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An efficacy study to be published in Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal revealed that after only 2 weeks of using the 3D-Readers™ software, at-risk readers showed a statistically significant, 8% gain in reading comprehension.

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The following is a list of research conducted by the founder, Dr. Mina C. Johnson-Glenberg. It is split by research on literacy and research on cognition and mental retardation. Links highlighted with PDF can be printed.

Publications in Literacy
Publications - Cognition and Language in Mental Retardation
Academic Presentations
Editorial Experience

Publications in Literacy

Johnson-Glenberg, M.C. (submitted). Do quiizes increase e-learning? Yes, but....

Johnson-Glenberg, M. C. (2007b). Web-based Reading Comprehension Instruction: Three studies of 3D-Readers. In D.McNamara (Ed.), Reading Comprehension Strategies: Theory, Interventions, and Technologies. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.

Johnson-Glenberg, M. C. (2006). Judging the quality of educational software. Solicited commentary at Wisconsin Technology Network.

Johnson-Glenberg, M. C. (2006). Reading Comprehension: From Strategy Theories to Instructive Technologies. Wisconsin State Reading Association Journal. Spring, 46, 2.

Johnson-Glenberg, M. C. (2005). Web-based training of metacognitive strategies for text comprehension: Focus on poor comprehenders. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 18/7-9, 755-876.

Johnson-Glenberg, M. C. (2003). Web-based literacy tutor training: Does interactivity really enhance learning? Proceedings of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education AACE Conference.

Johnson-Glenberg, Mina C. (2000). "Training Reading Comprehension in Adequate Decoders/Poor Comprehenders: Verbal Versus Visual Strategies," Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 92, 4, 772-782. (pdf)

Glenberg, A.M., Robertson, D.A., Jansen, J.L., & Johnson-Glenberg, M. C. (1999) Not propositions. Journal of Cognitive Systems Research, 1, 1-15.

Olson, R. K., Wise, B. W., Johnson, M. C., & Ring, J. (1997). The etiology and remediation of phonologically based word recognition and spelling disabilities: Are phonological deficits the "hole" story. In B. Blachman (Ed.), Foundations of Reading Acquisition. Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum, Inc.

Wise B. K., Olson, R.K., Ring, J., & Johnson, M. C. (1997). Computer-based remedial training in phoneme awareness and phonological decoding: Effects on post-training development of word recognition. Scientific Studies of Reading, 1, 3, 235-253.

Wise B. K., Olson, R.K., Ring, J., & Johnson, M. C. (1997). Interactive computer support for improving phonological skills in remedial reading. In J. Metsala & L. Ehri (Eds.), Word Recognition in Beginning Literacy. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Inc. (pdf)

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Publications in Cognition and Language in Mental Retardation

Johnson-Glenberg, M. C. (in press). Fragile X syndrome: Memory skills and the emergence of reading in males. In Paul, R. (Ed.) Language Disorders from a developmental perspective: Essays in honor of Robin Chapman. Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum, Inc.

Johnson-Glenberg, M.C., and R.S. Chapman (2004) " Predictors of parent-child language during novel task play: a comparison between typically developing children and individuals with Down syndrome," Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, Vol. 48, 3, pp 225-238. (pdf)

Abbeduto, L., Boudreau, D., Johnson-Glenberg, M. C., Magana, S., Orsmond, G., & Poehlmann, J. (2000). Review of Robert M. Hodapp's Development and Disabilities: Intellectual, Sensory, and Motor Impairments. Published in the American Journal on Mental Retardation, 105, 307-310.

Johnson-Glenberg, M. C., & Dolan, T.R. (1999). Special Olympics International research programs funding: Study of influences of participation in SOI programs on individual athletes and their families and support groups. Technical Report, SOI Research Symposium, June, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Editorial Experience

Dr. Johnson-Glenberg has written reviews for the following peer-review journals:

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
Memory and Cognition
Review of Educational Research
School Psychology Quarterly
American Journal on Mental Retardation

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