Training reading and phoneme awareness skills in children with Down syndrome

K Goetz, C Hulme, S Brigstocke, JM Carroll, L Nasir… - Reading and …, 2008 - Springer
The authors report a short-term reading intervention study involving 15 children with Down
syndrome (DS) who attended mainstream schools. The intervention programme taught …

A comparison between word and nonword reading in Down syndrome: The role of phonological awareness

M Roch, C Jarrold - Journal of Communication Disorders, 2008 - Elsevier
In order to examine whether any observed relationship between phonological awareness
and reading ability in Down syndrome reflects the typical use of a phonologically based …

[HTML][HTML] The development of literacy skills in children with Down syndrome: Implications for intervention

M Snowling, H Nash… - Down Syndrome Research …, 2008 - down-syndrome.org
The cognitive profile observed in Down syndrome is typically uneven with stronger visual
than verbal skills, receptive vocabulary stronger than expressive language and grammatical …

Barriers to participation in kindergarten literacy instruction for a student with augmentative and alternative communication needs

LA Pufpaff - Psychology in the Schools, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Preliminary findings and implications from this study were presented at the 45th Annual
Convention of the International Reading Association in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 30, 2000 …

Die Kulturtechnik Lesen im Unterricht für Schüler mit geistiger Behinderung: Lesen lernen ohne phonologische Bewusstheit?

A Koch - 2008 - jlupub.ub.uni-giessen.de
Ob und in welchen Umfang die Kulturtechnik Lesen in den Lehrplan der Schule für Geistig
Behinderte aufzunehmen ist, war lange Zeit umstritten. Von vielen Fachleuten wurde …

Exploring the effectiveness of phonics-based instruction for children with Down syndrome

CJ Lemons - 2008 - ir.vanderbilt.edu
Practitioners are increasingly expected to provide reading instruction to students with
cognitive disabilities to help them become literate. Whereas a phonics-based approach to …