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Baylis, Pamela; Snowling, Margaret J. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2012
This article reports the evaluation of a 10-week phonologically-based literacy programme involving 10 children with Down syndrome (DS). At the outset, each child relied on a whole word method of reading with no apparent use of decoding strategies. The reading and phonological skills of the children were assessed twice prior to undertaking the…
Descriptors: Phonology, Alphabets, Orthographic Symbols, Down Syndrome
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Lafferty, Addie E.; Gray, Shelley; Wilcox, M. Jeanne – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2005
Alphabetic knowledge is a strong predictor of academic success. This multiple baseline across subjects study examined the effect of an intensive intervention on the alphabetic knowledge of four pre-school children ages 3;7 to 4;10. Two children with developmental language delay (DLD) and two with typical language development (TL) participated in a…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Preschool Children, Intervention, Language Acquisition