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Peer reviewedVadasy, Patricia F.; Jenkins, Joseph R.; Antil, Lawrence R.; Wayne, Susan K.; O'Connor, Rollanda E. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1997
Twenty at-risk first graders received 30 minutes of individual instruction from community tutors four days a week for up to 23 weeks. Subjects outperformed the control group on all reading, decoding, spelling and segmenting, and writing measures. Tutors who implemented the program with a high degree of fidelity achieved significant effect sizes in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Intervention, Grade 1, Individual Instruction
Peer reviewedDale, Philip S.; And Others – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1996
This study evaluated effects of training parents of 33 children (ages 3 to 6) with mild/moderate language delays in either effective joint book-reading techniques (using the Whitehurst Dialogic Reading Training Program) or more general conversational instruction. Results suggest the potential of the book-reading training for facilitating language…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Interaction, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments
