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50 Years of ERIC
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Parental Scaffolding of Children's Phonological Awareness Skills: Interactions Between Mothers and Their Preschoolers With Language Difficulties
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Skibbe, Lori; Behnke, Michelle; Justice, Laura M. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2005
This study examined mother-child verbal exchanges during phonological awareness (PA) tasks embedded into storybook reading sessions. The aims of the research were (a) to determine how mothers scaffolded their children's task performance, (b) to characterize the stability of maternal scaffolding over four sessions, and (c) to study the relation…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Phonological Awareness, Cues, Reading Skills
School-Age Children's Self-Assessment of Oral Narrative Production
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Kaderavek, Joan N.; Gillam, Ronald B.; Ukrainetz, Teresa A.; Justice, Laura M.; Eisenberg, Sarita N. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2004
This study examined aspects of self-assessment, a metacognitive ability, and oral narrative production in 401 children between 5 and 12 years of age. Oral narrative production was evaluated through the administration of the "Test of Narrative Language" (TNL). Self-assessment of narrative performance was determined by asking children to…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Children, Gender Differences
An E-Supervision Model: Videoconferencing as a Clinical Training Tool
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Dudding, Carol C; Justice, Laura M. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2004
In this article, the authors describe the implementation and use of two-way interactive videoconferencing for supervising student clinicians. They provide a rationale for and describe the e-supervision model as it has been implemented within a public school setting. A description of the technical and equipment needs is included for individuals…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Distance Education, Clinical Experience
Addressing the Language and Literacy Needs of Vulnerable Children: Innovative Strategies in the Context of Evidence-Based Practice
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Justice, Laura M.; Pence Khara L. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2004
Innovative language and literacy interventions--those that facilitate change in a way that is theoretically and conceptually different from historical trends--face interesting challenges in the age of evidence-based practice, in which policymakers and professionals endorse interventions that have undergone randomized clinical trials. The current…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Outcomes of Treatment, Educational Research, Intervention
Preschool Children's Visual Attention to Print during Storybook Reading: Pilot Findings.
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Justice, Laura M.; Lankford, Chris – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2002
This study used eye-gaze analysis to determine the extent to which four preschoolers (ages 52-68 months) looked at print when being read two storybooks. Children rarely attended to print; however, they attended to and fixated on print at higher rates with the storybook containing more salient print. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Attention, Emergent Literacy, Eye Fixations, Preschool Children
Written Language Awareness in Preschool Children from Low-Income Households: A Descriptive Analysis.
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Justice, Laura M.; Ezell, Helen K. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2001
Preschool children (N=38) from low-income households enrolled in Head Start were evaluated for written language awareness. Analysis indicated significant gaps in print, word, graphic, and metalinguistic awareness. Lowest performance was found in children's ability to identify contextualized print within illustrations and their understanding of the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Literacy Education, Low Income, Poverty