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de Bree, Elise; Wijnen, Frank; Gerrits, Ellen – Dyslexia, 2010
This study related the non-word repetition (NWR) abilities of 4-year-old children at-risk of dyslexia and children with specific language impairment (SLI) to their reading abilities at age eight. The results show that the SLI group obtained the lowest NWR score and the at-risk group performed in-between the control and SLI group. Approximately…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Dyslexia, Reading Ability, Followup Studies
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Liu, Wenli; Yue, Guoan – Dyslexia, 2012
The ability to identify stop consonants from brief onset spectra was compared between a group of Chinese children with phonological dyslexia (the PD group, with a mean age of 10 years 4 months) and a group of chronological age-matched control children. The linguistic context, which included vowels and speakers, and durations of stop onset spectra…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Age, Context Effect, Dyslexia
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Jones, Manon W.; Branigan, Holly P.; Kelly, M. Louise – Dyslexia, 2008
Developmental dyslexia is often characterized by a visual deficit, but the nature of this impairment and how it relates to reading ability is disputed ("Brain" 2003; "126": 841-865). In order to investigate this issue, we compared groups of adults with and without dyslexia on the Ternus, visual-search and symbols tasks.…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Correlation, Visual Perception, Reading Ability
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Miller-Shaul, Shelley – Dyslexia, 2005
Most of the research into dyslexia has been carried out among children and has raised the question whether the characteristics of young dyslexics are similar to those of adult dyslexics. The aim of this research was, therefore, to confirm whether the cognitive deficits, which appear among young dyslexics on reading and reading related tasks, are…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Dyslexia, Grade 4, Individual Characteristics
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Ghelani, Karen; Sidhu, Robindra; Jain, Umesh; Tannock, Rosemary – Dyslexia, 2004
Reading comprehension is a very complex task that requires different cognitive processes and reading abilities over the life span. There are fewer studies of reading comprehension relative to investigations of word reading abilities. Reading comprehension difficulties, however, have been identified in two common and frequently overlapping…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Skills, Attention Deficit Disorders