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Deficits in Dyslexia: Barking up the wrong tree?
Author(s) -
Moores Elisabeth
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
dyslexia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.694
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1099-0909
pISSN - 1076-9242
DOI - 10.1002/dys.277
Subject(s) - dyslexia , psychology , biological theories of dyslexia , cognitive psychology , task (project management) , developmental dyslexia , reading (process) , linguistics , philosophy , management , economics
Reviews of the dyslexia literature often seem to suggest that children with dyslexia perform at a lower level on almost any task. Richards et al . (Dyslexia 2002; 8 : 1–8) note the importance of being able to demonstrate dissociations between tasks. However, increasingly elegant experiments, in which dissociations are found, almost inevitably find that the performance of children with dyslexia is lower as tasks become more difficult! By looking for deficits in dyslexia, could we be barking up the wrong tree? A methodological approach for circumventing this potential problem is discussed. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.