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Ricketts, Jessie – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2011
Background: Deficits in reading airment (SLI), Down syndrome (DS) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Methods: In this review (based on a search of the ISI Web of Knowledge database to 2011), the Simple View of Reading is used as a framework for considering reading comprehension in these groups. Conclusions: There is substantial evidence for…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Autism, Oral Language, Down Syndrome
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Loh, Marco; Schmid, Gabriele; Deco, Gustavo; Ziegler, Wolfram – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2010
Audiovisual speech perception provides an opportunity to investigate the mechanisms underlying multimodal processing. By using nonspeech stimuli, it is possible to investigate the degree to which audiovisual processing is specific to the speech domain. It has been shown in a match-to-sample design that matching across modalities is more difficult…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Models, Auditory Perception, Speech Communication
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Finestack, Lizbeth H.; Fey, Marc E. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2009
Purpose: To evaluate the learning effects of a deductive language-teaching procedure when teaching a novel gender agreement verb inflection to children with language impairment. Method: Thirty-two 6-8-year-old children with language impairment were randomly assigned to either a deductive (N = 16) or an inductive (N = 16) treatment group. In the…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Grammar, Language Impairments
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Anthony, Jason L.; Assel, Mike A.; Williams, Jeffrey M. – Journal of School Psychology, 2007
To examine the convergent and discriminant validity of the scales on the "Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning-Third Edition" [DIAL-3; Mardell-Czudnowski, C., and Goldenberg, D.S. (1998). "Developmental indicators for the assessment of learning-third edition." Circle Pines, MN: American Guidance Service,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Verbal Ability, Nonverbal Ability, Guidance Programs
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Maller, Susan J.; French, Brian F. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2004
The Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT) is an individually administered, nonverbal intelligence test designed for use with non-English-speaking, limited English proficient, or deaf children. The aim of this study was to assess the factor structure invariance of the UNIT across deaf and standardization samples through the use of…
Descriptors: Models, Memory, Deafness, Nonverbal Ability