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Defining Dyslexia

open access: yesScience, 2001
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openaire   +3 more sources

Attending to Disability in TESOL: A Case of Patterned Inequities

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article in the special issue commemorating TESOL Quarterly's anniversary documents that scholarship in the intersection of TESOL and disability is a relatively newer phenomenon. It draws on scholarship from TESOL Quarterly and the field more broadly to illuminate how research, although emergent, points to an alarming trend: that ...
Sara E.N. Kangas
wiley   +1 more source

Vision and Reading Difficulties Part 2: Optometric correlates of reading difficulties [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this second article of the series on vision and reading difficulties, the optometric factors (for example refractive error and orthoptic function) that may be associated with reading problems are discussed in detail.
Allen, Peter M   +2 more
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The relationship of phonological ability, speech perception, and auditory perception in adults with dyslexia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study investigated whether auditory, speech perception and phonological skills are tightly interrelated or independently contributing to reading. We assessed each of these three skills in 36 adults with a past diagnosis of dyslexia and 54 matched ...
Jan eWouters   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

‘I used to walk around the playground wondering where all my friends had gone’: The reflections of how adults with developmental prosopagnosia made friends in childhood

open access: yesBritish Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Current research into developmental prosopagnosia (DP) estimates a high prevalence rate in the general population, but there exist many gaps in the research. More needs to be learned about the lived experience of those with DP and how to identify it in children. Using reflexive thematic analysis, this study explored the lived experience of how
Alison Shorer
wiley   +1 more source

Pre‐service teachers' explicit and implicit stereotypes towards pupils with different special educational needs

open access: yesBritish Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Successful inclusion in education depends heavily on the attitudes of teachers, and stereotypes play a significant role in shaping these attitudes. However, social desirability bias may limit direct measures of stereotypes. Combining direct and indirect measures offers better insights.
Charlotte S. Schell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revealing the Causes of Dyslexia through a Differential Diagnosis, a Short-Term Effective Treatment and an Appropriate Conceptual Framework

open access: yesDiagnostics
Various different impairments and their interactions can cause reading problems referred to as “dyslexia”. Since reading requires the interaction of many abilities, the impairment of each of these abilities can result in dyslexia.
Reinhard Werth
doaj   +1 more source

Punchline with(out) purpose: Integrating research on instructional humour and seductive details

open access: yesBritish Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction We integrated research on instructional humour and seductive details to investigate when affiliative course‐related humour is effective or rather ineffective for learning. We assumed that instructional humour without a cognitive function (irrelevant humour) would have detrimental effects on learning performance resembling the ...
Lisa Bender   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Internalizing, externalizing and attention problems in dyslexia

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2013
The aim of this study was to investigate if children with dyslexia displayed more behavioural/emotional problems than normal readers did. Twenty-six children with dyslexia and a control of 26 children without reading problems participated in the study ...
Anne Elisabeth Dahle, Ann-Mari Knivsberg
doaj   +1 more source

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