Poulsen, Mads Nielsen, Anne-Mette Veber Juul, Holger Elbro, Carsten
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
Early screening for reading difficulties before the onset of instruction is desirable because it allows intervention that is targeted at prevention rather than remediation of reading difficulties. However, early screening may be too inaccurate to effectively allocate resources to those who need them. The present study compared the accuracy of early...
van der Kleij, Sanne W Segers, Eliane Groen, Margriet A Verhoeven, Ludo
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
The goal of this study was to investigate how growth during a phonics-based intervention, as well as reading levels at baseline testing, predicted long-term reading outcomes of children with dyslexia. Eighty Dutch children with dyslexia who had completed a 50-week phonics-based intervention in grade 4 were tested in grade 5 on both word and pseudow...
Bellocchi, Stéphanie Muneaux, Mathilde Huau, Andréa Lévêque, Yohana Jover, Marianne Ducrot, Stéphanie
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
Reading is known to be primarily a linguistic task. However, to successfully decode written words, children also need to develop good visual-perception skills. Furthermore, motor skills are implicated in letter recognition and reading acquisition. Three studies have been designed to determine the link between reading, visual perception, and visual-...
Kasirer, Anat Mashal, Nira
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
Difficulties with figurative language comprehension were documented in adult dyslexia (DYS). In the present research, we investigated the comprehension and generation of metaphors in 37 children, 35 adolescents, and 34 adults with and without DYS. We also tested the contribution of executive function to metaphor processing. A multiple-choice questi...
Kim, Sunjung Wiseheart, Rebecca
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
A growing body of research suggests that individuals with dyslexia struggle to use graphs efficiently. Given the persistence of orthographic processing deficits in dyslexia, this study tested whether graph interpretation deficits in dyslexia are directly related to difficulties processing the orthographic components of graphs (i.e. axes and legend ...
Chen, Chen Schneps, Matthew H Masyn, Katherine E Thomson, Jennifer M
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
Increasing evidence has shown visual attention span to be a factor, distinct from phonological skills, that explains single-word identification (pseudo-word/word reading) performance in dyslexia. Yet, little is known about how well visual attention span explains text comprehension. Observing reading comprehension in a sample of 105 high school stud...
Wang, Jiahui Schneps, Matthew H Antonenko, Pavlo D Chen, Chen Pomplun, Marc
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
This study explores a proposition that individuals with dyslexia develop enhanced peripheral vision to process visual-spatial information holistically. Participants included 18 individuals diagnosed with dyslexia and 18 who were not. The experiment used a comparative visual search design consisting of two blocks of 72 trials. Each trial presented t...
Zhao, Jing Quiroz, Blanca Dixon, L Quentin Joshi, R Malatesha
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
This study reports on a meta-analysis to examine how bilingual learners compare with English monolingual learners on two English spelling outcomes: real-word spelling and pseudo-word spelling. Eighteen studies published in peer-reviewed journals between 1990 and 2014 were retrieved. The study-level variables and characteristics (e.g. sample size, s...
Palladino, Paola Cismondo, Dhebora Ferrari, Marcella Ballagamba, Isabella Cornoldi, Cesare
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
The present study aimed to investigate L2 spelling skills in Italian children by administering an English word dictation task to 13 children with dyslexia (CD), 13 control children (comparable in age, gender, schooling and IQ) and a group of 10 children with an English learning difficulty, but no L1 learning disorder. Patterns of difficulties were ...
Law, Jeremy M Wouters, Jan Ghesquière, Pol
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
This study examines the role of morphological awareness (MA) in literacy achievement and compensation in word reading of adults with dyslexia through an exploration of three questions: (1) Do adult dyslexics demonstrate a deficit in MA, and how is this potential deficit related to phonological awareness (PA)? (2) Does MA contribute independently to...
