John R Beech
Biographic Data
| ID | 2747637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John R Beech |
| GIVEN NAMES | John R |
| FAMILY NAME | Beech |
| SIGNATURE | BEECH J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Implicit Phonological Awareness and Early Reading Development in Prelingually Deaf Children
This article reports on a longitudinal study of reading progress in a group of five-year-old deaf children and a group of hearing controls. All children were prereaders at the beginning of the study and the IQ of the two groups were matched. The deaf children varied considerably on a number of measures, including implicit phonological awareness, oral ability, and familiarity with British Sign Language and fingerspelling. Overall, the deaf childre…
Reading, vocabulary and language preference in 7- to 8-year-old bilingual Asian children
Background. Children who have a second language at home and report more usage of this language in various contexts ought reciprocally to be less proficient in English as frequency of exposure to English is reduced. Similarly there should be a two-way directional influence between oral vocabulary and reading development.Samples. A group of 40 bilingual Asian children was compared with an age-matched mixed race (but with only one Asian child) monol…
The Reading and Semantic Link Tests
The performance in those diagnosed as probably suffering from Alzheimer's disease was compared with age-matched controls on a test of semantic and contextual processing relative to a test of silent reading. The former test, the Semantic Link Test, was hypothesized to deteriorate to a greater degree in those suffering from Alzheimer's disease. The controls were matched on reading performance as well as on age. Consequently, a deterioration in perf…
Adaptation of Writing to Orthographic Change
Research about regularizing English orthography (involving a change of 30% of the words in the text) has indicated that adults regain a normal reading speed after they have read 6,000 words of regularized text. The spelling changes mainly involved applying the most common rules of spelling consistently across all text. For instance, the silent-e rule was applied consistently on long vowel phonemes in the penultimate phoneme position (e.g., light …
Reading development in young deaf children
Clinical Psychology and the Medical Model
It is argued that several features of clinical psychology deserve comparison with clinical pharmacology; in particular, the treatment and design of experiments in the latter are more precisely controlled and have a sounder theoretical basis. Clinical psychology needs to develop efficient powerful therapies with properties analogous to the new “magic bullet” drugs. It also needs to develop instruments testing susceptibility to treatment analogous …
The Changing Pattern of Reading Errors and Reading Style From 5 to 11 Years of Age
S ummary . Reading errors were examined in 140 children ranging from 5 to 11 years in reading age. Intelligence, sex and social class were controlled within each reading age. Interjudge reliability on the ratings was quite high at 0.90, 0.95, 0.67 and 0.83 on graphophonic proximity, syntactic, semantic and phonemic similarity, respectively. The build‐up in sight vocabulary resulted in increases in graphophonic and phonemic similarity up to 8 year…
Phonemic Processing and the Poor Reader from a Developmental Lag Viewpoint
THIS EXPERIMENT investigated whether there was a developmental lag in skills associated with phonemic processing in poor readers of normal nonverbal intelligence. Fifty-seven poor readers, 44 younger readers of the same reading level, and 35 normal readers of the same age as the poor readers were given tests involving phonemic processing and memory. Both control groups were matched on nonverbal intelligence to the poor readers. In virtually all t…
The Effects of Visual and Spatial Interference on Spatial Working Memory
Baddeley and Lieberman (1980) have shown that processing within spatial working memory is disrupted by a spatial secondary task, but not significantly by a visual processing secondary task. In the present study their experiment was replicated under broadly similar circumstances. The spatial and verbal primary tasks involved remembering descriptions of spatially arranged or nonsense sequences of digits, respectively. The secondary visual and spati…
Monitoring the effects of increasing resource demands on the clarity of visual images
This paper examines the changes in the clarity of images over time under conditions varying in resource demands. In the experiments, subjects listened to descriptions of arrays of objects and moved a lever according to their assessment of the clarity of their visual images of the whole array. The position of the lever was sampled every half second by computer. The rated clarity of visual image ( Y ) increased over time ( X ) and fitted well to th…
Reading, vocabulary and language preference in 7- to 8-year-old bilingual Asian children
Background. Children who have a second language at home and report more usage of this language in various contexts ought reciprocally to be less proficient in English as frequency of exposure to English is reduced. Similarly there should be a two-way directional influence between oral vocabulary and reading development.Samples. A group of 40 bilingual Asian children was compared with an age-matched mixed race (but with only one Asian child) monol…
Phonemic Processing and the Poor Reader from a Developmental Lag Viewpoint
THIS EXPERIMENT investigated whether there was a developmental lag in skills associated with phonemic processing in poor readers of normal nonverbal intelligence. Fifty-seven poor readers, 44 younger readers of the same reading level, and 35 normal readers of the same age as the poor readers were given tests involving phonemic processing and memory. Both control groups were matched on nonverbal intelligence to the poor readers. In virtually all t…
Monitoring the effects of increasing resource demands on the clarity of visual images
This paper examines the changes in the clarity of images over time under conditions varying in resource demands. In the experiments, subjects listened to descriptions of arrays of objects and moved a lever according to their assessment of the clarity of their visual images of the whole array. The position of the lever was sampled every half second by computer. The rated clarity of visual image ( Y ) increased over time ( X ) and fitted well to th…
Phonemic Processing and the Poor Reader from a Developmental Lag Viewpoint
THIS EXPERIMENT investigated whether there was a developmental lag in skills associated with phonemic processing in poor readers of normal nonverbal intelligence. Fifty-seven poor readers, 44 younger readers of the same reading level, and 35 normal readers of the same age as the poor readers were given tests involving phonemic processing and memory. Both control groups were matched on nonverbal intelligence to the poor readers. In virtually all t…
The Effects of Visual and Spatial Interference on Spatial Working Memory
Baddeley and Lieberman (1980) have shown that processing within spatial working memory is disrupted by a spatial secondary task, but not significantly by a visual processing secondary task. In the present study their experiment was replicated under broadly similar circumstances. The spatial and verbal primary tasks involved remembering descriptions of spatially arranged or nonsense sequences of digits, respectively. The secondary visual and spati…
The Changing Pattern of Reading Errors and Reading Style From 5 to 11 Years of Age
S ummary . Reading errors were examined in 140 children ranging from 5 to 11 years in reading age. Intelligence, sex and social class were controlled within each reading age. Interjudge reliability on the ratings was quite high at 0.90, 0.95, 0.67 and 0.83 on graphophonic proximity, syntactic, semantic and phonemic similarity, respectively. The build‐up in sight vocabulary resulted in increases in graphophonic and phonemic similarity up to 8 year…
Clinical Psychology and the Medical Model
It is argued that several features of clinical psychology deserve comparison with clinical pharmacology; in particular, the treatment and design of experiments in the latter are more precisely controlled and have a sounder theoretical basis. Clinical psychology needs to develop efficient powerful therapies with properties analogous to the new “magic bullet” drugs. It also needs to develop instruments testing susceptibility to treatment analogous …
Reading development in young deaf children
Adaptation of Writing to Orthographic Change
Research about regularizing English orthography (involving a change of 30% of the words in the text) has indicated that adults regain a normal reading speed after they have read 6,000 words of regularized text. The spelling changes mainly involved applying the most common rules of spelling consistently across all text. For instance, the silent-e rule was applied consistently on long vowel phonemes in the penultimate phoneme position (e.g., light …
The Reading and Semantic Link Tests
The performance in those diagnosed as probably suffering from Alzheimer's disease was compared with age-matched controls on a test of semantic and contextual processing relative to a test of silent reading. The former test, the Semantic Link Test, was hypothesized to deteriorate to a greater degree in those suffering from Alzheimer's disease. The controls were matched on reading performance as well as on age. Consequently, a deterioration in perf…
Reading, vocabulary and language preference in 7- to 8-year-old bilingual Asian children
Background. Children who have a second language at home and report more usage of this language in various contexts ought reciprocally to be less proficient in English as frequency of exposure to English is reduced. Similarly there should be a two-way directional influence between oral vocabulary and reading development.Samples. A group of 40 bilingual Asian children was compared with an age-matched mixed race (but with only one Asian child) monol…
Implicit Phonological Awareness and Early Reading Development in Prelingually Deaf Children
This article reports on a longitudinal study of reading progress in a group of five-year-old deaf children and a group of hearing controls. All children were prereaders at the beginning of the study and the IQ of the two groups were matched. The deaf children varied considerably on a number of measures, including implicit phonological awareness, oral ability, and familiarity with British Sign Language and fingerspelling. Overall, the deaf childre…
Psychology (10 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Audiology (3 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (3 works)