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Greta Roettgen; Lindsey Peters-Sanders; Elizabeth Burke Hadley; Howard Goldstein; Elizabeth Spencer Kelley – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2024
Purpose: One challenge to the design and delivery of effective vocabulary intervention is the selection of vocabulary targets. The purpose of this study was to examine the relation of word characteristics to vocabulary learning from explicit vocabulary intervention. Method: This study was a secondary analysis of data from two recent efficacy…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills
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Mahalakshmi Ramamurthy; Alex L. White; Jason D. Yeatman – Developmental Science, 2024
In the search for mechanisms that contribute to dyslexia, the term "attention" has been invoked to explain performance in a variety of tasks, creating confusion since all tasks do, indeed, demand "attention." Many studies lack an experimental manipulation of attention that would be necessary to determine its influence on task…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Dyslexia, Spatial Ability
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Samanmali P. Sumanasena; L. B. Thilini C. Lokubalasuriya; Rajphriyadharshini Rajmohan; W. K. Hasini Iranthika; D. Chamilka C. Sooriyaarachchi; Wageesha P. Widanapathirane; J. Sachini U. Wijesiri; Sambavi Arulananthan; Tamara G. Handy; Balachandran Kumarendran – Annals of Dyslexia, 2025
A descriptive cross-sectional study was undertaken with Sinhala speaking students from grades 1 and 2 in the Gampaha District of Sri Lanka to determine how akshara graphical features influence emerging reading skills. A battery of locally validated assessments evaluated akshara knowledge (recognition and production), word reading (accurate and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 2, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
Elizabeth Pierotti – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The process of spoken word recognition is influenced by both bottom-up sensory information and top-down cognitive information. These cues are used to process the phonological and semantic representations of speech. Several studies have used EEG/ERPs to study the neural mechanisms of children's spoken word recognition, but less is known about the…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Cognitive Processes, Cues, Oral Language
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Dora Jue Pan; Yingyi Liu; Mo Zheng; Connie Suk Han Ho; David J. Purpura; Catherine McBride; JingTong Ong – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
This study provides evidence connecting two aspects of visual-orthographic skills (orthographic awareness and delayed copying) to the common variance shared by Chinese word reading and arithmetic calculation, as well as in identifying positional knowledge of numbers as a potential mediator of these connections in Chinese primary school students (N…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Mathematics Skills, Reading Processes, Reading Skills