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Direct linkSandra Gillam; Lauren Horton; Meagan Reynolds; Adeiye Oluwaseun-Sobo; Jennifer Topple; Samantha Walters; Annelies Lippert; Shelby Gentry; Karissa Cummings; Ryan Sainsbury; Ronald Gillam – Topics in Language Disorders, 2025
This project drew upon evidence in the field of professional learning and development (PLD) in education to create and evaluate a PLD program to foster the use of narrative intervention evidence-based practices by classroom teachers working with students with language and literacy difficulties (LLD) in Grades 3 through 5. The primary aim of the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Elementary School Students, Language Impairments
Brigid McNeill; Gail Gillon – Topics in Language Disorders, 2025
This national implementation study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Tier 2 structured literacy teaching set within a multi-tiered system of support. Case-controlled matching was used to determine the impact of the implementation for 1,265 5-year-old children. One comparison group included 1,265 children who were matched to the experimental…
Descriptors: Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Literacy Education, Program Effectiveness, Young Children
Breit-Smith, Allison; Justice, Laura M.; McGinty, Anita S.; Kaderavek, Joan – Topics in Language Disorders, 2009
This article describes the current state of evidence regarding treatment intensity of print referencing intervention. Although studies of print referencing intervention demonstrate overall net positive impacts for children's emergent literacy development, researchers have yet to identify explicitly how often children should experience print…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education
Tyler, Ann A.; Gillon, Gail; Macrae, Toby; Johnson, Roberta L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2011
Aim: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of an integrated phoneme awareness/speech intervention in comparison to an alternating speech/morphosyntax intervention for specific areas targeted by the different interventions, as well as the extent of indirect gains in nontargeted areas. Method: A total of 30 children with co-occurring…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Morphemes, Oral Language, Language Impairments
Riddick, Barbara – Topics in Language Disorders, 2006
This article starts by examining the background to dyslexia support within the context of the National Literacy Strategy in the United Kingdom. It then critically discusses some of the perceived shortcomings of current support for children with dyslexia, and how this has led to the development of a "dyslexia friendly" schools movement in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Dyslexia, Literacy Education
Hammer, Carol Scheffner; Miccio, Adele W. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2006
Learning to read is a complex process and a number of factors affect a child's success in beginning reading. This complexity increases when a child's home language differs from that of the school and when the child comes from a home with limited economic resources. This article discusses factors that have been shown to contribute to children's…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Beginning Reading, Reading Instruction, Kindergarten
