Saturday, April 2

                                                                                                                                               

5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. 

Registration - SSSR Suite

 

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Board Meeting - SSSR Suite

 

9:00 p.m. - 12:00 pm.

Vital Issues - SSSR Suite

 

Sunday, April 3

                                                                                                                                               

7:30 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Registration - SSSR Suite

(Note: Ask for the location of the meeting room for the 5 Paper Sessions at the hotel.)

 

8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

        Paper Session #1

 

Carver, Ronald P.

University of Missouri-Kansas City

Predicting improvement in reading ability using rauding theory.

 

Berninger, Virginia W.

University of Washington at Seattle

Application of growth curve analysis to instructional research in reading: Analyzing results for individuals and groups.

 

Morrison, Frederick J.

Loyola University

A method for examining the unique impact of schooling on growth of literacy skills.

 

Willson, Victor L.

Texas A & M University

Reading development: Testing the decoding-comprehension interaction hypothesis.

 

Young, Arlene and Bowers, Patricia University of Waterloo

Acquisition of reading fluency and expressiveness: Integrating higher and lower level determinants.

 

Sunday, April 3

                                                                                                                                               

8:00 a.m. - 10:00 am. (continued)

 

Nicholson, Tom

University of Auckland

"Struggletown" New Zealand: Some survey data on reading achievement.

 

Rupley, Wm. H. and Willson, Victor L. Texas A & M University

Cross-grade path analysis of comprehension: Variables contributing to a developmental model.

      

 

10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

        Paper Session #2

 

Gough, Philip B.

University of Texas at Austin

On the distinction between orthographic and phonological processing.

 

Hodgson, James M.

Massachusetts General Hospital

        Lexical processing in adult dyslexics.

 

Manis, Frank.

University of Southern California

Phonological processing in disabled readers.

 

Wolf, Maryanne

Tufts University

The double-deficit hypothesis for developmental dyslexia: Cross-linguistic evidence.

 

Swan, Denise and Goswami, Usha C.

Cambridge Univerity

Picture naming skills in good and poor readers.

 

Williams, Joanna P.

Teachers College, Columbia University

Getting the point: Why do students with learning disabilities have trouble?

 

 

 

 

Sunday, April 3

                                                                                                                                               

10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. (continued)

 

Wimmer, Heinz

Salzburg University

Dyslexia in a regular writing system: A longitudinal study from grade one to grade four.

 

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

      Paper Session #3

 

Rothkopf, Ernst Z.

Columbia University

Text and mathemagenic activities.

 

Reynolds, Ralph

University of Utah

Selective attention and prose learning.

 

Drum, Priscilla

University of California at Santa Barbara

Effects of summer activities on content area comprehension.

 

Marshall, Nancy

Florida International University

Setting a research agenda for reader/text interactions: Planning to step back to move forward.

 

Hayes, David A.

University of Georgia

Instructional utility in dissimilarity between features of prose content and explanatory analogies.

 

Caswell, Ruth M.

Texas Women's University

The changing role of reading in conceptually-oriented science instruction.

 

3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

            Paper Session #4

 

Manzo, Anthony V.

University of Missouri-Kansas City

Computer simulated research possibilities.

 

 

Sunday, April 3

                                                                                                                       

3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. (continued)

 

Dreher, Mariam J.

University of Maryland

Children's reading to locate information.

 

Wagner, W. James

Brock University

Implicit and explicit memory for words and the parts of words during their acquisition as reading vocabulary.

 

Scholes, Robert J.

University of Florida

The linguistic analysis of speech and writing.

 

Kincade, Kay M.

University of Oklahoma

Strategic reading: A synthesis of three studies.

 

Bean, Thomas W.

University of Hawaii

Preservice content area teachers' selection and use of promising reading/writing strategies.

 

Taylor, Stanford E.

ICT/Taylor Associates

Oculo-motor recording of the fundamental reading process with the ober 2: visagraph system.

 

5:20 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

        Business Meeting - Location TBA

 

 

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

        Paper Session #5

 

Juel, Connie L. and Marcia Invernizzi

University of Virginia            

Effective first grade intervention: who, what, when.

 

 

 

 

Sunday, April 3

                                                                                                                                               

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. (continued)

 

Stotsky, Sandra L.

Harvard University

An analysis of ethnic content in 7 - 12 readers and literature anthologies from a civic perspective.

 

Cox, Beverly Griffin

Purdue University

Correspondences between young children's knowledge & control of the literate register in their emerging literacy.

 

McKenna, Michael and Come, Barbara

Georgia Southern University

Effects of reading recovery on the reading attitudes of first-grade students.

 

Gambrell, Linda B. and Almasi, Janice

University of Maryland and

University of Pittsburgh

Increasing urban first-graders motivation to read: First steps.   

 

Brady, Susan

University of Rhode Island

Reading ability, vocabulary acquisition, and phonological processes.

 

9:00 p.m. - 12:00 midnight

      Vital Issues - SSSR suite

 

 

 

 

Monday, April 4

                                                                                                                                               

9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

      Board meeting - SSSR Suite

 

9:00 p.m. - 12:00 midnight

Vital Issues - SSSR Suite

 

 

 

 

PROGRAM

 

 

 

First Annual Meeting

 

 

 

 

Society for the

 

Scientific Study

 

of Reading

 

 

 

April 2 - 4, 1994

Westin Canal Place Hotel

New Orleans, Louisiana

 

 

 

President           

Ronald P. Carver                     

                                                                             

President Elect                                             Elected

Linnea C. Ehri                                               Board Members

                                                                           Philip B. Gough

Vice-President                                              Joanna P. Williams

Connie J. Juel                                                 Marilyn Jager Adams

 

Treasurer                                                      

Joseph K. Torgesen                                     

                                                                           Conference

Secretary                                                        Coordinator

David K. Dickinson                                    Ann J. Pace

                                                                          

Historian                                                      

Ralph Reynolds                                           

                                                                           International

Publications Chair                                     Coordinator

P. David Pearson                                         John P. Rack

 

 

(NO SMOKING IN ANY SESSION)