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Re, Anna Maria; De Vita, Francesca; Cornoldi, Cesare; Schmidt, Susanna – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2023
Copying a text quickly and accurately is important both in school and in daily life. However, this skill has never been systematically studied, either in children with typical development (TD) or in children with specific learning disabilities (SLD). The aim of this research was to study the features of a copy task and its relationship with other…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Grade 6
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Carretti, Barbara; Motta, Eleonora; Re, Anna Maria – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
Several studies have highlighted that children with reading comprehension difficulties also have problems in tasks that involve telling a story, in writing or verbally. The main differences identified regard poor comprehenders' lower level of coherence in their productions by comparison with good comprehenders. Only one study has compared poor and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Written Language, Expressive Language, Reading Comprehension
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Ramirez, Gloria; Walton, Patrick; Roberts, William – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2014
Our goal was to investigate the growth of vocabulary and morphological awareness over time in the context of an intervention for kindergartners with different ability levels in these skills. Participants in this exploratory study were 108 children from schools serving socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Results indicated that children…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Kindergarten, Young Children, Morphology (Languages)
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Åsberg Johnels, Jakob; Kopp, Svenny; Gillberg, Christopher – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2014
Writing difficulties are common among children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but the nature of these difficulties has not been well studied. Here we relate behavioral, psycholinguistic, cognitive (memory/executive), and graphomotor measures to spelling skills in school-age girls with ADHD (n = 30) and an age-matched group…
Descriptors: Spelling, Spelling Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Torppa, Minna; Lyytinen, Paula; Erskine, Jane; Eklund, Kenneth; Lyytinen, Heikki – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
Discriminative language markers and predictive links between early language and literacy skills were investigated retrospectively in the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia in which children at familial risk for dyslexia have been followed from birth. Three groups were formed on the basis of 198 children's reading and spelling status. One…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Morphology (Languages), Dyslexia, Phonological Awareness
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Re, Anna Maria; Caeran, Monica; Cornoldi, Cesare – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2008
The present study examines the expressive writing abilities of children described by their teachers as having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms and of matched controls and the effects of two types of facilitation. A group of 35 ADHD children and matched controls are given the task of composing a letter either under standard…
Descriptors: Spelling, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Expressive Language
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Olofsson, Ake; Niedersoe, Jan – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1999
A study involving 205 children from the Danish island of Bornholm found significant paths from early language abilities at age 3 through expressive and receptive language in kindergarten via language awareness in kindergarten and word decoding in grade 2 to sentence reading in grades 3 and 4. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Expressive Language, Foreign Countries