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Vellutino, Frank R.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1983
Two studies evaluated the interhemispheric transmission deficit explanation of reading disability by comparing second- and sixth-grade normal and poor readers on learning and discrimination tasks involving hemispheric presentations of visual stimuli. Results suggested verbal processing rather than interhemispheric transmission as a cause of group…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Dyslexia, Grade 2
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Roeltgen, David P.; Heilman, Kenneth M. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1985
Proposes a theoretical information-processing-based neuropsychological model of writing and oral spelling which contains linguistic and motor components and which helps explain agraphia independently of other language disorders. Disruption of the phonological system is thought to cause phonological agraphia. Disruption of the lexical system is…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Information Processing, Language Handicaps, Language Processing