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Bekebrede, Judith; van der Leij, Aryan; Share, David L. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
The phonological-core variable-orthographic differences (PCVOD) model [van der Leij, & Morfidi (2006). "Journal of Learning Disabilities," 39, 74-90] has been proposed as an explanation for the heterogeneity among dyslexic readers in their profiles of reading-related subskills. The predictions of this model were investigated in a…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Spelling, Silent Reading, Reading Fluency
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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