On that note it is the case that dyslexia has "good and bad days" depending
on the environment and self-belief of the individual. I have also noticed
that, when carrying out needs assessments, that students who are persistent
readers in spite of their dyslexia do well on the symbol search but are
generally quite weak on coding. This then correlates with a good basic
reading age but weak comprehension age on the WORD test. However, those
dyslexics who avoid reading altogether tend to do poorly on all these tests.
Does this mean that a good degree of basic reading improves the IQ of
dyslexics? Thus proving Margaret's point, or is it the chicken and egg
situation?
Mark Boyce
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From: Margaret Herrington [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 14 May 2003 17:12
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Subject: Re: dyslexia and changing IQ
Thanks for raising this Ginny...I for one have received IQ test results, for
individual HE students, which have varied considerably between those taken
during schooling and those taken during university studies. Educational
psychologists usually acknowledge that this is a possibility....they are
often aware of the weaknesses of their own tests.
Margaret
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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
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tel: 01865 484659
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