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Katie Lane-Karnas – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2023
The article is a family-presented case study on how cerebral visual impairment (CVI) impairs the author's 13-year-old child's ability to read print and how the author discovered that braille is the only effective way for their child to access literacy. There is a cohort of individuals with CVI who subconsciously take advantage of other methods to…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Braille, Reading Difficulties, Personal Narratives
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Colenbrander, Danielle; Miles, Katharine Pace; Ricketts, Jessie – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2019
Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine when, why, and how the presence of a word's written form during instruction aids vocabulary learning (a process known as "orthographic facilitation"). Method: A systematic review of the research on orthographic facilitation was carried out. PsycInfo, Web of Science, ProQuest, and OpenGrey…
Descriptors: Spelling, Visual Learning, Vocabulary Development, Instructional Effectiveness
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Gabel, Lisa A.; Manglani, Monica; Escalona, Nicholas; Cysner, Jessica; Hamilton, Rachel; Pfaffmann, Jeffrey; Johnson, Evelyn – Annals of Dyslexia, 2016
Direct relationships between induced mutation in the "DCDC2" candidate dyslexia susceptibility gene in mice and changes in behavioral measures of visual spatial learning have been reported. We were interested in determining whether performance on a visual-spatial learning and memory task could be translated across species (study 1) and…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Spatial Ability, Visual Learning, Reading Difficulties
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Liu, Sisi; Wang, Li-Chih; Liu, Duo – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2019
The present study examined whether temporal processing (TP) is associated with reading of a non-alphabetic script, that is, Chinese. A total of 126 primary school-aged Chinese children from Taiwan (63 children with dyslexia) completed cross-modal, visual, and auditory temporal order judgment tasks and measures of Chinese reading and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Modalities, Children, Dyslexia
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Boumaraf, Assia; Macoir, Joël – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Deep dyslexia is a written language disorder characterized by poor reading of non-words, and advantage for concrete over abstract words with production of semantic, visual and morphological errors. In this single case study of an Arabic patient with input deep dyslexia, we investigated the impact of graphic features of Arabic on manifestations of…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Case Studies, Patients, Semitic Languages