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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Ritter, Michaela J.; Saxon, Terrill F. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2011
The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of classroom-based phonological sensitivity intervention (PSI) using a narrative platform for children in first grade who are at risk for a reading disability. Participants consisted of 59 first graders identified as at risk for later reading impairments. At-risk designation was dictated by…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Reading Difficulties, Intervention
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Bingham, Gary E.; Hall-Kenyon, Kendra M.; Culatta, Barbara – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2010
This study examined the effect of explicit and engaging supplemental early literacy instruction on at-risk kindergarten children's literacy development. Sixty-three kindergarten-aged children who had been ranked in the lowest 20th percentile on basic literacy skills participated in this study (38 treatment). Results reveal that children who…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Emergent Literacy, Supplementary Education, Tutoring
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Mire, Stephen P.; Montgomery, Judy K. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2009
The concept of early intervening services was introduced into public school systems with the implementation of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) of 2004. This article describes a program developed for students with speech sound disorders that incorporated concepts of early intervening services, response to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Disabilities, School Districts, Early Intervention
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Wankoff, Lorain Szabo; Cairns, Helen Smith – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2009
This study was designed to determine the contributions of metalinguistic skill and psycholinguistic processing ability to children's ability to detect the ambiguity of sentences and the relationship among all three factors to early reading ability. A total of 20 first graders and 20 second graders were given tasks testing the following abilities:…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Sentences, Reading Readiness
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Donne, Vicki J.; Zigmond, Naomi – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2008
An observational study of reading instruction, using the MS-CISSAR protocol, was conducted in general education classrooms, resource classrooms, and self-contained special education/deaf education classrooms in Grades 1 through 4 in public schools within the tri-state area of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Participants were 24 students who…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Partial Hearing, Deafness, Grade 1
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Tilstra, Janet; McMaster, Kristen – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2007
The purpose of this study was to identify potential general outcome indicators (GOIs) of language proficiency. Brief narratives were elicited from 45 kindergarten, first-grade, and third-grade children using single-picture scenes and a standardized protocol. Measures of language productivity, verbal fluency, and grammaticality were examined for…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Predictive Validity, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Saenz, Terry Irvine; Felix, Denise M. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2007
This study surveyed the literacy practices of 45 English-speaking parents of Latino kindergarten through second graders using English questionnaires. The results of the survey were similar in many respects to other studies of English-speaking Latinos and unlike studies of Spanish-speaking Latinos. Respondents reported numbers of children's books…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Instruction, Emergent Literacy, Grade 2