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50 Years of ERIC
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Berninger, Virginia W.; Lee, Yen-Ling; Abbott, Robert D.; Breznitz, Zvia – Annals of Dyslexia, 2013
To identify effective treatment for both the spelling and word decoding problems in dyslexia, 24 students with dyslexia in grades 4 to 9 were randomly assigned to treatments A (n = 12) or B (n = 12) in an after-school reading-writers' workshop at the university (thirty 1-h sessions twice a week over 5 months). First, both groups received step 1…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Outcomes of Treatment, Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Skills
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Berninger, Virginia W. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2001
It is argued the proposed definition of dyslexia is restricted to developmental dyslexia in which a student struggles to learn to read and does not apply to acquired dyslexia in which a previously normal reader loses reading functions. The need for classification schemes for defining specific learning disabilities is emphasized. (Contains…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Classification, Definitions
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Abbott, Sylvia P.; Berninger, Virginia W. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1999
Twenty children (grades 4 through 7) with reading disabilities participated in 16 one-hour individual tutorials over a one-month period with instruction for half the group including structural analysis and alphabet principle training without structural analysis. Children in both groups improved reliably and equally in reading and related measures.…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Individual Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades