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O'Connor, Meghan; Arnott, Wendy; McIntosh, Beth; Dodd, Barbara – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2009
This study examines the literacy outcomes for children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds who had received specific whole-class phonological awareness (PA) and language intervention in preschool. The participants were 57 children who had been involved in the original intervention study. Their PA skills, letter-sound knowledge, real word and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Phonological Awareness, Profiles
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McMahon, Sandra; Stassi, Kelly; Dodd, Barbara – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1998
A study of 20 multiple birth children (MBC) (ages 7-8) and 20 controls found MBC performed significantly more poorly on some tasks of phonological processing, and early phonological skills of MBC were correlated with poor performance on visual rhyme recognition, word repetition, and phoneme detection tasks five years later. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Child Development, Children, Language Acquisition