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Catherine Moran
Researcher at University of Canterbury
Publications - 22
Citations - 645
Catherine Moran is an academic researcher from University of Canterbury. The author has contributed to research in topics: Working memory & Phonological awareness. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 22 publications receiving 594 citations.
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Enhancing Phonological Awareness and Letter Knowledge in Preschool Children with Down Syndrome
TL;DR: The authors investigated the effectiveness of a phonological awareness intervention for 4-year-old children with Down syndrome, which involved print referencing techniques whereby the children's parents were instructed to bring the children to targeted letters and sounds within words and to draw their attention to the initial phonemes in words during daily shared book reading activities.
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Idiom Understanding in Preadolescents: Synergy in Action
TL;DR: This article examined the role of idiom familiarity in conjunction with students' language-based understanding of idioms, and found that preadolescents gain an understanding of the idioms from their familiarity with idioms.
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Discourse formulation in children with closed head injury.
Emma Hay,Catherine Moran +1 more
TL;DR: The children with CHI differed significantly from their age-matched peers across language and information domains and in their ability to formulate a moral or aim in both the expository and narrative retellings, with differences across genre.
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Inference comprehension of adolescents with traumatic brain injury: A working memory hypothesis
Catherine Moran,Gail T. Gillon +1 more
TL;DR: Investigation of inference comprehension performance in adolescents who had suffered a traumatic brain injury revealed that individuals with TBI did not differ from non-injured peers in their understanding of inferences when the storage demands of the task were minimized, however, when storage demands were high, adolescents with TBO performed poorly compared to their age-matched peers.
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Language and memory profiles of adolescents with traumatic brain injury.
Catherine Moran,Gail T. Gillon +1 more
TL;DR: Analysis revealed that individuals with traumatic brain injury performed poorly compared with their age-matched peers, however, the pattern of listening comprehension impairment differed across individuals and marked variability within the comprehension profiles for some individuals withtraumatic brain injury was evident.