Publication Date
| In 2026 | 0 |
| Since 2025 | 2 |
| Since 2022 (last 5 years) | 5 |
| Since 2017 (last 10 years) | 7 |
| Since 2007 (last 20 years) | 11 |
Descriptor
| Executive Function | 11 |
| Foreign Countries | 11 |
| Reading Difficulties | 11 |
| Children | 8 |
| Short Term Memory | 7 |
| Elementary School Students | 6 |
| Inhibition | 5 |
| Reading Comprehension | 5 |
| Intelligence Tests | 4 |
| Reading Skills | 4 |
| Cognitive Ability | 3 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| Journal of Learning… | 4 |
| Reading and Writing: An… | 3 |
| Journal of Child Psychology… | 1 |
| Learning Disability Quarterly | 1 |
| Learning and Individual… | 1 |
| Reading & Writing Quarterly | 1 |
Author
| Ayelet Sasson | 1 |
| Brandenburg, Janin | 1 |
| Bus, Adriana G. | 1 |
| Büttner, Gerhard | 1 |
| Cai, Dan | 1 |
| Chan, Wai Sum | 1 |
| Chanjuan Peng | 1 |
| Deng, Meiqi | 1 |
| Ecalle, Jean | 1 |
| Fischbach, Anne | 1 |
| Gillberg, Christopher | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 11 |
| Reports - Research | 11 |
Education Level
| Elementary Education | 7 |
| Early Childhood Education | 3 |
| Grade 3 | 3 |
| Primary Education | 3 |
| Junior High Schools | 2 |
| Middle Schools | 2 |
| Secondary Education | 2 |
| Grade 1 | 1 |
| Grade 5 | 1 |
| Grade 7 | 1 |
| Grade 9 | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| Wechsler Intelligence Scale… | 3 |
| Stroop Color Word Test | 2 |
| Cattell Culture Fair… | 1 |
| Conners Teacher Rating Scale | 1 |
| Digit Span Test | 1 |
| Peabody Picture Vocabulary… | 1 |
| Raven Progressive Matrices | 1 |
| Trail Making Test | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkLee, Hyun Kyung; Chan, Wai Sum; Tong, Shelley Xiuli – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Reading comprehension difficulties exhibited by children with autism are related to executive function (EF) and theory of mind (ToM) deficits. However, the potential heterogeneity of ToM, EF, and reading comprehension abilities, and their interrelationships, among Chinese children with autism remains unclear. Using comprehensive sets of ToM and EF…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Executive Function, Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Zou, Zhenfei; Zhao, Wei; Li, Miao – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
This study investigated executive function deficits among Chinese primary school children with word reading deficit and specific reading comprehension deficit. Working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility were examined among children with Word Reading Deficit (WRD), children with Specific Reading Comprehension Deficit (S-RCD) and…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Foreign Countries, Children, Reading Difficulties
Wenxiu Zhang; Peng Peng; Chanjuan Peng; Liang Zhang; Yan Wang – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
This study aimed to investigate the meta-linguistic and executive function profile for different subtypes of reading difficulties (RD) among upper-elementary students. Based on 1,112 third- to fifth-grade Chinese-speaking children, we identified 72 with decoding difficulties (DD), 74 with comprehension difficulties (CD), and 29…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Executive Function, Profiles, Children
Rachel Schiff; Shani Levy-Shimon; Lior Oanunu Shashoua; Ayelet Sasson – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2025
The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of a multi-component homograph processing intervention complemented by Executive Function (EF) skills on the performance of struggling readers. The researchers focused on measuring improvements in literacy, metalinguistic abilities, cognitive/EF skills acquired during the intervention, and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties
Deng, Meiqi; Cai, Dan; Zhou, Xuan; Leung, Ada W. S. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2022
The aim of the present study was to investigate the executive function and planning features of students with different types of learning difficulties. Students with mathematics difficulty (MD; n = 17), reading difficulty (RD; n = 12), and their commonalities (MDRD; n = 22), along with typically academically developing peers (TD; n = 22), were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Executive Function, Learning Problems, Middle School Students
Kallitsoglou, Angeliki – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2018
It is unknown whether children with conduct problems (CP) and poor reading (PR) skills exhibit more profound executive function impairments than children with CP only and whether such impairments are explained by coexisting PR. Executive functions were compared in four groups of 7- to 8-year-old children: 26 CP only, 35 PR only, 27 CP-PR, and 31…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Behavior Problems, Reading Difficulties, Children
Peng, Peng; Sha, Tao; Li, Beilei – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
This study investigated executive function deficits among Chinese children with reading difficulties. Verbal and numerical measures of working memory, inhibition, updating, and processing speed were examined among children with only reading difficulties (RD), children with reading and mathematics difficulties (RDMD), and typically developing peers…
Descriptors: Profiles, Inhibition, Executive Function, Short Term Memory
Potocki, Anna; Sanchez, Monique; Ecalle, Jean; Magnan, Annie – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
This article presents two studies investigating the role of executive functioning in written text comprehension in children and adolescents. In a first study, the involvement of executive functions in reading comprehension performance was examined in normally developing children in fifth grade. Two aspects of text comprehension were…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Children, Adolescents, Reading Difficulties
Brandenburg, Janin; Klesczewski, Julia; Fischbach, Anne; Schuchardt, Kirsten; Büttner, Gerhard; Hasselhorn, Marcus – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
In transparent orthographies like German, isolated learning disabilities in either reading or spelling are common and occur as often as a combined reading and spelling disability. However, most issues surrounding the cognitive causes of these isolated or combined literacy difficulties are yet unresolved. Recently, working memory dysfunctions have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Children, Learning Disabilities
Kegel, Cornelia A. T.; Bus, Adriana G. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: The dopamine D4 receptor gene (DRD4) has been linked to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and reading disorders. In this study, we examined whether diminished anticipatory dopamine cell firing--typical of the long variant of the DRD4 allele--is related to emergent and advanced alphabetic skills, and whether executive…
Descriptors: Genetics, Executive Function, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Correlation
Åsberg Johnels, Jakob; Kopp, Svenny; Gillberg, Christopher – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2014
Writing difficulties are common among children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but the nature of these difficulties has not been well studied. Here we relate behavioral, psycholinguistic, cognitive (memory/executive), and graphomotor measures to spelling skills in school-age girls with ADHD (n = 30) and an age-matched group…
Descriptors: Spelling, Spelling Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
