing disorders (APD) seem to have difficulties in auditory functioning, and with cognitive, language and reading tasks. However, it is not clear whether the behavioural characteristic of children with APD are distinctive from the behavioural characteristics of …

Background: Children with auditory processing disorders (APD) seem to have difficulties in auditory functioning, and with cognitive, language and reading tasks. However, it is not clear whether the behavioural characteristic of children with APD are distinctive from the behavioural characteristics of …

School X is een cluster 2 school met slechthorende leerlingen, leerlingen met een taalontwikkelingsstoornis en leerlingen met een stoornis in het autistisch spectrum die leidt tot communicatieve problemen (School X, 2015). De auditieve informatie wordt door deze leerlingen niet of minder goed opgenomen, …