Recently added articles from Annals of Dyslexia:
Differentiating the neural response to intervention in children with developmental dyslexia
Jun 01, 2008; ... Abstract Developmental dyslexia is associated with functional abnormalities within reading areas of the brain. For some children diagnosed with dyslexia, phonologically based remediation programs appear to rehabilitate brain function in key reading areas (Shaywitz et al., Biological ...
The role of visual and auditory temporal processing for Chinese children with developmental dyslexia
Jun 01, 2008; ... Abstract 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 ...
Development and validation of a reading-related assessment battery in Malay for the purpose of dyslexia assessment
Jun 01, 2008; ... Abstract Malay is an alphabetic language with transparent orthography. A Malay reading-related assessment battery which was conceptualised based on the International Dyslexia Association definition of dyslexia was developed and validated for the purpose of dyslexia assessment. The ...
Training reading fluency: is it important to practice reading aloud and is generalization possible?
Jun 01, 2008; ... Abstract Outcomes of three different types of computerized training in sub-lexical items (word-initial consonant clusters) on reading speed for 39 German-speaking poor readers in Grades 2 and 3 were evaluated. A phonological-orthographic association group, a reading aloud group, and a ...
Dyslexia speed problems in a transparent orthography
Jun 01, 2008; ... Abstract This study was intended to help clarify the nature of dyslexia in Spanish. A sample of 30 children, 8 to 16 years old, participated in this study. Dyslexic children were compared to two control groups, a chronological age-matched control group and a reading level-matched control ...
Reading development and dyslexia in a transparent orthography: a survey of Spanish children
Dec 01, 2007; ... Abstract Spanish-speaking children learn to read words printed in a relatively transparent orthography. Variation in orthographic transparency may shape the architecture of the reading system and also the manifestation of reading difficulties. We tested normally developing children and ...
Phonological processing and emergent literacy in younger and older preschool children
Dec 01, 2007; ... Abstract Phonological awareness, phonological memory, and phonological access to lexical storage play important roles in acquiring literacy. We examined the convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of these phonological processing abilities (PPA) in 389 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old ...
Colorado longitudinal twin study of reading disability
Dec 01, 2007; ... Abstract The primary objectives of the present study are to introduce the Colorado Longitudinal Twin Study of Reading Disability, the first longitudinal twin study in which subjects have been specifically selected for having a history of reading difficulties, and to present some initial ...
Assessing preschoolers' emergent literacy skills in English and Spanish with the Get Ready to Read! screening tool
Dec 01, 2007; ... Abstract This study investigated the ability of the English and Spanish versions of the Get Ready to Read! Screener (E-GRTR and S-GRTR) administered at the beginning of the preschool year to predict the oral language and phonological and print processing skills of Spanish-speaking ...
Editors' commentary
Jun 01, 2007; ... Published online: 18 May 2007 © The International Dyslexia Association 2007 Volume 57 marks a change of editors for Annals of Dyslexia (Annals). We are very excited to have this opportunity to serve The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) by coediting Annals. However, we owe ...
Component skills of text comprehension in less competent Chinese comprehenders
Jun 01, 2007; ... Received: 14 August 2006 / Accepted: 27 February 2007 /Published online: 26 May 2007 © The International Dyslexia Association 2007 Abstract The present study examined the role of verbal working memory (memory span and tongue-twister), two-character Chinese pseudoword ...
Screening of phonological awareness in the early elementary grades: an IRT approach
Jun 01, 2007; ... Received: 4 July 2006/Accepted: 22 January 2007/Published online: 22 May 2007 © The International Dyslexia Association 2007 Abstract The purpose of the present study was to explore the possibilities for the assessment of growth in phonological awareness of children in ...
Speech development patterns and phonological awareness in preschool children
Jun 01, 2007; ... Received: 14 August 2006 /Accepted: 13 March 2007 /Published online: 24 May 2007 © The International Dyslexia Association 2007 Abstract To examine the association between speech production and early literacy skills, this study of 102 preschool children looked at ...
Cognitive brain potentials in kindergarten children with subtyped risks of reading retardation
Jun 01, 2007; ... Received: 6 June 2006/Accepted: 4 February 2007/Published online: 24 May 2007 © The International Dyslexia Association 2007 Abstract Cognition-related brain responses to meaningful and meaningless figures were registered in 5-year-old kindergarten children who either had ...
Reading development subtypes and their early characteristics
Jun 01, 2007; ... Received: 27 June 2006 / Accepted: 6 March 2007 / Published online: 30 May 2007 © The International Dyslexia Association 2007 Abstract The present findings are drawn from the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia (JLD), in which approximately 100 children with familial ...
Editor's Commentary
Dec 01, 2006; ... With the publication of Volume 56 Issue No. 2 for 2006,1 am stepping down as Editor of Annals of Dyslexia. This is after bringing out five volumes and eight issues with some 1,600 pages for the November 2001 to December 2006 period. I would again like to thank IDA's President, Board of ...
Samuel Torrey Orton Award To Margaret J. Snowling: Citation: Acceptance Speech of Samuel Torrey Orton Award
Dec 01, 2006; ... Presented to Margaret J. Snowling, Ph.D., Dip. Clin. Psych. Personal Chair, Department of Psychology, University of York, United Kingdom In recognition of your pioneering and influential work on the cognitive aspects of developmental dyslexia, advancing our understanding of the ...
Genes, Environment, and Dyslexia The 2005 Norman Geschwind Memorial Lecture
Dec 01, 2006; ... This article presents an overview of some methods and results from our continuing studies of genetic and environmental influences on dyslexia, and on individual differences across the normal range that have been conducted over the past 25 years in the Colorado Learning Disabilities Research ...
Phonological Processing and Emergent Literacy in Spanish-speaking Preschool Children
Dec 01, 2006; ... Phonological awareness (PA), phonological memory (PM), and phonological access to lexical storage (also known as RAN), play important roles in acquiring literacy. We examined the convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of these phonological processing abilities (PPAs) in 147 3-, 4-, ...
Spelling Consistency Affects Reading in Young Dutch Readers with and without Dyslexia
Dec 01, 2006; ... Lexical-decision studies with experienced English and French readers have shown that visual-word identification is not only affected by pronunciation inconsistency of a word (i.e., multiple ways to pronounce a spelling body), but also by spelling inconsistency (i.e., multiple ways to spell a ...