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Anthony D. Koutsoftas; Karen Hoover – Topics in Language Disorders, 2024
In this clinical tutorial, we describe the implementation of interventions provided to struggling writers using telepractice as the method of service delivery. The intervention of focus in this article was provided by graduate students who received advanced training in supporting writing to elementary school children with and without learning…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Writing Instruction, Writing Difficulties
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Sandra Gillam; Lauren Horton; Meagan Reynolds; Adeiye Oluwaseun-Sobo; Jennifer Topple; Samantha Walters; Annelies Lippert; Shelby Gentry; Karissa Cummings; Ryan Sainsbury; Ronald Gillam – Topics in Language Disorders, 2025
This project drew upon evidence in the field of professional learning and development (PLD) in education to create and evaluate a PLD program to foster the use of narrative intervention evidence-based practices by classroom teachers working with students with language and literacy difficulties (LLD) in Grades 3 through 5. The primary aim of the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Elementary School Students, Language Impairments
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Kargl, Reinhard; Landerl, Karin – Topics in Language Disorders, 2018
German orthography has highly consistent grapheme-phoneme correspondences, whereas the consistency of phoneme-grapheme correspondences is much lower, but morphological consistency is very high. After giving a short description of German language and orthography, the current article reviews earlier findings on early spelling acquisition, showing…
Descriptors: Phonology, German, Elementary School Students, Spelling
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Petersen, Douglas B.; Mesquita, Meredith W.; Spencer, Trina D.; Waldron, Jessica – Topics in Language Disorders, 2020
This early-stage feasibility study investigated the effects of a multitiered oral narrative language intervention on oral language, reading comprehension, and writing. Twenty-eight second-grade students participated in this quasi-experimental control group study with assignment at the classroom level. The independent variable was large- and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Reading Comprehension, Pretests Posttests, Phrase Structure
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Arfé, Barbara; Cona, Elisa; Merella, Anne – Topics in Language Disorders, 2018
It had been hypothesized that, in developmental dyslexia (DD), an implicit learning deficit explains children's problems in encoding the phoneme-grapheme correspondences underlying the writing system and thus the development of spelling skills. The present study tested the efficacy of an intervention to facilitate implicit learning of…
Descriptors: Spelling, Generalization, Dyslexia, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Nelson, Nickola Wolf – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
Purpose: This was a comparative study of changes across a school year in multilevel language indicators, including African American English (AAE) features, in stories written by third-grade students participating in a writing lab approach to language instruction and intervention. Methods: Original stories written in September, January, and May by…
Descriptors: African American Students, White Students, Grade 3, Elementary School Students