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Differential Cognitive and Perceptual Correlates of Print Reading versus Braille Reading
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Veispak, Anneli; Boets, Bart; Ghesquiere, Pol – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
The relations between reading, auditory, speech, phonological and tactile spatial processing are investigated in a Dutch speaking sample of blind braille readers as compared to sighted print readers. Performance is assessed in blind and sighted children and adults. Regarding phonological ability, braille readers perform equally well compared to…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Auditory Perception, Phonological Awareness, Braille
Phonological and Sensory Short-Term Memory Are Correlates and Both Affected in Developmental Dyslexia
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Laasonen, Marja; Virsu, Veijo; Oinonen, Suvi; Sandbacka, Mirja; Salakari, Anita; Service, Elisabet – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
We investigated whether poor short-term memory (STM) in developmental dyslexia affects the processing of sensory stimulus sequences in addition to phonological material. STM for brief binary non-verbal stimuli (light flashes, tone bursts, finger touches, and their crossmodal combinations) was studied in 20 Finnish adults with dyslexia and 24…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Verbal Stimuli, Short Term Memory, Reading Ability
Dyslexia: What You Can - and Can't - Do About It
Crosby, R. M. N.; Liston, Robert A. – Grade Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Dyslexia, Neurological Impairments, Perceptual Development
Reading Achievement: Characteristics Associated with Success and Failure: Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations Published in "Dissertation Abstracts International," July through September 1978 (Vol. 39 Nos. 1 through 3).
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 25 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: reading achievement as it relates to child dependency, the development of phonological coding, short-term memory and associative learning, variables available in…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Associative Learning, Behavior Patterns, Cloze Procedure