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Wheldall, Kevin; Arakelian, Sarah – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2016
The aim of this study was to compare the York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension (YARC) with the Neale Analysis of Reading Ability (NARA) and other measures of reading and related skills with a sample of older low-progress readers and to provide additional information regarding the validity of the YARC in Australia. The data from an…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Reading Ability, Foreign Countries
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Wolf, Maryanne; Ullman-Shade, Catherine; Gottwald, Stephanie – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2016
This essay is about the improbable emergence of written language six millennia ago that gave rise to the even more improbable, highly sophisticated reading brain of the twenty-first century. How it emerged and what it comprises--both in its most basic iteration in the very young reader and in its most elaborated iteration in the expert reader--is…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Child Development, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Dyslexia
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Hood, Michelle; Conlon, Elizabeth – Dyslexia, 2004
This study investigated the ability of temporal processing measures obtained before school entry to predict early reading development in an unselected sample of 125 children (68 males, 57 females). Visual and auditory temporal order judgment (TOJ) tasks measured at Preschool (mean age 5.36 years) significantly predicted letter and word…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Early Reading, Reading Rate, Grade 1