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Strien, Jan W.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1995
Forty children with dyslexia were treated with visual hemisphere-specific stimulation based on their subtype of dyslexia. Children with L-type dyslexia (hurried, inaccurate reading) who received treatment with anxiety-laden words made fewer substantive errors and more fragmentations on a text-reading task, compared to children who received…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Dyslexia, Elementary Education

Kappers, E. Jan – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1997
Integrated treatment methods of neuropsychological and cognitive origin were evaluated with 80 Dutch children (ages 6-15) with severe dyslexia. Treatment with flash cards, which exercised automatic letter-sound conversions, had a robust and slight effect in preclinical and clinical phases respectively, whereas hemisphere stimulation produced…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education