| dc.description.abstract | Thirty elementary school children were classified
into equal groups of poor and average readers. In a
series of four experiments, subjects were requested to
provide vocal responses to tachistoscopically presented
stimuli representing an array of reading related tasks.
Poor readers maintained a performance throughout two
experiments suggesting a left hemisphere deficit, and the
persistence of a serial approach to verbal processing
characteristic of right hemisphere stimulus entry in
normals (Bub and Lewine, 1988). It was hypothesized that
normal readers were induced to perform in a manner
conforming to Kershner's (1983) model of learning
disabilities, and the performance of poor readers in this
study. The use of morphographic analysis (Dixon and
Engelmann, 1979) and the exploration of prolonged
stimulus exposure to individual hemispheres were proposed
as novel methods of reading remediation. A tentative
experiment on metacontrol revealed an inconsistency in
structural and semantic preferences to a target word in
the left visual field of poor readers. | |
