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Bonanni, Kimberley – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Educational outcomes for students with ADHD are often negative. To better understand this problem, the purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the representation of individuals with ADHD in contemporary American English. Data was obtained from the Corpus of American Contemporary English (COCA), using all sections except the academic…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, North American English, Language Usage
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Li, Miao; Georgiou, George; Kirby, John R.; Frijters, Jan C.; Zhao, Wei; Wang, Tingzhao – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2023
The Triangle Model of Reading proposes that phonology, orthography, and semantics are crucial to understand word reading and reading disability (RD). Morphology has been added as a binding agent to this model. However, it is unclear how these variables relate to word reading in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Dadgar, Hooshang; Bakhtiyari, Jalal; Khatoonabadi, Ahmad Reza – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This study investigated the communication skills of children with autism spectrum disorders (H. M. Geurts & M. Embrechts), Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (Hilde M Geurts & MariĆ«tte Embrechts), and learning disability (H. M. Geurts & M. Embrechts) using the Children Communication Checklist to identify any commonalities in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communication Skills, Children, Autism
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Dudschig, Carolin; Kaup, Barbara; Liu, Mingya; Schwab, Juliane – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
Negation is a universal component of human language; polarity sensitivity (i.e., lexical distributional constraints in relation to negation) is arguably so while being pervasive across languages. Negation has long been a field of inquiry in psychological theories and experiments of reasoning, which inspired many follow-up studies of negation and…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Morphemes, Psycholinguistics, Semantics
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Jozwik, Sara L.; Douglas, Karen H. – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2016
This study examined how explicit instruction in semantic ambiguity detection affected the reading comprehension and metalinguistic awareness of five English learners (ELs) with learning difficulties (e.g., attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, specific learning disability). A multiple probe across participants design (Gast & Ledford, 2010)…
Descriptors: Semantics, Ambiguity (Semantics), Identification, Training
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White, Holly A.; Shah, Priti – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) show high divergent thinking on standardized laboratory measures. This study assessed innovative thinking in adults with ADHD using a realistic task and investigated a possible cognitive mechanism for ADHD-related advantages in innovative thinking. College students with and without ADHD…
Descriptors: Semantics, Creativity, Thinking Skills, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder