The role of oral language revisited: a comment on the NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (2005).
This article comments on the discussion of S. A. Storch and G. J. Whitehurst's literacy development model in the article by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Early Child Care Research Network (ECCRN). Specifically, this comment focuses on concerns raised by the NICHD ECCRN that Storch and Whitehurst's model does not afford an important role to oral language in the development of early reading skill. Four important issues are presented that provide a serious and careful challenge to the model and conclusions of the NICHD ECCRN's report.
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Stacey Storch
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Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2500, USA. stacey.storch@sunysb.edu
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