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Evidence-Based Class Literacy Instruction for Children with Speech and Language Difficulties
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Gillon, Gail; McNeill, Brigid; Denston, Amanda; Scott, Amy; Macfarlane, Angus – Topics in Language Disorders, 2020
This study investigated the response to class-wide phonological awareness and oral language teaching for 40 children who entered school with speech and language difficulties. A stepped wedge research design was adopted to compare the immediate impact of the 10-week teacher-led instruction. The progress of the children with speech and language…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Phonological Awareness, Oral Language, Speech Impairments
Reading, Writing, and Spoken Language Assessment Profiles for Students Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing Compared with Students with Language Learning Disabilities
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Nelson, Nickola Wolf; Crumpton, Teresa – Topics in Language Disorders, 2015
Working with students who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) can raise questions about whether language and literacy delays and difficulties are related directly to late and limited access to spoken language, to co-occurring language learning disabilities (LLD), or to both. A new Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills, which incorporates…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Language Skills, Language Acquisition
Developmental Differences in the Relationship between Oral Language Deficits and Reading.
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Snyder, Lynn S.; Downey, Doris M. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1997
Examines the influence that oral language deficits exert on children's ability to learn to read and to develop reading skills. Discusses evidence that points to deficient phonological awareness as the variable that best discriminates children with reading delay. The effects of deficit phonological awareness are described. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Influences
Hyperlexia: Reading without Meaning in Young Children.
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Aram, Dorothy M. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1997
Discusses the cognitive characteristics, neurobiological bases, and language and reading abilities of individuals with hyperlexia. A study of 12 children (ages 7-13) with hyperlexia is summarized that illustrates the dissociation between decoding and comprehension and the limited use of meaningful context to aid decoding. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Children, Decoding (Reading), Disability Identification, Etiology
Phonological Awareness: Implications for Whole Language and Emergent Literacy Programs.
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Ball, Eileen Wynne – Topics in Language Disorders, 1997
Reviews the relationship between phonological awareness and early reading. Follow-up data from a group of 38 first-grade children who had low letter-sound knowledge in kindergarten found that those who received phonological awareness intervention in kindergarten performed better than their first-grade peers on word recognition and reading decoding…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Followup Studies, Intervention
The Simple View of Reading: Assessment and Intervention
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Roberts, Jenny A.; Scott, Kathleen A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2006
The Simple View of Reading (P. B. Gough & W. Tunmer, 1986; W. A. Hoover & P. B. Gough, 1990) provides a 2-component model of reading. Each of these 2 components, decoding and comprehension, is necessary for normal reading to occur. The Simple View of Reading provides a relatively transparent model that can be used by professionals not only to…
Descriptors: Written Language, Reading Difficulties, Language Skills, Intervention