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Literacy development in successful men and women with dyslexia
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To investigate how, when, and under what conditions individuals with dyslexia manage to develop high literacy levels, an interview and literacy assessment study was conducted with 60 highly successful men and women with dyslexia and 10 peers without dyslexia. The sample with dyslexia included a Nobel laureate, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and leaders in a variety of fields requiring extensive reading (i.e., medicine, law, business, and the arts and sciences). For both males a...
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Health: Unravelling the twisted wires Dyslexia is still not fully understood, but sufferers can be helped.
The Independent - London
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Reading Improvement
; The purposes of this study were (a) to create and validate a scale measuring beliefs regarding dyslexia, (b) to use the scale to investigate the beliefs of educators regarding dyslexia, and (c) to recommend ways that educators can be better prepared to help students with dyslexia. Participants
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Visual and language processing deficits in compensated and uncompensated college students with dyslexia.
Journal of Learning Disabilities
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Dyslexia: some background, some technology tools. (I.D.E.A. works: resources for educators).(education)
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