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Yan, Guoli; Lan, Zebo; Meng, Zhu; Wang, Yingchao; Benson, Valerie – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
Phonological coding plays an important role in reading for hearing students. Experimental findings regarding phonological coding in deaf readers are controversial, and whether deaf readers are able to use phonological coding remains unclear. In the current study we examined whether Chinese deaf students could use phonological coding during…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Decoding (Reading), Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension
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Holmes, Joni; Guy, Jacalyn; Kievit, Rogier A.; Bryant, Annie; Mareva, Silvana; Gathercole, Susan E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
A data-driven, transdiagnostic approach was used to identify the cognitive dimensions linked with learning in a mixed group of 805 children aged 5 to 18 years recognized as having problems in attention, learning, and memory by a health or education practitioner. Assessments included phonological processing; information processing speed; short-term…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Learning Problems
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Skues, Jason L.; Cunningham, Everarda G. – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2013
This study examined the validity of using teacher-administered educational and intelligence tests to screen students for learning disabilities (LDs). Twenty-seven Technical and Further Education (TAFE) students from regional Victoria who were enrolled in a program that was designed to reconnect school dropouts with education via TAFE participated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, Screening Tests
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Åsberg Johnels, Jakob; Kopp, Svenny; Gillberg, Christopher – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2014
Writing difficulties are common among children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but the nature of these difficulties has not been well studied. Here we relate behavioral, psycholinguistic, cognitive (memory/executive), and graphomotor measures to spelling skills in school-age girls with ADHD (n = 30) and an age-matched group…
Descriptors: Spelling, Spelling Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Youngstrom, Eric A.; Kogos, Jennifer L.; Glutting, Joseph J. – School Psychology Quarterly, 1999
Examines the incremental validity of Differential Ability Scales (DAS) factor scores in predicting standardized achievement scores in Word Reading, Basic Number Skills, and Spelling by using a nationally representative sample stratified on gender, ethnicity, geographic region, parental education, and educational classification. Results show that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Tests
Hollingshead, Maybelle Clayton; Clayton, Charles – 1971
The investigation examined the "Wide Range Achievement Test" (WRAT) and its subtests (spelling, reading, and arithmetic), as well as possible differences attributable to the factors of sex, with the "Chicago Non-Verbal" (CNV) as a criterion variable. The 1970 study encompassed 72 Indian students (with a mean chronological age…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, American Indians, Arithmetic