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Henry, Alyssa R.; Solari, Emily J. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Purpose: This study investigates the effects of an integrated oral language and listening comprehension intervention for early elementary students with ASD. Methods: Students (n = 43) were randomly assigned to intervention or control comparison conditions, with intervention students receiving instruction in small groups of 3 or 4. Groups were led…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Burgoyne, Kelly; Duff, Fiona; Snowling, Maggie; Buckley, Sue; Hulme, Charles – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2013
This article reports the evaluation of a 6-week programme of teaching designed to support the development of phoneme blending skills in children with Down syndrome (DS). Teaching assistants (TAs) were trained to deliver the intervention to individual children in daily 10-15-minute sessions, within a broader context of reading and language…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Speech Therapy, Phonemes, Intervention
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Leacox, Lindsey; Jackson, Carla Wood – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2014
This study examined preschool and kindergarten English language learners (ELLs) attending a migrant summer programme and their vocabulary word learning during both adult-read and technology-enhanced repeated readings. In a within-subject design, 24 ELLs (four to six years old) engaged in repeated readings in a control and a treatment condition. In…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary
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Pollard-Durodola, Sharolyn D.; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Simmons, Deborah C.; Kwok, Oiman; Taylor, Aaron B.; Davis, Matthew J.; Kim, Minjung; Simmons, Leslie – Exceptional Children, 2011
This study examined the effects of an intensive shared book-reading intervention on the vocabulary development of preschool children who were at risk for vocabulary delay. The participants were 125 children, who the researchers stratified by classroom and randomly assigned to one of two shared book-reading conditions (i.e., the experimental, Words…
Descriptors: Intervention, Oral Reading, Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development