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Pomper, Ron; McGregor, Karla K.; Arbisi-Kelm, Timothy; Eden, Nichole; Ohlmann, Nancy – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The current study compared the effects of direct instruction versus indirect exposure on multiple aspects of novel word learning for children with developmental language disorder (DLD) and children with typical language development (TLD). Method: Participants included 36 children with DLD and 45 children with TLD. All children were in the…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Children, Developmental Disabilities
Grace T. Clark – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Typically developing (TD) children, as young as four years of age, have demonstrated enhanced noun learning when orthographic representations are presented during learning tasks. This dissertation investigated the impact of orthographic support on word learning in diverse populations, focusing on children from a variety of clinical categories…
Descriptors: Written Language, Vocabulary Development, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Dyslexia
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Chebli, Sabine Saade; Lanovaz, Marc J.; Dufour, Marie-Michèle – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2019
The purpose of our study was to compare the effectiveness of tablet- and instructor-delivered teaching (i.e., prompting and reinforcement) on the receptive identification of one-word concepts in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). To this end, we embedded a multielement design within a multiple probe design to compare the effectiveness…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Porter, Alison – Language Learning Journal, 2020
This study investigated the systematic and principled teaching of foreign language (FL) literacy in two young learner classrooms in England. Over the course of 23 weeks, two classes of 9-11 year olds (N = 45) learned spoken and written language through an integrated pedagogy. The underpinning rationale was to explore principled ways of teaching FL…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, French
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Messier, Jane; Wood, Carla – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2015
The present intervention study explored the word learning of 18 children with cochlear implants in response to E-book instruction. Capitalizing on the multimedia options available in electronic storybooks, the intervention incorporated videos and definitions to provide a vocabulary intervention that includes evidence-based teaching strategies. The…
Descriptors: Deafness, Children, Electronic Publishing, Childrens Literature
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Bailey, Benjamin; Arciuli, Joanne; Stancliffe, Roger J. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
This study explored the effects of an evidence-based literacy program, ABRACADABRA, on the spelling abilities of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Twenty children with ASD aged 5-11 years were assigned to matched instruction and waitlist control groups. Children in the instruction group received 26 hrs of individualized, home-based…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Spelling Instruction