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Larsen, Linda; Kohnen, Saskia; McArthur, Genevieve; Nickels, Lyndsey – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
The aim of this study was to understand the relationship between children's knowledge of letter-sound rules ("grapheme-phoneme knowledge") and their ability to identify separate graphemes (e.g., SH, OI) that comprise words ("grapheme parsing"). We used a single-case study approach with children with phonological dyslexia who…
Descriptors: Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Children, Dyslexia, Case Studies
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McArthur, Genevieve; Castles, Anne; Kohnen, Saskia; Larsen, Linda; Jones, Kristy; Anandakumar, Thushara; Banales, Erin – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
The aims of this study were to (a) compare sight word training and phonics training in children with dyslexia, and (b) determine if different orders of sight word and phonics training have different effects on the reading skills of children with dyslexia. One group of children (n = 36) did 8 weeks of phonics training (reading via grapheme-phoneme…
Descriptors: Phonics, Dyslexia, Children, Teaching Methods
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Larsen, Linda; Kohnen, Saskia; Nickels, Lyndsey; McArthur, Genevieve – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2015
Children who have difficulty learning to read are at increased risk for academic failure, poor self-esteem, anxiety and depression, and unemployment. To help reduce these risks, it is important to identify and treat weaknesses in a child's reading as early as possible. The aim of this study was to develop a valid and reliable comprehensive…
Descriptors: Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Reading Tests, Standardized Tests, Test Reliability