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Baylis, Pamela; Snowling, Margaret J. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2012
This article reports the evaluation of a 10-week phonologically-based literacy programme involving 10 children with Down syndrome (DS). At the outset, each child relied on a whole word method of reading with no apparent use of decoding strategies. The reading and phonological skills of the children were assessed twice prior to undertaking the…
Descriptors: Phonology, Alphabets, Orthographic Symbols, Down Syndrome
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Faust, Miriam; Kandelshine-Waldman, Osnat – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
The present study used two letter detection tasks, the classic missing letter effect paradigm and a single word versus familiar word compound version of this paradigm, to study bottom-up and top-down processes involved in reading in normally achieving as compared to low achieving elementary school readers. The research participants were children…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Models, Word Recognition, Reading Instruction