Do Spelling and Vocabulary Improve Classification Accuracy of Children's Reading Difficulties Over and Above Word Reading?

YSG Kim, Y Petscher - Reading Research Quarterly, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It is widely recognized that individuals with dyslexia have difficulties with word reading and
spelling, and individuals with reading comprehension difficulties have low vocabulary …

Development and prediction of context-dependent vowel pronunciation in elementary readers

LM Steacy, DL Compton, Y Petscher… - Scientific Studies of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
As children learn to read, they become sensitive to context-dependent vowel pronunciations
in words, considered a form of statistical learning. The work of Treiman and colleagues …

The role of set for variability in irregular word reading: Word and child predictors in typically developing readers and students at-risk for reading disabilities

LM Steacy, L Wade-Woolley, JG Rueckl… - Scientific Studies of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In a quasiregular orthography like English, children inevitably encounter irregular words
during reading. Previous research suggests successful reading of an irregular word …

Inhibitory control predicts growth in irregular word reading: Evidence from a large-scale longitudinal study.

Y Qiu, S Griffiths, C Norbury… - Developmental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Irregular words cannot be read correctly by decoding letters into sounds using the most
common letter–sound mapping relations. They are difficult to read and learn. Cognitive …

Exploring differential effects across two decoding treatments on item-level transfer in children with significant word reading difficulties: A new approach for testing …

LM Steacy, AM Elleman, MW Lovett… - Scientific Studies of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT In English, gains in decoding skill do not map directly onto increases in word
reading. However, beyond the Self-Teaching Hypothesis, little is known about the transfer of …

Examining the role of imageability and regularity in word reading accuracy and learning efficiency among first and second graders at risk for reading disabilities

LM Steacy, DL Compton - Journal of experimental child psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
This study explored word reading accuracy and word learning efficiency in first-and second-
grade students (N= 125). In two experiments, students participated in a short training …

Sight word acquisition in first grade students at risk for reading disabilities: An item-level exploration of the number of exposures required for mastery

LM Steacy, D Fuchs, JK Gilbert, DM Kearns… - Annals of dyslexia, 2020 - Springer
The purpose of this study was to examine word learning efficiency in at-risk first grade
students (N= 93) participating in a yearlong study evaluating a multicomponent intervention …

Modeling Item-Level Spelling Variance in Adults: Providing Further Insights into Lexical Quality

VM Rigobon, N Gutiérrez, AA Edwards… - Scientific Studies of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose The lexical quality (LQ) hypothesis predicts that a skilled reader's lexicon will be
inhabited by a range of low-to high-quality items, and the probability of representing a word …

Orton-Gillingham and the IDEA: analysis of the frequency and outcomes of case law

KL Sayeski, PA Zirkel - Annals of Dyslexia, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act grants dissatisfied parents of
students with disabilities the right to pursue legal remedies. In 2007, Rose and Zirkel found …

Modeling complex word reading: Examining influences at the level of the word and child on mono-and polymorphemic word reading

LM Steacy, VM Rigobon, AA Edwards… - Scientific Studies of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose The probability of a child reading a word correctly is influenced by both child skills
and properties of the word. The purpose of this study was to investigate child-level skills (set …