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Ritchie, Stuart J.; Della Sala, Sergio; McIntosh, Robert D. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2012
Colored filters are used to treat Irlen syndrome (IS), a controversial disorder posited to be the cause of a substantial proportion of reading difficulties. Previously, we found that Irlen colored filters do not produce any short-term alleviation of reading difficulties in schoolchildren aged 7-12. Here, we tested whether colored filters show…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Rate, Reading Ability, Children
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Northway, Nadia; Manahilov, Velitchko; Simpson, William – Journal of Research in Reading, 2010
Previous studies of visually symptomatic dyslexics have found that their contrast thresholds for pattern discrimination are the same as non-dyslexics. However, when noise is added to the stimuli, contrast thresholds rise markedly in dyslexics compared with non-dyslexics. This result could be due to impaired noise exclusion in dyslexics. Some…
Descriptors: Reading Rate, Dyslexia, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Visual Perception
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Ludlow, A. K.; Wilkins, A. J.; Heaton, P. – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2008
Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), together with controls matched for age and ability participated in three experiments that assessed the therapeutic benefit of colored overlays. The findings from the first experiment showed that a significantly greater proportion of children with ASD, than controls, increased reading speed when using…
Descriptors: Autism, Reading Rate, Therapy, Color