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Naess, Kari-Anne B.; Hokstad, Silje; Engevik, Liv Inger; Lervåg, Arne; Smith, Elizabeth – Remedial and Special Education, 2022
This study investigated the effect of the digital Down Syndrome LanguagePlus (DSL+) intervention on vocabulary outcomes through a school-delivered randomized controlled trial. A national sample of first graders with Down syndrome from 91 schools was allocated to an intervention group (n = 50), which received daily intervention for 15 weeks, or a…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Vocabulary Development, Intervention, Grade 1
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Zambrana, Imac Maria; Ogden, Terje; Zachrisson, Henrik Daae – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Low academic achievements are predicted by early disadvantages. Because achievement gaps typically escalate with age, early efforts to prevent future academic disadvantages are called for. The current study examines whether exposure to structured pre-academic activities in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) play a compensatory role for the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Academic Achievement, Preschool Children
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Heller, Mia C.; Lervåg, Arne; Grøver, Vibeke – Reading Research Quarterly, 2019
In this randomized trial study, the authors examined the efficacy of a practitioner partnership language intervention addressing oral language learning (expressive and receptive) in young language-minority learners from multiple-language groups in Norway. Resource teachers in 16 elementary schools implemented the intervention in the first and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Intervention, Norwegian, Language Minorities