Which children benefit from letter names in learning letter sounds?

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1322-1338

  Treiman, Rebecca ^a   Pennington, Bruce F ^b   Shriberg, Lawrence D ^c   Boada, Richard ^d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Language impairment; Letter names; Letter sounds; Letter sound correspondences; Literacy; Phonological awareness; Reading development; Reading disorders; Speech sound disorders

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SPEECH DISORDER;

CHILD; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 38649125903     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.06.006     Document Type: Article

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