Soodla, Piret Tammik, Valdar Kikas, Eve
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
This longitudinal quasi-experimental study examined the general efficiency of part-time special education for students at risk for reading difficulties in Estonian primary schools. Participants were selected from 464 students whose pre-reading and reading skills were assessed for the study at the beginning of school. Eighty-four of these children r...
Caglar-Ryeng, Ømur Eklund, Kenneth Nergård-Nilssen, Trude
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
Children with familial risk (FR) of dyslexia and children with early language delay are known to be at risk for later language and literacy difficulties. However, research addressing long-term outcomes in children with both risk factors is scarce. This study tracked FR and No-FR children identified as late talkers at 2 years of age and reports deve...
Obidziński, Michał
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
The presented study applies the methods of data mining and prediction models to the subject of memory functioning in developmental dyslexia. This article sets forth the results of an analysis of the decision tree algorithm for the classification of dyslexia/non-dyslexia, based on frequency data from the modified simplified conjoint recognition expe...
Woodcock, Stuart
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
Teachers' beliefs in inclusive education can be influential toward the success of inclusive practices and also students' successes and failures within the classroom. Having a clear understanding and high expectations toward students with specific learning difficulties (SpLD) is important if these students are to reach their potential. This study ex...
Menashe, Shay
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
Developmental dyslexia is a specific reading disability characterized by decoding and spelling deficits that continue into adulthood. Because reading involves both attentional functions and audiovisual (AV) processing, the aim of this study was to explore the associations between the two factors in adult dyslexic readers. Adult non-impaired and dys...
Masoura, Elvira Gogou, Anastasia Gathercole, Susan E
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
This study investigated working memory skills in a small group of 13 nine-year-old Greek children facing reading difficulties and a group of 14 age matched typical Greek readers. The children were assessed on working memory tasks measuring separately the four components of the working memory model of Baddeley and Hitch (1974) as revised by Baddeley...
Bradshaw, Abigail R Woodhead, Zoe V J Thompson, Paul A Bishop, Dorothy V M
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
This study investigated the profile of language abilities in a sample of high-achieving English speaking adults with developmental disorders. Ninety-seven adult participants were recruited: 49 with a dyslexia diagnosis (dyslexic group), 16 with a diagnosis of a different developmental disorder including dyspraxia, autism and SpLD (non-dyslexic deve...
Bazen, Loes van den Boer, Madelon de Jong, Peter F de Bree, Elise H
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
Although a diagnosis of dyslexia is often made during elementary school, severe and persistent literacy difficulties of a considerable group of students are only noticed during secondary school. The question arises whether the literacy(-related) deficits of these late identified students with dyslexia differ from those of early diagnosed students. ...
Caglar-Ryeng, Ømur Eklund, Kenneth Nergård-Nilssen, Trude
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
The potential role of home literacy environment (HLE) in children's language development has been widely studied. However, data on the HLE of children with familial risk (FR) of dyslexia are limited. In this longitudinal study, we examined (a) whether amount of book exposure and reading interest at age 4 were different in samples of Norwegian FR an...
Stoeber, Joachim Rountree, Margaret L
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
Dyslexia is a prevalent condition, and a significant percentage of students in higher education are dyslexic. Despite this, few studies have investigated dyslexia in university students and what personality dispositions may predict how students feel about help-seeking for dyslexia and how they cope with dyslexia. Against this background, the presen...