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Stacie Brady; Linda H. Mason – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2024
Ten morphological awareness intervention studies, conducted in English with students in kindergarten through 12th grade between 2008 and 2020, were synthesized in this article. Research in the studies focused on the effects of morphological awareness intervention on literacy outcomes of students who struggle with reading and writing--including…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Intervention, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Skills
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Guo, Daibao; Feng, Luxi; Hodges, Tracey S. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2023
The primary goal of the present systematic review was to examine the criteria and measures used for assessing students with "specific comprehension deficit" (SCD) who have adequate decoding skills but still perform poorly on reading comprehension assessments. From a systematic review of 32 studies, we found four predominant selection…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Decoding (Reading), Reading Skills
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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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Meisinger, Elizabeth B.; Breazeale, Ashley M.; Davis, Lyle H. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine whether group-based differences exist in word- and text-level reading in a clinical sample of students with dyslexia, and to shed light on the cognitive processes supporting these essential skills. Second- through seventh-grade students were administered a battery of standardized measures of cognitive…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Students with Disabilities, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Younger, Rachel; Meisinger, Elizabeth B. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2022
This study examined the Double-Deficit Hypothesis (DDH) by classifying students with dyslexia into four distinct groups, comparing group differences on text-level reading tasks, and examining group stability across one school year (fall to spring). Elementary students (N = 109) were administered measures of reading fluency, reading comprehension,…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Students with Disabilities, Elementary School Students, Reading Fluency
Denton, Carolyn A.; Montroy, Janelle J.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Cannon, Grace – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2021
The purpose of this feasibility study was to inform the development of an intervention to support reading and self-regulation for students with significant reading difficulties and disabilities (RDs), including dyslexia. Participants were 21 special educators, dyslexia specialists, and reading interventionists and 48 students in Grades 2 to 4.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Development, Reading Skills, Self Management
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Logvinenko, Tatiana; Cheek, Connor; Khalaf, Shiva; Prikhoda, Natalia; Zhukova, Marina A.; Grigorenko, Elena L. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2021
Research into reading difficulties in Russian has been taking place for about a century, since the 1920s. Early research established a line of studies on reading acquisition difficulties in the context of highly structured practices of teaching reading. These practices were propagated in the mid-late 19th century by Konstantin Ushinskii, who…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Reading Skills, Word Recognition, Reading Comprehension
Capin, Philip; Cho, Eunsoo; Miciak, Jeremy; Roberts, Greg; Vaughn, Sharon – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2021
This study investigated the word reading and listening comprehension difficulties of fourth-grade students with significant reading comprehension deficits and the cognitive difficulties that underlie these weaknesses. Latent profile analysis was used to classify a sample of fourth-grade students (n = 446) who scored below the 16th percentile on a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Grade 4, Elementary School Students