Index (Page numbers in italics indicate material in figures or tables.) Adams, M.., 71 133; sequence for acquiring, Adams, M. J., 265 120-23 Adult learners: deficits underlying Derived words, 58. See also reading and spelling difficul- Vocabulary ties, 191; initial assessment of, Dialect differences, reading skills 188-91; multisensory strategies and, 17-19 for, 187, 191-94, 187-99. See also Double deficit hypothesis, 70, 84-86 Learning therapy (college Dysgraphia, copying test for, 189 course); Read/San Diego Dyslexia, 167; core deficit in, 255; (adult literacy program) degraded linguistic representa- American University, 205 tion in, 6; screening for (in Assets (school) in Honolulu, 177, Texas), 177 179-80 Dyslexics: characteristics of bright Attention-deficit disorder (ADD), young, 164; factors underlying gender bias in diagnosis of, 153. reading difficulites of, 72; mor- See also Hyperkinetic children pheme analysis and, 34. See also Gifted children Barganz, R. A., 33 Berry, C., 153, 157 Elbro, C., 34 Bowers, M., 70 English writing system, two diffi- Bowers, P. G., 70, 71, 85 culties in learning the, 117-18 Bruck, M., 71 Byrne, M., 153 Failure, effects of, 204 Flynn, J., 152 California Literacy Campaign, 186 Fowler, A. E., 33 Career development, learning dis- ability and, 206 Gifted children: characterizing dys- Carlisle, J. F., 33-34, 35 lexic, 166-67; creative thinking Chail, J. S., 187, 267, 269-70, 271-73, of, 165; curriculum for dyslexic, 275 176; meeting the needs of dys- Classroom disruptive behavior, lexic, 177-80; tests accommoda- gender and, 154-56 tions for dyslexic, 178-79 Code emphasis, 258, 260, 262 Giftedness, 166 Consonants, differential representa- Gow, D., 158 tion of vowels and, 6—7 Grammar games, 153 Copying test, 189 Creative thinking: of gifted chil- Henry, M. K., 33 dren, 165; Torrance tests of, 168 Hyperkinetic children, 245. See also Criterion referencing, 173 Attention deficit disoder (ADD) Crouse, A. B., 32-33 Hyperlexic children, 71-72 Curriculum for gifted and dyslexic children, 176 Inhelder, B., 207 Intelligence, vocabulary and, 30 Decoding: at the grapheme/ phoneme level, 113; written Kuhl, P., 6,7 words, 118-19 Decoding programs, 159 Language deficits, detection of sub- Decoding strategies: origin of weak, tle, 7-8 INDEX Language development, sensorimo- Mellard, D., 153 tor education and, 249 Metalinguistic skills, 22 Language learning disabilities: Miller, J. L., 203 knowledge of suffix meaning Montessori, M., 241 and, 59; learning experiences for Montessori’s methods, 239, 242; children with, 254. See also learning exercises and, 249-54; Dyslexia the prepared environment and Language and Learning Seminar exercises, 243-45; sensory educa- (York University), 204-207, tion and, 245-49 207-229, 229-32 Morpheme analysis, dyslexics and, 34 Learned helplessness, 204, 207 Morphological awareness, 33 Learning disability (LD), 151-52, 166; Morphological generalization, 30 biological factors in, 158; career Morphological knowledge: development and, 206; college reading /spelling ability and, course to remedy, 204-207, 32-36; spelling and, 34-35 207-229, 229-32; emotional mal- Multisensory learning, 191 adjustment and, 204; self-esteem Multisensory strategies in literacy tu- and, 203-204 toring, 187, 191-94, 197-99 Learning disabled college students: compensatory accommodation Naming speed, 6, 75, 83; poor readers and technical aids for, 207; refer- and deficits in, 70 rals to programs for, 153; thera- Nass, R.,157-58 peutic course for, 204-207, National Assessment of Educational 207-229, 229-32 Progress, 267-68 Learning therapy (college course), Nonwords: reading of, 8, 82; spelling 204, 208; altruism and, 215-16; of, 189 catharsis and, 226-28; corrective recapitulation of the primary Orthographic processing, 71; defined, group and, 216-17; didactic 89-90; development of, 90; de- Learning therapy (college course) in- velopment of child and, 92; mea- struction and, 213-14; evaluation sures of, 95-96; print exposure of, 229; existential factors and, and, 106; of reading-disabled 228; imitative behavior and, students, 102-105; remediating 219-20; installation of hope and, poor, 106; role of (in reading), 208-210; interpersonal learning 90-91. See also Spelling and, 220-23; socializing tech- Orthographic skill, 75, 83. See also niques and, 217-19; universality Spelling entries and, 208-213 Leinhart, G., 155-56, 157 Pencil tracking, 197-98 Leong, C. K., 34 Pennington, B., 158 Letter naming tasks, 92 Phoneme awareness, 22; exercises Letter-sound blending, 192-94 for, 251; letter-sound blending to Lewis, D. J., 59-60, 61, 66 aid, 192-94; reading acquisition Liberman, I. Y., 33 and, 70, 135; value of teaching of, Linguistic awareness, 22 136 Literacy tutors: strategy and tech- Phonetic decoding, value of teaching niques to be taught to, 191-200; of, 136 training for, 185-86, 187-88, 191 Phonics: resistance to teaching, 273- 74; return to teaching of, 260; in Meaning emphasis, 258, 260, 262 teacher training programs, 261 INDEX Phonological abilities to predict read- Reading strategy, testing for a ing acquisition, 70 child’s, 136 Phonological awareness: deficits in, Read /San Diego (adult literacy pro- 191; poor reading and deficit in, gram), 185-86, 200 70 Research: reading instruction and, Phonological measures, 73, 75 268-69; on whole language ap- Phonological /p honemic deficits, 191 proach, 260 Phonological processing: decoding Rogers, C. R., 207, 224, 232 and, 33; deficits in, 4, 89, 191; Roots of words, 31 measuring, 82; Montessori and, Rubin, H., 35 250-54; remediation in, 34 Piaget, J., 207, 243 Sadder, D., 155 Poor readers, characteristics of, 76, Sadker, M., 155 77, 78-79. See also Dyslexics; Sanson, A., 156 Language deficits; Language Schools, teaching reforms and, 271-73 learning disabilities Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Prefixes, 31 177 Prior, M., 156 Seewald, A., 155-56, 157 Seguin, e., 242, 246 Rahbar, M., 152 Semel, E. M., 32-33 Raissle, J., 179-80 Senses, materials for training audi- Rapid letter naming, 92, 96 tory and visual, 245-49 Rawson, M., 164 Sensorimotor education, language Reading: accuracy of speech percep- development and, 249 tion and, 4; deficits related to im- Serial naming tasks, reading skills paired, 79-82; ethnicity and, and, 70 17-19; cognitive skills and decod- Shankweiler, D., 33 ing strategies and, 132; Monte- Shaywitz, S., 152, 153, 156, 157, 159 ssori’s concept of, 252; strong Shaywitz, B., 153, 157 views on teaching of, 261-62 Sibley, M., 177-79 Reading acquisition: gender and, 158; Smart, D., 156 predictors of, 70, 115, 135, 255 Special education programs: causes Reading comprehension, vocabulary of preponderance of boys in, 152; and, 30 gender and referrals to, 159; re- Reading development, stage models ferral agents for, 153-54 of, 119 Speech perception: development of Reading disabilities: deficits underlying speech production and, 5; errors adults’, 191; multiple deficits and, in, 14-16; reading skill and accu- 86; preventing, 262-63; spelling-to- racy of, 4 speech correspondences and, 266; Speech processing, inefficient, 22 spoken language impairments Speech production, 16-17; develop- and, 59. See also Dyslexia ment of speech perception and, 5 Reading instruction, 258-59; commer- Speech segmentation, 4 cial packages for, 267; most effec- Spelling: deficits underlying adults’ tive, 267; political views and, 262, problems with, 191; essential rules 274; practical decision about, 268; for, 189, 190; gender and skills in, strategies for decoding written 105; morphological knowledge words and, 118-19, 133 and, 34-35; phonetic and nonpho- R eading/spelling ability, morpho- netic words and, 198-99. See also logical knowledge and, 32-36 Orthographic entries INDEX Spelling-to-speech correspondence, Vogel, S. A., 32-33, 157 reading disability and, 266 Voice onset time (VOT), 5, 12, 13, Spoken language, reading disabilities 16-18, 21; measurement of vowel and impairments of, 59. See also length and, 12, 14, 21 Speech entries Volunteer literacy programs, 187 Stein, M., 267 Volunteer literacy tutors. See Literacy Student performance, monitoring, tutors 160 Volunteers, 186-88. See also Literacy Suffixed words, reading disabled stu- tutors dents’ knowledge of, 35-36, Vowel error rate, 8 36-41, 41-48, 49-50 Vowel identification deficit, 23 Suffixes, 31-32; language learning Vowel perception, 4-8, 12, 14-19,. disabilities and knowledge of 20-23, 23-24 meanings of, 59; meanings of, 59, Vowels, 4-5; differential representa- 66-67; syntactic properties of, tion of consonants and, 6-7; 43-49 measurement of VOT and length Syllable boundaries, perception of, 92 of, 12, 14 Syllables, 106; teaching about, 194-97 Vygotsky, L., 207 Tallal, P., 7 Wadsworth, S., 152 Task demand, 21-23 Whole language programs, 260 Teacher training programs, phonics Wiig, E. H., 32-33 in, 261, 262 Windsor, J., 59-60, 61, 66 Teaching reforms, schools and, Wolf, M., 71, 85, 158 271-73 Word recognition, 71, 266 Temporal processing, 7 Words, spelling of phonetic and non- Test accommodations for phonetic, 198-99 gifted / dyslexic children, 178-79 Word superiority effect, 91-92 Textbook publishers, influence of, Written language, Montessori’s steps 270-71 in preparing a child for, 252 Timing deficits, 7 Written words, strategies for decod- Torrance, E. P., 165, 170 ing, 118-19 Torrance, J. P., 170 Tutor training, research on volunteer, Yalom, I., 204, 208, 210-11, 213, 215, 201. See also Literacy tutors 216-17, 220-23, 226-27, 228 Yoshimoto, R., 179-80 Verbal IQ, 71, 75, 84 York University (Toronto), 205 Vocabulary: growth of children’s, 30, Ysseldyke, J., 156-57 58; intelligence and, 30; reading comprehension and, 30 Zigmond, N., 155-56, 157