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October 8, 2025Mind Brain and EducationOpen Access

The Direct and Indirect Effects of an Oral Narrative Intervention for Children with or At Risk for Language and Reading Disorders

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RGRonald B. GillamSGSandra Laing GillamWDW. van Dijk

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Overview

Multisite trial shows significant gains in narrative skills and reading comprehension in at-risk children, indicating benefits of language interventions.

Key Points

  • Significant improvements in oral narrative production and written skills were observed after the SKILL intervention.
  • Moderated mediation analyses revealed that decoding skills enhanced the treatment effects on reading comprehension.
  • Children with lower decoding abilities reaped greater indirect benefits from narrative skills on reading comprehension.
  • These findings support the Reading Is Language model, emphasizing the link between decoding and language development.

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Gillam et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e6d7971ffa7aa7d63d17a5https://doi.org/10.1111/mbe.70024
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