"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?"
I have found over the years that the more IQ tests that I do the more
intelligent I appear to get.
This appears to support the view that as with nearly everything, the more
you do something, generally the better you get at it!
Graham
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boyce, Mark [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 15 May 2003 09:27
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: dyslexia and changing IQ
>
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Margaret Herrington
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 14 May 2003 17:12
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
> >>> [log in to unmask] 05/14/03 16:39 PM >>>
> 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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