Kavanagh And Yeni-Komshian Summary

Kavanagh and Yeni-komshian (2004) also explain that “this lag in reading ability has usually been expressed as a delay in time, such as a two-year delay. For example, a fourth grader is said to read at a second grade level”. Nonetheless, they claim that this way of measurement can be misleading since “a two-year lag in reading ability for a third grader is much more severe than a two-year lag for a tenth grader, because the delay shows that the third grader learned few skills involved in reading while the tenth grader mastered eight years or 80% of the skills a tenth grader needs. Therefore, with each grade advancement, the same two-year delay becomes proportionately less severe”. Thus, it is important to point out that the lag is less severe as it is being remediated because even if students learn in a considerably slow pace, they do …show more content…
These authors make reference to Orton (1937) who argues that there are some dyslexic errors that help us recognize dyslexic people such as reversal in reading (d for b, p for q, and tar for rat); omission or addition of entire words. Orton studied the extraordinary number of dyslexics who were left handed or ambidextrous, or had difficulties differentiating between left and right; which led him to think that a neurological dysfunction might be a cause of dyslexia.
Treatment of Dyslexia
During the past five decades a shedloads of suggestion had been made with regard to treatment for dyslexic children and adults. There are different approaches that may be useful to put up with dyslexia and even to overcome it and Cushenbery (1981) describe them as