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Learning through Feature Prediction: An Initial Investigation into Teaching Categories to Children with Autism through Predicting Missing Features
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Sweller, Naomi – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2015
Individuals with autism have difficulty generalising information from one situation to another, a process that requires the learning of categories and concepts. Category information may be learned through: (1) classifying items into categories, or (2) predicting missing features of category items. Predicting missing features has to this point been…
Descriptors: Autism, Teaching Methods, Prediction, Classification
Assessing the Relationship between Prosody and Reading Outcomes in Children Using the PEPS-C
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Lochrin, Margaret; Arciuli, Joanne; Sharma, Mridula – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2015
This study investigated the relationship between both receptive and expressive prosody and each of three reading outcomes: accuracy of reading aloud words, accuracy of reading aloud nonwords, and comprehension. Participants were 63 children aged 7 to 12 years. To assess prosody, we used the Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech Communication…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Suprasegmentals, Receptive Language, Expressive Language