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Clinical Trial
. 2013 Dec;46(4):838-43.
doi: 10.1002/jaba.90. Epub 2013 Oct 15.

Effects of letter-identification training on letter naming in prereading children

Yusuke Hayashi  1 , Anna C Schmidt, Kathryn J Saunders
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Clinical Trial

Effects of letter-identification training on letter naming in prereading children

Yusuke Hayashi et al. J Appl Behav Anal. 2013 Dec.

Abstract

Three prereading children who named 0 to 3 of 20 targeted letters were taught to select the 20 printed letters when they heard spoken letter names. For all participants, letter-identification training resulted in naming for the majority of letters.

Keywords: letter identification; letter naming; matching to sample; prereading children; reading.

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The number of letters named correctly during letter-naming probes. The letters named correctly are displayed in the bars. The asterisk indicates the point where we implemented a letter-naming training procedure.
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