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A Comparison of Sighted and Visually Impaired Children's Text Comprehension

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A Comparison of Sighted and Visually Impaired Children's Text Comprehension. / Papastergiou, Athanasia; Pappas, Vasileios.
In: Research in Developmental Disabilities, Vol. 85, 02.2019, p. 8-19.

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Papastergiou, A & Pappas, V 2019, 'A Comparison of Sighted and Visually Impaired Children's Text Comprehension', Research in Developmental Disabilities, vol. 85, pp. 8-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2018.10.003

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Papastergiou, A., & Pappas, V. (2019). A Comparison of Sighted and Visually Impaired Children's Text Comprehension. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 85, 8-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2018.10.003

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Papastergiou A, Pappas V. 2019. A Comparison of Sighted and Visually Impaired Children's Text Comprehension. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 85:8-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2018.10.003

MLA

Papastergiou, Athanasia and Vasileios Pappas. "A Comparison of Sighted and Visually Impaired Children's Text Comprehension". Research in Developmental Disabilities. 2019, 85. 8-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2018.10.003

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Papastergiou A, Pappas V. A Comparison of Sighted and Visually Impaired Children's Text Comprehension. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 2019 Feb;85:8-19. Epub 2018 Nov 2. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2018.10.003

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Papastergiou, Athanasia ; Pappas, Vasileios. / A Comparison of Sighted and Visually Impaired Children's Text Comprehension. In: Research in Developmental Disabilities. 2019 ; Vol. 85. pp. 8-19.

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TY - JOUR

T1 - A Comparison of Sighted and Visually Impaired Children's Text Comprehension

AU - Papastergiou, Athanasia

AU - Pappas, Vasileios

PY - 2019/2

Y1 - 2019/2

N2 - Aim: Do children with visual impairments outperform their sighted cohorts in reading and auditory comprehension tasks? Methods: We address this question by applying panel regression techniques on a comprehensive sample of 16 children with visual impairments from a Greek special school for students with visual impairments. Results: By comparing the reader comprehender profile for both children types, we find that the children with visual impairments perform better than their sighted counterparts. The better performance is supported both unconditionally and conditionally on idiosyncratic characteristics, such as age, text complexity, modality, sex and reading ability. Conclusion: Decomposing the reader comprehender profile into a literal, global and local type of questions we find that the results are mainly driven by the superior performance of the children with VI in the literal questions.

AB - Aim: Do children with visual impairments outperform their sighted cohorts in reading and auditory comprehension tasks? Methods: We address this question by applying panel regression techniques on a comprehensive sample of 16 children with visual impairments from a Greek special school for students with visual impairments. Results: By comparing the reader comprehender profile for both children types, we find that the children with visual impairments perform better than their sighted counterparts. The better performance is supported both unconditionally and conditionally on idiosyncratic characteristics, such as age, text complexity, modality, sex and reading ability. Conclusion: Decomposing the reader comprehender profile into a literal, global and local type of questions we find that the results are mainly driven by the superior performance of the children with VI in the literal questions.

U2 - 10.1016/j.ridd.2018.10.003

DO - 10.1016/j.ridd.2018.10.003

M3 - Article

VL - 85

SP - 8

EP - 19

JO - Research in Developmental Disabilities

JF - Research in Developmental Disabilities

SN - 0891-4222

ER -