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Margarita Kilili-Lesta; Konstantinos Giannakou; Louiza Voniati – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2024
Background and Aims: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) present with impairments in social interaction and stereotypic behaviors. About a third may exhibit delays in verbal expression beyond preschool age, potentially categorizing them as nonverbal/minimally verbal (NV/MV), a condition that can persist into adulthood and affect their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Prognostic Tests, Educational Testing
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Pittas, Evdokia; Nunes, Terezinha – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
The aim of this longitudinal study is to examine the contribution of morphological awareness to the prediction of reading and spelling in Greek. The target group (N = 404) consisted of children, aged 6-9 years at the start of the project, who learn literacy in Cyprus. Because there are no standardized measures of morphological awareness for Greek…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Greek, Reading Skills, Spelling
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Babayigit, Selma; Stainthorp, Rhona – Educational Psychology, 2014
This study had three main aims. First, we examined to what extent listening comprehension, vocabulary, grammatical skills and verbal short-term memory (VSTM) assessed prior to formal reading instruction explained individual differences in early reading comprehension levels. Second, we examined to what extent the three common component skills,…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Vocabulary, Grammar, Short Term Memory