Have a look at
http://www.bdainternationalconference.org/presentations/thu_s5_a_5.htm
1974 a report on dyslexia by the British Council stated: "dyslexia can
affect performance on standard IQ tests and produce misleading results".
Graham
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ginny Stacey [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 14 May 2003 16:29
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: dyslexia and changing IQ
>
>
> I have just been reading the April version of the Guidance
> chapter 7 page
> 35 about dyslexia assessments and I wonder what anyone else
> thinks about
> the statement that IQ doesn't change.
>
> I know the basic potential isn't supposed to change, but the
> tests measure
> what you can do or have learnt rather than raw potential.
> Suppose a child
> is identified as dyslexic in school and then has regular
> tuition so that
> the key language skills are more or less in place. This
> isn't a cure for
> dyslexia. You still have to work your way round the effects
> of short-term
> memory problems, and various other adult affects of dyslexia.
> However you
> can get language stable enough to do really quite well in the literacy
> tests available. I suspect that some adults will have
> literacy results
> that when compared with child values of IQ make it look like
> the dyslexia
> is no longer a problem and that if a new IQ test were done the results
> would increase with the literacy skill increase. In which case the
> difference between IQ and literacy would still be evident.
>
> What research has been done? Is anyone doing any? What does
> anyone else
> think?
>
> Ginny Stacey
>
> Dr Ginny Stacey
> Support Tutor for Dyslexic Students
>
> Oxford Brookes University
> Student Services
> Helena Kennedy Student Centre, Headington HillCampus
> Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
>
> email: [log in to unmask]
> tel: 01865 484659
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