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Arfé, Barbara – Topics in Language Disorders, 2015
This study examined the discourse skills of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children by comparing their oral and written narratives produced for the wordless picture book, "Frog, Where Are You?" (Mayer, 1969), with those of school-age-matched hearing peers. The written stories produced by 42 Italian 7- to 15-year-old children with…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Children
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Welty, Yumiko Tanaka; Menn, Lise; Oishi, Noriko – Topics in Language Disorders, 2014
Japan has been considered dyslexia-free because of the nature of the orthography, which consists of the visually simple kana syllabary and some thousands of visually complex, logographic kanji characters. It is true that few children struggle with learning kana, which provide consistent mappings between symbols and their pronunciation. Indeed,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Orthographic Symbols, Pronunciation