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View article: Heightened anxieties in secondary school students with reading difficulties
Heightened anxieties in secondary school students with reading difficulties Open
Purpose: Reading difficulties in primary school students have been linked to elevated anxiety, yet very few studies have examined this relationship in secondary school students who have different priorities and experience distinct challeng…
View article: Errors in the Spontaneous Language of Survivors of Pediatric Cerebellar Tumors
Errors in the Spontaneous Language of Survivors of Pediatric Cerebellar Tumors Open
Pediatric cerebellar tumor survivors may present with spontaneous language impairments following treatment, but the nature of these impairments is still largely unclear. A recent study by Svaldi et al. (Cerebellum. 23:523-44, 2023) found a…
View article: The Effects of Morphological Instruction on Literacy Outcomes for Children in English-Speaking Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
The Effects of Morphological Instruction on Literacy Outcomes for Children in English-Speaking Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Open
In this pre-registered meta-analysis, we investigated the effectiveness of morphology instruction on literacy outcomes for primary school children in English-speaking countries. We were interested in overall reading and spelling outcomes, …
View article: The effects of morphology instruction on literacy outcomes for children in English-speaking countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis
The effects of morphology instruction on literacy outcomes for children in English-speaking countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis Open
In this pre-registered meta-analysis, we investigated the effectiveness of morphology instruction on literacy outcomes for primary school children in English-speaking countries. We were interested in overall reading and spelling outcomes, …
View article: Spoken verb learning in children with language disorder
Spoken verb learning in children with language disorder Open
The current study examined spoken verb learning in elementary school children with language disorder (LD). We aimed to replicate verb learning deficits reported in younger children with LD and to examine whether verb instrumentality, a sem…
View article: Language outcomes in children who underwent surgery for the removal of a posterior fossa tumor: A systematic review
Language outcomes in children who underwent surgery for the removal of a posterior fossa tumor: A systematic review Open
Children who had posterior fossa surgery seem to be at risk for postoperative language impairment. These results stress the need for language follow-up in posterior fossa tumor survivors.
View article: Number line estimation patterns and their relationship with mathematical performance
Number line estimation patterns and their relationship with mathematical performance Open
There is ongoing debate regarding what performance on the number line estimation task represents and its role in mathematics learning. The patterns followed by children’s estimates on the number line task could provide insight into this. T…
View article: The relationship between number line estimation and mathematical reasoning: a quantile regression approach
The relationship between number line estimation and mathematical reasoning: a quantile regression approach Open
Number line estimation has been found to be strongly related to mathematical reasoning concurrently and longitudinally. However, the relationship between number line estimation and mathematical reasoning might differ according to children’…
View article: The effect of an integrated reading and anxiety intervention for poor readers with anxiety
The effect of an integrated reading and anxiety intervention for poor readers with anxiety Open
A recent systematic review has reported that poor reading is reliably associated with anxiety. However, we currently lack evidence-based intervention for children who have both poor reading and anxiety (PRAX). In this study, we tested a ne…
View article: Foreign language attainment of children/adolescents with poor literacy skills: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Foreign language attainment of children/adolescents with poor literacy skills: A systematic review and meta-analysis Open
This systematic review investigated how successful children/adolescents with poor literacy skills learn a foreign language compared to their peers with typical literacy skills. Moreover, we explored whether specific characteristics related…
View article: Children’s knowledge of single- and multiple-letter grapheme-phoneme correspondences: An exploratory study
Children’s knowledge of single- and multiple-letter grapheme-phoneme correspondences: An exploratory study Open
In this study, we examined Australian children’s knowledge of single- and multiple-letter grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPCs), and the influence of five different factors – GPC complexity, phoneme status, the child’s name, GPC entropy,…
View article: Too harts, won sole: Using dysgraphia treatment to address homophone representation
Too harts, won sole: Using dysgraphia treatment to address homophone representation Open
Previous spoken homophone treatment in aphasia found generalization to untreated homophones and interpreted this as evidence for shared phonological word form representations. Previous written treatment of non-homophones has attributed gen…
View article: Phonics training for English-speaking poor readers
Phonics training for English-speaking poor readers Open
Background The reading skills of 16% of children fall below the mean range for their age, and 5% of children have significant and severe reading problems. Phonics training is one of the most common reading treatments used with poor readers…
View article: Low self-concept in poor readers: prevalence, heterogeneity, and risk
Low self-concept in poor readers: prevalence, heterogeneity, and risk Open
There is evidence that poor readers are at increased risk for various types of low self-concept—particularly academic self-concept. However, this evidence ignores the heterogeneous nature of poor readers, and hence the likelihood that not …
View article: No effect of orthographic neighbourhood in treatment with two cases of acquired dysgraphia
No effect of orthographic neighbourhood in treatment with two cases of acquired dysgraphia Open
Background: Studies on the nature of processing within the spelling system have provided evidence for interactivity, where activation between levels of processing flows bidirectionally. In particular, activated letters at the level of the …
View article: Similar but different: differences in comprehension diagnosis on the Neale Analysis of Reading Ability and the York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension
Similar but different: differences in comprehension diagnosis on the Neale Analysis of Reading Ability and the York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension Open
Background Identifying reading comprehension difficulties is challenging. There are many comprehension tests to choose from, and a child's diagnosis can be influenced by various factors such as a test's format and content and the choice of…