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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wright, Sarah F.,
• Groner, Rudolf,

Titel

Facets of dyslexia and its remediation

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam ; : North-Holland,

Erscheinungsjahr

1993

Link zum Volltext

• Elsevier Books AutoHoldings

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• "Edited proceedings of the 18th Rodin Remediation Conference on Reading and Reading Disorders ... held at the University of Bern Children's Hospital, Switzerland, between August 27 and 29th, 1991"--Pref.
• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Studies in Visual Information Processing 3; Copyright page; Preface; Contributors; Introduction; I: Visual Processing; Chapter 1: Texture Segregation Based on Line Orientation Develops Late in Childhood; Publisher Summary; Acknowledgements; Chapter 2: The Roles of Sustained (P) and Transient (M) Channels in Reading and Reading Disability; Publisher Summary; Introduction; The Role of Sustained and Transient Channels in Visual Masking, Reading and Reading Disability; Extensions and Implications of Recent Developments
• Chapter 3: Do Dyslexics have a Visual Deficit?Publisher Summary; Spatial Frequency Processing; The Sustained and Transient Subsystems; Sustained and Transient Subsystems and Reading; Transient and Sustained Processing an SRD's and Controls; Low-Level Visual Processing in Controls and SRDs; Higher Level Perceptual Processes and SRD; What about the Confusion in the Literature?; Possible Relationship to Other Problems Manifest in SRDS?; Conclusions; Chapter 4: Manifesto on Dyslexia; Publisher Summary; Approach; Empirics; Argument; Position
• Chapter 5: One Word at a Time: A Solution to the Visual Deficit in SRDs?Publisher Summary; Introduction; Method; Results; Conclusions; Future Research; Appendices; Chapter 6: The Effects of Wavelength on Visual Processing and Reading Performance in Normal and Disabled Readers; Publisher Summary; Visual Factors in Specific Reading Disability; Transient-Sustained Theory of Visual Processing; Transient-Sustained Processing and Reading Disability; Visual Masking Studies; The Use of Colour as an Intervention for Reading Disability; Summary
• Study 2: Visual Capacities in DyslexicsResults; Summary of Results; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; Chapter 10: Fixation, Contrast Sensitivity and Children's Reading; Publisher Summary; Introduction; The Dunlop Test and Reading; The Dunlop Test and Fixation Stability During Reading; Methods; Results; The Dunlop Test and Contrast Sensitivity; Results; Unstable Binocular Control and Visual Symptoms; Language Clamping Reveals That Unstable Fixation Does Affect Reading; General Description of Subjects and Methods; Results; Discussion
• Developmental Dyslexia has been a subject of interest to practitioners for more than a century. Despite its long research history, however, dyslexia (the terms specific reading disability, reading disability and learning disability are also used interchangeably in this volume) still provides a challenge for contemporary cognitive psychology, education, neurology and physiology. By bringing together contributions from researchers and scholars working in a wide range of fields and perspectives, it is hoped that this publication will offer a means of considering different fac
• English
• Description based on print version record.