Gail Gillon's research while affiliated with Griffith University and other places
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Publications (12)
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This paper contextualises a keynote address delivered at the 2022 Speech Pathology Australia National Conference in Melbourne, Australia. The paper aligns with the conference theme of Beyond Borders from the perspective of moving beyond borders of regular practice to develop strong partnerships and networks within our communities to advoc...
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The Better Start Literacy Approach is an example of a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) to facilitate children's early literacy success. It is set within a strengths-based and culturally responsive framework for literacy teaching and is being implemented in over 800 English medium schools across New Zealand. This report focuses o...
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This study aimed to elucidate the nature of the relationship between the development of decoding and encoding skills in the first year at school.
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The foundational literacy skills of one hundred eighty 5-year-old children were examined on three occasions over their first year of literacy instruction. Participants received the sam...
The majority of children and young people in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) experience good health and wellbeing, but there are key areas where they compare unfavourably to those in other rich countries. However, current measures of wellbeing are critically limited in their suitability to reflect the dynamic, culture-bound, and subjective nature of the...
This study examined the validity of data collected from a novel online story retell task. The task was specifically designed for use by junior school teachers with the support of speech–language therapists or literacy specialists. The assessment task was developed to monitor children's oral language progress in their first year at school as part of...
Oral narrative abilities are an important measure of children's language competency and have predictive value for children's later academic performance. Research and development underway in New Zealand is advancing an innovative online oral narrative task. This task uses audio recordings of children's story retells, speech-to-text software and lang...
The Better Start Literacy Approach (BSLA) is a strengths-based approach to supporting children’s literacy learning in their first year of school. Previous research has shown the approach is effective at accelerating foundational literacy knowledge in children with lower levels of oral language. This study examined the impact of the BSLA for childre...
A controlled intervention study supported the effectiveness of teachers implementing an integrated intervention ( Better Start Literacy Approach; BSLA ) to accelerate foundational literacy skills for children in Year 1 with low levels of oral language ability in a community with significant challenges to effective teaching and learning (Gillon et a...
The implementation of lockdowns that include the closure of educational facilities for face to face teaching has been one of the strategies used internationally to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Research suggests lockdowns are associated with negative impacts on children’s psycho-social functioning, Most research, however, has been condu...
This paper reports on findings from a doctoral study that explored the efficacy of a home-based literacy intervention in advancing preschool children’s foundational literacy skills. Two key cognitive skills critical for early literacy success were examined in particular, those being phonological awareness, and elements of oral language, including v...
Natural disasters are disruptive to families and communities, particularly when cascading effects continue over time. Such events, and ensuing disruptions to family life, present risks to young children's development, including oral language. Recognition of this potential vulnerability has led to calls for early childhood programming to support par...
Policy development in education, according to Durie (2004) and Sullivan (2009), is ultimately shaped by the philosophical positionings of those who comment upon and control competing interests and discourses. Larkin (2006) highlights the need for education policies to actively target ethnicity so as to avoid hegemonic cultural domination (p. 23), a...
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... We developed BSLA through an iterative process through controlled research trials [1,8,9] research focused on ensuring all children have the best possible start in life [80]. Following consultation and support from school, indigenous, and community leaders, teachers were involved in coconstructing the implementation to ensure development of a feasible and sustainable approach (See [81] for details). BSLA is an example of a research informed MTSS for early literacy instruction in the first 2 years at school. ...
... We developed BSLA through an iterative process through controlled research trials [1,8,9] research focused on ensuring all children have the best possible start in life [80]. Following consultation and support from school, indigenous, and community leaders, teachers were involved in coconstructing the implementation to ensure development of a feasible and sustainable approach (See [81] for details). ...
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... • Novel online monitoring assessments. These assessments include an online oral narrative task (story retell with listening comprehension questions [83], phoneme-grapheme knowledge, phoneme awareness, nonword reading, nonword spelling tasks [1], and connected text reading. Automated oral narrative transcription [84], automated scoring, analyses, and reporting features help to reduce teacher workload. ...
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... These assessments include an online oral narrative task (story retell with listening comprehension questions [83], phoneme-grapheme knowledge, phoneme awareness, nonword reading, nonword spelling tasks [1], and connected text reading. Automated oral narrative transcription [84], automated scoring, analyses, and reporting features help to reduce teacher workload. • Online quality PLD for teachers, literacy specialists, SLTs, and teacher aides. ...
... Comprehensive approaches to early literacy instruction, based on the science of reading, are strongly advocated [1]. Such approaches, often referred to as a multitiered system of support (MTSS), or a Response to Intervention (RtI) approach are specifically designed to ameliorate or prevent literacy challenges for those at greater risk [2]. ...
... Furthermore, many school leaders and teachers recognized that lockdown provided an opportunity for children to learn important skills within the home and encouraged students to take part in everyday activities like cooking, gardening or helping around the house or farm (ERO, 2022a). International and New Zealand studies have reported children finding one of the most positive aspects of the lockdown conditions being that they were able to spend more time with their parents and siblings, reporting quality family time (McNeill & Gillon, 2022). ...
... First, affirmative literacy intervention for early graders from low socio-economic families in this research was needed and proven quite successful, confirming the research by previous researchers [5], [38]. Some factors have contributed to the success of the program. ...
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... on human capital, reducing barriers to implementation, and giving parents opportunity to practice new skills enhance parent learning and behavior change even when contact time with professionals may be limited. Project elements also aimed to engage children, given the facilitative role of children's invitations to parents' involvement, along with the promotive role of children's interests in literacy activities for learning and development (Schaughency et al., 2020). Subjective reports suggest children are often excited to receive new books, asking adults to read to them (Schaughency et al., 2019(Schaughency et al., , 2020, likely promoting implementation. ...
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... In 1999 the government offi cially took responsibility for "increasing profi ciency and use of Mäori and fostering an environment in which Mäori-English bilingualism is accepted" (Peterson, 2000, p. 1). Further, the need for tikanga and te reo Mäori to be embedded and enacted in all aspects of daily life is signalled by R. Bishop and Glynn (1999), Macfarlane (2012) and Macfarlane, Macfarlane and Gillon (2014). ...
