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However, six of nine individuals with this microdeletion had poor reading ability, which prompted us to screen 606 other dyslexia cases.
Unexpectedly, statistical analysis of the two measures of motion sensitivity did not reveal the significant difference in performance between the good and poor reading ability groups expected from previous studies [ 60, 67].
The data from the current study go against the former explanation: although the dyslexics in this study had poor reading ability relative to the non-dyslexic group, they did not have severe deficits.
For example, 16-year-old Jacky (one of the student filmmakers) struggled with dyslexia, poor reading ability, and found it difficult to express himself.
We argued against reduced lateralisation as a consequence of poor reading ability, because there was no correlation between performance on word generation and LI.
For example, supplementing education of these individuals with audiobooks may help to minimise the impact of poor reading ability on verbal knowledge that is typically acquired through reading.
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Mr Gladwell discusses a dyslexic man from rural Illinois named David Boies, who learned to compensate for his poor reading abilities by listening attentively and thinking quickly good skills for a trial lawyer.
We tested children with SLI, some of whom had poor reading abilities and only those children were poor at nonword repetition.
Good (n = 8) and poor readers (n = 21) were differentiated based on reading ability (Test of Word Reading Efficiency; see Reading and working memory, below) [ 5].
In 1996, researchers at the University of Missouri and Tennessee State University found that the average student loses a month of academic progress during summer vacation, with the biggest impact on poor kids, who lost significantly more reading ability than those from middle-income families.
Second, we have found indications that the influence of reading ability (good or poor) on VIQ change is most likely when there is a discrepancy between age-standardised scores for Reading and VIQ at Time 1.
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