Of 115 consecutive dyslexic children referred for psychiatric evaluation on the basis of their poor or refractory response to reading instruction, 112 (97 Percent) children showed evidence of a cerebellar-vestibular dysfunction. (Author)

This paper was part of a symposium on Reading Disabilities presented to teachers in the Denver Public Schools. (Author)

A formulated definition of the term dyslexia is proposed in this paper in order to clarify the semantical confusion which exists among both specialists and the general public. Dyslexia is explained as a generic term for severe and puzzling reading disability, found to be both acute (where reading-age lags 25 percent or more below mental age) and…

Among the findings of the study of 141 dyslexic, reading retarded, and normal reading children was that the classic pathognomic signs of dyslexia (such as letter reversals and rotations) were reliably associated with poor reading but not specifically with diagnosed dyslexia. (Author/DLS)

Hypotheses accounting for the pattern of deficits in specific developmental dyslexia were examined. The theory postulates that the disorder reflects a lag in maturation of the central nervous system, particularly the left cerebral hemisphere. The hypotheses in question predicted that skills developing ontogenetically earlier (visual-motor and…

The selected bibliography of reading methods and problems contains an explanation of indexing and approximately 100 abstracts to be drawn from the computer file of abstracts representing the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings as of August, 1972. Abstracts are said to be chosen using the criteria of availability…

This series of nine articles on dyslexia, or specific language disability, originally appeared in the Baltimore "Evening Sun" in response to increasing public interest regarding reading disabilities and handicaps. These articles summarize the methods of identifying and teaching these children and discuss the school's common failure to identify and…

Gives a case history of a strange disability called dyslexia, and tells how the person struggled his way into college without knowing how to read. (Editor/GB)

Advocated is an experiment for testing a new initial alphabet which maximizes the pattern differences between characters without the use of new symbols. (KW)

The three subtypes children with dyslexic reading and spelling difficulties are classified into: the dysphonetic group, the dyseidetic group, and the growth which suffers from both dysphonetic and dyseidetic deficiencies. (EK)

Twenty-eight reading disabled children (in grades 2-4) were divided (on the basis of the nature of errors made in a writing from dictation task), into two groups--analytic-sequential deficient and holistic-simultaneous deficient. (Author/PHR)