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Wise, Justin C.; Sevcik, Rose A.; Morris, Robin D.; Lovett, Maureen W.; Wolf, Maryanne; Kuhn, Melanie; Meisinger, Beth; Schwanenflugel, Paula – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine whether different measures of oral reading fluency relate differentially to reading comprehension performance in two samples of second-grade students: (a) students who evidenced difficulties with nonsense-word oral reading fluency, real-word oral reading fluency, and oral reading fluency of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Reading Fluency, Program Effectiveness
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Westerveld, Marleen F.; Moran, Catherine A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2011
Purpose: This research investigated the expository language skills of young school-age children with the ultimate aim of obtaining normative data for clinical practice. Specifically, this study examined (a) the level of expository language performance of 6- and 7-year-old children with typical development and (b) age-related differences between…
Descriptors: Age, Grammar, Program Effectiveness, Language Skills
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Marshall, Althea T. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was to examine the impact of Chromosome 4p- syndrome on the communication and expressive language phenotype of a large cross-cultural population of children, adolescents, and adults. Method: A large-scale survey study was conducted and a descriptive research design was used to analyze quantitative and…
Descriptors: Research Design, Investigations, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
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Waite, Monique C.; Theodoros, Deborah G.; Russell, Trevor G.; Cahill, Louise M. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2010
Purpose: Telehealth has the potential to improve children's access to speech-language pathology services. Validation of telehealth applications, including the assessment of childhood language disorders, is necessary for telehealth to become an accepted alternative mode of service provision. The aim of this study was to validate an Internet-based…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Interrater Reliability, Speech Language Pathology, Children
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Lum, Jarrad A. G.; Zarafa, Michelle – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2010
Purpose: An ongoing concern with the evaluation of auditory processing disorders is the extent that assessment instruments are influenced by higher order cognitive functions. This study examined the relationship between verbal working memory and performance on the Test for Auditory Processing Disorders in Children-Revised (SCAN-C; Keith, 2000b) in…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Program Effectiveness, Short Term Memory, Correlation
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Ciani, Sharon – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1980
A hearing aid test program was developed, using portable electroacoustic equipment, to assess and improve the condition of hearing aids worn by Cincinnati public school children. The program's results have shown the need for an additional midyear check and subsequent maintenance for school auditory training equipment. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Exceptional Child Research, Hearing Aids