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Barry, Johanna G.; Harbodt, Silke; Cantiani, Chiara; Sabisch, Beate; Zobay, Oliver – Dyslexia, 2012
Sensitivity to lexical stress in adult German-speaking students with reading difficulty was investigated using minimal pair prepositional verbs whose meaning and syntax depend on the location of the stressed syllable. Two tests of stress perception were used: (i) a stress location task, where listeners indicated the location of the perceptually…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Difficulties, College Students, Suprasegmentals
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Papadopoulos, Timothy C.; Georgiou, George K.; Parrila, Rauno K. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
This article reports two different studies examining the theoretical account of low-level deficits in beat perception as an alternative explanation of developmental dyslexia in Greek, an orthographically consistent language. Study I examined the relationship of amplitude rise time and frequency discrimination with measures of phonological…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Greek, Auditory Perception, Language Rhythm
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Rowan, Linda – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2014
This study considered the previous educational experiences, decision-making, and first-year experiences of four students who self-identified as learning with dyslexia within one university in New Zealand. The study showed that despite achieving the required standards for entrance to study at university, some students lacked the knowledge and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Experience, Decision Making, Dyslexia
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Barden, Owen – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2014
This article discusses the combination of methods used in a study of the use of Facebook as an educational resource by a class of five students at a sixth-form college in north-west England. Through a project in which teacher-researcher and student-participants co-constructed a Facebook group page about the students' scaffolded research into…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Social Networks, Foreign Countries
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Wai, Nicole; Chan, Ying; Zhang, Kaili Chen – International Journal of Special Education, 2014
This study examines the effectiveness of five spelling strategies used to teach junior secondary school students with dyslexia. Participants were 30 secondary school teachers in Hong Kong. The teachers commented on five spelling strategies: the phonological strategy, an integration of phonological and orthographical strategies, the rule-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Dyslexia
Sicherer, Mati – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Researchers have found that teachers seem to lack information about dyslexia which can influence teaching efficacy and behavior. Because inclusion has caused children with dyslexia to spend the majority of their day in general education classrooms, general education teachers are mainly responsible for educating these students. These teachers must…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Behavior, Inclusion
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Quinlan, Margaret M.; Bates, Benjamin R. – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to explore public interpretations of President George W. Bush's speaking errors. One interpretation of Bush's speech mistakes offered in the media is that he may have dyslexia. Therefore, we explore how an enthymeme using markers of dyslexia as a sign of bad leadership has been used to frame Bush's speaking errors. We…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Dyslexia, Presidents, Language Impairments
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Chanock, Kate; Farchione, David; Paulusz, Wendy; Freeman, Sally; Giudice, Livia Lo – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2010
University students with Learning Difficulties (LD) undergo lengthy, expensive assessment by an educational psychologist to provide a detailed cognitive profile on which to base accommodations to enable each individual to study without disadvantage. However, reports are often hard for students to understand and, without trained LD tutors, this…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, College Students, Disability Identification, Screening Tests
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Robinson, Shawn Anthony – Interdisciplinary Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2013
Much of the scholarship on Black males in the educational literature focuses on the achievement gap; their underrepresentation in gifted and advanced placement programs; their overrepresentation in special education programs and their high rates of school suspensions and expulsions. Although overrepresented in special education, Black males with…
Descriptors: Males, African American Students, Dyslexia, Teaching Methods
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Schuchardt, Kirsten; Bockmann, Ann-Katrin; Bornemann, Galina; Maehler, Claudia – Topics in Language Disorders, 2013
Purpose: On the basis of Baddeley's working memory model (1986), we examined working memory functioning in children with learning disorders with and without specific language impairment (SLI). We pursued the question whether children with learning disorders exhibit similar working memory deficits as children with additional SLI. Method: In…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Children, Learning Disabilities, Speech Impairments
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Abu-Hamour, Bashir; Al-Hmouz, Hanan; Kenana, Mohammed – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2013
This study facilitates the use of Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) to investigate the effect of short vowels on oral reading fluency (ORF) and silent reading comprehension in Arabic orthography. A total sample of 131 fifth-grade students (89 skilled readers and 42 poor readers) participated in the study. Two kinds of CBM probes were…
Descriptors: Vowels, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Silent Reading
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Landerl, Karin; Ramus, Franck; Moll, Kristina; Lyytinen, Heikki; Leppanen, Paavo H. T.; Lohvansuu, Kaisa; O'Donovan, Michael; Williams, Julie; Bartling, Jurgen; Bruder, Jennifer; Kunze, Sarah; Neuhoff, Nina; Toth, Denes; Honbolygo, Ferenc; Csepe, Valeria; Bogliotti, Caroline; Iannuzzi, Stephanie; Chaix, Yves; Demonet, Jean-Francois; Longeras, Emilie; Valdois, Sylviane; Chabernaud, Camille; Delteil-Pinton, Florence; Billard, Catherine; George, Florence; Ziegler, Johannes C.; Comte-Gervais, Isabelle; Soares-Boucaud, Isabelle; Gerard, Christophe-Loic; Blomert, Leo; Vaessen, Anniek; Gerretsen, Patty; Ekkebus, Michel; Brandeis, Daniel; Maurer, Urs; Schulz, Enrico; van der Mark, Sanne; Muller-Myhsok, Bertram; Schulte-Korne, Gerd – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: The relationship between phoneme awareness, rapid automatized naming (RAN), verbal short-term/working memory (ST/WM) and diagnostic category is investigated in control and dyslexic children, and the extent to which this depends on orthographic complexity. Methods: General cognitive, phonological and literacy skills were tested in 1,138…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Predictor Variables, Phonemic Awareness, Naming
Gafoor, K. Abdul; Remia, K. R. – Online Submission, 2013
This study is to identify tasks which can be used to spot students with Reading Disability in Malayalam among Upper Primary students. It used secondary data collected from students of Kerala. Students were categorized as dyslexic and low achievers based on their performance in reading, writing and arithmetic tests. Data on performance of normal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Difficulties, Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia
Oslund, Christy – Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2013
With increasing numbers of students with invisible disabilities attending college and university, faculty and staff find themselves faced with new challenges. This practical handbook provides lecturers, tutors, disability services, and administrative staff with an overview of the invisible disabilities they may encounter, dispelling common myths…
Descriptors: College Students, Disabilities, Misconceptions, Attention Control
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Marinelli, Chiara Valeria; Angelelli, Paola; Di Filippo, Gloria; Zoccolotti, Pierluigi – Neuropsychologia, 2011
Although developmental dyslexia is often referred to as a cross-modal disturbance, tests of different modalities using the same stimuli are lacking. We compared the performance of 23 children with dyslexia and 42 chronologically matched control readers on reading versus repetition tasks and visual versus auditory lexical decision using the same…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Children, Comparative Analysis, Reading
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