Language and Literacy in Young People
PUBLICATIONS - JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS by members of the research group
Calder, S. D., Claessen, M., Ebbels, S., & Leitão, S. (2021). The efficacy of an explicit intervention approach to improve grammar for early school-aged children with DLD. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(1), 91-104.
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Claessen, M., Tucker, M., Dawes, E. & Leitão, S. (2020) The Information Score as a Measure of Oral Discourse Comprehension in the Early School Years, International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 22(3), 338-346. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17549507.2020.1745888
Seiler, A., & Leitão, S. (2020). Developing accuracy and fluency in word reading skills, Learning Difficulties Australia Bulletin, 52 (1), 20-24
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Calder, S., D., Claessen, M., Ebbels, S., & Leitão, S. (2020). Explicit grammar intervention in young school-aged children with Developmental Language Disorder: An efficacy study using single-case experimental design. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 51(2), 298-316.
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Boyes, M. E., Leitão, S., Claessen, M., Badcock, N., & Nayton, M. (2020) Correlates of externalising and internalising problems in children with dyslexia: An analysis of data from clinical casefiles, Australian Psychologist, 1Australian Psychologist, 55(1) 62-72, https://doi.org/10.1111/ap.12409
Claessen, M., Dzidic, P., Leitão, S., Nayton, M., & Boyes, M. E. (2020). Exploring the impact of living with dyslexia: The perspectives of educators, Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 25 (1) 51-64.
Hill, E., Claessen, M., Whitworth, A., & Boyes, M. (2020). Profiling variability and development of spoken discourse in mainstream adolescents. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 1-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2020.1731607.
Kilpatrick, T. Leitão, S., & Boyes, M. E. (2019, Early On-line) Mental health in adolescents with a history of DLD: The moderating effect of bullying victimisation, Autism and Developmental Language Impairments
Jackson, E., Leitão, S., Claessen, M. & Boyes, M. E. (2019) The evaluation of word learning abilities in people with developmental language disorder: A scoping review, impairment International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 54 (5), 742-755
DOI: 10.1111/1460-6984.12490
Glisson, L., Claessen, M., & Leitão, S. (2019) The efficacy of a small-group oral narrative
intervention for mainstream school-aged children with narrative difficulty, Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 24 (1), 1-20
Dawes, E. Leitão, S., Claessen, M. (2019) Oral literal and inferential narrative comprehension in young typically developing children and children with developmental language disorder, International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 21 (3), 275-285.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2019.1604803
Jackson, E., Leitão, S., Claessen, M. & Boyes, M. E. (2019) Fast mapping short and long words: Examining the influence of phonological short-term memory and receptive vocabulary in children with developmental language disorder, Journal of Communication Disorders, 79, 11-23
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2019.02.001
Seiler, A., Leitão, S., & Blosfelds, M. (2019). WordDriver‐1: evaluating the efficacy of an app‐supported decoding intervention for children with reading impairment International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 54 (2), 189-202.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12388
Dawes, E. Leitão, S., Claessen, M., & Kane, R. (2019) A randomised controlled trial of an oral inferential comprehension book sharing intervention for young children with developmental language disorder. Child Language Teaching & Therapy, 35(1), 39-54
Early On-line https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0265659018815736
Hill, E., Claessen, M., Whitworth, A., Boyes, M., and Ward, R. (2018). Discourse and cognition in speakers with acquired brain injury: A systematic review. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 53(4), 689-717. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12394
Kippin, N. R., Leitão, S., Watkins, R., Finlay-Jones, A., Condon, C., Marriott, R., ... & Bower, C. (2018). Language diversity, language disorder, and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder among youth sentenced to detention in Western Australia. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2018.09.004
Dawes, E., Leitão, S., Claessen, M., & Kane, R. (2018). A profile of the language and cognitive skills contributing to oral inferential comprehension in young children with developmental language disorder. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 53(6), 1139-1149. doi:10.1111/1460-6984.12427
Calder, S. D., Claessen, M., & Leitão, S. (2019). Combining implicit and explicit intervention approaches to target grammar in young children with Developmental Language Disorder. Child Language Teaching & Therapy, 34 (2), 171-189.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0265659017735392
Seiler, A., Leitão, S., & Blosfelds, M. (2018). WordDriver‐1: evaluating the efficacy of an app‐supported decoding intervention for children with reading impairment International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, early online https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1460-6984.12388
Bower, C., Watkins, R. E., Mutch, R. C., Marriott, R., Freeman, J., Kippin, N. R., Safe, B., Pestell, C., Cheung, C.S.C., Shield, H., Tarratt, L., Springall, A., Taylor, J., Walker, N., Agiro, E., Leitão, S., Hamilton, S., Condon, C., Passmore, H. M., & Giglia, R. (2018). Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and youth justice: a prevalence study among young people sentenced to detention in Western Australia. BMJ open, 8(2), e019605.
http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/2/e019605
Kelly, C., Leitão, S., Smith-Lock, K & Heritage, B. (2019). The effectiveness of a classroom based phonological awareness program for 4-5 year olds. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 21(1) 103-113
https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2017.1400589
Boyes, M. E., Leitao, S., Claessen, M., Dzidic, P., Boyle, G., Perry, A., & Nayton, M. (2017). Improving phonological awareness in parents of children at risk of literacy difficulties: A preliminary evaluation of the Boost program. Frontiers in Education, 2:47
Leitão, S., Dzidic, P., Claessen, M., Gordon, J., Howard, K., Nayton, M., & Boyes, M. E. (2017). Exploring the impact of living with dyslexia: The perspectives of children and their parents. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 19:3, 322-334. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2017.1309068
Boyes, M. E., Leitao, S., Claessen, M., Badcock, N. A., & Nayton, M. (2016). Why are reading difficulties associated with mental health problems?. Dyslexia, 22(3), 263-266.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dys.1531/full
Jackson, E., Leitão, S. & Claessen, M. (2016). The relationship between phonological short-term memory, receptive vocabulary and fast mapping in children with specific language impairment. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 51, 61-73
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1460-6984.12185/full
Dawes, E., Leitao, S., Claessen, M., & Nayton, M. (2015). A Profile of Working Memory Ability in Poor Readers. Australian Psychologist, 50(5), 362-371. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ap.12120/full
Smith-Lock, K., Leitao, S., Prior, P., & Nickels, L. (2015). The effectiveness of two grammar treatment procedures for children with SLI: A randomized clinical trial. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 46(4), 312-324.
doi:10.1044/2015_LSHSS-14-0041
Claessen, M., Leitão, S., Kane, R. & Williams, C. (2013). Phonological processing skills in Specific Language Impairment. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 15 (5), 471-483.
Smith-Lock, K., Leitão, S., Lambert, L., Prior, P., Cronje, J., Newhouse, S. & Nickels, L. (2013) Daily or Weekly? The effect of treatment frequency on grammar treatment for children with SLI. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 15 (3), 255-267
https://doi.org/10.3109/17549507.2013.777851
Smith-Lock, K., Leitão, S., Lambert, L. & Nickels, L. (2013) Effective Intervention for Expressive Grammar in Children with Specific Language Impairment. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 48 (3), 265-282.
Seiler, A., Leitão, S. & Blosfelds, M. (2013). Preliminary investigation into the effectiveness of a computer supported intervention targeting orthographic processing for children with impaired word identification. Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech Language Pathology, 15 (1), 13-18.
Claessen, M. & Leitão, S. (2012). The relationship between stored phonological representations and speech output. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 14, 3, 226-234.
Claessen, M. & Leitão, S. (2012). Phonological representations in children with SLI. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 28, 211-223.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0265659012436851
Claessen, M., Barrett, N. & Leitão, S. (2010) The Silent Deletion of Phonemes Task: Investigating children’s ability to reflect on stored phonological representations. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 45 (4), 411–423
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/13682820903111945
Claessen, M., Heath, S., Fletcher, J., Hogben, J. & Leitão, S. (2009) Quality of phonological representations: a window into the lexicon?', International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, Vol 44 (2) 121-124
BOOK CHAPTERS
Fraser, C.J., Claessen, M. & Leitao S. (2017). Intervention for a young child with atypical phonology. In Dodd, B & Morgan A. (Eds). Intervention Case Studies of Child Speech Impairment. Melbourne, Australia: J & R Press.
Leitão, S. (2015). Interaction between speech, language and literacy. In McLeod, S. & McCormack, J. (Eds). Introduction to speech, language and literacy. Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.
