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Peer reviewedSchubert, Delwyn G.; Walton, Howard N. – The Reading Teacher, 1968
The relationship of astigmatism to reading and the possible detrimental effects it might have on reading were investigated. The greatest incidence of astigmatism was for the with-the-rule type ranging from .50 to 1.00 diopter. This type of astigmatism was induced in 35 seniors from the Los Angeles College of Optometry by placing cylindrical lenses…
Descriptors: Attention Span, College Students, Educational Attitudes, Reading
Peer reviewedTimko, Henry G. – Visible Language, 1973
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Reading Ability, Reading Difficulty
Peer reviewedRubino, Carl A.; Minden, Harold A. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Grade 5, Learning Disabilities, Light, Measurement Instruments
Download full textAllington, Richard L.; And Others – 1975
This study presented 24 third graders drawn from suburban elementary schools with high frequency, low discriminability words in four conditions. Subjects were randomly assigned to the four tasks individually. It was hypothesized that poor and normal readers would differ in their ability to read high frequency, low discriminability words presented…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 3, Reading Difficulty, Reading Processes
Eberly, Donald W. – 1972
Various eye problems and the effects they can have on children's reading abilities are explored in this pamphlet, which is one of a series designed to answer parents' questions about their children's reading development. Topics discussed are the demands on vision made by reading, problems that affect visual acuity (nearsightedness, farsightedness,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Parent Participation, Reading Ability, Reading Development
Smith, Helen K., Ed. – 1968
This bulletin is a compilation of papers dealing with the role of perceptual functions in reading and reading difficulties that were delivered at the 1966-67 Convention of the International Reading Association. Various sections are devoted to discussions of and reports of research on such matters as the auditory and visual modalities in reading,…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Learning Modalities, Paired Associate Learning, Perception
Oxford, Rebecca L. – 1978
Frequently a variety of visual perception difficulties correlate with reading disabilities. A study was made to investigate the relationship between visual perception and reading disability in families, and to explore the genetic aspects of the relationship. One-hundred twenty-five reading-disabled students, ages 7.5 to 12 years, were matched with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Characteristics, Learning Disabilities
NEWTON, KENNETH R.; AND OTHERS – 1966
THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PREREADING MEASURES OF VISUAL-MOTOR-PERCEPTUAL SKILLS AND READING ACHIEVEMENT WERE STUDIED. SUBJECTS WERE 172 FIRST GRADERS. PRETESTS AND POST-TESTS FOR WORD RECOGNITION, MOTOR COORDINATION, AND VISUAL PERCEPTION WERE ADMINISTERED. FOURTEEN VARIABLES WERE TESTED. RESULTS INDICATED THAT FORM-COPYING WAS MORE EFFECTIVE THAN…
Descriptors: Age, Associative Learning, Factual Reading, Intelligence Quotient
Melowsky, Fred; Ray, Joseph B. – 1975
A comparison of test results on the Visual Discrimination Test was made between a group of 22 reading disabled children and 22 children who were reading on or above grade level. Both groups were of average or above-average intelligence and the two groups were matched for age and sex. The mean age was 10 years and 3 months and all the reading…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Education, Perception Tests
Restaino, Lillian C. R. – 1968
To investigate the underlying factors of visual discrimination, memory, rule abstraction, language, and serial ordering in reading success, 79 poor and 65 good deaf readers were administered a battery of tests. Poor readers were deficient in lower-order visual discrimination and memory abilities; higher-order visual discrimination skills were…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Exceptional Child Research, Hearing Impairments
Fisher, Dennis F. – 1976
Some basic pattern-analyzing functions that occur during the reading process are described in this paper. The functions deal mainly with the analysis of typographical factors such as word shape, spacing, and orientation, but they also interact with contextual variables. The research interpreted in the paper proposes an attentional model of reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Conference Reports, Eye Movements
Vernon, Magdalen D., Comp. – 1973
The lengthy annotations in this bibliography of recent research on visual perception and its relation to reading are classified in four main groupings: (1) development of perception of complex forms and attention to significant details, (2) the ability to perceive visual form in relation to reading, (3) perception of letters and words, and (4)…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
