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Dyslexia,Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 44-58, February 2018. (Source: Dyslexia)
Source: Dyslexia - July 26, 2017 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Response to Intervention as a Predictor of Long ‐Term Reading Outcomes in Children with Dyslexia
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 pseudoword (following regular Dutch orthographic patterns) reading efficiency and compared to 93 typical readers. In grade 5 the children with dyslexia were still significantly slower in word and pseudoword reading than their typically developing peers. Results showed that long...
Source: Dyslexia - July 9, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Sanne W. Kleij, Eliane Segers, Margriet A. Groen, Ludo Verhoeven Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Psychological Well ‐being Trajectories of Individuals with Dyslexia Aged 3–11 Years
Dyslexia has been associated with a range of psychological well‐being issues in childhood. However, it is unclear if these difficulties stem from coping with academic struggles at school, or from other pre‐existing diagnoses that sometimes co‐occur with dyslexia. Using UK Millennium Cohort Study data (n = 7224) from 2003 to 2011, the present study compared psychological well‐being development from ages 3–11 years for children with (1) dyslexia only; (2) special educational needs excluding dyslexia; (3) comorbid dyslexia and other special educational needs; and (4) no special educational needs. Growth curve mod...
Source: Dyslexia - May 3, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Julie ‐Ann Jordan, Kevin Dyer Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Word Decoding Development during Phonics Instruction in Children at Risk for Dyslexia
In the present study, we examined the early word decoding development of 73 children at genetic risk of dyslexia and 73 matched controls. We conducted monthly curriculum‐embedded word decoding measures during the first 5 months of phonics‐based reading instruction followed by standardized word decoding measures halfway and by the end of first grade. In kindergarten, vocabulary, phonological awareness, lexical retrieval, and verbal and visual short‐term memory were assessed. The results showed that the children at risk were less skilled in phonemic awareness in kindergarten. During the first 5 months of reading inst...
Source: Dyslexia - May 3, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Moniek M.H. Schaars, Eliane Segers, Ludo Verhoeven Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
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Source: Dyslexia - May 3, 2017 Category: Neurology Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Socially Desirable Responding and College Students with Dyslexia: Implications for the Assessment of Anxiety and Depression
We investigated self‐reported depressive and anxiety‐related symptoms among college students with dyslexia, with emphasis on the role of socially desirable responding (SDR) in understanding these reports. Analyses included examination of differences in self‐reported depressive symptoms, anxiety‐related symptoms, and SDR. We also examined the relationships among SDR, depressive symptoms, anxiety‐related symptoms, and reading skills. Participants with dyslexia demonstrated significantly higher SDR than did participants without dyslexia, and higher SDR was significantly associated with lower self‐reported depressi...
Source: Dyslexia - May 1, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Jason M. Nelson, Spencer W. Liebel Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
A Three ‐Year Longitudinal Study of Reading and Spelling Difficulty in Chinese Developmental Dyslexia: The Matter of Morphological Awareness
In the present study, we used a three‐time point longitudinal design to investigate the associations of morphological awareness to word reading and spelling in a small group of those with and without dyslexia taken from a larger sample of 164 Hong Kong Chinese children who remained in a longitudinal study across ages 6, 7 and 8. Among those 164 children, 15 had been diagnosed as having dyslexia by professional psychologists, and 15 other children manifested average reading ability and had been randomly selected from the sample for comparison. All children were administered a battery of tasks including Chinese character r...
Source: Dyslexia - May 1, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Xiuhong Tong, Catherine McBride, Jason Chor Ming Lo, Hua Shu Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Exploring the Link between Visual Perception, Visual –Motor Integration, and Reading in Normal Developing and Impaired Children using DTVP‐2
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–motor integration using the Developmental Test of Visual Perception version 2 (DTVP‐2). Study 1 tests how visual perception and visual–motor integration in kindergarten predict reading outcomes in Grade 1, in typical developing children. Study 2 is aimed at finding out if...
Source: Dyslexia - May 1, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: St éphanie Bellocchi, Mathilde Muneaux, Andréa Huau, Yohana Lévêque, Marianne Jover, Stéphanie Ducrot Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Postural Control in Children with Dyslexia: Effects of Emotional Stimuli in a Dual ‐Task Environment
The aim of this study was to compare the visual exploration strategies used during a postural control task across participants with and without dyslexia. We simultaneously recorded eye movements and postural control while children were viewing different types of emotional faces. Twenty‐two children with dyslexia and twenty‐two aged‐matched children without dyslexia participated in the study. We analysed the surface area, the length and the mean velocity of the centre of pressure for balance in parallel with visual saccadic latency, the number of saccades and the time spent in regions of interest. Our results showed t...
Source: Dyslexia - May 1, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Nathalie Goul ème, Christophe‐Loïc Gerard, Maria Pia Bucci Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Early Identification of Reading Difficulties: A Screening Strategy that Adjusts the Sensitivity to the Level of Prediction Accuracy
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 screening before the onset of formal reading instruction with late screening six months into the first year of instruction. The study followed 164 Danish students from the end of Grade 0 to the end of Grade 2. Early screening included measures of phonemic awareness, rapid naming...
Source: Dyslexia - May 1, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Mads Poulsen, Anne ‐Mette Veber Nielsen, Holger Juul, Carsten Elbro Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Short ‐term Memory in Childhood Dyslexia: Deficient Serial Order in Multiple Modalities
In children with dyslexia, deficits in working memory have not been well‐specified. We assessed second‐grade children with dyslexia, with and without concomitant specific language impairment, and children with typical development. Immediate serial recall of lists of phonological (non‐word), lexical (digit), spatial (location) and visual (shape) items were included. For the latter three modalities, we used not only standard span but also running span tasks, in which the list length was unpredictable to limit mnemonic strategies. Non‐word repetition tests indicated a phonological memory deficit in children with dysle...
Source: Dyslexia - May 1, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Nelson Cowan, Tiffany P. Hogan, Mary Alt, Samuel Green, Kathryn L. Cabbage, Shara Brinkley, Shelley Gray Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Verbal and Non ‐verbal Fluency in Adults with Developmental Dyslexia: Phonological Processing or Executive Control Problems?
The executive function of fluency describes the ability to generate items according to specific rules. Production of words beginning with a certain letter (phonemic fluency) is impaired in dyslexia, while generation of words belonging to a certain semantic category (semantic fluency) is typically unimpaired. However, in dyslexia, verbal fluency has generally been studied only in terms of overall words produced. Furthermore, performance of adults with dyslexia on non‐verbal design fluency tasks has not been explored but would indicate whether deficits could be explained by executive control, rather than phonological proce...
Source: Dyslexia - May 1, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: James H. Smith ‐Spark, Lucy A. Henry, David J. Messer, Adam P. Zięcik Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
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Source: Dyslexia - February 5, 2017 Category: Neurology Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Morpheme ‐based Reading and Spelling in Italian Children with Developmental Dyslexia and Dysorthography
Italian sixth graders, with and without dyslexia, read pseudowords and low‐frequency words that include high‐frequency morphemes better than stimuli not including any morpheme. The present study assessed whether morphemes affect (1) younger children, with and without dyslexia; (2) spelling as well as reading; and (3) words with low‐frequency morphemes. Two groups of third graders (16 children with dyslexia and dysorthography and 16 age‐matched typically developing children) read aloud and spelt to dictation pseudowords and words. Pseudowords included (1) root + suffix in not existing combinations (e.g. lampadista...
Source: Dyslexia - January 31, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Paola Angelelli, Chiara Valeria Marinelli, Marinella De Salvatore, Cristina Burani Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
