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Bosse, Marie-Line; Valdois, Sylviane – Journal of Research in Reading, 2009
The visual attention (VA) span deficit hypothesis was found successfully to account for variability in developmental dyslexia (Bosse, Tainturier & Valdois, 2007). We conducted a cross-sectional study on 417 typically developing children from first, third and fifth grades examining the role of VA span on the development of reading skills. A battery…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Attention Span, Phonemes, Dyslexia
Zuk, Dorie; Danner, Fred – 1986
A study investigated the effects of microcomputers on children's attention to reading tasks and the relationship between previous reading achievement and grade level on such attentional behavior. Fifty-five third and fifth graders read two stories each, one presented on a microcomputer and one presented in print. Television cartoons and rock music…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Span, Books, Comparative Analysis