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Direct linkKloiber, Diana True; Ertmer, David J. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2015
Purpose: Assessments of the intelligibility of speech produced by children who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH) provide unique insights into functional speaking ability, readiness for mainstream classroom placements, and intervention effectiveness. The development of sentence lists for a wide age range of children and the advent of handheld…
Descriptors: Deafness, Inclusion, Elementary School Students, Sentences
Mills, Monique T.; Watkins, Ruth V.; Washington, Julie A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2013
Purpose: To report preliminary comparisons of developing structural and dialectal characteristics associated with fictional and personal narratives in school-age African American children. Method: Forty-three children, Grades 2-5, generated a fictional narrative and a personal narrative in response to a wordless-book elicitation task and a…
Descriptors: African American Children, Elementary School Students, Fiction, Personal Narratives
Tang, Ivy N. Y.; To, Carol K. S.; Weekes, Brendan S. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2013
Purpose: Inference-making skills are necessary for reading comprehension. Training in riddle appreciation is an effective way to improve reading comprehension among English-speaking children. However, it is not clear whether these methods generalize to other writing systems. The goal of the present study was to investigate the relationship between…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Sino Tibetan Languages, Correlation
Marinellie, Sally A.; Kneile, Lynn A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2012
Purpose: This research investigated children's ability to acquire semantic and syntactic knowledge of derived nominals and derived adjectives in the context of short passages. The study also investigated the relation of morphological awareness and the ability to acquire knowledge of derived words in context. Method: A total of 106 children in…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Semantics, Syntax, Morphology (Languages)
Koutsoftas, Anthony D.; Gray, Shelley – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2012
Purpose: Students with language-learning disabilities (LLD) demonstrate difficulties with written language, especially in the areas of productivity, complexity, and grammar. It is not clear how these deficits affect their performance on high-stakes tests, such as those required by the No Child Left Behind Act (U.S. Department of Education, 2002).…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Written Language, Language Impairments, Learning Disabilities
Berninger, Virginia W.; Abbott, Robert D.; Swanson, H. Lee; Lovitt, Dan; Trivedi, Pam; Lin, Shin-Ju; Gould, Laura; Youngstrom, Marci; Shimada, Shirley; Amtmann, Dagmar – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the contribution of working memory at the word and sentence levels of language to reading and writing outcomes. Method: Measures of working memory at the word and sentence levels, reading and writing, were administered to 2nd (N = 122), 4th (N = 222), and 6th (N = 105) graders. Structural equation…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Structural Equation Models, Handwriting
Katz, Lauren A.; Carlisle, Joanne F. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2009
Purpose: This article describes a program that was designed to help upper elementary students read and understand words as they read texts independently. As a first step in helping middle-to-upper elementary children with mild-to-moderate language and/or reading difficulties engage in textual analysis during reading, the Close Reading program…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Reading Instruction
Skibbe, Lori E.; Grimm, Kevin J.; Stanton-Chapman, Tina L.; Justice, Laura M.; Pence, Khara L.; Bowles, Ryan P. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2008
Purpose: The current work examined which theory of reading development, the "cumulative reading trajectory or the compensatory trajectory of development," most accurately represents the reading trajectories of children with language difficulties (LD) relative to their peers with typical language (TL) skills. Specifically, initial levels of reading…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Reading Skills, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students
Hogan, Tiffany P.; Catts, Hugh W.; Little, Todd D. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2005
Purpose: Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) use phonological awareness assessments in many ways. This study examines the usefulness of these assessments in kindergarten and 2nd grade. Method: Measures of phonological awareness and letter identification were administered in kindergarten, and measures of phonological awareness, phonetic decoding…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Skills, Student Evaluation, Instructional Effectiveness
