RAI 2011 Conference Presentations

Tara Concannon-Gibney and Brian Murphy

School-based Teacher Professional Development to Transform the   Teaching of Reading Comprehension: An Irish Case Study

Claire Lavin and Rosalind W. Rothman

Preschoolers with Dyslexia: The Challenge of Early Diagnosis and Intervention

Jim Anderson, Fiona Morrison, Nicola Friedrich and Ji Eun Kim

Promoting Children’s Early Literacy Development and First Language Maintenance in a Bilingual Family Literacy Program: Some Results of a Three Year Project with Immigrant and Refugee  Families

Gerry Shiel

Assessment of Early Literacy Skills

Therese Mc Phillips

Multiple Pathways to Literacy Support: Examining Theory and Practice

Tish Balfe and Yvonne Mullan

Improving Deaf Children’s Literacy Skills

Cara Mulcahy

Powerful Possibilities for Children’s and Young Adolescent Literature

Fiona Maine

Swallows and Amazons Forever? How children and adults engage with a classic children’s book

Nancy Picthall-French, Kevin Barbour and Laurence A. French

Engaging the Whole School to Improve Literacy in a Low-Income Community

Ann Anderson and Jim Anderson

Listening to Parents’ Voices: A Retrospective Analysis of a Family Literacy Program

Clodagh Conway

Understanding the Role of Fluency Instruction and its Benefits to the Teaching of Reading