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Individual Differences in Response to Early Interventions in Reading: The Lingering Problem of Treatment Resisters.
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Torgesen, Joseph K. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2000
Five recent studies of methods to prevent reading difficulties are examined. It is estimated that current methods would leave 2 to 6 percent of children with inadequate word reading skills in the first and second grades. Several broad characteristics of these "treatment resisters" are identified and implications are discussed. (Contains…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, High Risk Students, Prevention, Primary Education
Alternative Diagnostic Approaches for Specific Developmental Reading Disabilities.
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Torgesen, Joseph K.; Wagner, Richard K. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1998
Summarizes recent studies identifying specific linguistic-cognitive markers for reading disabilities and describes efforts to develop measures of these markers in the areas of phonological awareness, rapid automatic naming, and verbal short-term memory. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Decoding (Reading), Disability Identification, Dyslexia