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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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Ding, Yi; Richman, Lynn C.; Yang, Ling-yan; Guo, Jian-peng – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
The purpose of this study was to evaluate rapid automatized naming skills (RAN) and immediate memory processes in 243 Chinese Mandarin-speaking elementary readers (ranging from Grade 1 to Grade 5). For RAN subtests, the mean naming time decreased monotonically with grade level in good and average readers, and a similar trajectory was found in poor…
Descriptors: Cues, Speech Communication, Reading Difficulties, Disabilities
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Solan, Harold A. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1985
Three case histories illustrate the efficacy of a treatment program which included both visual training and the improvement of reading efficiency. The three students showed significant improvement in visual functioning and reading efficiency as measured by eye-movement recordings after a relatively brief period of training. (Author)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Eye Movements, Intervention, Reading Difficulties
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Canning, Patricia M.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1980
Male and female retarded readers (N=80) at two age levels (6.5 to 8.5 years and 10.5 to 12.5 years) did not differ significantly on a number of perceptual, visual-motor, linguistic, and concept formation abilities. (Author)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Linguistic Performance
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Amoriell, William J. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1979
Results of perceptual tests administered to 50 retarded readers and 50 average readers in third grade indicated a significant difference between the two groups on visual sequential memory for letters. (CL)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Aural Learning, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research
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Montali, Julie; Lewandowski, Lawrence – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1996
Eighteen average readers and 18 less-skilled readers (grades 8 and 9) were presented with social studies and science passages via a computer either visually (on screen), auditorily (read by digitized voice), or bimodally (on screen, highlighted while being voiced). Less-skilled readers demonstrated comprehension in the bimodal condition equivalent…
Descriptors: Artificial Speech, Computer Assisted Instruction, Content Area Reading, Instructional Effectiveness