Print awareness of adult illiterates: a comparison with young pre-readers and low-educated adult readers

Print awareness of adult illiterates: a comparison with young pre-readers and low-educated adult readers

In this study the print awareness of 25 unschooled adult illiterates in the Netherlands was compared with that of 24 pre-reading children and of 23 low-educated literate adults with approximately four years of primary schooling. The illiterates were interviewed about their experiences with writing and all participants completed six assessments of print awareness in the language they preferred (...

Phonological instability in young adult poor readers

Phonology is held to play a central role in typical reading development (Shankweiler et al., 1979) and sensory or phonological deficits are often held to be a primary cause of reading disability (Snowling, 2008). However, little is known about the nature of phonology at the endpoint of atypical reading development -that is, in adult poor readers. We examined the time course of (auditory) lexica...

Temporal processing in poor adult readers.

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between two different temporal processing tasks and word identification performance in skilled, dyslexic and poor adult readers. In Experiment 1 spatial and temporal sequencing tasks were conducted. It was found that adult dyslexics were significantly less accurate than skilled readers across all conditions in the temporal sequencing ta...

Discovering Features of Language: Metalinguisitc Awareness of Adult Illiterates

A Young Adult with Myoclonic Seizure

A 21-year-old man was referred to dermatology clinic for skin biopsy. He presented to neurology center with behavioral changes with cognition and memory disorders. He had two episodes of genealized tonic clonic seizure and series of myoclonc jerks in his limbs and face especially after awakening since several months ago. In neurological examination, he had mini mental score as 13; with so...