Extraneous bodily movements and irrelevant vocalizations by dyslexic and non-dyslexic boys during calculation tasks

August 28, 2008

Thirty dyslexic boys, aged between 9 and 15 years, and 30 age-matched controls were tested on a series of sums involving division, subtraction and addition. During the testing a record was kept of any bodily movements or verbal utterances (vocalizations) irrelevant to the task in hand. It was found that the dyslexics produced many more extraneous bodily movements and many more irrelevant vocalizations than did the controls. Possible reasons for these findings are tentatively suggested. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (Source: Dyslexia)

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