This article reports the evaluation of a 10-week phonologically-based literacy programme
involving 10 children with Down syndrome (DS). At the outset, each child relied on a whole …

Practitioners are increasingly expected to provide reading instruction to students with
intellectual disabilities to help them become literate. Whereas explicit, systematic reading …

Phonological awareness (PA) is the knowledge and understanding of the sound structure of
language and is believed to be an important skill for the development of reading. This study …

We report on a case of a girl with Down syndrome (DS), KS, whose reading accuracy is
exceptional. This ability is associated with robust phonological skills and relative strengths in …

Background: Children with Down syndrome experience difficulty with both spoken and
written language acquisition, however controlled intervention studies to improve these …

The use of a three-step decoding strategy with constant time delay for teaching decoding
and word reading to students with mild and moderate mental retardation was investigated in …

The purpose of this review was to understand the types of memory impairments that are
associated with intellectual disability (ID, formerly called mental retardation) and the …

Purpose This study was designed to shed light on the profile of reading ability in children
with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A key aim was to examine the relationship between …

Little is known about the relationships between phonological processing, language, and
reading in children with intellectual disability (ID). We examined the structure of …

In order to better understand the neuropsychological underpinnings of the relative strength
in word identification in individuals with Down syndrome, the performance of children and …