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Preventive and Remedial Interventions for Children with Severe Reading Disabilities.
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Torgesen, Joseph K.; And Others – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1997
Summarizes ongoing research designed to generate new knowledge about the relative effectiveness of different approaches to the prevention and remediation of reading disabilities in children, particularly difficulties in acquiring accurate and fluent word reading skills. Preliminary results from the prevention study and the remediation study are…
Descriptors: Children, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Prevention
Clinical Study of Adults with Severe Learning Disabilities.
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Johnson, Doris J. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1994
This study evaluated the psychoeducational patterns of 14 adults (ages 19 to 37) with learning disabilities and reading ability at the fourth-grade level or below. Subjects' backgrounds and reasons for referral are summarized, and results of intervention in oral language, reading, written language, and mathematics are reported. (DB)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Learning Disabilities, Literacy Education
Early Interventions for Children with Reading Problems: Study Designs and Preliminary Findings.
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Foorman, Barbara R.; And Others – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1997
Describes preliminary results obtained from preventive, early intervention, and remediation studies with culturally diverse elementary students with significant reading problems. The effects of daily phonological awareness activities, a synthetic phonics approach, and explicit instruction in the alphabet are summarized. Ethnic differences in…
Descriptors: Children, Cultural Differences, Early Intervention, Educational Strategies
Colorado Learning Disabilities Research Center.
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DeFries, J. C.; And Others – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1997
Results obtained from the center's six research projects are reviewed, including research on psychometric assessment of twins with reading disabilities, reading and language processes, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder and executive functions, linkage analysis and physical mapping, computer-based remediation of reading disabilities, and…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Children, Computer Uses in Education, Exceptional Child Research