This article synthesizes the experimental literature that compares the academic, cognitive, and behavioral performance of adults with reading disabilities to those of average-achieving adult readers. The central question posed by this review is to what extent and in what manner do adults with reading...
L. (2015). Reading disabilities in children: A selective meta-analysis of the cognitive literature. Re- search in Developmental Disabilities, 40, 51- 62. http://dx.doi.org/10 .1016/j.ridd.2015.01.002Swanson, H.L. & Hsieh, C.J. (2009). Reading disabilities in adults: A selective ...
According to the Americans with Disabilities Act, a legally specified incapacity or disqualification. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or...
A fresh look should be taken at the traditional distinction between adults with reading disabilities and those with little or no literacy skills. Although the distinction may still be valuable for theoretical purposes, it may not be as useful as it once was for practical situations. Many adults ...
We studied the use of computer readers, and especially their speech synthesis component, as a compensatory tool for adults with dyslexia. We first explored the enhancement of reading skills in a group of college students and working adults. Their unaided reading was very slow, and most participant...
Together these studies illuminate many of the gray areas of adult basic processing, particularly for adults in basic skills programs. They present many of the complexities of studying how literacy adults: the high percentages with learning disabilities, the differences across native and nonnative ...
JA Washington - 《Learning Disabilities Research & Practice》 被引量: 90发表: 2001年 Low Health Literacy: The Impact on Chronic Illness Management PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: Chronic disease affects 90 million American adults and disproportionately affects the elderly. Health literacy, or the ability to under...
However, it contrasts with findings that concurrent autism traits (Åsberg Johnels et al., 2019; McIntyre et al., 2017) were significantly higher in groups with significant mixed reading disabilities (i.e., below expectations on both reading accuracy and reading comprehension) in school-age ...
The use of anti-psychotic drugs with adults with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour The use of anti-psychotic medication with an adult population of people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviours was investigated as part of a... C Kiernan,D Reeves,A Alborz - 《Journal of...
In order to adjust for a broad range of somatic health indicators, we constructed a propensity score predicting reading and writing difficulties [25]. The propensity score contained questions concerning disabilities (vision, hearing, and movement), diseases (epilepsy, migraine, diabe...