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THE NAMING OF DISORIENTED LETTERS BY NORMAL AND READING‐DISABLED CHILDREN *
Author(s) -
Corballis Michael C.,
Macadie Lindy,
Crotty Amanda,
Beale Ivan L.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1985.tb00607.x
Subject(s) - psychology , reading (process) , developmental psychology , reading disability , cognitive psychology , dyslexia , linguistics , philosophy
Normal and reading‐disabled children, 11–13 years old, named the letters F, G and R, presented in normal and backward versions, in varying angular orientations, in left and right visual fields. Both groups were faster at naming the normal than the backward letters, even though mental rotation was evidently not required. The results also offered no support for Orton's theory concerning the interrelations between mirror‐image equivalence, hemispheric differences and reading disability. The only measures unrelated to reading itself that discriminated the groups were digit span and a special difficulty among the disabled readers in naming the letter G.