title: A unifying concept for the neuropsychological organization of children with reading disability.
abstract: Normative studies successfully predicting reading failure in 5- and 6-year-old children suggest that if the neuropsychological functions relating to spatial orientation and temporal organization are not age-appropriate, that child will not have normal achievement in the language arts, particularly in reading. This concept unifying the diverse symptoms found in elementary school children with reading failure has been used to develop a test battery predictive of reading failure, valid to 1 to 3% false positives and 10% false negatives. Further, a simple clinical test, the arm Extension Test, suggests that in these children hemisphere specialization for language has not been established.
mesh_terms: D001307:Auditory Perception; D001828:Body Image; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D009949:Orientation; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000379:methods; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013028:Space Perception; D013998:Time Perception; D014796:Visual Perception