Joseph Torgesen
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- PhD Psychology University of Texas at Austin
- Masters Psychology University of Texas at Austin
- Bachelors Psychology University of Texas at Austin
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joseph Torgesen is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Education at Florida State University. At the time of his retirement from the university in 2008, he was the W. Russell and Eugenia Morcom Chair of Psychology and Education and Director of the Florida Center for Reading Research. Dr. Torgesen received his Ph.D. in Developmental and Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1976, and served on the Psychology faculty at FSU from 1976 until 2008.
Joseph Torgesen's Published Works
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- The nature of phonological processing and its causal role in the acquisition of reading skills. (1987) (3330)
- Development of Reading-Related Phonological Processing Abilities: New Evidence of Bidirectional Causality from a Latent Variable Longitudinal Study. (1994) (1483)
- Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (1997) (1144)
- Changing relations between phonological processing abilities and word-level reading as children develop from beginning to skilled readers: a 5-year longitudinal study. (1997) (1098)
- Longitudinal Studies of Phonological Processing and Reading (1994) (950)
- Intensive Remedial Instruction for Children with Severe Reading Disabilities (2001) (877)
- Individual Differences in Response to Early Interventions in Reading: The Lingering Problem of Treatment Resisters (2000) (839)
- Preventing reading failure in young children with phonological processing disabilities: Group and individual responses to instruction. (1999) (830)
- Contributions of Phonological Awareness and Rapid Automatic Naming Ability to the Growth of Word-Reading Skills in Second- to Fifth-Grade Children. (1997) (646)
- The Prevention of Reading Difficulties (2002) (634)
- Development of young readers' phonological processing abilities (1993) (580)
- Critical Elements of Classroom and Small-Group Instruction Promote Reading Success in All Children. (2001) (511)
- The relations between phonological processing abilities and emerging individual differences in mathematical computation skills: a longitudinal study from second to fifth grades. (2001) (502)
- Improving Adolescent Literacy: Effective Classroom and Intervention Practices. IES Practice Guide. NCEE 2008-4027. (2008) (402)
- Effects of two types of phonological awareness training on word learning in kindergarten children. (1992) (366)
- Relationships Between Word Knowledge and Reading Comprehension in Third-Grade Children (2006) (328)
- Repeated reading and reading fluency in learning disabled children. (1985) (311)
- The Role of Nonspecific Factors in the Task Performance of Learning Disabled Children (1977) (309)
- The Role of Orthographic Processing Skills on Five Different Reading Tasks. (1992) (269)
- Interventions for Adolescent Struggling Readers: A Meta-Analysis with Implications for Practice. (2007) (263)
- Accuracy of the DIBELS oral reading fluency measure for predicting third grade reading comprehension outcomes. (2008) (242)
- The Complex Nature of Reading Fluency: A Multidimensional View (2008) (233)
- Individual difference variables that predict response to training in phonological awareness. (1996) (232)
- Evidence‐Based Strategies for Reading Instruction of Older Students with Learning Disabilities (2008) (217)
- Psychological and Educational Perspectives on Learning Disabilities (1985) (207)
- Explaining social class differences in growth of reading skills from beginning kindergarten through fourth-grade: The role of phonological awareness, rate of access, and print knowledge (2000) (200)
- Processing deficiencies of learning-disabled children who perform poorly on the Digit Span Test. (1980) (193)
- Memorization processes in reading-disabled children. (1977) (188)
- D, . Academic literacy instruction for adolescents: A guidance document from the Center on Instruction. (2007) (182)
- Prevention and Remediation of Severe Reading Disabilities: Keeping the End in Mind (1997) (167)
- Recent Discoveries on Remedial Interventions for Children with Dyslexia (2008) (167)
- Toward a Two-Factor Theory of One Type of Mathematics Disabilities. (2002) (162)
- Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade: IES Practice Guide. NCEE 2010-4038. (2010) (159)
- The Effectiveness of a Group Reading Instruction Program with Poor Readers in Multiple Grades (2001) (150)
- Reading Fluency : Critical Issues for Struggling Readers (2007) (150)
- Computer-assisted instruction to prevent early reading difficulties in students at risk for dyslexia: Outcomes from two instructional approaches (2010) (147)
- Memory Processes in Reading Disabled Children (1985) (141)
- Phonological awareness training and remediation of analytic decoding deficits in a group of severe dyslexics (1991) (137)
- Conceptual and Educational Implications of the Use of Efficient Task Strategies by Learning Disabled Children (1980) (137)
- Lessons Learned from Research on Interventions for Students Who Have Difficulty Learning to Read. (2004) (117)
- Preventive and Remedial Interventions for Children with Severe Reading Disabilities (1997) (113)
- Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing–Second Edition (2016) (112)
- An Evaluation of Computer-Assisted Instruction in Phonological Awareness with below Average Readers (1995) (111)
- Alternative Diagnostic Approaches for Specific Developmental Reading Disabilities. (1998) (110)
- A Basic Guide to Understanding, Assessing, and Teaching Phonological Awareness (2000) (108)
- The Effects of Peer-Assisted Literacy Strategies for First-Grade Readers With and Without Additional Computer-Assisted Instruction in Phonological Awareness (2001) (107)
- Computers as Aids in the Prevention and Remediation of Reading Disabilities (1995) (94)
- Using Our Current Understanding of Dyslexia to Support Early Identification and Intervention (2004) (89)
- Performance of Reading Disabled Children on Serial Memory Tasks: A Selective Review of Recent Research. (1978) (87)
- The Response to Intervention Instructional Model: Some Outcomes From a Large‐Scale Implementation in Reading First Schools (2009) (84)
- Closing the Reading Gap: First Year Findings from a Randomized Trial of Four Reading Interventions for Striving Readers (2006) (81)
- Exploring the Relative Effectiveness of Reading Interventions for High School Students (2009) (80)
- Recent Discoveries from Research on Remedial Interventions for Children with Dyslexia (2007) (80)
- Characteristics of Research on Learning Disabilities (1980) (76)
- Approaches to the prevention and remediation of phonologically based reading disabilities. (1997) (68)
- Relations among reading skills and sub-skills and text-level reading proficiency in developing readers (2012) (68)
- Identifying Phonological Coding Problems in Disabled Readers: Naming, Counting, or Span Measures? (1990) (68)
- Studies of Children with Learning Disabilities Who Perform Poorly on Memory Span Tasks (1988) (67)
- Extensive Reading Interventions in Grades K-3: From Research to Practice. (2007) (66)
- A Call for Equity in Reading Instruction for All Students: A Response to Allington and Woodside-Jiron (2000) (65)
- A Comparison of Teacher-Directed versus Peer-Assisted Instruction to Struggling First-Grade Readers (2003) (63)
- A model of memory from an information processing perspective: The special case of phonological memory. (1996) (58)
- Learning Disabilities Theory (1986) (58)
- The Adequacy of Tools for Assessing Reading Competence: A Framework and Review (2006) (54)
- Learning Disabilities: An Historical and Conceptual Overview (2004) (52)
- Reviewing Core Kindergarten and First-Grade Reading Programs In Light of No Child Left Behind: An Exploratory Study (2005) (52)
- Fraction Skills and Proportional Reasoning (2007) (52)
- A Multivariate Study of Individual Differences in Performance on the Reading Portion of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test: A Brief Report. (2004) (51)
- Effects from Intensive Standardized Kindergarten and First-Grade Interventions for the Prevention of Reading Difficulties (2007) (48)
- What Shall We Do with Psychological Processes? (1979) (48)
- Priorities for the use of Microcomputers with Learning Disabled Children (1983) (46)
- CHAPTER 1 – Learning Disabilities: Historical and Conceptual Issues (1991) (44)
- Computers and Cognition in Reading: A Focus on Decoding Fluency (1986) (43)
- Improving adolescent literacy: Effective classroom and intervention practices (NCEE ). U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education for Education Statistics. (2008) (41)
- Issues in the assessment of executive function: An information-processing perspective. (1994) (40)
- Factors Related to Poor Performance on Memory Tasks in Reading Disabled Children (1979) (39)
- Brief Report of a Study to Investigate the Relationship between Several Brief Measures of Reading Fluency and Performance on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test-Reading in 4th, 6th, 8th, and 10th Grades. FCRR Technical Report #6. (2004) (39)
- National Assessment of Title I Final Report Volume II: Closing the Reading Gap: Findings from a Randomized Trial of Four Reading Interventions for Striving Readers (Appendices) (2007) (36)
- All Children Can Learn To Read: Critical Care for the Prevention of Reading Failure (1998) (34)
- The Effects of Incentives on Rehearsal and Short-Term Memory in Children with Reading Problems (1979) (32)
- Cognitive and Behavioral Characteristics of Children with Learning Disabilities (1989) (31)
- The use of Rationally Defined Subgroups in Research on Learning Disabilities (1982) (31)
- Component processes in working memory. (1987) (30)
- Teaching All Students to Read in Elementary School: A Guide for Principals. (2007) (28)
- Using an RTI Model to Guide Early Reading Instruction: Effects on Identification Rates for Students with Learning Disabilities. FCRR Technical Report #7. (2007) (27)
- Developmental and individual differences in performance on phonological synthesis tasks. (1989) (23)
- Remedial Interventions for Students with Dyslexia: National Goals and Current Accomplishments (2007) (20)
- Comparing Two Forms of Dynamic Assessment and Traditional Assessment of Preschool Phonological Awareness (2011) (20)
- Improving literacy instruction in middle and high schools: A guide for principals. (2007) (20)
- Learning disabilities: An evidence-based conceptualization (2001) (19)
- Instructional Uses of Microcomputers with Elementary Aged Mildly Handicapped Children. (1984) (19)
- EMPIRICAL AND THEORETICAL SUPPORT FOR DIRECT DIAGNOSIS OF LEARNING DISABILITIES BY ASSESSMENT OF INTRINSIC PROCESSING WEAKNESSES (2012) (19)
- Motivational and Cognitive Aspects of Learning Disabilities (1987) (19)
- Teaching All Students to Read: Practices from "Reading First" Schools with Strong Intervention Outcomes. Complete Report. (2007) (18)
- Using Verbatim Text Recordings to Enhance Reading Comprehension in Learning Disabled Adolescents. (1987) (18)
- Improving Speed and Accuracy of Word Recognition in Reading Disabled Children: An Evaluation of Two Computer Program Variations (1988) (17)
- Neural substrates related to auditory working memory comparisons in dyslexia: An fMRI study (2008) (17)
- Preventing and Remediating Reading Disabilities: Instructional Variables That Make a Difference for Special Students (1996) (16)
- Preventing and Remediating Reading Failure: A Response to Allington. (2004) (15)
- Toward development of a kindergarten group test for phonological awareness. (1992) (14)
- Phonologically Based Reading Disabilities: Toward a Coherent Theory of One Kind of Learning Disability (2018) (14)
- Using Computers to Help Learning Disabled Children Practice Reading: A Research-Based Perspective. (1986) (13)
- The Effects of Directed Study on the Spelling Performance of Two Subgroups of Learning Disabled Students (1983) (13)
- Assessment and Instruction in Phonological Awareness. Second Edition. (2002) (13)
- Language Comprehension in Learning Disabled Children Who Perform Poorly on Memory Span Tests. (1988) (13)
- Analysis of behaviors involved in performance of the block design subtest of the WISC-R (1981) (13)
- Identification and Assessment To Prevent Reading Failure in Young Children (1998) (12)
- Differentiated Reading Instruction: Small Group Alternative Lesson Structures for All Students. Guidance Document for Florida "Reading First" Schools. (2007) (12)
- Prevention and Remediation of Reading Disabilities (2004) (11)
- Language Abilities, Reading Acquisition, and Developmental Dyslexia (1992) (11)
- Adolescent Literacy Walk-Through for Principals: A Guide for Instructional Leaders. (2009) (11)
- National Assessment of Title I. Final Report. Volume II: Closing the Reading Gap--Findings from a Randomized Trial of Four Reading Interventions for Striving Readers. NCEE 2008-4013. (2007) (11)
- Dyslexia: A Brief for Educators, Parents, and Legislators in Florida. FCRR Technical Report #8. (2007) (10)
- Intensive Reading Interventions for Struggling Readers in Early Elementary School: A Principal's Guide. (2006) (10)
- The Relationship between Performance on a Measure of Oral Reading Fluency and Performance on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. FCRR Technical Report #1. (2018) (10)
- Task structure versus modality of presentation: A study of the construct validity of the Visual-Aural Digit Span Test. (1978) (9)
- Improving the Effectiveness of Reading Instruction in One Elementary School: A Description of the Process. FCRR Technical Report #3. (2000) (9)
- Applied Research and Metatheory in the Context of Contemporary Cognitive Theory (1988) (9)
- The relationship between memory and attention in learning disabilities (1981) (8)
- Technology for Persons with Learning Disabilities: Report on an International Symposium (1995) (8)
- The Effects of Situational Variables on the Use of Rehearsal by First-Grade Children. (1980) (8)
- Operationalizing the Response to Intervention Model to Identify Children with Learning Disabilities: Specific Is- sues with Older Children (2003) (8)
- Verbal vs. nonverbal and complex vs. simple responses in the paired-associate learning of poor readers. (1979) (8)
- Empirical and Theoretical Support for Direct Diagnosis of Learning Disabilities by Assessment of Intrinsic Processing Weaknesses. Executive Summary. (2001) (8)
- Further Studies of Learning Disabled Children with Severe Performance Problems on the Digit Span Test. (1991) (7)
- Using student outcome data to help guide professional development and teacher support : Issues for Reading First and K-12 Reading Plans (2006) (6)
- Thoughts about Intervention Research in Learning Disabilities. (1996) (6)
- Learning Disabilities Theory: Issues and Advances (1994) (6)
- An educational/psychological perspective on the behaviors of three children with reading disabilities (2001) (5)
- Tier 3 Primary Grade Reading Interventions: Can We Distinguish Necessary from Sufficient? (2016) (5)
- Using Computers to Assist in Reading Instruction for Children with Learning Disabilities (1992) (5)
- Learning to Read (2006) (5)
- Catch them before they fall: Early Identification and Intervention to Prevent Reading Failure in Young Children (2009) (3)
- Measuring Alphabetic Reading Skills in a Group: New Alternatives (2005) (3)
- Effects of alternative testing procedures on two subtests of the Woodcock‐Johnson Psycho‐Educational Battery (1985) (2)
- Examining the Decision Reliability and Validity of Three Reading Fluency Measures for Predicting Outcomes on Statewide Reading Accountability Tests (2009) (2)
- Increasing the quality of educational intervention research: The need for stronger leaders (1994) (1)
- Catch Them Before They Fall (2013) (1)
- Cross-Age Consistency in Phonological Processing (2013) (1)
- Dyslexia: A Brief for Educators and Parents (2014) (1)
- Placing NICHD-supported research on reading within the proper context (1999) (1)
- Summary of Outcomes from First Grade Study with "Read, Write, and Type" and "Auditory Discrimination in Depth" Instruction and Software with At-Risk Children. FCRR Technical Report #2. (2018) (1)
- Phonological Awareness Tasks (2017) (0)
- Introduction to the Topical Review Series (1982) (0)
- The Exploitation of Information-Processing Theory. (1982) (0)
- The Reliability of a Standard Vigilance Paradigm with Children (1981) (0)
- Phoneme Elision Test (2020) (0)
- Introduction to Special Issue: Technology for Persons with Learning Disabilities: An International Perspective (1995) (0)
- Kindergarten prediction of fourth-grade word decoding and reading comprehension skills: Effects of factors associated with socio-economic status and phonological processing (1996) (0)
- Memorization Processes Involved in Performance on the Visual-Sequential Memory Subtest of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities. (1978) (0)
- The influences of phonological awareness and rapid automatic naming ability on the growth of word reading skills between second and fifth grade (1996) (0)
- The causal influences of background variables and phonological awareness on early reading skills (1994) (0)
- Florida Literacy and Reading Excellence Professional Paper Teaching Non-traditional Learners (0)
- Relations among reading skills and sub-skills and text-level reading proficiency in developing readers (2010) (0)
- A Critical Missing Piece in American Education Policy (2007) (0)
- Episode 06: A Panel of experts on selecting an evidence-based practice or program. (2011) (0)
- The relationships of rapid automatic naming skills to growth of orthographic reading skills between second and fourth grades (1995) (0)
- Why is phonological awareness important in learning to read ? (2001) (0)
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