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Prodi, Nicola; Visentin, Chiara; Peretti, Alessandro; Griguolo, Jacopo; Bartolucci, Giovanni Battista – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2019
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the listening effort made by young children in real classrooms during a prolonged speech reception task in the presence of background noise. Method: The experiment was proposed to 117 typically developing kindergarten and primary school pupils, aged 5-7 years old. An ecological experimental approach was…
Descriptors: Listening Skills, Reaction Time, Children, Kindergarten
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Foy, Judith G.; Mann, Virginia A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine how executive function skills in verbal and nonverbal auditory tasks are related to early reading skills in beginning readers. Kindergarteners (N = 41, aged 5 years) completed verbal (phonemes) and nonverbal (environmental sounds) Continuous Performance tasks yielding measures of executive function (misses,…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Skills, Executive Function, Kindergarten