Three bodies of research that have developed in relative isolation center on each of three
kinds of phonological processing: phonological awareness, awareness of the sound …

Helping learning disabled children to become better processors of information is an
important goal. This goal is based upon recent studies suggesting that the information …

A framework for conceptualizing the development of individual differences in reading ability
is presented that synthesizes a great deal of the research literature. The framework places …

The last 25 years have seen tremendous advances in the study of psychological processes
in reading. Our growing body of knowledge on the reading process and reading acquisition …

To examine the validity of distinguishing children with reading disabilities according to
discrepancy and low-achievement definitions, we obtained four assessments of expected …

Seventy-five children and adults with learning disabilities (age range= 5.0 to 42.10 yrs.) and
86 normally achieving children and adults (age range= 5.11 to 58.0 yrs.) were compared on …

Good and poor readers in the 2nd grade can be distinguished by the extent to which their
recall of random letter strings is affected by the phonetic characteristics (rhyming or not …

A coherent conception of dyslexia has been difficult to arrive at because research findings
have continually created logical paradoxes for the psychometric definition of reading …

Children with developmental reading disabilities (RD) frequently display impaired working
memory functioning. However, research has been divergent regarding the characteristics of …

Over the past several years, acceptance of the central importance of an attentional deficit in
hyperactive children has been emerging in the clinical, educational, and research literature …