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Loretta Gasparini; Shaun Ziegenfusz; Natalie Turner; Suze Leitão; Michelle C. St Clair; Emily Jackson – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Eighty-five percent of medical research goes to waste, partly because it is not appropriately communicated to stakeholders. This represents a critical issue for the research community, especially because individuals who are impacted by research should be able to readily access that research. Making research findings accessible to key…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Information Dissemination, Medical Research, Access to Information
Hasegawa, Hiroshi; Nonis, Karen P. – International Journal of Special Education, 2018
Learning to read and write the Japanese language is not an easy task. For the non-Japanese speaker this can be a struggle and a challenge. Some schools in Western Australia offer children the opportunity to learn Japanese as a foreign language. Consequently, Japanese as a foreign language unit is offered to all undergraduate students in Education.…
Descriptors: Barriers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Arfé, Barbara; Rossi, Cristina; Sicoli, Silvia – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2015
This study investigated the contribution of verbal working memory to the oral and written story production of deaf children. Participants were 29 severely to profoundly deaf children aged 8-13 years and 29 hearing controls, matched for grade level. The children narrated a picture story orally and in writing and performed a reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Deafness, Linguistic Performance, Linguistic Competence
Altamimi, Ahmed A.; Lee, Lay Wah; Sayed-Ahmed, Al-sayed A.; Kassem, Mostafa M. – International Journal of Special Education, 2015
Special education in Saudi Arabia was formally established in 1962. The earliest cited literature on special education written in English was a 1970 government report. This article presents results from the first synthesis of internationally published Saudi special education literature over a 44-year period. This synthesis yielded information…
Descriptors: Special Education, Foreign Countries, Written Language, English
Costa, Lara-Jeane C.; Hooper, Stephen R.; McBee, Matthew; Anderson, Kathleen L.; Yerby, Donna Carlson – Grantee Submission, 2012
This study examined gains in written language as assessed by targeted curriculum-based measures (CBMs), and explored how these gains were affected by moderator variables of specific cognitive functions and student subgroups. The sample included 68 second grade students who were at risk for writing disabilities. Handwritten compositions were…
Descriptors: Grade 2, At Risk Students, Writing Difficulties, Disabilities
Costa, Lara-Jeane C.; Hooper, Stephen R.; McBee, Matthew; Anderson, Kathleen L.; Yerby, Donna Carlson – Exceptionality, 2012
This study examined gains in written language as assessed by targeted curriculum-based measures (CBMs), and explored how these gains were affected by moderator variables of specific cognitive functions and student subgroups. The sample included 68 second grade students who were at risk for writing disabilities. Handwritten compositions were…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Written Language, Curriculum Based Assessment, Writing Evaluation

Hursh, Daniel E.; Schumaker, Jean B.; Fawcett, Stephen B.; Sherman, James A. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2000
The effectiveness of written instructions was compared with the effectiveness of direct instructions for training in the application of four behavior change processes with 12 undergraduates. Both instructional techniques were effective. Direct instruction was more consistently effective immediately, with both techniques producing similar effects…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Children, College Instruction

Yovetich, William S.; Young, Theresa A. – Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), 1988
Twenty college students, naive to Blissymbols, were asked to "guess" the meaning of 64 Blissymbols presented without their word gloss. The influence of symbol representativeness and the concreteness of associated word labels on the symbols'"guessability" was analyzed. The guessability of a symbol's gloss was significantly…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Character Recognition, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Disabilities
Nelson, Nickola Wolf; Van Meter, Adelia M. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2007
A language-levels model was used to analyze written narratives. The results have implications for instruction and for documenting change in the story-writing performance of students with and without special needs in the area of written language development. This study was based on stories written at midyear by 277 students (224 typical learners…
Descriptors: Written Language, Personal Narratives, White Students, Language Aptitude
Alonzo, Julie; Tindal, Gerald – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2004
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 has increased the role of assessment in K-12 education. Designed to ensure that all students meet high academic standards, the law currently requires states receiving Title I funds to test all children annually in reading and math in grades 3 through 8 and report student performance disaggregated by poverty,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading Achievement, Grade 4