Eye-movement patterns in disabled readers at two age levels: a test of Bakker's balance model.
The eye-movement patterns of good and poor readers at two age levels during slide-presented reading, arithmetic and perceptual-closure tasks were compared. Older dyslexics were deficient in reading and arithmetic, but performed well on perceptual-closure tasks. Younger dyslexics were deficient on all tasks. Both younger good readers and older poor readers appeared to use a right-hemispheric reading strategy, while older dyslexics appeared to show a left-hemispheric approach. Younger dyslexics did not exhibit any strategy at all. Implications for Bakker's balance model of dyslexia and for subtypes research in dyslexia are discussed.
D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005133:Eye Movements; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010466:Perceptual Closure; D011340:Problem Solving