Executive functioning in children, and its relations with reasoning, reading, and arithmetic

S Van der Sluis, PF De Jong, A Van der Leij - Intelligence, 2007 - Elsevier
The aims of this study were to investigate whether the executive functions, inhibition, shifting,
and updating, are distinguishable as latent variables (common factors) in children aged 9 to …

A longitudinal analysis of English language learners' word decoding and reading comprehension

J Nakamoto, KA Lindsey, FR Manis - Reading and Writing, 2007 - Springer
This longitudinal investigation examined word decoding and reading comprehension
measures from first grade through sixth grade for a sample of Spanish-speaking English …

An experimental comparison between rival theories of rapid automatized naming performance and its relationship to reading

D Powell, R Stainthorp, M Stuart, H Garwood… - Journal of experimental …, 2007 - Elsevier
Two studies investigated the degree to which the relationship between rapid automatized
naming (RAN) performance and reading development is driven by shared phonological …

Paired-associate learning, phoneme awareness, and learning to read

C Hulme, K Goetz, D Gooch, J Adams… - Journal of experimental …, 2007 - Elsevier
We report two studies examining the relations among three paired-associate learning (PAL)
tasks (visual–visual, verbal–verbal, and visual–verbal), phoneme deletion, and single-word …

Introduction to comprehension development.

J Oakhill, K Cain - 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
Considers the skills that are common to reading and listening comprehension and how they
develop. A common basis for competence in written and spoken language comprehension …

In search of subtypes of Chinese developmental dyslexia

CSH Ho, DW Chan, KKH Chung, SH Lee… - Journal of experimental …, 2007 - Elsevier
The dual-route model offers a popular way to classify developmental dyslexia into
phonological and surface subtypes. The current study examined whether this dual-route …

[HTML][HTML] Developmental changes in the visual span for reading

MY Kwon, GE Legge, BR Dubbels - Vision research, 2007 - Elsevier
The visual span for reading refers to the range of letters, formatted as in text, that can be
recognized reliably without moving the eyes. It is likely that the size of the visual span is …

Evaluation of the double-deficit hypothesis subtype classification of readers in Spanish

C Lopez Escribano - Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
The double-deficit hypothesis acknowledges both phonological processing deficits and
serial naming speed deficits as two dimensions associated with reading disabilities. The …

Mixture growth models of RAN and RAS row by row: Insight into the reading system at work over time

D Amtmann, RD Abbott, VW Berninger - Reading and Writing, 2007 - Springer
Abstract Children (n= 122) and adults (n= 200) with dyslexia completed rapid automatic
naming (RAN) letters, rapid automatic switching (RAS) letters and numbers, executive …

Use of orthographic knowledge in reading by Chinese‐English bi‐scriptal children

H Cheung, M Chan, K Chong - Language Learning, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We tested Chinese‐English bi‐scriptal fourth‐graders on reading aloud and comprehension
in Chinese and English and their understanding of some structural principles underlying …