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Macleod, Flora J.; Macmillan, Philip; Norwich, Brahm – Early Child Development and Care, 2007
There is now a renewed emphasis in the UK on short intensive interventions to tackle reading failure. In this paper we report on the effect of a programme based on a view that reading problems are associated with the inability of the learner to deal with speech at the level of individual speech sounds even though they may be fully competent in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students, Intervention, Age
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MacLeod, Flora; MacMillan, Philip; Norwich, Brahm – School Psychology International, 2007
This article takes up the proposal, originally postulated by George Miller in the US (Miller, 1969) and later taken up by Harry Kay in the UK (Kay, 1972), that psychologists should work through non-psychologists to help alleviate social problems. Specifically it evaluates a reading intervention programme devised by educational psychologists and…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Educational Psychology, Psychologists, School Psychologists