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Swanson, Elizabeth; Barnes, Marcia; Fall, Anna-Mari; Roberts, Greg – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2018
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of inference making, decoding, memory, and vocabulary on reading comprehension among 7th- through 12th-grade struggling readers with varying levels of inattention and hyperactivity. We categorized a group of 414 struggling readers into 3 groups based on results from factor mixture modeling:…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Reading Difficulties, Decoding (Reading)
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Asberg, Jakob; Dahlgren, SvenOlof; Dahlgren Sandberg, Annika – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2008
High-functioning children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have been reported to have an early success in reading. Children with attention disorders such as DAMP or ADHD, on the other hand, often struggle acquiring reading skills. The primary aim of the study was two-fold: (a) to compare reading performance of children with ASD, DAMP and…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorders, Children, Reading Skills
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Savage, Robert; Lavers, Natalie; Pillay, Vanitha – Educational Psychology Review, 2007
This paper examines the role of Working Memory (WM) in developmental reading problems, considering: 1) The operationalization of WM; 2) The unique contribution of WM to reading; 3) Domain-general or -specific explanations of decoding and reading comprehension deficits; and 4) The capacity of WM constructs to distinguish between reading…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Reading Difficulties, Decoding (Reading), Reading Comprehension
Glosser, Guila; And Others – 1991
Single word oral reading was systematically examined in a 6-year-old hyperlexic boy with mental retardation, attention deficit disorder, and hyperactivity. Reading performances were compared to those of normally developing readers and to those of patients with adult-onset alexias to test three hypotheses regarding the mechanisms of reading in…
Descriptors: Adventitious Impairments, Alzheimers Disease, Attention Deficit Disorders, Case Studies
Meltzer, Lynn J.; And Others – 1996
Cost-effective classroom teaching strategies are provided for teachers working with students with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders in inclusive settings from late elementary through early high school levels. Section 1 discusses the importance of learning strategies and includes an overview of strategic learning in the…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Decoding (Reading)