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| Laura M JusticeSummaryAffiliation: University of Virginia Country: USA Publications
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Emergent literacy intervention for vulnerable preschoolers: relative effects of two approachesLaura M Justice
242 Ruffner Hall, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
Am J Speech Lang Pathol 12:320-32. 2003..An examination of individual differences and intervention outcome showed oral language skills and literacy orientation to predict emergent literacy performance at the end of the program...- Embedded-explicit emergent literacy intervention II: goal selection and implementation in the early childhood classroomJoan N Kaderavek
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA
Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 35:212-28. 2004.... - Learning new words from storybooks: an efficacy study with at-risk kindergartnersLaura M Justice
Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 22904, USA
Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 36:17-32. 2005..An additional goal was to study differential responses to treatment for children with high versus low vocabulary skill... - Evidence-based practice, response to intervention, and the prevention of reading difficultiesLaura M Justice
Preschool Language and Literacy Lab, Box 400873, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4873, USA
Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 37:284-97. 2006..It also delineates the roles that speech-language pathologists (SLPs) might play in these interventions... - Targets, techniques, and treatment contexts in emergent literacy interventionLaura M Justice
Preschool Language and Literacy Lab, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4873, USA
Semin Speech Lang 28:14-24. 2007..Treatment contexts refer to the location in which intervention is provided; prevalent contexts for provision of emergent literacy intervention include classroom-based, pull-out, and home-based (parent-implemented) interventions... - Print referencing: an emergent literacy enhancement strategy and its clinical applicationsLaura M Justice
Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22904, USA
Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 35:185-93. 2004..This clinical exchange provides suggestions for using print referencing as a clinical tool, including a theoretical overview of this approach and descriptions of clinical targets... - Embedded-explicit emergent literacy intervention I: Background and description of approachLaura M Justice
Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 35:201-11. 2004..The goal of this integrated model is to provide comprehensive emergent literacy interventions across a spectrum of early literacy skills to ensure the successful transition of at-risk children from prereaders to readers... 
Emergent literacy profiles of preschool-age children with specific language impairmentSonia Q Cabell
Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
Int J Speech Lang Pathol 12:472-82. 2010..Replication of the present findings with a larger sample of children is needed...- Shared-reading dynamics: mothers' question use and the verbal participation of children with specific language impairmentAnita S McGinty
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 55:1039-52. 2012..In this study, the authors used sequential analysis to explore bidirectional and dynamic dependencies between mothers' question use and children's verbal participation during shared reading... - Predictors of print knowledge in children with specific language impairment: experiential and developmental factorsAnita S McGinty
Preschool Language and Literacy Lab, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 52:81-97. 2009..The present study investigates the degree to which developmental risk factors and home literacy experiences predict the print knowledge of children with SLI... - Emergent name-writing abilities of preschool-age children with language impairmentSonia Q Cabell
Preschool Language and Literacy Lab, P O Box 400873, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 40:53-66. 2009.... - The impact of teacher responsivity education on preschoolers' language and literacy skillsSonia Q Cabell
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
Am J Speech Lang Pathol 20:315-30. 2011..Additional aims were to determine whether children's initial language abilities and teachers' use of responsivity strategies were associated with language outcomes, in particular... - Validity of teacher report for assessing the emergent literacy skills of at-risk preschoolersSonia Q Cabell
Preschool Language and Literacy Lab, P O Box 400873, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 40:161-73. 2009.... - Measuring preschool attainment of print-concept knowledge: a study of typical and at-risk 3- to 5-year-old children using item response theoryLaura M Justice
Preschool Language and Literacy Lab, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4873, USA
Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 37:224-35. 2006..This research determined the psychometric quality of a criterion-referenced measure that was thought to measure preschoolers' print-concept knowledge (PCK)... - Peer effects on children's language achievement during pre-kindergartenAndrew J Mashburn
University of Virginia, Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning, 350 Old Ivy Way Suite 100, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Child Dev 80:686-702. 2009..Implications of these findings for understanding ecological inputs to children's language development and for designing effective pre-k programs are discussed... - The index of narrative microstructure: a clinical tool for analyzing school-age children's narrative performancesLaura M Justice
Preschool Language and Literacy Lab, Curry School of Education, Box 400873, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4273, USA
Am J Speech Lang Pathol 15:177-91. 2006..The study provides field test age- and grade-based INMIS values to aid clinicians in making normative judgments about microstructural aspects of pupils' narrative performance... - Preschool teachers' fidelity in implementing a comprehensive language-rich curriculumKhara L Pence
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 39:329-41. 2008.... - Influence of verbal and nonverbal references to print on preschoolers' visual attention to print during storybook readingLaura M Justice
Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning, University of Virginia, USA
Dev Psychol 44:855-66. 2008..The authors conclude that explicit referencing of print is 1 way to increase young children's contacts with print during shared storybook reading... - The development of expressive elaboration in fictional narrativesTeresa A Ukrainetz
Division of Communication Disorders, University of Wyoming, Laramie 82071 3311, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 48:1363-77. 2005..This study analyzed the development of expressive elaboration in fictional narratives for school-age children... - African American and Caucasian preschoolers' use of decontextualized language: literate language features in oral narrativesStephanie M Curenton
Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, DC, USA
Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 35:240-53. 2004..Low-income preschoolers' use of literate language features in oral narratives across three age groups (3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds) and two ethnic groups (Caucasian and African American) was examined... - Noun phrase elaboration in children's spoken storiesSarita L Eisenberg
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ 07043, USA
Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 39:145-57. 2008..One feature of literate language, noun phrase elaboration, was examined in the oral fictional narratives of school-aged children...
Research Grants
- Early literacy interventionLaura Justice; Fiscal Year: 2005....
- Influences on preschoolers' visual attention to printLaura Justice; Fiscal Year: 2004..e., questions and comments about pictures versus print, verbal versus nonverbal print cues) upon children's visual attention to print in this early literacy context. ..