Puolakanaho, Anne Early Prediction of Reading: Phonological Awareness and Related Language and Cognitive Skills in Children with a Familial Risk for Dyslexia Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2007, 61 p. (Jyväskylä Studies in Education, Psychology and Social Research, ISSN 0075-4625; 317 ) ISBN 978-951-39-2998-5 (PDF), 978-951-39-2957-2 (nid.) Yhteenveto: Lukemistaitojen varhainen ennustamine...

PURPOSE To examine the efficacy of Fast ForWord Language (FFW-L) and 2 other interventions for improving the phonemic awareness and reading skills of children with specific language impairment with concurrent poor reading skills. METHOD A total of 103 children (age 6;0 to 8;11 [years;months]) with language impairment and poor reading skills participated. The children received either FFW-L com...

This study examined the unique contribution of computer-based instruction when compared with more conventional modes of instruction (i.e. teacher instruction with textbooks) to early reading skills acquisition, as well as the effects of specific features of computer technology on early reading skills performance. Forty-six pre-school children (aged 5–6), at high risk for learning disabilities, ...

The objective of this study was to investigate the reading methods students brought with them to the university. In the process, it also attempts to provide an answer to the question about whether reading strategies are caught or taught. It is generally assumed that since students ‘can’ read, they should know ‘how to read’ and that they are bound to pick up the necessary reading skills along th...

reading is one of the most important basic skills for the growth of children’s intrinsic abilities which was taken into consideration by many researchers. inability in reading usually brings about many problems in learning for students. this paper reports the result of a two-groups with pre-test and post-test semi-experimental design which was done in elementary schools of mahidasht region of k...

Recent research indicates that children’s learning-related skills (including self-regulation and social competence) contribute to early school success. The present study investigated the relation of kindergarten learning-related skills to reading and math trajectories in 538 children between kindergarten and sixth grade, and examined how children with poor learning-related skills fared througho...

In this study an attempt was made to construct a multi-factor model predicting the development of reading literacy in the upper grades of primary school in the Netherlands for subgroups of 729 first language (L1) learners and 93 second language (L2) learners. Following a longitudinal design, it was explored to what extent the variation in reading literacy development in L1 and L2 from grade 4 t...

The present thesis investigated cognitive ability in children with severe to profound hearing impairment who have received cochlear implants (CIs). The auditory stimulation from a cochlear implant early in life influences most cognitive functions as a consequence of the plasticity of the brain in the young child. It is important to understand the cognitive consequences of auditory stimulation f...