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Recent Publications

Speece, D. L., & Hines, S. J. (2008, March). Identifying children who require different instruction in a response to instruction framework. Perspectives on Language  Learning and Education, 15, 34-40.

Speece, D. L. (2008). Learning disabilities in the United States: Operationalizing a construct. In L. Florian  & M. J. McLaughlin (Eds), Classification of Children (pp. 227-243). Corwin Sage Press.

Speece, D. L., & Walker C. W. (2007). What are the issues in RTI research? In D. H. Haager, S. Vaughn, & J. K. Klingner (Eds.) Validated Reading Practices for Three Tiers of Intervention (pp. 287-301). Brookes: Baltimore, Maryland.

Speece, D. L., & Hines, S. J. (2007). Learning disabilities. In E. Mash & R. Barkley Assessment of Childhood Disorders, 4th Ed. (pp. 598-635). New York: Guilford.

Hines, S. J., Speece, D. L., Walker, C. Y., & DaDeppo, L (2007). Assessing more than you teach: The difficult case of transfer. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 20, 539-522.

Ritchey, K. D., & Speece, D. L. (2006).From letter names to word reading: The nascent role of sublexical fluency. Contemporary Educational Psychology,31, 301-327.

Speece, D. L. & Ritchey, K. D. (2005). A longitudinal study of the development of oral reading fluency in young children at risk for reading failure. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 38, 387-399.

Speece, D. L. (2005). Hitting the moving target known as reading development: Some thoughts on screening children for secondary interventions. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 38, 487-493.

Speece, D. L., & Cooper, D. H. (2004). Methodological issues in research on language and early literacy from the perspective of early identification and instruction. In C. A. Stone, E.R. Silliman, B. Ehren, & K. Apel (Eds.), Handbook of language and literacy disorders (pp. 82-94). New York: Guilford.

Speece, D. L., Ritchey, K. D., Cooper, D. H., Roth, F. P., & Schatschneider, C. (2004). Growth in early reading skills from kindergarten to third grade. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 29, 312-332.

Ritchey, K. D., & Speece, D. L. (2004). Early identification of reading disabilities: Current status and new directions. Assessment for Effective Intervention, 29(4), 13-24.

Speece, D.L. (2003). The methods of cluster analysis and the study of learning disabilities. In H.L. Swanson, K.R. Harris, & S. Graham (Eds.), Handbook of learning disabilities (pp. 501-513). Guilford: New York.

Speece, D. L., Mills, C., Ritchey, K. D., & Hillman, E. (2003). Initial evidence that letter fluency tasks are valid indicators of early reading skill. Journal of Special Education, 36, 223-233.

Speece, D. L., Case, L. P., & Molloy, D. E. (2003). Responsiveness to general education instruction as the first gate to learning disabilities identification. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 18, 147-156.

Case, L. P., Speece, D. L., & Molloy, D. E. (2003). The validity of a response-to-instruction paradigm to identify reading disabilities: A longitudinal analysis of individual differences and contextual factors. School Psychology Review, 32, 557-582.

School Psychology Review Outstanding Article of the Year Award, 2003

Fuchs, L. S., Fuchs, D., & Speece, D. L. (2002). Treatment validity as a unifying construct for identifying learning disabilities. Learning Disability Quarterly, 25, 33-45.

Cooper, D. H., Roth, F. P., Speece, D. L., & Schatschneider, C. (2002). The contribution of oral language skills to the development of phonological awareness. Applied Psycholinguistics, 23, 399-416.

Roth, F. P., Speece, D. L., & Cooper, D. H. (2002). A longitudinal analysis of the connection between oral language and reading. Journal of Educational Research, 95, 259-272.

Speece, D. L., & Shekitka, L. (2002). How should reading disabilities be operationalized? A survey of experts. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 17, 118-123.

MacDonald, V., & Speece, D. L. (2001). Making time: A teacher’s report on her first year of teaching children with emotional disabilities. Journal of Special Education.

Speece, D. L., & Case, L. P. (2001). Classification in context: An alternative approach to identifying early reading disability. Journal of Educational Psychology, 93, 735-749.

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