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Overview

Rauno Parrila is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a notable emphasis on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Statistics and Probability, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Clinical Psychology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Writing and Handwriting Education
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Rauno Parrila has contributed to several recent papers in various academic journals. Some of these include:

  • Developmental Relations Between Home Literacy Environment, Reading Interest, and Reading Skills: Evidence From a 3-Year Longitudinal Study (2021, Child Development)
  • Cognitive Precursors of Reading: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (2021, Scientific Studies of Reading)
  • Home Literacy Environment and Early Literacy Development Across Languages Varying in Orthographic Consistency (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • What mechanism underlies the rapid automatized naming-reading relation? (2020, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology)
  • Internalizing problems in individuals with reading, mathematics and unspecified learning difficulties: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2023, Annals of Dyslexia)

Their research has been published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • Reading and Writing
  • Scientific Studies of Reading
  • Annals of Dyslexia
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science

Rauno Parrila has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • George K. Georgiou
  • Tomohiro Inoue
  • Robert Savage
  • Kristy Dunn
  • Anne Castles

Best Publications

  • Naming Speed and Phonological Awareness as Predictors of Reading Development.

    John R. Kirby;Rauno K. Parrila;Shannon L. Pfeiffer

  • Children's Morphological Awareness and Reading Ability.

    John R. Kirby;S. Hélène Deacon;Peter N. Bowers;Leah Izenberg

  • Articulation Rate, Naming Speed, Verbal Short-Term Memory, and Phonological Awareness: Longitudinal Predictors of Early Reading Development?

    Rauno Parrila;John R. Kirby;Lynn McQuarrie

  • Naming Speed and Reading: From Prediction to Instruction

    John R. Kirby;George K. Georgiou;Rhonda Martinussen;Rauno Parrila

  • Predictors of word decoding and reading fluency across languages varying in orthographic consistency.

    George K. Georgiou;Rauno Parrila;Timothy C. Papadopoulos

  • Toward a comprehensive view of the skills involved in word reading in Grades 4, 6, and 8.

    A.A. Roman;J.R. Kirby;R.K. Parrila;L. Wade-Woolley

  • Phonological Awareness and Rapid Automatized Naming as Longitudinal Predictors of Reading in Five Alphabetic Orthographies with Varying Degrees of Consistency

    Karin Landerl;H. Harald Freudenthaler;Moritz Heene;Peter F. De Jong

  • Morphological Awareness: A Key to Understanding Poor Reading Comprehension in English.

    Xiuli Tong;S. Helene Deacon;John R. Kirby;Kate Cain

  • Cognitive planning: The psychological basis of intelligent behavior.

    Jagannath Prasad Das;Binod C. Kar;Rauno K. Parrila

  • Longitudinal predictors of reading and spelling across languages varying in orthographic consistency

    George K. Georgiou;Minna Torppa;George Manolitsis;Heikki Lyytinen

  • Gender differences in abused children with and without disabilities.

    Dick Sobsey;Wade Randall;Rauno K. Parrila

  • Learning Strategies and Study Approaches of Postsecondary Students With Dyslexia

    John R. Kirby;Robert Silvestri;Beth H. Allingham;Rauno Parrila

  • Effects of Home Literacy, Parents' Beliefs, and Children's Task-Focused Behavior on Emergent Literacy and Word Reading Skills

    Kathy A. Stephenson;Rauno K. Parrila;George K. Georgiou;John R. Kirby

  • Development of individual differences in reading : Results from longitudinal studies in english and finnish

    Rauno Parrila;Kaisa Aunola;Esko Leskinen;Jari-Erik Nurmi

  • Why is rapid automatized naming related to reading

    George K. Georgiou;Rauno Parrila;Ying Cui;Timothy C. Papadopoulos

  • Rapid naming speed and reading across languages that vary in orthographic consistency

    George K. Georgiou;Rauno Parrila;Chen Huei Liao

  • Rapid Naming Components and Their Relationship with Phonological Awareness, Orthographic Knowledge, Speed of Processing, and Different Reading Outcomes.

    George K. Georgiou;Rauno Parrila;John R. Kirby;Kathy Stephenson

  • Phonological and orthographic spelling in high-functioning adult dyslexics.

    Nenagh Kemp;Rauno K. Parrila;John R. Kirby

  • Rapid Naming Speed Components and Early Reading Acquisition.

    George K. Georgiou;Rauno Parrila;John Kirby

  • Examining the effectiveness of peer-mediated and video-modeling social skills interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders: A meta-analysis in single-case research using HLM

    Shin Yi Wang;Ying Cui;Rauno Parrila

Frequent Co-Authors

George K. Georgiou
George K. Georgiou University of Alberta
John R. Kirby
John R. Kirby Queen's University
S. Hélène Deacon
S. Hélène Deacon Dalhousie University
J. P. Das
J. P. Das University of Alberta
Jari-Erik Nurmi
Jari-Erik Nurmi University of Jyväskylä
Kate Cain
Kate Cain Lancaster University
Donald L. Compton
Donald L. Compton Florida State University
Peter F. de Jong
Peter F. de Jong University of Amsterdam
Mikko Aro
Mikko Aro University of Jyväskylä
Karin Landerl
Karin Landerl University of Graz

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