... in response to the Global TALES protocol. Methods: 22 monolingual Dutch-speaking participants aged 11–16 with dyslexia and 22 age and gender-matched peers without dyslexia were assessed on measures of decoding, reading comprehension, and spelling of words, pseudowords, verbs, and sentences. The participants...

... performed similarly to non-ELL in non-word reading and spelling tasks. Predictors of growth analyses indicated that ELL from areas of low socioeconomic deprivation, who used a greater number of different words in their English story retells at the baseline assessment, and females made the most growth...

...) difficulties in this population. However, there are very few studies about the relationships between such skills in the non-dyslexic school population. Methods: We investigated the influence of the beat perception ability on PhP and reading skills of 93 Brazilian Portuguese-speaking schoolchildren from the 3rd...

... for the child’s future performance, there seems to be no consensus on this topic in children with a cleft of the palate with or without a cleft of the lip (CP±L). The aim of this study was to investigate reading and writing skills and their relationship with linguistic processes in Dutch-speaking children...

... (RAN) test, examining schooling effects of schooling and associations with reading speed, comprehension, and reading level for each of the RAN subtests of colour, numbers, letters, and objects. Methods: Participants were 97 children, aged 7–11 years, enrolled in the first to fifth grade of elementary...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Child language Language Reading Narrative-based intervention is becoming an alternative language approach for speech-language therapists (SLT) because of their social and academic importance, allowing more diverse...

...Ana Carla Oliveira Garcia; Teresa Maria Momensohn-Santos; Douglas de Araújo Vilhena Objective: To investigate the effects of spectral overlays on reading performance of Brazilian elementary school children. Methods: Sixty-eight children (aged 9–12 years) enrolled in the 5th and 6th grade were...

...Sara Ferman; Amalia Bar-On Objective: Most studies on word reading in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) focus on graphemic-phonemic decoding and the direct orthographic route. To extend the scope, we investigated morpho-orthographic identification beyond graphemic-phonemic abilities...

...Fernanda Dreux Miranda Fernandes; Cibelle Albuquerque de La Higuera Amato; Carla Cardoso; Ana Luiza Gomes Pinto Navas; Daniela Regina Molini-Avejonas Objective: To review what the literature says about reading abilities of children on the autism spectrum (autism spectrum disorders, ASD) as well...

...Anne van Bysterveldt; Gail Gillon Objective and Method: This article describes the profiles of a cohort of 77 New Zealand children with Down syndrome (aged between 5 and 14 years) in areas of particular importance to reading development, namely phonological awareness, word level reading and letter...

...-hearing controls matched for age, sex and education level were recruited. While wearing a circumferentially vented mask connected to a pneumotachograph, the subjects read three passages. The airflow signal was used to locate inspiratory loci in the speech samples. Temporal parameters of BG structure were...

...C.F.B. Murphy; E. Schochat Objective: To analyze the effect of nonverbal auditory training on reading and phonological awareness tasks in children with dyslexia and the effect of age in relation to post-training learning considering the ages from 7 to 14. Methods: In experiment 1, one group...

..., and cognitive demands of communication. Reading and spontaneous speech are two speaking tasks that vary in these demands and are commonly used to evaluate speech performance for research and clinical applications. The purpose of this study is to examine differences between reading and spontaneous speech...

... completing only 11 grades. Each student’s word finding profile and characteristics are presented as well as the impact of the disorder upon school performance particularly in the area of reading. Recommendations are made for intervention involving collaboration between speech-language pathologists...

... evidence concerning the role of the cerebellum and discusses how it can contribute to reading. Method: The procedure used involves findings coming from three quite different areas, lesion, anatomic and functional imaging studies. Results: These studies indicate a link between cerebellum and reading and its...

... advertised or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Preterm Language acquisition Reading...

...Marie de Montfort Supple It has been agreed for some time now that reading is primarily a language-based activity and that deficits in oral language will be reflected in deficits in reading ability. This paper explores the association between specific aspects of oral and written language...