Balancing the Chalk and the Check: Teacher Autonomy Amid the Rise of Scripted Reading Programs
The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 2, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Phonics is widely acknowledged in the research literature as an essential element of learning to read, but the effectiveness of various commercial programs for improving reading outcomes remains a subject of ongoing debate in research and the media. This study explores the delicate balance between teacher autonomy and scripted reading programs
Rachelle Naidu +2 more
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Automatic Speech Recognition and Acoustic Analysis for Dysarthria Assessment in Telerehabilitation: User-Centered Design and Usability Study. [PDF]
JMIR Form ResVinet P +9 more
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Co‐Designing Multimodal, Multilingual Text Sets: Centering Caregiver Choice
The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 2, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Early literacy instruction in the U.S. often centers monolingual, English‐dominant practices that marginalize multilingual learners and their families. This qualitative design‐based research study examines a family literacy initiative that engaged caregivers and teachers as co‐designers of a multilingual, multimodal literacy resource bag ...
Katie M. Crook +4 more
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The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 2, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Centrally developed English lesson plans provide structure and ensure curriculum coverage, yet they can constrain preservice teachers' creativity, responsiveness, and capacity to engage students meaningfully. Although this tension is well documented, there is limited practical guidance for teacher educators in University Teacher Preparation ...
Deb Brosseuk
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rTMS over bilateral superior temporal gyri combined with auditory-speech training for post-stroke pure word deafness: a case report. [PDF]
Front PsycholChen X, Chang Y, Leng Y, Chen X, Li Y.
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International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Background Wernicke's aphasia is a challenging communication disability to live with, characterised by fluent speech, impaired auditory comprehension and reduced self‐monitoring. There is little literature addressing functional therapy approaches.
Susanna Williams +3 more
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Beyond speech perception: contemporary landscape of language agnostic hearing assessment. [PDF]
Front NeurosciSchaeffer AR +4 more
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MULTITASK LEARNING TO IMPROVE ARTICULATORY FEATURE ESTIMATION AND PHONEME RECOGNITION
Speech sounds can be characterized by articulatory features. Articulatory features are typically estimated using a set of multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), i.e., a separate MLP is trained for each articulatory feature.
Rasipuram, Ramya, Magimai.-Doss, Mathew
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Combining Nonword and Sentence Repetition to Identify Developmental Language Disorder
International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Background Nonword repetition and sentence repetition have been useful in identification of developmental language disorder (DLD). Each task has demonstrated good sensitivity and specificity, though their diagnostic accuracy has varied across children's ages, specific measures, and languages.
Giang T. Pham +3 more
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Uptake and Evaluation of a Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition Test in Clinical and Research Contexts
International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Introduction The Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition Test (CL‐NWR) was designed to accommodate the phonological diversity of human languages, providing a tool that may support the identification of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) across different linguistic backgrounds. The test materials, including a PowerPoint game with recorded stimuli,
Kamila Polišenská, Shula Chiat
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