The studies in this doctoral thesis report aspects of cognitive and socio emotional
development in a group of teenagers and young adults with dyslexia. The 75 subjects …

Interviews with 75 teenagers and young adults were performed to investigate how young
people with dyslexia experienced school in terms of well-being, educational achievement …

Dyslexia, is one of the disorders with a greater prevalence among the group of the learning
disorders. With the passing years many studies (observations) to explain the causes of …

The present study is a follow-up of two different groups of young adults with a history of
dyslexia problems in childhood. Group A was drawn from a larger longitudinal study where …

This series of four studies examined the psychosocial functioning of children, adolescents,
and adults with developmental dyslexia. One sample of nonreferred dyslexic and …

This study focused on psycho-affective and behavioral problems in children and
adolescents with dyslexia. It aims to define clinical psycho-affective and behavioral profiles …

The secondary symptoms of individuals with dyslexia, such as high anxiety and low self-
esteem, have aroused various debates not only in the educational, but also in the clinical …

This longitudinal study compares developmental changes in psychosocial functioning
during the transition into school of children with and without dyslexia. In addition, it examines …

Research into how dyslexics cope and the effects of their coping has received little attention
in the 100 years since dyslexia has been recognized. Why is this? Well it is not an easy area …

If a developing child is subjected to physical or negative verbal abuse, such experiences
may alter the manner in which the child develops. Again, if a developing child is consistently …