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50 Years of ERIC
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Effects of Mora Deletion, Nonword Repetition, Rapid Naming, and Visual Search Performance on Beginning Reading in Japanese
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Kobayashi, Maya Shiho; Haynes, Charles W.; Macaruso, Paul; Hook, Pamela E.; Kato, Junko – Annals of Dyslexia, 2005
This study examined the extent to which mora deletion (phonological analysis), nonword repetition (phonological memory), rapid automatized naming (RAN), and visual search abilities predict reading in Japanese kindergartners and first graders. Analogous abilities have been identified as important predictors of reading skills in alphabetic languages…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Beginning Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate
Vowel Perception and Production in Adolescents with Reading Disabilities.
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Bertucci, Carol; Hook, Pamela; Haynes, Charles; Macaruso, Paul; Bickley, Corine – Annals of Dyslexia, 2003
Perception and production of vowels in the words "pit,""pet," and "pat" were investigated with 19 adolescents with reading disabilities. Students with reading disabilities perceived and produced less well-defined vowel categories than a control group. Results suggest that speech processing difficulties of students with reading disabilities include…
Descriptors: Phonemics, Phonetics, Phonology, Reading Difficulties
Efficacy of Fast ForWord Training on Facilitating Acquisition of Reading Skills by Children with Reading Difficulties--A Longitudinal Study.
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Hook, Pamela E.; Macaruso, Paul; Jones, Sandra – Annals of Dyslexia, 2001
A study found children (ages 7-12) with difficulties in phonemic awareness and word identification who received Fast ForWord (FFW) training (n=11) and Orton Gillingham (OG) training (n=9) made similar gains in phonemic awareness. Unlike children who received FFW, children who received OG training made significant gains in word attack. (Contains…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonetics
Part V: Reading Disabilities in Other Languages: Teachers' Skill Ratings of Children with Learning Disabilities: A Comparison of the United States and Japan.
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Haynes, Charles; Hook, Pamela; Macaruso, Paul; Muta, Etsuko; Hayashi, Yoichi; Kato, Junko; Sasaki, Tokuko – Annals of Dyslexia, 2000
A study compared the perceptions of 118 American teachers and 292 Japanese teachers children with learning disabilities. American teachers identified 4 percent of their children as meeting the criteria and Japanese teachers identified 1.5 percent. Americans rated high percentages of children as "weaker" in listening, speaking, reading/writing, and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries