Continuity between childhood dyslexia and adult reading
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9620337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hollis S Scarborough (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 329-348 |
| Publication date | 1984-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1269 • E-ISSN: 2044-8295 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1984.tb01904.x |
| PMID | 6487925 |
| OpenAlex | W2039389740 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
If reading disabilities were the result of developmental lags, disabled readers should catch up to their peers in proficiency at maturity. As a test of this hypothesis, current literacy skills were assessed for adults who did, and did not, have childhood reading disabilities. Contrary to the developmental lag hypothesis, most of the former group remained poor readers in adulthood, in many cases reading more than two standard deviations below levels predicted by IQ. Both within and between groups, very similar relationships were observed between reading level and: word recognition; phonic analysis; prose comprehension; reading speed; spelling ability and error types; and tolerance for visual and semantic text transformations. Other purported characteristics of dyslexia differentiated disabled from normal adult readers with only limited success. The results have implications for theoretical, methodological, and practical issues in the study of dyslexia in childhood as well as adulthood
Cognitive psychology · Comprehension · Developmental psychology · Dyslexia · Linguistics · Literacy · Maturity (psychological) · Reading (process) · Reading comprehension · Reading disability · Spelling · Educational Methods and Media Use · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Text Readability and Simplification
Persistence of dyslexics' phonological awareness deficits
Explaining the Differences Between the Dyslexic and the Garden-Variety Poor Reader
Searching for the Cognitive Locus of Foreign Language Learning Difficulties
Very Early Language Deficits in Dyslexic Children
Using Miscue Analysis to Assess Comprehension in Deaf College Readers
Development of an Abbreviated Adult Reading History Questionnaire (ARHQ-Brief) Using a Machine Learning Approach
Morphological awareness and vocabulary predict reading resilience in adults
The right and wrong places to look for the cognitive locus of reading disability
Orthographic processing efficiency in developmental dyslexia
Spelling errors and reading fluency in compensated adult dyslexics
Early syntactic development of dyslexic children
Orthographic depth and developmental dyslexia
Dyslexia in adults
Literacy development in successful men and women with dyslexia
Child-directed talk in families with incidence of dyslexia
Predicting Dyslexia From Kindergarten
| Citations per year | 0.42 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1988 - 2022 (35) |
| Highly cited | No |