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Direct linkQuan, Jenny Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Students with ASD present as unique learners with individual characteristics which may impact their reading performance, particularly related to word reading and comprehension. While a relatively new area of research in reading, students with ASD demonstrate a pattern of below average performance on standardized measures of reading achievement,…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Reading Achievement, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Flaherty, Michael Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The goal of this study was to determine potential causes for the reading and spelling discrepancies of 26 middle school students. All were proficient in reading, but non-proficient in spelling, a pattern typical in students with Specific Spelling Disability (SSD). The focus of the study was on linguistic knowledge while encoding and decoding, plus…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Spelling, Middle School Students, Knowledge Level
Kessler, Michele Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Students with learning disabilities (LD) often struggle with reading comprehension (Shaywitz, 2003), even after attaining basic decoding skills. Similar proportions of students with LD have also been found to differ from their typical peers in some aspect of social adjustment (Kavale & Forness, 1996). Yet there is very little known about the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Cues, Learning Disabilities, Social Adjustment
Stager, Phillip A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of using flashcards to develop automaticity (rapid word recognition) with key vocabulary words and phrases in order to improve fluency and reading comprehension skills for participants with and without diagnosed learning disabilities enrolled in a high school Spanish course. Eighty-seven…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Learning Disabilities, Vocabulary Development, Word Recognition
Bachmeier, Randy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Previous "selective" meta-analyses of the literature relating to the IQ-achievement discrepancy model of specific learning disability identification have concluded that "underachieving" and "low-achieving" poor readers do not differ in any educationally meaningful way. Underachievers are those poor readers who qualify as learning disabled using an…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Learning Disabilities, Low Achievement
Christner, Beth Anne Reside – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The ability to read aloud fluently is a reflection of one's ability to automatically decode words and comprehend text at the same time (Samuels, 2006), a task which may be difficult for many intermediate elementary students with learning disabilities (LD) (Ferrara, 2005). Previous research shows that audio-assisted repeated readings and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Reading Fluency, Learning Disabilities, Reading Ability
Muhammad M. Zayyad – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this mixed-methods research was to examine the impact of mediated cognitive strategy intervention on the reading comprehension and self-efficacy of Palestinian-Arab middle school students with learning disabilities. Eighteen seventh-grade students with LD who were placed in two self-contained special education classrooms and their…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Self Efficacy
