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A group of 35 reading disabled boy and 35 matched controls were studied over a two-year period in order to evaluate the validity of traditional hypotheses about the causes of serious reading impairment in preadolescent boys for whom the common disadvantages of economic privation, bilingualism and emotional instability were absent. The popular hypothesis of perceptual deficit was not supported by the data, although the finding that most reading disabled boys have a short-term memory deficit was affirmed. The most important new findings was that about one-fourth of the reading disabled boys had serious difficulty in maintaining an efficient set to process and/or evaluate information, especially when that information was contained in oral speech.
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This research was supported by a grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. We thank Michelle Shal and Susan Grant for their participation in this work.
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Kagan, J., Moore, M.J. Retrieval and evaluation of symbolic information in dyslexia. Bulletin of the Orton Society 31, 65–73 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02658601
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