scholarly journals A new procedure to measure children's reading speed and accuracy in Italian

Dyslexia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella Morlini ◽  
Giacomo Stella ◽  
Maristella Scorza
Keyword(s):  
Reading Speed ◽  
Children's Reading ◽  
Children’S Reading ◽  
Speed And Accuracy

The effects of amblyopia on children’s reading performance after patching treatment

2021 ◽  
pp. 112067212199824
Author(s):  
Arthur Gustavo Fernandes ◽  
Nívea Nunes Ferraz
Keyword(s):  
Reading Speed ◽  
Performance Testing ◽  
Reading Performance ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Reading Acuity ◽  
Fellow Eye ◽  
Children's Reading ◽  
Print Size ◽  
Children’S Reading ◽  
Better Than

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of amblyopia on children’s reading performance after the successful patching treatment with 20/20 visual acuity (VA) in the treated eye. Methods: The treated amblyopes group included 10 children with strabismic amblyopia diagnosed on the first visit presenting VA equal or better than 0.0 logMAR (20/20 Snellen) in the better vision eye and VA worse than 0.2 logMAR (20/32 Snellen) in the worse eye that underwent patching treatment of amblyopia reaching a final VA  equal to  0.0 logMAR in the treated eye. The control group comprised 10 children matched by age, gender and school-grade with no visual disorders. Reading performance was evaluated according to reading acuity (RA), critical print size (CPS), reading speed (RS) at 0.7 logMAR, and maximum reading speed (MRS) using the MNREAD chart. Results: Binocular reading performance was compared between groups and no statistically significant differences were found on RA, CPS, RS, or MRS ( p > 0.05). When analyzing monocular reading performances of treated amblyopes, a worse RA ( p = 0.04) and CPS ( p = 0.04) were observed on the previously amblyopic eye when compared to the fellow eye. When comparing the fellow eye from treated amblyopes and a randomly selected eye from controls, no statistically significant differences on RA, CPS, RS, or MRS were found ( p > 0.05). Conclusions: The results suggest that even patients who reached 20/20 VA in the treated eye after patching treatment for amblyopia may present persistent impaired reading performance. These findings reinforce the importance of reading performance testing as a tool when evaluating the visual function development in amblyopic patients.

Some Bodies are Easier to Read: The Effect of Consistency and Regularity on Children's Reading

1991 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 793-824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronica Laxon ◽  
Jacqueline Masterson ◽  
Veronika Coltheart
Keyword(s):  
Reading Ability ◽  
The Body ◽  
Read Aloud ◽  
Distributed Model ◽  
Body Type ◽  
Monosyllabic Word ◽  
Children's Reading ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Children’S Reading ◽  
Speed And Accuracy

Patterson and Morton (1985) proposed a model for the skilled reading of words and non-words that accommodates two non-lexical routines. One is the grapheme-to-phoneme correspondence system which utilizes the regularity of letter to sound correspondences for single letters and digraphs. The other is a system of “bodies”—the vowel and terminal letters of a monomorphemic, monosyllabic word. The idea of the body segment, as Patterson and Morton use it, is to capture consistency effects in reading aloud—that is, the fact that the spelling-sound pattern of words with similar written endings to the target affects the speed and accuracy of its reading. In this study consistency and regularity are examined as separate factors in children's reading, by devising stimuli in accordance with the different types of three-letter ending that are proposed within the body sub-system. A group of 87 children aged seven to nine (reading age range: 6;6 to 13;7) was sub-divided according to reading ability and given words and non-words to read aloud. In all the children, performance was affected by body type for both words and non-words, but the better readers were most affected. The implications of these results for a radical distributed model of reading acquisition (Seidenberg & McClelland, 1989) are considered.

Activization of Children’s Reading Interests in German Libraries

2009 ◽  
pp. 90-94
Author(s):  
Larisa E. Kresova
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Reading Interests ◽  
New Information ◽  
American Memory ◽  
Children's Reading ◽  
Technical Basis ◽  
Children’S Reading

The activities of the American Memory Library, aimed at on activization of children’ reading interests in Germany are considered. The history, the collection composition, the material and technical basis and the organization of library space, as well as the usage of new information technologies in children's libraries of Germany are illuminated.

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