Speaking up for vocabulary: Reading skill differences in young adults

D Braze, W Tabor, DP Shankweiler… - Journal of learning …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
This study is part of a broader project aimed at developing cognitive and neurocognitive
profiles of adolescent and young adult readers whose educational and occupational …

Developmental changes in reading and reading disabilities

HW Catts, TP Hogan, SM Adlof - The connections between …, 2005 - taylorfrancis.com
Reading is one of the most complex cognitive activities that most of us engage in on a
regular basis. It requires a host of sensory, perceptual, and linguistic abilities, and it takes …

Cognitive processes as predictors of word recognition and reading comprehension in learning-disabled and skilled readers: Revisiting the specificity hypothesis.

HL Swanson, JE Alexander - Journal of Educational Psychology, 1997 - psycnet.apa.org
This study examines how cognitive processes interrelate as well as predict learning-
disabled (LD) readers' word recognition and reading comprehension performance …

Reading disabilities in adults: A selective meta-analysis of the literature

HL Swanson, CJ Hsieh - Review of educational Research, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
This article synthesizes the experimental literature that compares the academic, cognitive,
and behavioral performance of adults with reading disabilities to those of average-achieving …

Adults with reading disabilities: Converting a meta-analysis to practice

HL Swanson - Journal of Learning disabilities, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This article reviews the results of a meta-analysis of the experimental published literature
that compares the academic, cognitive, and behavioral performance of adults with reading …

Basic cognitive processes and reading disabilities

LS Siegel, S Mazabel - Handbook of learning disabilities, 2003 - books.google.com
A great deal of inconsistency and controversy exist in the research on reading and reading
disabilities. Therefore, any discussion of reading and reading disabilities must start with a …

Relationships among reading skills of adults with low literacy

JP Sabatini, Y Sawaki, JR Shore… - Journal of learning …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
In this study, confirmatory factor analyses were used to examine the interrelationships
among latent factors of the simple view model of reading comprehension (word recognition …

The relationship among receptive and expressive vocabulary, listening comprehension, pre-reading skills, word identification skills, and reading comprehension by …

JC Wise, RA Sevcik, RD Morris, MW Lovett, M Wolf - 2007 - ASHA
Purpose Some researchers (FR Vellutino, FM Scanlon, & MS Tanzman, 1994) have argued
that the different domains comprising language (eg, phonology, semantics, and grammar) …

Paths to reading comprehension in at-risk second-grade readers

VW Berninger, RD Abbott… - Journal of learning …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
Two studies of second graders at risk for reading disability, which were guided by levels of
language and functional reading system theory, focused on reading comprehension in this …

Growth in Precursor and Reading–Related Skills: Do Low–Achieving and IQ–Discrepant Readers Develop Differently?

KJ O'Malley, DJ Francis, BR Foorman… - Learning …, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
Poor readers who met low achievement and IQ–discrepancy definitions of reading disability
were compared with nonimpaired readers on their development of eight precursor and …