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Kelso, Katrina; Fletcher, Janet; Lee, Penny – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2007
Background: In reading research, children with specific language impairment (SLI) have tended to be included in groups of children expected to have difficulties with both decoding and reading comprehension (generally poor readers). This is because generally children with specific language impairment display difficulties with phonology as well as…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Syntax, Semantics, Profiles
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Byrne, Brian; Fielding-Barnsley, Ruth – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991
A program to teach young children about phonological structure was evaluated with 64 experimental group and 62 control group preschoolers in Australia. Results support the efficacy of the program and the principle that phonological awareness and letter knowledge are necessary but not sufficient for acquisition of the alphabetic principle. (SLD)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups