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An Interactive Shared Reading Intervention Designed for Preverbal Infants: A Feasibility Study Exploring Early Language and Cognitive Development
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Emma Bergström; Anna Sofia Bratt; Idor Svensson – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2024
Creating an environment suitable for language acquisition through shared reading significantly contributes to improving a child's language development and parent-child relationship. Reading in an interactive way, such as dialogic reading, is favorable. Nevertheless, dialogic reading is designed for children above the age of two and shared reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Language Acquisition, Early Reading
Current Profiles and Early Predictors of Reading Skills in School-Age Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Longitudinal, Retrospective Population Study
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Åsberg Johnels, Jakob; Carlsson, Emilia; Norbury, Courtenay; Gillberg, Christopher; Miniscalco, Carmela – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
This study explores current reading profiles and concurrent and early predictors of reading in children with autism spectrum disorder. Before the age of 3 years, the study cohort underwent a neurodevelopmental assessment following identification in a population-based autism screening. At age 8 years, reading, language and cognition were assessed.…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Reading Skills, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
RAN as a Predictor of Reading Skills, and Vice Versa: Results from a Randomised Reading Intervention
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Wolff, Ulrika – Annals of Dyslexia, 2014
Although phonemic awareness is a well-known factor predicting early reading development, there is also evidence that Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) is an independent factor that contributes to early reading. The aim of this study is to examine phonemic awareness and RAN as predictors of reading speed, reading comprehension and spelling for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Naming, Early Reading
Preschool Staff's View of Emergent Literacy Approaches in Swedish Preschools
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Norling, Martina – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
This study aims to investigate preschool staff's view of emergent literacy approaches in Swedish preschools with the following research question: How do preschool staff describe and explain the approaches they use in the emergent literacy environment of preschool? Focus-group interviews were conducted with 52 participating preschool units.…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Teachers, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Early Reading and Spelling Abilities in Children with Severe Speech and Physical Impairment: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison
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Larsson, Maria; Sandberg, Annika Dahlgren; Smith, Martine – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
Early reading and spelling abilities in children from Ireland and Sweden with severe speech and physical impairment (SSPI) were studied and compared. The aim was to look for similarities as well as for differences that could be related to the different linguistic environments. Both group consisted of 15 children, and were matched on linguistic…
Descriptors: Spelling, Early Reading, Phonological Awareness, Memory
Early Reading. Georgetown University Papers on Languages and Linstuistics Number 13.
Lado, Robert, Ed.; Andersson, Theodore, Ed. – 1976
The six articles in this journal deal with various aspects of early reading. The topics covered are: a preschool biliteracy project; early reading as language development; the techniques used in teaching children with normal hearing, hearing impaired children, and deaf children to read; preschool reading and speaking acquisition in two languages;…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading, Foreign Countries