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Schiff, Rachel; Katzir, Tami; Shoshan, Noa – Annals of Dyslexia, 2013
The present study examined the effects of orthographic transparency on reading ability of children with dyslexia in two Hebrew scripts. The study explored the reading accuracy and speed of vowelized and unvowelized Hebrew words of fourth-grade children with dyslexia. A comparison was made to typically developing readers of two age groups: a group…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Semitic Languages, Reading, Accuracy
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Shany, Michal; Share, David L. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2011
Whereas most English language sub-typing schemes for dyslexia (e.g., Castles & Coltheart, "1993") have focused on reading accuracy for words varying in regularity, such an approach may have limited utility for reading disability sub-typing beyond English in which fluency rather than accuracy is the key discriminator of developmental and individual…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Reading Difficulties, Phonological Awareness, Reading Ability
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DeFries, J. C. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1988
Composite measures of reading performance and symbol-processing speed were analyzed in a total of 105 reading-disabled children (age 7-12) and 97 controls over an interval of 4-8 years. Rates of change in reading performance were highly similar for subjects and controls, but differences in symbol-processing speed increased as a function of age.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Longitudinal Studies, Reading Ability