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No Evidence of Creative Benefit Accompanying Dyslexia: A Meta-Analysis
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Erbeli, Florina; Peng, Peng; Rice, Marianne – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
Research on the question of creative benefit accompanying dyslexia has produced conflicting findings. In this meta-analysis, we determined summary effects of mean and variance differences in creativity between groups with and without dyslexia. Twenty studies were included (n = 770 individuals with dyslexia, n = 1,671 controls). A random-effects…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Dyslexia, Creativity, Comparative Analysis
Various Varying Views on Variation.
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Stanovich, Keith E. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
The article summarizes the four preceding articles on specific reading disability and emphasizes the presence of variability in all discussions of the topic. (DB)
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences, Reading Difficulties
Nonverbal Learning Disabilities and Socioemotional Functioning: A Review of Recent Literature.
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Little, Sara S. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1993
This article presents an overview of literature relating to a nonverbal learning disabilities subtype. The article addresses the relationship between nonverbal learning disabilities and socioemotional functioning, generalizability of research outcomes, individual differences, and treatment validity. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Classification, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Development, Generalization
Individual Differences in the Cognitive Processes of Reading: II. Text-Level Processes.
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Stanovich, Keith E. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1982
The literature on individual differences in cognitive processes that operate at the text level is reviewed. Poor readers display comprehension deficits independent of word-decoding skill, due to deficient syntactic abilities and to more general metacognitive strategies. The general conclusions from this review and from Part One (ED 150 706) are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education