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Undheim, Anne Mari – Dyslexia, 2009
As part of a larger follow-up study, 75 students were diagnosed with dyslexia at 10 years of age. At the end of secondary school, grades for the whole cohort of 16-year olds were examined. At age 23 the whole study group responded to a questionnaire and the subgroup with dyslexia who responded to this questionnaire were invited to come for testing…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Followup Studies, Foreign Countries, Young Adults
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Frost, Jorgen; Madsbjerg, Sigrid; Niedersoe, Jan; Olofsson, Ake; Sorensen, Peer Moller – Dyslexia, 2005
The present longitudinal study investigated the relationship between pre-school semantic skills (vocabulary, comprehension and sentence construction), phonological awareness and later word decoding and reading comprehension skills. More than 200 Danish children were followed from a speech therapist screening at the age of three, through a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Semantics, Reading Tests
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Jeffries, Sharman; Everatt, John – Dyslexia, 2004
This paper reports a study contrasting dyslexic children against a control group of children without special educational needs (SEN) and a group with varied SENs. Children's abilities were compared on tasks assessing phonological processing, visuo-spatial/motor coordination and executive/inhibitory functioning; being targeted for assessment based…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Reading Difficulties, Learning Problems, Educational Needs