Asadi, Ibrahim A Asli-Badarneh, Abeer Vaknin-Nusbaum, Vered
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Dyslexia (Chichester, England)
This study examined the influence of morphological density on reading comprehension in Arabic and whether this influence differs between typical and children with reading disabilities. Morphological density in Arabic is a text feature that refers to using bound morphemes, creating dense words with more morphemes. The participants were 182 fifth-gra...
Aro, Tuija Neittaanmäki, Reeta Korhonen, Elisa Riihimäki, Heli Torppa, Minna
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Journal of learning disabilities
The present study examined whether learning disabilities (LD) in reading and/or math (i.e., reading disability [RD], math disability [MD], and RD+MD) co-occur with other diagnoses. The data comprised a clinical sample (n = 430) with LD identified in childhood and a sample of matched controls (n = 2,140). Their medical diagnoses (according to the In...
scheveig;, franck
Several studies have reported motor deficiencies in children with dyslexia, in line with the cerebellar deficit theory. In the present study, we explored whether tests used by physiotherapists during clinical evaluation were able to report motor deficits in a group of fifty-six dyslexic children (mean age 10.9 ± 0.2 years old) compared to a group o...
Hurwitz, Lisa B Vanacore, Kirk P
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Journal of learning disabilities
Experts laud the potential of educational technology (edtech) to promote reading among students with disabilities, but supporting evidence is lacking. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Lexia® Core5® Reading edtech program (Core5) on the Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP) Growth Reading™ and easyCBM oral reading fluency performance of ...
Reicz, Nikolett
Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka hur f-3 lärare uppfattar arbetet med att urskilja och stötta elever i lässvårigheter i svenskundervisningen samt vilka uppfattningar lärare har om att göra extra anpassningar under svenskundervisningen. Det har genomförts sex kvalitativa halvstrukturerade intervjuer med verksamma lärare. Det empiriska mat...
Zhang, Zunwei Feng, Junyan Xue, Yang Jia, Feiyong Wang, Tiantian
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Frontiers in Pediatrics
Objective To explore and compare the cognitive processing weakness of children with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and comorbid reading disabilities (RD) (ADHD+RD) and children with ADHD only using the Das-Naglieri Cognitive Assessment System (DN:CAS). Methods Eighty-eight children with ADHD who visited the hospital for the first t...
Feng, Yanan Liu, Qi Xie, Xinyan Jiang, Qi Zhu, Kaiheng Xiao, Pei Wu, Xiaoqian Zuo, Pengxiang Song, Ranran
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Frontiers in Pediatrics
Numerous studies have been conducted to explore the risk factors for reading disabilities (RDs) among children. Based on these studies, factors such as gender, socioeconomic status, and the home literacy environment have been widely found to be associated with children who have RDs. However, children from a multiethnic city are seldom investigated....
Cadime, Irene Ribeiro, Iolanda Cruz, Joana Cosme, Maria do Céu Meira, Diana Viana, Fernanda Leopoldina Santos, Sandra
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Frontiers in Psychology
In the last decade, ICT-based interventions for developing reading skills in children with reading disabilities have become increasingly popular. This study had three goals: (a) to assess the existence of gains in word reading, oral reading fluency and listening comprehension after a Tier 2 intervention using the digital tool “I’m still learning,” ...
Gesel, Samantha A. Donegan, Rachel E. Heo, Jungyeong Petscher, Yaacov Wanzek, Jeanne Otaiba, Stephanie Al Lemons, Christopher J.
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Reading and writing
Recent research has focused on evaluating the relation between mindset and reading achievement. We used exploratory factor mixture models (E-FMMs) to examine the heterogeneity in reading achievement and mindset of 650 fourth graders with reading difficulties. To build E-FMMs, we conducted confirmatory factor analyses to examine the factor structure...
Paakkari, Leena Okan, Orkan Torppa, Minna
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International journal of public health
