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Direct linkRoch, Maja; Florit, Elena; Levorato, Chiara – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Deriving the meaning of unknown words from context and its relationship to text comprehension was investigated in 24 individuals with Down syndrome and in 24 typically developing children matched for the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) score. The study consisted of three phases. Unknown words were identified during the first phase (PPVT).…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Semantics, Down Syndrome, Vocabulary Development
Wang, Li-Chih; Yang, Hsien-Ming; Tasi, Hung-Ju; Chan, Shih-Yi – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
This study presents an examination of learner-generated drawing for different reading comprehension subtypes of dyslexic students and control students. The participants were 22 phonological dyslexic students, 20 orthographic dyslexic students, 21 double-deficit dyslexic students, and 45 age-, gender-, and IQ-matched control students. The major…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Word Recognition, Control Groups, Reading Comprehension
van Hoogmoed, Anne H.; Knoors, Harry; Schreuder, Robert; Verhoeven, Ludo – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Children who are deaf are often delayed in reading comprehension. This delay could be due to problems in morphological processing during word reading. In this study, we investigated whether 6th grade deaf children and adults are delayed in comparison to their hearing peers in reading complex derivational words and compounds compared to…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Familiarity, Morphemes, Reading Comprehension
Stern, Pnina; Shalev, Lilach – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Difficulties in reading comprehension are common in children and adolescents with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The current study aimed at investigating the relation between sustained attention and reading comprehension among adolescents with and without ADHD. Another goal was to examine the impact of two manipulations of the…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Adolescents, Reading Comprehension, Control Groups
Naess, Kari-Anne B.; Melby-Lervag, Monica; Hulme, Charles; Lyster, Solveig-Alma Halaas – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
The authors examine the reading profile in children with Down syndrome by comparing the nonword decoding skills in children with Down syndrome and typically developing children matched for word recognition level. Journal articles published before 04.05.2010 were identified by using the keyword Down* cross-referenced to "reading", "literacy",…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Phonological Awareness, Down Syndrome, Word Recognition
Rumpf, Anna-Lena; Kamp-Becker, Inge; Becker, Katja; Kauschke, Christina – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
The central question of the present study was whether there are differences between children with Asperger Syndrome (AS), children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and healthy controls (HC) with respect to the organization of narratives and their verbalization of internal states. Oral narrations of a wordless picture book…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Asperger Syndrome, Children, Oral Language
Miniscalco, Carmela; Sandberg, Annika Dahlgren – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Reading skills at age 7-8 years were examined in a community-representative sample of 21 screened and clinically examined children with language delay (LD) followed prospectively from 2.5 years of age. The present study aimed to (1) determine whether these children with a history of LD had deficits in basic reading skills, i.e. decoding and…
Descriptors: Autism, Learning Disabilities, Language Tests, Standardized Tests
