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Sarah Fishstrom; Philip Capin; Anna-Mari Fall; Gregory Roberts; Amie E. Grills; Sharon Vaughn – Annals of Dyslexia, 2024
This study examined the relations between reading anxiety, general anxiety, and test anxiety in a sample of students with reading difficulties (n = 536). It also tested if dimensions of anxiety were differentially related to word reading accuracy and fluency, text reading fluency, or reading comprehension. The results indicated that the three…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Difficulties, Anxiety, Reading
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Jimenez-Fernandez, Gracia; Vaquero, Joaquin M. M.; Jimenez, Luis; Defior, Sylvia – Annals of Dyslexia, 2011
Dyslexia is a specific learning disability characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling abilities. The absence of other high level cognitive deficits in the dyslexic population has led some authors to propose that non-strategical processes like implicit learning could be impaired in this…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, Word Recognition
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Sawyer, Diane J.; Wade, Sally; Kim, Jwa K. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1999
Characteristics of spelling development and spelling error patterns were examined in 100 schoolchildren (ages 7 to 15) previously identified as dyslexic with specific phonological weaknesses. Comparison of subgroups indicated that better spellers are also better readers and that measures of phonemic segmenting and manipulation make independent…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Patterns, Phonemics