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Singer, Elly – Dyslexia, 2008
This paper reports the results of a study of strategies that Dutch children with dyslexia employ to cope with recurrent academic failure. All of the students in the study had developed strategies for protecting their self-esteem. Using Harter's theory of coping with discrepancies between performance and standards, we distinguish four strategies:…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Academic Failure, Academic Achievement, Coping
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van Otterloo, Sandra G.; van der Leij, Aryan; Veldkamp, Esther – Dyslexia, 2006
Treatment integrity is an underexposed issue in the phonological awareness intervention research. The current study assessed the integrity of treatment of the families (N = 32) participating in the experimental condition of a home-based pre-reading intervention study. The participating kindergartners were all genetically at risk for developing…
Descriptors: Intervention, Phonological Awareness, Integrity, Reading Skills