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Bosse, Marie-Line; Valdois, Sylviane – Journal of Research in Reading, 2009
The visual attention (VA) span deficit hypothesis was found successfully to account for variability in developmental dyslexia (Bosse, Tainturier & Valdois, 2007). We conducted a cross-sectional study on 417 typically developing children from first, third and fifth grades examining the role of VA span on the development of reading skills. A battery…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Attention Span, Phonemes, Dyslexia
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Bosse, Marie-Line; Tainturier, Marie Josephe; Valdois, Sylviane – Cognition, 2007
The visual attention (VA) span is defined as the amount of distinct visual elements which can be processed in parallel in a multi-element array. Both recent empirical data and theoretical accounts suggest that a VA span deficit might contribute to developmental dyslexia, independently of a phonological disorder. In this study, this hypothesis was…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, Attention, Attention Span, Dyslexia