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Showing 1 to 20 of 151 for “"Dyslexia"”.
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Dyslexia: the experiences of university students with dyslexia
… and examines the experiences of students with dyslexia in higher education. At the time of the research project started not much was known about the experiences of higher education students with dyslexia. An insight into their lives and experiences with a further overview of their past is …
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Dyslexia and physical education
… number of school-aged children are children with dyslexia. Therefore, teachers are bound to meet children with such a profile in their class. This study intends to identify whether such children require an adapted programme in Physical Education due to their condition. The study entails an in …
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Binocular coordination and dyslexia
Developmental dyslexia is suggested to affect approximately 5-10% of the population (Habib, 2000). The most influential theory of dyslexia is the phonological-deficit theory of dyslexia (Liberman, 1973; Stanovich, 1988; Snowling, 2000). An alternative explanation is that visual deficits can lead to …
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Dyslexia on trial? (A study of dyslexia as a contributory cause of imprisonment)
This study takes twenty three case histories of men who were serving prison sentences in December 1994 in one prison in Lancashire. The interviews, while following the same basic structure of questions, were open-ended in the sense that the participants replied as they thought fit. Each interview …
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When Dyspraxia Meets Dyslexia At 11+
This study explores the experiences of five families as their children transfer from primary to secondary school, and is based on the words of the parents. The sample children live and attend school in different parts of Northern Ireland and each carries a medical diagnosis of dyspraxia and has …
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A Critical Disability Pedagogy: Legitimizing Dyslexia
A common understanding is that dyslexia is the inability to spell words, the inability to recall symbols, the inability to recognize sight words, or the inability to decode. Dyslexia is often described in deficiency language—the inability to do something. Deficiency language is a product of special …
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Academic confidence and dyslexia at university
… identified as dyslexic. Contemporary views of dyslexia range from considering it primarily as a literacy-based, specific learning difficulty (BDA, 2017), to a multi-factorial information processing difference (Tamboer et.al., 2016). Currently, and by defining dyslexia as a disability, …
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Children's experiences of dyslexia and transition
… literature relating to the effect of having dyslexia on self-esteem in children, is reviewed and critically evaluated. It aimed to explore the impact of having dyslexia on self-esteem in children and adolescents to gain a greater understanding of this relationship.Part two is an empirical …
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Phonological representations in dyslexia: Underspecified or overspecified?
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Experiencing Dyslexia Through the Prism of Difference
… 2018) have highlighted that student with dyslexia tend not to access the support services. Within the body of research conducted in third level education in Ireland, few have focused on the overall experiences of students with dyslexia studying in third level education. My study addresses …
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Teacher Training on Teaching Students with Dyslexia
<p>Dyslexia is a central educational issue that teachers are facing today; it is important that teachers receive specific training on how to meet the educational needs of students with dyslexia in their classrooms. The purpose of this study was to determine the amount of training that teachers have …
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Dyslexia, problem solving and text processing : a conceptual framework describing reading difficulties in dyslexia as an information-processing problem
Une définition opérationnelle de la dyslexie qui est adéquate et pertinente à l'éducation n'a pu être identifiée suite à une recension des écrits. Les études sur la dyslexie se retrouvent principalement dans trois champs: la neurologie, la neurolinguistique et la génétique. Les résultats de ces …
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SENCOs’ Understanding of Dyslexia: Implications for the Identification of, and Support for Children with Dyslexia in Northern Ireland Primary Schools
… examine issues related to the identification of dyslexia in primary schools in Northern Ireland. Of particular interest, were the knowledge, experience and perceptions of SENCOs, and how these reflected existing policy frameworks for addressing the needs of children with dyslexia.<br/><br/>The …
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A Neuropsychological Investigation of Cerebral Dominance and Dyslexia
… investigators have sought a connection between dyslexia, or difficulty in learning to read, and some identifiable abnormality of central nervous system structure or function. Building on evidence accumulated in previous studies, one experimenter, Wltelson (1974, 1976, 1977), developed an …
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Identification, Intervention and Outcomes for Children with Dyslexia
Within parts of the dyslexia community, the recommended intervention for children identified with dyslexia is a multi-sensory programme delivered by a dyslexia qualified teacher. This research investigates the relationship between this preferred provision and the resulting outcomes achieved by a …
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Understanding dyslexia by measuring eye-movements during reading.
Dyslexia has been causally linked to both phonological deficits (Snowling, 2000) and difficulties in allocating attention (Valdois, Bosse, & Tainturier, 2004; Vidyasagar, 1999; Whitney & Cornelissen, 2005), both of which are utilised during parafoveal processing (Schotter, Angele, & Rayner, 2012). …
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Some Psychological Correlates of Severe Reading Disability (Dyslexia)
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T17:34:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6206172.pdf: 3296685 bytes, checksum: b8a5777a2cac9f8d04ab9bca30838e1a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
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Metacognition and dyslexia : towards an increased understanding of the cognitive knowledge and self-regulation practices of students with dyslexia in higher education
… and self-regulatory practices of students with dyslexia in higher education. It focuses on the understanding that these students have of their learning, the strategies they use and factors that determine how and why strategies are used. The study further examines the planning, organisation, …
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