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Park, Hyun-Rin; Uno, Akira – Dyslexia, 2012
In this study, we investigated the characteristics of cognitive abilities as predictors of Korean reading and spelling ability, and the characteristics of the cognition of reading difficulty in Korean. In 103 Korean third-grade children, we tested ability to read and spell, nonverbal intelligence, vocabulary size, phonological cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Reading Tests, Spelling, Reading Difficulties
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Nikolopoulos, Dimitris S.; Pothos, Emmanuel M. – Dyslexia, 2009
We examine the performance of dyslexic participants on an unsupervised categorization task against that of matched non-dyslexic control participants. Unsupervised categorization is a cognitive process critical for conceptual development. Existing research in dyslexia has emphasized perceptual tasks and supervised categorization tasks (for which…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Classification, Stimuli, Reading Ability
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Elbeheri, Gad; Everatt, John; Malki, Mohammad Al – Dyslexia, 2009
This paper investigates the incidence of dyslexia among young offenders in Kuwait. A total of 91 children/young adults from 8 juvenile delinquent welfare centres across Kuwait were interviewed and tested. A measure of non-verbal reasoning ability was used to exclude those with low general ability. The remaining 53 participants were tested on their…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Delinquency, Incidence, Dyslexia