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Atmaca, Furkan; Yildiz-Demirtas, Vesile – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2023
The present study investigated the effects of the cognitive enhancement training (COGENT) program on the reading skills (reading speed, reading errors, and reading comprehension) and writing skills (dictation and text copying) of students with specific learning disabilities (SLD). The study was conducted with an experimental design. The study…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Training, Reading Skills, Writing Skills
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Wang, Li-Chih; Chen, Ji-Kang; Poon, Kean – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2023
This cross-sectional study aims to examine the age differences in state anxiety (i.e., anxiety triggered toward specific situations) as well as its relationship to the reading comprehension of Chinese students with and without dyslexia across school ages. In total, 131 typically developing students and 81 students with dyslexia in primary and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Reading Comprehension, Correlation
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Kelso, Katrina; Whitworth, Anne; Parsons, Richard; Leitão, Suze – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2022
Poor comprehenders are a significant subgroup of poor readers who, due to their ability to read aloud accurately, are often difficult to identify. This study aimed to determine whether assessment using two oral language tasks, mapped onto the two components of the Simple View of Reading, would provide an efficient approach to identification.…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension, Oral Reading, Grade 3
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Lin, Xin; Peng, Peng; Luo, Hongjing – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2021
The purpose of the study was to compare the deficit profiles of two important types of mathematics difficulties. Three cognitive measures (working memory, processing speed, and reasoning), two mathematics measures (numerical facts retrieval and mathematics vocabulary), and reading comprehension were assessed among 237 Chinese fourth-grade…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Children, Learning Problems
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Kim, Ae-Hwa; Kim, Ui Jung; Kim, Jae Chul; Vaughn, Sharon – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2021
The purpose of this study was to classify Korean readers into subgroups based on their reading achievement and to examine the relationships between these subgroups and a set of cognitive-linguistic variables. The reading achievement and cognitive-linguistic skills of 394 elementary school students were measured and the data were analyzed by…
Descriptors: Classification, Korean, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students