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W Deimel

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PubMed1998

Auditory processing and dyslexia: evidence for a specific speech processing deficit.

In order to investigate the relationship between dyslexia and central auditory processing, 19 children with spelling disability and 15 controls at grades 5 and 6 were examined using a passive oddball paradigm. Mismatch negativity (MMN) was determined for tone and speech stimuli. While there were no group differences for the tone stimuli, we found a significantly attenuated MMN in the dyslexic group for the speech stimuli. This finding leads to the conclusion that dyslexics have a specific speech processing deficit at the sensory level which could be used to identify children at risk at an early age.

Acoustic Stimulation↗
PubMed1998

Role of auditory temporal processing for reading and spelling disability.

The role of auditory temporal processing in reading and spelling was investigated in a sample of 30 children and one of 31 adults, using a gap-detection task with nonspeech stimuli. There was no evidence for a relationship between reading and spelling disability (dyslexia) and the gap-detection threshold. The results were discussed regarding the relevance for the popular hypothesis of an auditory temporal processing deficit underlying dyslexia.

Acoustic Stimulation↗
PubMed1998

[The Marburg Parent-Child Spelling Trainer--follow up studies after 2 years].

The results of a two-year parent-child training program are reported. After one year of supervised tutoring by one of their parents, the children had only improved in those spelling areas that had been worked on in the program, otherwise there was no general improvement in their spelling ability. After the second year, not only their spelling ability in the specific areas had continued to increase, but their general spelling ability (spelling test percentile rank) had also improved. Their self-confidence had increased markedly as well. Significant predictors of the specific spelling improvement were the specific spelling ability at the initial measurement and whether or not the mother was working; significant predictors for the general improvement could not be found. Supervised tutoring by the parents was shown to be effective for improving childrens' spelling ability.

Achievement↗
PubMed1997

[The Marburg parent-child spelling training].

The first results of a parent-child program for improving the children's spelling are reported. Seventeen spelling-disabled children and their mothers took part for about one year in a supervised tutoring program that was based on German spelling rules. The parents met with two therapists one evening a month and received guidance with the program. Overall there was no improvement in spelling. However, a qualitative analysis of spelling errors revealed marked improvement in those areas that had been worked on in the program. Significant predictors of spelling improvement were the spelling ability of the mother and whether the mother was working or not.

Adult↗
PubMed1996

Follow-up investigation of family relations in patients with anorexia nervosa.

In a group of 22 formerly anorectic inpatients (follow-up 3.8 years after treatment) and in a control group of 24 paralleled young women, the subjective perception of the family structure was assessed using the "Subjective Family Image (SFI)", in order to investigate the question whether the family structure of former anorectics differs from the controls and whether individual development of the former inpatients is associated with the experienced family structure. Empirical results are in favor of the following two hypotheses: 1) Compared to the control group, formerly anorectic inpatients experience family relationships as more complicated and less satisfying. The quality of family relationships in the patient group is reduced, even at the time of follow-up. 2) Individual outcome (individual course of the illness) and quality of family relationships at time of follow-up are associated. Patients with a good outcome experience family relationships as more positive than patients with a poor outcome. The accordance of these findings to other empirical results and their implications for clinical practice are discussed.

Adult↗
PubMed1996

Familial aggregation of spelling disability.

This study examined the familial aggregation of spelling disability in a sample of 32 German school-aged children and their relatives. The influence of two different diagnostic criteria (low-achievement criterion, and regression-based IQ-discrepancy criterion) on the rate of affectedness was investigated. Results revealed that 52.3-61.9% of the sibs and 26-34% of the parents were spelling disabled. Little evidence was found for an influence of the diagnostic criterion on the rate of affectedness.

Achievement↗
PubMed1996

[Effect of an oligo-antigen diet on the behavior of hyperkinetic children].

The influence of an oligoantigenic diet on different dimensions of the behavior of 21 children diagnosed as having attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was examined. Treatment effects were assessed with three subjective measures (two questionnaires and an interview) and three objective measures (two attention tests and actometer). The study was divided into three phases: baseline, diet and provocation, each lasting three weeks. A crossover design was used. A significant effect was found for the subjective measures, but not for the objective measures. The results are discussed in terms of possible types of effects, e. g. rater effects and environmental effects. It may be that the oligoantigenic diet influences only certain dimensions of hyperactivity.

Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity↗
PubMed1994

[Reliability and validity of the German version of the Youth Self Report].

The aim of the present study was to investigate certain aspects of the reliability and validity of a German version of the Youth Self-Report (total behavior problem score) and to establish norms. In a sample of 252 patients from various child and adolescent psychiatric services and in an unselected sample of 1343 students from nearby schools high coefficients of internal consistency and split-half reliability (> 0.9) were obtained. An additional 105 students were tested and then retested after 5 weeks and again the rank correlations were high (boys: 0.86; girls: 0.90). The patients had higher total problem scores than the non-patients matched for age, sex, socioeconomic status, type of school and status as a foreigner. Patients with a diagnosis on axis 1 (psychiatric syndrome) or axis 5 (abnormal psychosocial situations) of the Multi-axial Classification Scheme were more maladjusted (higher total behavior problem score) than those without such a diagnosis. As expected, the score for the inpatients (N = 99) was higher than for the outpatients (N = 153). Because of the encouraging results, which justify further use of the Youth Self-Report, norms for the total behavior problem score (T-scores, percentiles) were calculated separately for the boys (N = 2085) and girls (N = 2119) from the general population (10-17 years of age).

Adolescent↗