On a four-year bachelor course at Inholland University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, additional modern language was offered to first-year students studying at three locations. Since each location only had a few students and there was only one language teacher available, across the three locations, …

In general, teacher educators are considered to be educational specialists whose main task is to communicate content-based concepts to prospective teachers. However, unfortunately, most studies on teacher professional development overlook this specific language-oriented aspect of content-based teaching. …

Listening difficulties: Development and implementation of an evidence-based position statement - presentation at 34th World Congress of Audiology, Capetown, South Africa, 28-31 October 2018

​Weer een filmpje waarin ons onderzoek helder wordt uitgelegd. Deze keer aan het woord: Ellen de Wit, logopediste, logopediewetenschapper en onderzoeker over haar onderzoek naar luisterproblemen bij kinderen.

In this paper, we perceptually evaluate two recently proposed binaural multi-microphone speech enhancement methods in terms of intelligibility improvement and binaural-cue preservation. We compare these two methods with the well-known binaural minimum variance distortionless response (BMVDR) method. …

Aims and objectives To gain insight into the perceived added value of a decision support App for district nurses and case managers intended to support a problem assessment and the provision of advices on possible solutions to facilitate ageing in place of people with dementia, and to investigate how …

Purpose: The purpose of this letter is to respond to Moncrieff's (2017) letter to the editor, "Response to de Wit et al., 2016, 'Characteristics of Auditory Processing Disorders: A Systematic Review,'" published in May 2017 by the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Conclusion: We believe …

Nowadays there is widespread inclusion of students with disabilities, diverse cultural backgrounds and other various needs into mainstream schools. However, teachers struggle to adhere to this diversity in their classroom. That is why this research will investigate the different ways instruction and …