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John Kirby
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Latest funding
- $104,600
Longitudinal prediction and analysis of reading difficulties in Canadian French-speaking children
SSHRC · 2010 · Co-investigator
- $116,289
Promoting listening and reading comprehension in students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
SSHRC · 2009 · Co-investigator
- $126,854
The role of speech rhythm in reading development
SSHRC · 2009 · Co-investigator
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Longitudinal prediction and analysis of reading difficulties in Canadian French-speaking children
Principal investigators: Desrochers, Alain M.
Keywords: reading development; normally developing readers and struggling readers; longitudinal prediction of reading performance; analysis of reading difficulties; French-speaking children
Promoting listening and reading comprehension in students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Principal investigators: Martinussen, Rhonda L.
Keywords: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; comprehension; working memory
The role of speech rhythm in reading development
Principal investigators: Wade-Woolley, Lesly A.
Keywords: reading development; reading difficulties; spelling; morphology; prosody; phonological awareness
The development of French word morphology knowledge and its relation to reading
Principal investigators: Desrochers, Alain M.
Keywords: literacy development; reading; phonological processing; grammatical morphology
Second language immersion and students' academic success
Principal investigators: Cheng, Liying
Keywords: immersion education; academic success; reading; English and Chinese language
Determining the role of prosody in reading development and fluent reading
Principal investigators: Wade-Woolley, Lesly A.
Keywords: reading development; dyslexia; prosody; lexical stress; metrical stress; rhthym; second language; reading fluency; morphology
Beyond the double deficit: the roles of orthographic and morphological processing in the development of reading and spelling
Principal investigators: Kirby, John R.
Keywords: reading development; spelling development; orthographic processing; morphological awareness; phonological awareness; naming speed; double deficit
Compensated adult dyslexics: deficits and compensatory mechanisms
Principal investigators: Parrila, Rauno K.
Keywords: adult dyslexia; literacy development; cognitive processes in reading
The development, prediction, and remediation fo subtypes of reading disorders
Principal investigators: Kirby, John
Keywords: Cognitive processes in reading remediation; reading disability; phonological processing
The development of English reading skills in early French immersion students: accounting for individual differences
Principal investigators: Wade-Woolley, Lesly
Keywords: reading acquisition; reading difficulties; reading processes; second language; French immersion
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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