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-...
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 ...