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Assessing Dyslexia at Six Year of Age
Published on: May 1, 2020
Developmental dyslexia in a regular orthography: a single case study
Kristina Moll1, Florian Hutzler, Heinz Wimmer
1Department of Psychology and Center for Neurocognitive Research, University of Salzburg, Austria.
Abstract:
This study of an adult case examined in detail with eye movement measures the reading speed problem which is characteristic for developmental dyslexia in regular orthographies. A dramatic length effect was found for low frequency words and for pseudowords, but not for high frequency words. However, even for high frequency words it was found that reading times were substantially prolonged although number of fixations did not differ. A neurocognitive assessment revealed no visual deficits (parallel processing, precedence detection, coherent motion detection) but speed impairments for certain verbal and phonological processes. We propose that the reading difficulties are phonological in nature, but these difficulties become manifest as inefficiency and not as inability.
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