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de Jong, Peter F.; Messbauer, Vera C. S. – Dyslexia, 2011
We tested the hypothesis that the acquisition of orthographic knowledge of novel words that are presented in an indistinct context, that is a context with many orthographically similar words, would be more difficult for dyslexic than for normal readers. Participants were 19 Dutch dyslexic children (mean age 10;9 years), 20 age-matched and 20…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading, Orthographic Symbols, Children
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Snellings, Patrick; van der Leij, Aryan; de Jong, Peter F.; Blok, Henk – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2009
Breznitz (2006) demonstrated that Hebrew-speaking adults with reading disabilities benefited from a training in which reading rate was experimentally manipulated. In the present study, the authors examine whether silent reading training enhances the sentence reading rate and comprehension of children with reading disabilities and whether results…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Reading Difficulties, Sentences, Silent Reading