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Direct linkHebert, Megan; Zhang, Xiaozhou; Parrila, Rauno – Annals of Dyslexia, 2018
The current study aimed to examine performance times during text reading and question answering of students with and without a history of reading difficulties. Forty-three university students with a history of reading difficulties (HRD) were compared to 124 university students without a history of reading difficulties on measures of word and…
Descriptors: College Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Rate
Nelson, Jason M.; Lindstrom, Will; Foels, Patricia A.; Lamkin, Joanna; Dwyer, Lucia – Annals of Dyslexia, 2019
Although reading is an essential skill for college success, little is known about how college students with and without disabilities read within their actual college curriculum. In the present article, we report on two studies addressing this issue. Within study 1, we developed and validated curriculum-based oral reading fluency measures using a…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, College Students, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency
Deacon, S. Helene; Cook, Kathryn; Parrila, Rauno – Annals of Dyslexia, 2012
We used a questionnaire to identify university students with self-reported difficulties in reading acquisition during elementary school (self-report; n = 31). The performance of the self-report group on standardized measures of word and non-word reading and fluency, passage comprehension and reading rate, and phonological awareness was compared to…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, College Students, Questionnaires, Reading Fluency
Peer reviewedAaron, P. G.; Phillips, Scott – Annals of Dyslexia, 1986
Among findings from analysis of several research projects involving a total of 20 dyslexic college students are typical student characteristics of slow reading rate, error-prone oral reading, poor written spelling, and grammatically incorrect writing; origin in poor mastery of grapheme-phoneme relationships; and adequacy of oral language skills.…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Skills, Decoding (Reading), Dyslexia
Peer reviewedHecker, Linda; Burns, Liza; Elkind, Jerome; Elkind, Kenneth; Katz, Lynda – Annals of Dyslexia, 2002
A study investigated how assistive reading software affected the reading performance of 20 postsecondary students who had attention deficit disorder. The software allowed the students to attend better to their reading, reduce distractibility, read with less stress, and read for longer periods of time. It did not affect comprehension. (Contains…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Attention Deficit Disorders, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction
