scholarly journals Allophonic mode of speech perception in Dutch children at risk for dyslexia: A longitudinal study

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 1469-1483 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.W. Noordenbos ◽  
E. Segers ◽  
W. Serniclaes ◽  
H. Mitterer ◽  
L. Verhoeven
1985 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex E. Schwartzman ◽  
Jane E. Ledingham ◽  
Lisa A. Serbin

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Turid Helland ◽  
Tomas Tjus ◽  
Marit Hovden ◽  
Sonja Ofte ◽  
Mikael Heimann

This longitudinal study focused on the effects of two different principles of intervention in children at risk of developing dyslexia from 5 to 8 years old. The children were selected on the basis of a background questionnaire given to parents and preschool teachers, with cognitive and functional magnetic resonance imaging results substantiating group differences in neuropsychological processes associated with phonology, orthography, and phoneme—grapheme correspondence (i.e., alphabetic principle). The two principles of intervention were bottom-up (BU), “from sound to meaning”, and top-down (TD), “from meaning to sound.” Thus, four subgroups were established: risk/BU, risk/TD, control/BU, and control/TD. Computer-based training took place for 2 months every spring, and cognitive assessments were performed each fall of the project period. Measures of preliteracy skills for reading and spelling were phonological awareness, working memory, verbal learning, and letter knowledge. Literacy skills were assessed by word reading and spelling. At project end the control group scored significantly above age norm, whereas the risk group scored within the norm. In the at-risk group, training based on the BU principle had the strongest effects on phonological awareness and working memory scores, whereas training based on the TD principle had the strongest effects on verbal learning, letter knowledge, and literacy scores. It was concluded that appropriate, specific, data-based intervention starting in preschool can mitigate literacy impairment and that interventions should contain BU training for preliteracy skills and TD training for literacy training.


1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Howard ◽  
Bruce Johnson

In recent times, research that has traditionally concerned itself with children ‘at risk’ has been supplemented by studies which have concentrated on the characteristics of those children who display resilient behaviours despite the presence of negative individual, family or environmental factors. A range of internal and external ‘protective factors’ that contribute to childhood resilience has been identified in the literature.The research being presented here reports on one phase of a longitudinal study that is tracking children originally identified as displaying resilient or non-resilient behaviour. After one year, the persistence of resilient or non-resilient behaviours is noted among the 55 children in the study; the incidence of changed behaviour – either from resilience to non-resilience or vice versa – is low. Case studies of three children are used to illustrate the trends in the findings and to provide real examples of how the presence or absence of protective factors impact on the lives of real children.


2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 421-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. McNamara ◽  
Mary Scissons ◽  
Naomi Gutknecth

2021 ◽  
Vol Vol. 121 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Agnès Piquard-Kipffer ◽  
Thalia Cavadini ◽  
Liliane Sprenger-Charolles ◽  
Édouard Gentaz

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 545-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kapil Sayal ◽  
Jonathan Mills ◽  
Kate White ◽  
Christine Merrell ◽  
Peter Tymms

2014 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J.M. Van Steen ◽  
Piet H. Pellenbarg

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