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Hurford, David P.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1994
This study examined the development of phonological and reading skills in 171 students from the beginning of first grade (Time 1) to the end of second grade (Time 4). The study found that reader group membership (nondisabled, reading disabled, or poor reading) at Time 4 could be very accurately predicted from students' Time 1 scores. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Dyslexia, Early Identification, Grade 1
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Fazio, Barbara B.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1996
This study of language performance tracked 34 poor children from kindergarten through second grade. The best kindergarten predictor for eventual diagnosis with a specific language impairment was a combination of the score on the Oral Vocabulary subtest of the Test of Oral Language Development and the score on a combination of experimental tasks.…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Disability Identification, Educational Diagnosis, Language Impairments
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Mantzicopoulos, Panayota Y.; Morrison, Delmont – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1994
This study examined the early profiles of 270 kindergarten students screened for learning difficulties in kindergarten with SEARCH (an early identification measure) of which 32 had inadequate reading skills at the end of second grade. The SEARCH instrument tended to underidentify children from higher socioeconomic backgrounds and overidentify…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Early Identification, High Risk Students, Learning Disabilities