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Article: DYSLEXIA THE INVISIBLE, TREATABLE DISORDER: THE STORY OF EINSTEIN'S NINJA TURTLES.
- Article from:
- Learning Disability Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
- Author:
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Abstract. In this longitudinal, multiple case study, I describe and compare the early development, instructional history, repeated administrations of a test battery, and response to instructional intervention for seven boys (in third to fifth grade at time of intervention), who were brain imaged prior to intervention and found to differ from controls in brain chemical activation during a phonological task. The instructional intervention was phonologically driven reading instruction in a science/reading workshop. At follow-up, phonological skills (phonological manipulation, phonological memory, and phonological decoding) had improved compared to initial assessment, but the ...