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Wim H J van Bon1, Mieke Bouwmans, Ivy N L D C Broeders
1Department of Special Education, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. W.vanBon@pwo.ru.nl
Abstract:
The relative frequency of poor readers in Dutch general elementary education (GEE) and special elementary education (SEE) and the characteristics of their reading performance were investigated using a lexical decision procedure. According to the same norms that identified 9% of students as poor readers in GEE, no less than 73% of the students in SEE were classified as poor readers. On average, the GEE poor readers were better readers than those in SEE, but the findings do not point to substantial differences in reading processes between the two reader groups. Hypotheses about the nature of the referral process that may cause this surprisingly strong relation between poor reading ability and SEE placement are advanced.
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