Sasan Adibi, Abbas Rajabifard, Davood Shojaei, Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Enhancing Healthcare through Sensor-Enabled Digital Twins in Smart Environments: A Comprehensive Analysis
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
research note motivated community speechlanguage pathologists slps expressed concerns interpret unexpected observation higher performance digit span backward task digit span forward task test integrated language literacy skills tills therefore conducted exploratory analysis examine pattern digit span performance children help clinicians interpret findings investigated performance digit span forward digit span backward subtests using tills normative sample n 1262 raw scores standard scores percentile ranks systematically compared addition able estimate span length longest number items accurately recalled 69 participants evaluated relation performance span length exploratory analyses revealed better performance backward forward task rare instead pattern slps reporting explained three factors statistical phenomenon exacerbating small differences b comparing standard scores percentile ranks instead raw scores span length c better backward scores still mean longer forward span length likely community slps tended report cases better backward forward recall remarkable interesting finding leading perception pattern common overall caution clinicians overinterpreting clients performance digit span tests