Objective: To assess speech alterations in mouth-breathing children, and to correlate them with the respiratory type, etiology, gender, and age.Method: A total of 439 mouth-breathers were evaluated, aged between 4 and 12 years.The presence of speech alterations in children older than 5 years was considered delayed speech development.The observed al
Shaheen C Kavoussi, James E Kempton, John J Huang Yale University Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, New Haven, CT, USA Abstract: An otherwise healthy 24-year-old man presented with a painless decrease of vision in the left eye for 2 days.Best-corrected visual acuity was 20/20 in the right eye and 20/80 in the left eye.Anterior exam wa
BackgroundMeasuring function with passive in-home sensors has the advantages of real-world, objective, continuous, and unobtrusive measurement.However, previous studies have focused on 1-person homes only, which limits their generalizability.ObjectiveThis study aimed to compare the life space activity patterns of participants living alone with thos
Starting from the innovative approach operated by Hans Hunfeld and the more recent evidence by Mirco Magnani, this paper deals with the use of literary texts in language education, among which poetic texts are no exception.The present paper aims specifically to argue that even popular songs Vacuum can place their lyrics as a model for language lear