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. 2010 Jun 1;20(3):158-166.
doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2009.11.006.

Predicting Reading Growth with Event-Related Potentials: Thinking Differently about Indexing "Responsiveness"

Christopher J Lemons  1 , Alexandra P F Key, Douglas Fuchs, Paul J Yoder, Lynn S Fuchs, Donald L Compton, Susan M Williams, Bobette Bouton
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Predicting Reading Growth with Event-Related Potentials: Thinking Differently about Indexing "Responsiveness"

Christopher J Lemons et al. Learn Individ Differ. .

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine if event-related potential (ERP) data collected during three reading-related tasks (Letter Sound Matching, Nonword Rhyming, and Nonword Reading) could be used to predict short-term reading growth on a curriculum-based measure of word identification fluency over 19 weeks in a sample of 29 first-grade children. Results indicate that ERP responses to the Letter Sound Matching task were predictive of reading change and remained so after controlling for two previously validated behavioral predictors of reading, Rapid Letter Naming and Segmenting. ERP data for the other tasks were not correlated with reading change. The potential for cognitive neuroscience to enhance current methods of indexing responsiveness in a response-to-intervention (RTI) model is discussed.

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Figure 1
Electrode clusters identified by sPCA for the Letter Sound Matching task.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Time 1 late ERPs for the same condition of the Letter Sound Matching task over the posterior scalp electrode cluster for children with low- and high-reading change.
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