This paper tries to evaluate the rate and the effect of critical thinking on reading and writing skills of students at I.A.U of district 3. Those who study library and Information science. More than 113 student were chosen for sampling analysis and Wilcakson analytical indexes were used for interpreting the results. SPSS analysis shows that the aching those skills can increase the students read...

Reading comprehension in adults is a rather neglected variable in the practice of psychological assessment. We propose a new screening instrument for adult reading comprehension based on a pragmatic definition of reading comprehension as the textual understanding of the text read. Using data from a calibration sample (n = 266) and a replication sample (n = 148) for cross-validation, we tested t...

DOCUMENT RESUME Valtin, Renate Report of Research on May 73 12p.; Paper presented International Reading 1973) CS 000 673 Dyslexia in Children._ at the Annual Meeting of the Assn.. (18th, Denver, May 1-4, MF-$0.65 BC-$3.29 *Dyslexia; *Elemere-ary Grades; Reading; Reading Ability; *Reading Difficulty; Reading Improvement; *Reading. Research; *Reading Skills; Remedial Reading; Socioeconomic Backgr...

PAST RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT MUSIC and language skills are related in normal-reading children as well as in children with dyslexia. In both an ongoing longitudinal study with normal-reading children and a pilot study with children with dyslexia, we found a strong relationship between musical discrimination abilities and language-related skills. In normal-reading children, musical discrimination...

BACKGROUND Developmental reading problems show strong persistence across the school years; less is known about poor readers' later progress in literacy skills. METHOD Poor (n = 42) and normally developing readers (n = 86) tested in adolescence (ages 14/15 years) in the Isle of Wight epidemiological studies were re-contacted at mid-life (ages 44/45 years). Participants completed a spelling tes...

We examined the relations among phonological awareness, music perception skills, and early reading skills in a population of 100 4- and 5-year-old children. Music skills were found to correlate significantly with both phonological awareness and reading development. Regression analyses indicated that music perception skills contributed unique variance in predicting reading ability, even when var...

The development of reading skills is underpinned by oral language abilities: Phonological skills appear to have a causal influence on the development of early word-level literacy skills, and reading-comprehension ability depends, in addition to word-level literacy skills, on broader (semantic and syntactic) language skills. Here, we report a longitudinal study of children at familial risk of dy...

With the phonological deficit hypothesis of dyslexia as a back-drop, this review discusses the issue of how indivdual differences in its behavioural manifestation should be conceptualised. It begins by reviewing ways of classifying children with dyslexia from a clinical perspective and proceeds to describe the cognitive neuropsychological approach to classification that has focused on the readi...