Despite historical emphasis on "specific" learning disabilities (SLDs), academic skills are strongly correlated across the curriculum. Thus, one can ask how specific SLDs truly are. To answer this question, we used bifactor models to identify variance shared across academic domains (academic "g"), as well as variance unique to…

The goal of improving reading rate and fluency is to positively impact reading comprehension; however, it is unclear how fast students with learning disabilities (LD) need to read to reap this benefit. The purpose of this research was to identify the point of diminishing return for students who were dysfluent readers. Participants included 337…

Teachers' implementation of differentiated supplemental instruction is critical to help students with or at risk for reading-related disabilities acquire early reading and vocabulary skills. This study represents an initial investigation of whether classroom teachers' intervention fidelity (exposure, adherence, and quality) of targeted reading…

Two learning disabled nine-year-old males were trained to attend to suffixes (-ed, -ing), resulting in improved oral reading performance. (Author)

Six elementary level learning disabled students participated in the study which indicated that systematic prepractice procedures were related to higher performance levels than was baseline (no prepractice). Differential effects were noted: the listening procedure was related to higher rates of words read correctly than was the silent procedure.…

On all three tests, learning disabled children scored lower than control children. Also, the effect of removing dialect miscues as errors caused an overall increase in reading scores on all three tests. (Author/SB)

Described are the rationale and organization of a remedial program for children with the Visual/Auditory-Verbal syndrome who are unable to convert visual-sound symbols (written words) into their appropriate sounds. (KW)

In a repeated measures design, third grade students with learning disabilities (N=16) read under three treatment conditions: corrective feedback on every oral reading error, correction on meaning change errors only, and no feedback regardless of error. Corrective feedback on oral reading errors improved both word recognition accuracy and reading…

The effect of self-imposed and externally-imposed scheduling on oral reading rate was examined in eight reading delayed students (9 to 12 years old). (SBH)

The effect of individual and group feedback upon reducing oral reading errors was investigated with 16 fifth-grade underachievers from a learning disabled (LD) program and from a regular classroom (non-LD). Both individual and group feedback procedures were found effective when compared with the baseline condition. (Author)

The study examined the effectiveness of the Neurological Impress Method--NIM (in which reading skills are taught by having student and teacher read aloud in unison) for 44 learning disabled third, fourth, and fifth graders. (SBH)

Daily measures of reading comprehension were obtained for three learning disabled fourth and fifth grade boys in two settings--their regular classrooms and a special remedial setting. (Author)

Twelve secondary students with learning disabilities read aloud from a text after previewing the passage under one of three conditions. Results showed significant decreases in error rates under slow-rate listening previewing and silent previewing and showed that slow-rate listening previewing resulted in fewer errors per minute than did fast-rate…

The study analyzed oral reading miscues in both first and second reading languages of 20 Hispanic successful and 20 learning disabled readers in the intermediate grades. Significant differences were found for English reading in grammatical relationships, comprehension, and grammatical function. (Author/DB)