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Westerveld, Marleen F.; Gillon, Gail T. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2008
Ten children (aged between 7;11 and 9;2) with mixed reading disability participated in an oral narrative intervention programme that focused on enhancing children's story structure knowledge. The participants had all demonstrated persistent reading and oral narrative comprehension and production difficulties in a two-year longitudinal study prior…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Story Grammar, Intervention
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McIntosh, Beth; Crosbie, Sharon; Holm, Alison; Dodd, Barbara; Thomas, Sian – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2007
The research reported investigated the efficacy of intervention, developed by a speech-language therapist and implemented by a teacher, for the language and phonological awareness (PA) abilities of pre-school, socially disadvantaged children. One study established that children from low socio-economic (SES) backgrounds had poorer skills on both…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Intervention, Disadvantaged Youth, Reading Skills