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Lim, Lisa; Arciuli, Joanne; Munro, Natalie – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2018
This exploratory study compares the shared book reading behaviours of five school aged children with DS (aged 11 years 6 months to 15 years 6 months) before and after participation in an intervention which included selected components of the MultiLit Reading Tutor Program. The program was delivered 1:1 to participants each week over a 12 week…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Down Syndrome, Reading Programs, Tutoring
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Jones, Manon W.; Branigan, Holly P.; Parra, Mario A.; Logie, Robert H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
The ability to learn visual-phonological associations is a unique predictor of word reading, and individuals with developmental dyslexia show impaired ability in learning these associations. In this study, we compared developmentally dyslexic and nondyslexic adults on their ability to form cross-modal associations (or "bindings") based…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Dyslexia, Predictor Variables, Associative Learning
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Jones, Manon W.; Branigan, Holly P.; Kelly, M. Louise – Dyslexia, 2008
Developmental dyslexia is often characterized by a visual deficit, but the nature of this impairment and how it relates to reading ability is disputed ("Brain" 2003; "126": 841-865). In order to investigate this issue, we compared groups of adults with and without dyslexia on the Ternus, visual-search and symbols tasks.…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Correlation, Visual Perception, Reading Ability