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Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa; Lam, Chun Bun – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2020
The present study investigated the co-occurrence of word reading and spelling difficulties for Chinese first language (L1) and English second language (L2) and the role of morphological awareness in word reading and spelling ability across two languages. A total of 110 Hong Kong Chinese-speaking students in Grade 7, including 55 adolescents with…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Skills, Spelling, Word Recognition
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Spencer, Sarah; Clegg, Judy; Stackhouse, Joy; Rush, Robert – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2017
Background: Well-documented associations exist between socio-economic background and language ability in early childhood, and between educational attainment and language ability in children with clinically referred language impairment. However, very little research has looked at the associations between language ability, educational attainment and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Socioeconomic Background, Language Skills, Educational Attainment
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Brady, Nancy C.; Fleming, Kandace; Bredin-Oja, Shelley L.; Fielding-Gebhardt, Heather; Warren, Steven F. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate language growth in individuals with fragile X syndrome (FXS) from early childhood to adolescence and the influence of maternal responsivity on language growth. Method: We conducted a longitudinal analysis of language development in 55 youths (44 males, 11 females) with FXS. Data collection spanned…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Standardized Tests
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Rice, Mabel L.; Hoffman, Lesa – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: Children with specific language impairment (SLI) often have vocabulary impairments. This study evaluates longitudinal growth in a latent trait of receptive vocabulary in affected and unaffected children ages 2;6 (years;months) to 21 years and evaluates as possible predictors maternal education, child gender, and nonverbal IQ. Method: A…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Vocabulary, Longitudinal Studies, Receptive Language
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Washbrook, Elizabeth; Waldfogel, Jane; Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Ghanghro, Ali A. – Child Development, 2012
In spite of important differences in some of the resources immigrant parents have to invest in their children, and in immigrant selection rules and settlement policies, there are significant similarities in the relative positions of 4- and 5-year-old children of immigrants in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Children…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Foreign Countries, Official Languages, Child Development
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Gravenstede, L. – Deafness and Education International, 2009
This study investigated the phonological awareness skills of a group of deaf adolescents and how these skills correlated with decoding skills (single word and non-word reading) and receptive vocabulary. Twenty, congenitally profoundly deaf adolescents with at least average nonverbal cognitive skills were tested on a range of phonological awareness…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Deafness, Phonological Awareness