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The Relationship between Oral Language Abilities and Reading: The Case of Children with Developmental Language Disorder
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Paz Suárez-Coalla; María Suárez-Romón; Verónica Martínez – Reading Psychology, 2024
Oral language abilities have been reported to be related to reading development. This relationship seems to be determined by orthographic systems and reading development. Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) show reading difficulties, although most studies focus on reading comprehension. The present study has two main objectives: to…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Skills, Language Impairments, Developmental Delays
Examining the Efficacy of an Intervention to Improve Fluency and Reading Comprehension in Spanish Children with Reading Disabilities
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Soriano, Manuel; Miranda, Ana; Soriano, Emilia; Nievas, Francisco; Felix, Vicente – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2011
The main goal of the present study was to examine the efficacy of a multi-component programme to improve reading fluency and text comprehension in Spanish children with reading disabilities (RD). Special needs teachers were trained in the application of the programme, which included repeated reading plus phonological awareness training and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Reading Fluency
Onset-Rime Units in Visual Word Recognition in Spanish Normal Readers and Children with Reading Disabilities.
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Gonzalez, Juan E. Jimenez; Gonzalez, Carlos J. Alvarez; Monzo, Adelina Estevez; Hernandez-Valle, Isabel – Learning Disabilities: Research & Practice, 2000
This study examined effects of intrasyllabic units on lexical decision performance in 15 normal reading (NR) children and 15 children with reading disabilities (RD) in a transparent orthography (Spanish). Findings suggest that Spanish children with RD do not use correspondences based on higher level units (onsets and rimes) in visual word…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Phonemes, Reading Difficulties
Do the Effects of Computer-Assisted Practice Differ for Children with Reading Disabilities with and without IQ-Achievement Discrepancy?
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Jimenez, Juan E.; Ortiz, Maria del Rosario; Rodrigo, Mercedes; Hernandez-Valle, Isabel; Ramirez, Gustavo; Estevez, Adelina; O'Shanahan, Isabel; Trabaue, Maria de la Luz – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2003
A study assessed whether the effects of computer-assisted practice on visual word recognition differed for 73 Spanish children with reading disabilities with or without aptitude-achievement discrepancy. Computer-assisted intervention improved word recognition. However, children with dyslexia had more difficulties than poor readers during…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Dyslexia, Elementary Education