Apel and Horton-Ikard to Present Paper at International Conference

Drs. RaMonda Horton-Ikard and Kenn Apel, as well as doctoral student Danielle Brimo, will be presenting papers at the 18th annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. This international conference, which is being held this year from July 13-16 in St. Pete Beach, FL, is attended by researchers from a variety of disciplines, including speech-language pathology, general and special education, and psychology. The titles of the papers are the following:

 

  1. Productive oral language is not associated with early literacy skill (Kenn Apel, RaMonda Horton-Ikard, Danielle Brimo, and Elizabeth B. Wilson-Fowler)
  2. Examining the relationship between kindergarteners’ home literacy experiences and oral narrative language abilities (RaMonda Horton-Ikard, Kenn Apel, Danielle Brimo, and Elizabeth B. Wilson-Fowler)
  3. Vowel representation in the spelling of preschool children (Cynthia Core, Cynthia Puranik, Kenn Apel, and Erin Estabrook)
  4. Syntactic awareness: Constructing meaningful tasks (Danielle Brimo, Kenn Apel, and Yaacov Petscher)