Summary: Until now test quality criteria have not been determined and only gross norms have been ascertained for the Mottier-Test, a test measuring phonetic discrimination ability and auditory memory. The present study with 272 children (133 second and ...
Summary: Since the establishing of instructional research, strategic oriented learning interventions are seen as promising contributions to close the gap between basic research and the improvement of every day schooling practice. As one way of improvement,...
Summary: The study examined the hypothesis of Nicolson and Fawcett (1990) that reading disabled children suffer from a general automatisation deficit and not from a specific phonological impairment as postulated by the dominant explanation of dyslexia (z. ...
Zusammenfassung: Ziel der vorliegenden Studie war es zu untersuchen, inwieweit sich Legastheniker von allgemein lese-rechtschreibschwachen Kindern bezüglich der Ursachen ihrer Rechtschreibprobleme unterscheiden. Aus einer Stichprobe von 823 Drittklässlern ...
Filling in Letter-Gaps and Other Spelling-Exercises - Effectiveness and the Determinants ThereofSummary: In widely used spelling exercises students are asked to fill in gaps within words (e.g. wh_t) by choosing the correct letters out of two or more ...
Interdependencies Among Mathematics, Reading and Spelling Skills in Young Elementary School ChildrenSummary: The present study investigated the issue whether deficiencies in mathematics and reading/spelling are isolated phenomena, that is, only rarely co-...
Temporal Integration in the Auditory System of Adult Dyslexic ReadersAbstract: We studied differences in temporal integration in preattentive auditory processing in a group of 12 adult developmental dyslexics and 12 normal readers by use of the mismatch ...
Dyslexia: address the deficits or compensate them through competence? Comparison of two treatment methodsSummary: Our study compares the efficiency and acceptance of two different methods of treating dyslexia in children. The first method addresses the ...
The Marburg Spelling Training Program - Results of a Short-Term InterventionSummaryObjectives: The Marburg Spelling Training Program was administered to a sample of 10 spelling-disabled primary school pupils (2nd -4th graders) over three months in an ...
Summary:On the diagnostics of dyslexiaThe ICD-10 calls for the use of tables that account for the correlation between intelligence and spelling or reading, respectively (regression model) in the diagnosis of dyslexia. In this paper we discuss the ...
Zusammenfassung. Defizite in der phonologischen Informationsverarbeitung bei Vorschulkindern führen häufig zu Problemen beim Schriftspracherwerb. Diese Erkenntnis versuchen Verfahren wie das Bielefelder Screening (BISC; Jansen, Mannhaupt, H. Marx & ...
Phonological Processing Impairments in Functionally Illiterate AdultsAbstract.Social disadvantages in childhood may mostly be held responsible for functional illiteracy in literate societies. However, the present paper investigates whether deficits in ...
Much Ado about Learning Disabilities. How to Keep a Debate Going.Abstract. Learning disabilities (LD) are typically defined in a categorical classification system. Shortcomings of such a model are discussed first. Afterwards, cognitive processes ...
Functional Illiteracy in Germany – Size, Causes, InterventionsAbstract. Low-literate adults who attended school but either did not complete their education or, for a variety of reasons, did complete it without ...
Reliability, Trainability, and Stability of Auditory Discriminative Performance in Two Computer Supported Assessment and Training TasksSummary:Objectives: The present study focuses on the possibilities and effects of training dyslexic children in tone ...
Summary:Spelling training in school based intervention groups - Results of an evaluation trial in secondary schoolObjective: This study aims to evaluate in a school-based tutoring setting a training program for spelling (Marburger Rechtschreibtraining) ...
EEG coherence analysis for examining an automatizational deficit in dyslexia - a pilot studySummary:Objectives: Do dyslexic children exhibit a general automatizational deficit as well as a phonological deficit? Methods: In 16 children aged 9-11 years ...
Long-term Outcome for Dyslexic ChildrenSummary:Objective: Only a few studies - especially in Germany - deal with the long-term outcome for dyslexic children. The aim of our study was to assess a group of former students of a boarding school for dyslexic ...
The significance of auditory processing deficits for the etiopathogenesis of dyslexiaSummary:Objective: It has been claimed that children with dyslexia show auditory processing deficits and a training of auditory perception is recommended as a therapy. ...
First effects of training phonological awareness in two age cohorts of kindergarten childrenSummary:Objective: This study investigated to what extent young kindergarten children already benefit from training phonological awareness. Methods: The training ...