This study investigated the effectiveness of a phonological awareness intervention for 4‐
year‐old children with Down syndrome. Seven children with Down syndrome who attended …

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

Increasingly, children with Down syndrome receive literacy instruction based on a
phonological awareness philosophy with the expectation of acquiring functional reading …

The authors report a short-term reading intervention study involving 15 children with Down
syndrome (DS) who attended mainstream schools. The intervention programme taught …

Many children with Down syndrome demonstrate deficits in phonological awareness, a
prerequisite to learning to read in an alphabetic language. The purpose of this study was to …

Increasingly, children with Down syndrome receive literacy instruction with the expectation
of acquiring functional reading skills. Unfortunately, little is known about the processes …

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 …

Opinions vary as to whether phonological awareness is a necessary prerequisite for
beginning reading, or a product of learning to read. This paper describes a study of …

Research in the area of phonological awareness has mainly focused on the nature of the
relationship between reading ability and awareness of phonemes. However, a recent study …

Children with Down syndrome typically have weaknesses in oral language, but it has been
suggested that this domain may benefit from learning to read. Amongst oral language skills …