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Source: Dyslexia - January 27, 2015 Category: Neurology Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
A New Self‐Report Inventory of Dyslexia for Students: Criterion and Construct Validity
The validity of a Dutch self‐report inventory of dyslexia was ascertained in two samples of students. Six biographical questions, 20 general language statements and 56 specific language statements were based on dyslexia as a multi‐dimensional deficit.
Dyslexia and non‐dyslexia were assessed with two criteria: identification with test results (Sample 1) and classification using biographical information (both samples). Using discriminant analyses, these criteria were predicted with various groups of statements. All together, 11 discriminant functions were used to estimate classification accuracy of the inventory. In Sa...
Source: Dyslexia - January 27, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Peter Tamboer, Harrie C. M. Vorst Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Rapid Automatized Naming in Children with Dyslexia: Is Inhibitory Control Involved?
Rapid automatized naming (RAN) is widely seen as an important indicator of dyslexia. The nature of the cognitive processes involved in rapid naming is however still a topic of controversy. We hypothesized that in addition to the involvement of phonological processes and processing speed, RAN is a function of inhibition processes, in particular of interference control. A total 86 children with dyslexia and 31 normal readers were recruited. Our results revealed that in addition to phonological processing and processing speed, interference control predicts rapid naming in dyslexia, but in contrast to these other two cognitive...
Source: Dyslexia - December 20, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Anika Bexkens, Wery P. M. Wildenberg, Jurgen Tijms Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Morphological Awareness and Its Role in Compensation in Adults with Dyslexia
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 literacy skills equally in dyslexics and control readers? and (3) Do MA and PA skills differ in compensated and noncompensated dyslexics?
A group of dyslexic and normal reading university students matched for age, education and IQ participated in this study. Group analysis demon...
Source: Dyslexia - November 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Jeremy M. Law, Jan Wouters, Pol Ghesquière Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
‘It Takes Me Half a Bottle of Whisky to Get through One of Your Assignments’: Exploring One Teacher Educator's Personal Experiences of Dyslexia
This article uses a life history approach to explore personal experiences of dyslexia of one higher‐education lecturer and its impact on her professional identity. The informant is currently employed as a lecturer of initial teacher training in a UK university. She worked as a primary school teacher for over a decade prior to embarking on an academic career in teacher education. The informant draws on her own experiences as a pupil, teacher and lecturer, and additionally, she presents accounts of student teachers with dyslexia drawn from her current professional context.
Although the data are not generalizable, the accou...
Source: Dyslexia - November 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Jonathan Glazzard, Kirsty Dale Tags: Innovations and Insights Source Type: research
Word Position and Stress Effects in Consonant Cluster Perception and Production
The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the saliency effect for word beginnings reported in children with dyslexia (Marshall & Van der Lely, 2009) can be found also in typically developing children. Thirty‐four typically developing Italian children aged 8–10 years completed two specifically designed tasks: a production task and a perception task. Both tasks used nonwords containing clusters consisting of plosive plus liquid (e.g. pl). Clusters could be either in a stressed or in an unstressed syllable and could be either in initial position (first syllable) or in medial position (second syllable)....
Source: Dyslexia - November 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Luca Cilibrasi, Vesna Stojanovik, Patricia Riddell Tags: Short Report Source Type: research
Diverse Inhibition and Working Memory of Word Recognition for Dyslexic and Typically Developing Children
The present study focuses on (1) comparing dyslexic and typically developing children's cognitive and behavioural inhibitory abilities; (2) examining the relationship between word recognition, inhibition, and working memory in dyslexic and typically developing children by correlation, regression and path analyses. Participants in the present study were sampled from 3rd and 4th graders in Taiwan. Results indicated that dyslexic and typically developing children did not significantly differ in behavioural inhibition. In contrast, dyslexic children showed significantly lower levels of cognitive inhibition compared to typicall...
Source: Dyslexia - November 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Li‐Chih Wang, Hsien‐Ming Yang Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Developmental Dyslexia and Phonological Processing in European Portuguese Orthography
This study analysed the performance of phonological processing, the diagnostic accuracy and the influence on reading in children who were native speakers of an orthography of intermediate depth. Portuguese children with developmental dyslexia (DD; N = 24; aged 10–12 years), chronological age (CA)‐matched controls (N = 24; aged 10–12 years) and reading level (RL)‐matched controls (N = 24; aged 7–9 years) were tested on measures of phonological processing (phonological awareness, naming speed and verbal short‐term memory) and reading. The results indicated that the children with DD performed sig...
Source: Dyslexia - November 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Octávio Moura, Joana Moreno, Marcelino Pereira, Mário R. Simões Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Reading Speed and Phonological Awareness Deficits Among Arabic‐Speaking Children with Dyslexia
Although reading accuracy of isolated words and phonological awareness represent the main criteria of subtyping developmental dyslexia, there is increasing evidence that reduced reading speed also represents a defining characteristic. In the present study, reading speed and accuracy were measured in Arabic‐speaking phonological and mixed dyslexic children matched with controls of the same age. Participants in third and fourth grades, aged from 9–10 to 9–8 years, were given single frequent and infrequent word and pseudo‐word reading and phonological awareness tasks. Results showed that the group with dyslexia scored...
Source: Dyslexia - November 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Smail Layes, Robert Lalonde, Mohamed Rebaï Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Psychosocial Functioning of Children with and without Dyslexia: A Follow‐up Study from Ages Four to Nine
This longitudinal study compares developmental changes in psychosocial functioning during the transition into school of children with and without dyslexia. In addition, it examines the effects of gender and family risk for dyslexia in terms of the associations between dyslexia and psychosocial functioning. Children's psychosocial functioning (social skills, inattention and externalizing and internalizing problems) was evaluated by their parents at ages 4, 6 and 9, and diagnosis for dyslexia was made at age 8 (in grade 2). The findings indicated that children with dyslexia were already rated as having poorer social skills a...
Source: Dyslexia - November 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: P. Parhiala, M. Torppa, K. Eklund, T. Aro, A.‐M. Poikkeus, R. Heikkilä, T. Ahonen Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Prosody and Reading in Dyslexic Children
This study investigates the role of prosody in the reading aloud of dyslexic children. Ten dyslexic and 30 non‐dyslexic control children (mean age 9.5 and 9.9 years, respectively) were recorded when reading a text of appropriate level and subsequently asked to retell it and tested on its comprehension. The data were analysed acoustically by the WinPitchPro programme. The temporal and intonational processing of reading of the two groups were contrasted and revealed unusual characteristics of the dyslexic group with respect to what follows: (1) temporal processing (reduced speeds of reading and articulation and alteratio...
Source: Dyslexia - August 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Luciana Mendonça Alves, César Reis, Ângela Pinheiro Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
The Inclusion of Students with Dyslexia in Higher Education: A Systematic Review Using Narrative Synthesis
This article reports on a study focusing on the inclusion of students with dyslexia in higher education (HE). A systematic review was carried out to retrieve, critically appraise and synthesize the available evidence on how the inclusion of students with dyslexia can be fostered in HE. The 15 studies included in the final synthesis employed descriptive designs and overwhelmingly used qualitative methods to explore dyslexic students' perceptions on the impact of teaching, support and accommodation in their own learning experience. A critical appraisal of these studies revealed a landscape of significant gaps in the availabl...
Source: Dyslexia - August 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Marco Pino, Luigina Mortari Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Development of Reading and Phonological Skills of Children at Family Risk for Dyslexia: A Longitudinal Analysis from Kindergarten to Sixth Grade
The main focus of this article is to develop a better understanding of the developmental trajectories of literacy and phonological skills within Dutch‐speaking children. Children at high and low risk for dyslexia were followed and compared at four different moments: kindergarten and first, third and sixth grades. Three groups were then compared: (1) dyslexic readers; (2) normal readers at high risk for dyslexia; and (3) normal readers at low risk for dyslexia. Children diagnosed with dyslexia scored lower than high‐risk normal readers on phonological awareness (PA), rapid automatized naming (RAN), verbal short‐term m...
Source: Dyslexia - August 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Sophie Dandache, Jan Wouters, Pol Ghesquière Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Reasoning and Dyslexia: is Visual Memory a Compensatory Resource?
Effective reasoning is fundamental to problem solving and achievement in education and employment. Protocol studies have previously suggested that people with dyslexia use reasoning strategies based on visual mental representations, whereas non‐dyslexics use abstract verbal strategies. This research presents converging evidence from experimental and individual differences perspectives. In Experiment 1, dyslexic and non‐dyslexic participants were similarly accurate on reasoning problems, but scores on a measure of visual memory ability only predicted reasoning accuracy for dyslexics. In Experiment 2, a secondary task lo...
Source: Dyslexia - August 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Alison M. Bacon, Simon J. Handley Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Am I Dyslexic? Parental Self‐Report of Literacy Difficulties
In the absence of criteria for the diagnosis of dyslexia, considerable weight is given to self‐report, in particular in studies of children at family risk of dyslexia. The present paper uses secondary data from a previous study to compare parents who self‐report as dyslexic and those who do not, in relation to objectively determined levels of ability. In general, adults are more likely to self‐report as ‘dyslexic’ if they have poorer reading and spelling skills and also if there is a discrepancy between IQ and measured literacy. However, parents of higher social status who have mild literacy difficulties are more...
Source: Dyslexia - August 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Ruth Leavett, Hannah M. Nash, Margaret J. Snowling Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
