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Disabilities in Reading

The Elementary School Journal, 1930
Instruction of the present day is becoming more individual than it formerly was. Greater emphasis is being placed on individual interests, on individual needs, and on the use of practice and instructional tests and of administrative procedures which stimulate individual growth and progress.
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Reading Disabilities

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1973
A basic problem of urban school systems is their difficulty in teaching many black and Puerto Rican children in poverty areas to read. A theory of cognitive integration is one possible answer to this problem. The theory holds that many black and Puerto Rican children have difficulty in making total integrated responses to words and that this is ...
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Decoding, Reading, and Reading Disability

Remedial and Special Education, 1986
To clarify the role of decoding in reading and reading disability, a simple model of reading is proposed, which holds that reading equals the product of decoding and comprehension. It follows that there must be three types of reading disability, resulting from an inability to decode, an inability to comprehend, or both.
Philip B. Gough, William E. Tunmer
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Reading and Phonological Awareness in Reading-Disabled Adults

Developmental Neuropsychology, 2002
Sixty-eight students with reading disabilities (RDs) and 55 non-reading-disabled university undergraduates composed the sample. Students with RDs met either low achievement (LA) or regression-based discrepancy (D) criteria. In addition to IQ and reading decoding measures, all participants received measures of phonological awareness (PA), confrontation ...
Rebecca B, Bone   +3 more
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The genetics of specific reading disability

Annals of Human Genetics, 1976
Members of the immediate families of twenty children with specific reading disability were examined to determine the prevalence of reading disability within the families. A procedure was developed for identifying adults who may have compensated for a disability manifested more clearly in childhood. Forty-five percent of 75 first-degree relatives of the
J M, Finucci   +4 more
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Oculomotor Functions in Reading Disability

Optometry and Vision Science, 1982
Abstract Oculomotor functions and information processing systems form a complex interaction in the achievement of reading skills. This study was designed to determine the relation between oculomotor functions and reading ability in fourth and sixth grade children.
H L, Poynter   +3 more
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The Role of Syntax in Reading Disability

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1986
This study examined the hypothesis that poor readers are deficient in syntactic comprehension and this contributes to their reading comprehension deficit. A total of 95 fourth graders who were good readers and 27 fourth graders who were poor readers were given a test of syntactic competence, as well as a vocabulary test and tests of auditory and ...
A L, Glass, J, Perna
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Genetic models of reading disability

Behavior Genetics, 1980
Test data collected on 133 reading-disabled (RD) children and their nuclear families who participated in the Colorado Family Reading Study were subjected to segregation analysis utilizing the technique of Elston and Yelverton (1975) for a continuous phenotypic measure.
F I, Lewitter, J C, DeFries, R C, Elston
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Reading Comprehension and Reading Disability

2015
Virtually all reading researchers and theorists, regardless of their views of reading development, regard comprehension as the gold standard in de ning prima facie reading dif culties. Thus, even if a good comprehender exhibited some de cits in particular skill areas (e.g., phonics or monitoring), we would say that those variations from the ideal ...
Katherine K. Frankel   +2 more
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Evaluation of a typology of reading disability

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 1988
A typology of reading disability was derived from a cluster analysis of psychological and educational tests administered to 63 moderately to severely reading-disabled children and adolescents. The quality of the cluster solution was evaluated through the use of statistics designed to measure the degree to which the clusters were compact and well ...
B U, Watson, D E, Goldgar
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