The information in this volume documents the author's extensive series of investigations concerning the syntactic abilities of good readers compared to dyslexics with reading comprehension difficulties. Findings corroborate the importance of syntactic ability in the reading process and confirm Goodman's psycholinguistic model of reading. Chapters…

It is stated that dyslexia is a disorder of auditory origin. The meaning of dyslexia is divided into the medical and educational aspects of the disease in an attempt to lead the teacher to emphasize hearing in education rather than merely sight. The role of the teacher, doctor, and psychologist in the history of dyslexia is discussed. In dealing…

Syntactic abilities in oral language of twenty normal and twenty dyslexic second grade boys were investigated. The major hypothesis was that dyslexic children with reading comprehension difficulties are deficient in oral syntax. The concept of syntax was subdivided into five categories: (1) recognition of melody pattern, (2) recognition of…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether primary dyslexic children are impaired equally in the areas of language and cognition and to assess the value of verbal cues in raising the dyslexic group's performance on word-retrieval tasks. Two groups of male children were used in the investigation. The experimental group consisted of primary…

British research developments in 1972 in the areas of reading standards, dyslexia, remedial provision, length of schooling, language and reading, and materials and medium are summarized in this booklet. Also included are annotated listings of articles and books covering such subjects as teaching methods, cultural deprivation, personality and…

The article defines the term dyslexia, summarizes a specific instructional procedure developed by the Texas Education Agency, describes a training plan for school district personnel, and offers cautious suggestions to those responsible for the education of dyslexic children. (CB)

Shows that fingerspelling makes learning the task of separating the word into its parts fun as well as easier for some students. (FL)

The terms reading disability and dyslexia are discussed, as well as the meaning of function analysis as a way of diagnosing behavior and difficulties in reading and spelling. The author's model classifies reading disability and dyslexia as auditory, auditory-visual, visual, emotional, or pedagogic. The Bergen Study is described. (Author/LMO)

Compares the spelling errors on the Wide Range Achievement Test II made by adults with an apparent autosomal dominant form of dyslexia to those made by their normal adult relatives and by spelling-age matched normal controls using a computerized error evaluation program. (HOD)

Discusses ways of identifying and helping gifted-disabled students--students who possess high intellectual abilities but also have some learning disorder. (FL)

Describes the strategies used by a technical writing teacher who encouraged a dyslexic university engineering student to use a microcomputer as an aid in composition writing, and discusses how a word processing program was used to make the writing process easier and increase the student's self-confidence. (MBR)

Presents a program for preschool and primary children with special learning difficulties and dyslexia, the emphasis being on the manipulation of concrete multisensory stimuli and didactic materials as the avenue to learning. Describes both the hard- and soft-ware used in the program. (VJ)

Significant differences between dyslexic children and controls were found in identification and discrimination of synthesized voiced stop consonants differing in place of articulation. Results suggest an inconsistency in the dyslexics' phonetic classification of auditory cues. A significant relationship was found between reading level and speech…