DyslexiaPub Date : 2023-06-08DOI: 10.1002/dys.1745
Ulrika Wolff, Malena Åvall, Jan-Eric Gustafsson
{"title":"Challenging the stability of RAN development: Acknowledging PA and Gf in relation to reading","authors":"Ulrika Wolff, Malena Åvall, Jan-Eric Gustafsson","doi":"10.1002/dys.1745","DOIUrl":"10.1002/dys.1745","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study had two overriding goals, (1) examine the stability of rapid automatized naming (RAN) in predicting reading achievement while taking into account two other frequently studied constructs, phonological awareness and fluid intelligence (Gf) and (2) examine the predictive power of RAN measured at age 4 on reading ability. The stable pattern of RAN development found in a previously reported growth model was challenged by relating phonological awareness and Gf to the model. Children (<i>N</i> = 364) were followed from age 4 to age 10. At age 4, Gf related strongly to phonological awareness, which in turn related strongly to RAN. The relations between the RAN measures over time was largely unaffected by the inclusion of Gf and phonological awareness. RAN, Gf and phonological awareness at age 4 independently predicted latent factors reflecting reading-related abilities in grade 1 and grade 4. However, when scrutinizing type of reading measure in grade 4, Gf, phonological awareness and RAN at age 4 predicted both spelling and reading fluency, whereas RAN in grade 2 did not predict spelling but was the strongest predictor of reading fluency.</p>","PeriodicalId":47222,"journal":{"name":"Dyslexia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9984252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DyslexiaPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1002/dys.1744
Paige Greenwood, John Hutton, Jonathan Dudley, Mark DiFrancesco, Rola Farah, Mekibib Altaye, Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus
{"title":"Maternal education as an environmental factor related to reading in children with reading difficulties: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study","authors":"Paige Greenwood, John Hutton, Jonathan Dudley, Mark DiFrancesco, Rola Farah, Mekibib Altaye, Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus","doi":"10.1002/dys.1744","DOIUrl":"10.1002/dys.1744","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The expanded simple view of reading (SVR) model suggests that word decoding, language comprehension and executive functions are necessary for reading comprehension. Children with reading difficulties (RDs) often have deficits in critical components of reading established in the expanded SVR model and alterations in brain function of reading-related regions. Maternal education could provide children with advantageous educational opportunities or resources that support reading acquisition. The primary goal of this study was to examine the contributions of maternal education to the behavioural and neurobiological correlates of the expanded SVR model. Seventy-two 8- to 12-year-old children with RDs and typical readers (TRs) completed reading, behavioural and an functional magnetic resonance imaging stories-listening task to determine the functional connectivity of the receptive language network to the whole brain in association with maternal education. Higher maternal education was associated with better vocabulary in children with RDs and positive functional connectivity between the receptive language network and regions related to visual processing in children with RDs versus TRs. These data suggest that maternal education supports the ability to comprehend oral language and engagement of neural networks that support imagination/visualization in children with RDs.</p>","PeriodicalId":47222,"journal":{"name":"Dyslexia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dys.1744","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10034484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DyslexiaPub Date : 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1002/dys.1737
Michiru Iwata, Ryusaku Hashimoto, Ayumi Seki
{"title":"Lexical prosodic representation and access in Japanese children with developmental dyslexia","authors":"Michiru Iwata, Ryusaku Hashimoto, Ayumi Seki","doi":"10.1002/dys.1737","DOIUrl":"10.1002/dys.1737","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent research indicates that awareness of the prosodic information present in spoken language could be an important factor for literacy development, and that adults with developmental dyslexia show impaired awareness of lexical prosodic information, while the phonological representations remain intact. We investigated lexical prosodic representation and awareness in Japanese children with and without developmental dyslexia. Lexical prosodic representation was investigated using a cross-modal fragment priming task, and awareness was examined using a fragment identification task. The task was modified for children by selecting words with higher familiarity and fewer trials. As a result, the same pattern of prosodic priming effects was observed between groups; lexical decision time was faster in the prosodic congruent condition than in the incongruent condition. In addition, accuracy and reaction time did not show group differences in the fragment identification task. Relationship between prosody and literacy development may differ between languages but the sample size were small in both groups. Further investigation with larger sample size is required.</p>","PeriodicalId":47222,"journal":{"name":"Dyslexia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10322892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DyslexiaPub Date : 2023-05-10DOI: 10.1002/dys.1738
Sophia Soares, Mark E. Boyes, Rauno Parrila, Nicholas A. Badcock
{"title":"Does reading anxiety impact on academic achievement in higher education students?","authors":"Sophia Soares, Mark E. Boyes, Rauno Parrila, Nicholas A. Badcock","doi":"10.1002/dys.1738","DOIUrl":"10.1002/dys.1738","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Poor readers have lower academic achievement and increased anxiety, including reading anxiety, which may perpetuate lower academic achievement. We explored reading anxiety in university students, investigating whether the association between reading ability and academic achievement is mediated by reading anxiety (independent of general anxiety). Participants were students (<i>n</i> = 169, 69% female, age = 20.70) at an Australian university who completed an online reading assessment (decoding skills, phonological awareness, orthographical knowledge and comprehension), and a survey examining reading anxiety, trait anxiety and self-reported reading history. Academic achievement was based on university grades. Two reading anxiety factors (social and non-social) were identified; both factors were distinct from trait anxiety. Reading ability was negatively correlated with reading anxiety and positively correlated with academic achievement. Reading anxiety was not correlated with academic achievement and it did not mediate the relationship between reading ability and academic achievement as expected. As this was the first study to explore reading anxiety in adults, further research is required to determine the impact reading anxiety may have on university students beyond academic achievement.</p>","PeriodicalId":47222,"journal":{"name":"Dyslexia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dys.1738","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9974982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DyslexiaPub Date : 2023-03-08DOI: 10.1002/dys.1735
Ibrahim A. Asadi, Ronen Kasperski, Miri Sarid
{"title":"The cumulative effect of socioeconomic status and dyslexia on linguistic, cognitive and reading skills among Arabic-speaking children","authors":"Ibrahim A. Asadi, Ronen Kasperski, Miri Sarid","doi":"10.1002/dys.1735","DOIUrl":"10.1002/dys.1735","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research has shown that children with dyslexia and children with a low socioeconomic status (SES) fall behind in terms of literacy acquisition, but a question remains regarding the cumulative effect of dyslexia and SES on linguistic, cognitive and reading skills. To examine the impact of cognition and environment on literacy development, we returned to the data set of 1,441 elementary school children (223 dyslexic readers and 1,241 typical readers) from low and medium-high SES backgrounds within Palestinian society in Israel who had participated in the development study of a comprehensive battery of tests in oral and written Arabic. The findings of this retrospective study reveal that, across grade levels, dyslexic readers from a low SES background showed similar performance to those from a medium-high SES background on most linguistic, cognitive and reading measures. As for typical readers, SES contributed to individual differences in all linguistic, cognitive and reading indices, with the exception of RAN. Finally, a cumulative effect of dyslexia and SES was found in relation to morphology, vocabulary, listening comprehension and text-reading accuracy.</p>","PeriodicalId":47222,"journal":{"name":"Dyslexia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9440540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DyslexiaPub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1002/dys.1736
Margot Bouhon, Claire Ferreira, Sandy Bahuon, Barbara Tillmann, Nathalie Bedoin
{"title":"Improving non-native duration contrast with dichotic training in dyslexic and non-dyslexic individuals","authors":"Margot Bouhon, Claire Ferreira, Sandy Bahuon, Barbara Tillmann, Nathalie Bedoin","doi":"10.1002/dys.1736","DOIUrl":"10.1002/dys.1736","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Perceiving and producing English phonemic vowel length contrasts is challenging for non-native speakers. According to multi-time resolution models, endogenous slow/fast rhythms contribute, respectively, in the right/left hemispheres, to long/short acoustic cue processing. This study introduced a perceptual training method implementing dichotic stimulation to improve /i:/-/ɪ/ processing by promoting hemispheric complementarity. Twenty non-dyslexic and 20 dyslexic French adults received 1 hr-training over 3 days. Productions were evaluated with pre-/post-tests. Training enhanced vowel duration contrast in word production by /i:/ lengthening and /ɪ/ shortening in both groups. Adults with dyslexia compensated fewer /i:/ lengthening by /ɪ/ shortening than did non-dyslexic adults. Transfer from perceptual training to production seems possible for foreign-language learning even in dyslexic adults. The extent to which dichotic presentation contributed to training effectiveness cannot be evaluated here, but the triggering of lengthening and shortening mechanisms suggests that lateralized complementary skills have been enhanced by dichotic stimulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":47222,"journal":{"name":"Dyslexia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9793651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DyslexiaPub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1002/dys.1734
Audrey Mazur, Florence Chenu
{"title":"The revision process during handwritten text production: The case of French higher education students with dyslexia","authors":"Audrey Mazur, Florence Chenu","doi":"10.1002/dys.1734","DOIUrl":"10.1002/dys.1734","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The goal of this paper is to observe revision during handwritten text production of French students with and without dyslexia. Subjects with typical language development automate spelling during childhood and adolescence, progressively with experience, this enables them—according to capacity theory applied to written text production (McCutchen, <i>Educational Psychology Review</i>, <b>8</b>, 1996, 299)—to allocate more cognitive resources to higher-level processes (Bereiter & Scardamalia, <i>The psychology of written composition</i>. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1987). A lack of automation in spelling could result in poor compositional performance (Fayol & Miret, <i>Psychologie Française</i>, <b><i>50</i></b>, 2005, 391). Moreover, Morken and Helland (<i>Dyslexia, <b>19</b></i>, 2013, 131) have shown that young children with dyslexia, engaged in a sentence dictation task, revise their text as much as control children, however their revisions are of lower quality. If students with dyslexia have not totally automated spelling (Mazur-Palandre, Développements (Revue Interdisciplinaire du développement Cognitif Normal et Pathologique), <b><i>18</i></b>, 2016, 177), what is the impact on higher-level processes, such as revision? Our goal is to examine if students with dyslexia and control students proofread their texts in the same way. Results show that they display some similarity but students with dyslexia seem to have a deficit in the error detection mechanism (Horowitz & Breznitz, <i>International Journal of Disability, Development and Education</i>, <b>58</b>, 2011, 33) and revisions are less efficient. We discuss these results by considering previous studies we conducted on spelling, speech and neuropsychological assessments of our dyslexic participants.</p>","PeriodicalId":47222,"journal":{"name":"Dyslexia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dys.1734","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9440043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DyslexiaPub Date : 2023-02-08DOI: 10.1002/dys.1733
Adrienne Wilmot, Hannah Pizzey, Suze Leitão, Penelope Hasking, Mark Boyes
{"title":"“I struggle at times to see her struggle”: Mothers' perspectives on dyslexia-related school struggles and the inter-connected nature of mother and child well-being","authors":"Adrienne Wilmot, Hannah Pizzey, Suze Leitão, Penelope Hasking, Mark Boyes","doi":"10.1002/dys.1733","DOIUrl":"10.1002/dys.1733","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Introduction</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Parents of children with dyslexia may be at elevated risk for parenting stress and mental health concerns. Our aim was to explore the emotional experience of growing up with dyslexia in Australia from parents' perspectives. In so doing, we also developed an understanding of parents' own mental health and support needs informed by their lived experience.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methodology</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Seventeen interviews with mothers of children (9–14 years; 16 with a diagnosis of dyslexia) were analysed using Braun and Clarke's reflexive thematic analysis approach.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Analysis</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Five themes were developed to address our aim: Theme 1: Years in the wilderness: Life before diagnosis; 2: “I struggle at times to see her struggle”; 3. School struggles: Advocating for our children and managing distress; 4. “It's a full-time job” and a “long slog”; 5: Care for the carer: Social support and coping strategies.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusions</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Our analysis suggests that mothers of children with dyslexia may be at elevated risk for mental health concerns. Specifically, chronic worry and stress, secondary distress, challenges to parenting self-efficacy, and lack of support and understanding (feeling isolated) were highlighted as plausible risk factors. Mothers described coping strategies at the community level (e.g., school connectedness) and at the individual level (e.g., “acceptance”) as protective.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47222,"journal":{"name":"Dyslexia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dys.1733","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9440042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DyslexiaPub Date : 2023-01-25DOI: 10.1002/dys.1732
Kathy B. Ewoldt, Suzanne R. Byrne
{"title":"Colour-cued paragraph writing instruction for students with learning disabilities","authors":"Kathy B. Ewoldt, Suzanne R. Byrne","doi":"10.1002/dys.1732","DOIUrl":"10.1002/dys.1732","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Expository paragraph writing is difficult to learn and teach. For many students, particularly those with learning disabilities, it is difficult to manage the multiple, simultaneous complex processes required for success. And for their teachers, writing is the content area in which they feel least prepared to teach. This intervention applied the concept of reverse engineering to instructional design to teach expository paragraph writing using a color-cued graphic organizer. The study evaluated the effects of using a systematic color code to highlight the alignment of where ideas originate in a graphic organizer to their development into a sentence within a well-organized expository paragraph. Using a single case research design, with a pre- and post-intervention assessments, students (<i>n</i> = 5) with dyslexia improved their expository paragraph knowledge and skills. Percentage of non-overlapping data and Tau analyses indicate a large to very large effect of the 2-week intervention. Results, suggestions for further research, and implications for practice are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47222,"journal":{"name":"Dyslexia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9433815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DyslexiaPub Date : 2023-01-22DOI: 10.1002/dys.1731
Kulpreet Cheema, Cassidy Fleming, Julia Craig, William E. Hodgetts, Jacqueline Cummine
{"title":"Reading and spelling profiles of adult poor readers: Phonological, orthographic and morphological considerations","authors":"Kulpreet Cheema, Cassidy Fleming, Julia Craig, William E. Hodgetts, Jacqueline Cummine","doi":"10.1002/dys.1731","DOIUrl":"10.1002/dys.1731","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Reading and spelling skills are important to communicate in today's literate society, however, the underlying processes of spelling skills are under-researched compared to reading skills. Our goals were to (a) study how the component skills of phonological, orthographic and morphological awareness are different in adults with and without reading difficulties, and (b) characterize the relationship between the component skills and reading and spelling performance in both skilled and poor readers. Participants (<i>N</i> = 37, <i>N</i> = 15 with reading impairments and <i>N</i> = 22 skilled readers) took part in the study where they completed several literacy-based measures. We performed a series of mixed ANOVAs to study the between-group differences in performance and the relationship between different literacy outcomes, respectively. We found evidence for poor phonological and morphological awareness in the poor readers compared to the skilled readers. We also found differential relationships between the component skills and reading and spelling behavior. Specifically, sound awareness was significantly related to reading and spelling measures in the skilled readers, whereas morphological and sound awareness played an important role in the same skills in the poor readers. We discuss these findings in the context of potential remediation strategies for adults with persistent literacy impairments.</p>","PeriodicalId":47222,"journal":{"name":"Dyslexia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dys.1731","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9439904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}