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Irannejad, Shahrzad; Savage, Robert – Annals of Dyslexia, 2012
This study investigated whether children with dyslexia differed in their performance on reading, phonological, rapid naming, motor, and cerebellar-related tasks and automaticity measures compared to reading age (RA)-matched and chronological age (CA)-matched control groups. Participants were 51 children attending mainstream English elementary…
Descriptors: Children, Dyslexia, Neurological Impairments, Intelligence Quotient
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Donfrancesco, Renato; Iozzino, Roberto; Caruso, Barbara; Ferrante, Laura; Mugnaini, Daniele; Talamo, Alessandra; Miano, Silvia; Dimitri, Andrea; Masi, Gabriele – Annals of Dyslexia, 2010
Different moderators/mediators of risk are involved in developmental dyslexia (DD), but data are inconsistent. We explored the prevalence of season of birth and its association with gender and age of school entry in an Italian sample of dyslexic children compared to an Italian normal control group. The clinical sample included 498 children (345…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Dyslexia, Urban Areas, At Risk Persons
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Maionchi-Pino, Norbert; Magnan, Annie; Ecalle, Jean – Annals of Dyslexia, 2010
This study investigated the status of phonological representations in French dyslexic children (DY) compared with reading level- (RL) and chronological age-matched (CA) controls. We focused on the syllable's role and on the impact of French linguistic features. In Experiment 1, we assessed oral discrimination abilities of pairs of syllables that…
Descriptors: Silent Reading, Psycholinguistics, Syllables, Dyslexia
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van Otterloo, Sandra G.; van der Leij, Aryan – Annals of Dyslexia, 2009
Children (5 and 6 years old, n = 30) at familial risk of dyslexia received a home-based intervention that focused on phoneme awareness and letter knowledge in the year prior to formal reading instruction. The children were compared to a no-training at-risk control group (n = 27), which was selected a year earlier. After training, we found a small…
Descriptors: Intervention, Phonemes, Dyslexia, Foreign Countries
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Chung, Kevin K. H.; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Wong, Simpson W. L.; Cheung, Him; Penney, Trevor B.; Ho, Connie S. -H. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2008
This study examined temporal processing in relation to Chinese reading acquisition and impairment. The performances of 26 Chinese primary school children with developmental dyslexia on tasks of visual and auditory temporal order judgement, rapid naming, visual-orthographic knowledge, morphological, and phonological awareness were compared with…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Dyslexia, Phonological Awareness, Reading Skills
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Kahn-Horwitz, Janina; Shimron, Joseph; Sparks, Richard L. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2006
This study examined individual differences among beginning readers of English as a foreign language (EFL). The study concentrated on the effects of underlying first language (L1) knowledge as well as EFL letter and vocabulary knowledge. Phonological and morphological awareness, spelling, vocabulary knowledge, and word reading in Hebrew L1, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Semitic Languages, Socioeconomic Status