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Minor Neurological Dysfunction Is More Closely Related to Learning Difficulties than to Behavioral Problems.
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Hadders-Algra, Mijna; Touwen, Bert C. I. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1992
This study of 570 children (age 9) in the Netherlands found that the presence and severity of minor neurological dysfunction was significantly related to poor performance on standardized reading, spelling, and arithmetic tests and to a lesser extent was related to ratings of distractible behavior. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Foreign Countries, Incidence
Automatization Aspects of Dyslexia: Speed Limitations in Word Identification, Sensitivity to Increasing Task Demands, and Orthographic Compensation.
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van der Leij, Aryan; van Daal, Victor H. P. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1999
Ten students (age 10) with dyslexia were compared to 10 chronological-age controls and 20 reading-age controls. Response latencies of the students with dyslexia were slower when familiar words, letter clusters, and nonwords had to be named. A larger word-frequency effect and larger word-length effect indicate difficulty with increasing task…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
A Comparison of Three Methods of Reading-while-Listening.
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van Bon, Wim H. J.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1991
This study of 36 backward readers (mean age=111 months) from the Netherlands determined that repeated reading-while-listening of the same text did not lead to better results (except in reading speed) than reading different texts, and asking readers to detect mismatches between written and spoken texts did not improve performance. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Error Correction, Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness