Construct Validity of Reading Measures in Adults With Significant Reading Difficulties

Investigating the mediating role of attitudes to reading in relation to cognitive strategies, metacognitive reading strategies, parents' attitudes to reading with reading motivation students with reading difficulties

The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of attitudes toward reading in relation to cognitive strategies, metacognitive reading strategies, parents' attitudes to reading with reading motivation for students with reading difficulties. The research method was descriptive correlational and in particular structural equation model. For this purpose, the statistical population of t...

Neural correlates of sentence reading in children with reading difficulties.

In contrast to word-level skills, the neural basis of sentence comprehension in children with reading difficulties is not well understood. Using magnetic source imaging, we investigated the spatiotemporal dynamics of regional activity associated with silent passage reading in nonimpaired and students with reading difficulties. The latter exhibited underactivation of the temporoparietal and visu...

Fluency and reading comprehension in students with reading difficulties.

PURPOSE To characterize the performance of students with reading difficulties in decoding and reading comprehension tasks as well as to investigate the possible correlations between them. METHODS Sixty students (29 girls) from 3rd to 5th grades of public Elementary Schools were evaluated. Thirty students (Research Group - RG), ten from each grade, were nominated by their teachers as presentin...

Reading difficulties in children.

Reading Difficulties in Children