Leseforståelse kan ses som nøkkelen til læring og skolefaglig fungering. Siden narrativ kompetanse har vist seg å være en av komponentene som har betydning for utviklingen av leseforståelse, undersøkes sammenhengen mellom ...

Orthographic learning refers to the acquisition of knowledge about specific spelling patterns forming words and about general biases and constraints on letter sequences. It is thought to occur by strengthening simultaneously ...

Disability is increasingly salient as a word and increasingly heterogeneous as a category. Multiple interest groups and professions define disability in different ways, making it impossible to achieve a unitary theoretical ...

Sex differences in typical development can provide context for understanding ASD. Baron-Cohen (Trends Cogn Sci 6(6):248–254, 2002) suggested ASD could be considered an extreme expression of normal male, compared to female, ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the hypothesis that teaching students knowledge of word forms and meanings supports the development of decoding and linguistic comprehension, which are fundamental components of ...

As disability becomes an ever more salient concept in international political and legal discourse, its social meaning must be better understood. Traditionally defined in medical terms and as an individual problem, it has ...

Denne avhandlingen handler om hvordan faglærere og spesiallærere i matematikk på 9. trinn opplever at de samarbeider om elever som har enkeltvedtak om spesialundervisning i matematikkfaget. Det har de siste 50 år vært ...

Abstract We evaluated the effect of morphological awareness training delivered in preschool (8 months before school entry) on reading ability at the end of grade 1 and 5 years later (in Grade 6). In preschool, one group ...

The term ‘inspiration porn’ is associated with disability advocacy in general and the late activist and comedian Stella Young in particular. It has come into widespread usage over the last few years. I propose the following ...

This study investigated an adaptation of the Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) measure of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills into a European context for the Norwegian language, which has a more transparent ...

I denne avhandlingen utforskes betydningen av ordkunnskap for utviklingen av leseforståelse. Temaet belyses gjennom tre empiriske studier: I den første studien, en metaanalyse, ble relasjonen mellom vokabular i førskolealder ...

Purpose This study investigated the stability and growth of preschool language skills and explores latent class analysis as an approach for identifying children at risk of language impairment. Method The authors present ...

Background In languages with lexical stress, reading aloud must include stress assignment. Stress information sources across languages include word-final letter sequences. Here, we examine whether such sequences account ...

Formålet med undersøkelsen er å utvikle kunnskap om foreldreskapserfaringer blant fedre og mødre som hadde alvorlige atferdsvansker og barnevernserfaringer tidligere i livet. Undersøkelsen bygger på og er et delprosjekt ...

Background: It is important to provide early educational support for children having weak mathematical skills, in order to prevent possible later mathematical learning difficulties. Currently, there is a lack of research-based ...

Early numeracy skills are highly relevant for children’s mathematics learning at school, especially in the initial years when much mathematics learning relies on early numeracy competence. The aim of this study was to ...

ThinkMath - verkkopalvelu (http://blogs.helsinki.fi/thinkmath) on esi-ja alkuopetusikäisten lasten kanssa toimiville kasvattajille suunnattu ilmainen verkkosivusto, josta löytyy tutkimukseen perustuvaa tietoa ja ...

Ole Ivar Lovaas (1927-2010) is known worldwide for his research within the field of Applied Behavior Analysis, and is probably the most influential researcher within the field of treatment of children with autism. In the ...

Deaf education has evolved at a rapid rate world over. Reasons for the evolution are several and include reforms in and expanded roles in primary education, special needs education and teacher education, research, technological ...

In this study of third grade school children, we investigated the association between writing process measures recorded with key stroke logging and the final written product. Moreover, we examined the cognitive predictors ...

This study investigated the role of teacher directiveness in educational dialogues as it relates to several types of dyads and child engagement. The effect of directive teacher behavior, such as the use of instructions and ...

The everyday communication of children is commonly observed by their parents. This paper examines the responses of parents (n = 18) who had both a Cochlear Implant (CI) and a Normal Hearing (NH) child. Through an online ...

Hovedtema for denne avhandlingen er spesialundervisningens tiltakskjede i grunnskolen. Det dreier seg om en sammenhengende kjede av tiltak som tar sikte på å oppdage og gi en sakkyndig vurdering av behovet for spesialundervisning, ...

Objective: Recently there has been emerging clinical and research interest in the application of deep brain stimulation (DBS) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the treatment of anorexia nervosa ...

Statistical learning (SL) studies have shown that participants are able to extract regularities in input they are exposed to without any instruction to do so. This and other findings, such as the fact that participants are ...

Sentence repetition tasks are widely used in the diagnosis and assessment of children with language difficulties. This paper seeks to clarify the nature of sentence repetition tasks and their relationship to other language ...

We report a systematic meta-analytic review of studies comparing reading comprehension and its underlying components (language comprehension, decoding, and phonological awareness) in first- and second-language learners. ...

Denne rapporten presenterer resultater fra forskningsprosjektet ”Utenlandsadopterte barns tidlige utvikling i sine nye familier” som gjennomføres ved Institutt for spesialpedagogikk, Universitetet i Oslo. Prosjektet startet ...

Formålet med undersøkelsen er å utvikle kunnskap om hva som karakteriserer det tidlige samspillet i adoptivfamilier. Etablering av samspill i adoptivfamilier har et annet utgangspunkt enn samspillet i biologiske familier. ...

Friluftsliv er i denne undersøkinga plassert innafor eit spesialpedagogisk felt, med eit læringsorientert fokus. Det generelle formålet med undersøkinga er å auke kunnskapen om og forståinga av friluftsliv som sosialt ...

The purpose of this doctoral study was to explore the applicability and outcome of constraint induced language therapy (CILT) on verbal expressive speech in early aphasia rehabilitation, that is, one to four months post ...

Presbyacusis is the most common cause of hearing loss and is considered to be among the three most commonly reported chronic health problems of the elderly. In future years, the problem is predicted to be aggravated as the ...

International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) er et internasjonalt rammeverk for beskrivelser av helserelaterte tilstander (herunder også funksjonshemming). På norsk har ICF fått navnet ...

International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) er et internasjonalt rammeverk for beskrivelser av helserelaterte tilstander (herunder også funksjonshemming). På norsk har ICF fått navnet ...

International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) er et internasjonalt rammeverk for beskrivelser av helserelaterte tilstander (herunder også funksjonshemming). På norsk har ICF fått navnet ...

International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) er et internasjonalt rammeverk for beskrivelser av helseralterte tilstander (herunder også funkjsonshemming). På norsk har ICF fått navnet Internasjonal ...

The objective was to investigate the prevalence and interrelation of migraine and headache in the general population. Forty thousand men and women aged 20–80 years from the Norwegian general population received a mailed ...

This study analyses the relationship between low self-esteem and problem behaviour, social competence and academic achievement among students in lower secondary schools in Norway. 2164 students in 11 lower secondary schools ...