Date of Award
Spring 5-2018
Degree Type
Honors College Thesis
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez
Advisor Department
Psychology
Abstract
There seems to be differences between children with dyslexia and those without in their ability to follow sequential oral instructions. In this paper this possibility was explored by testing children with and without dyslexia on nine short term memory tasks that represented the different aspects that make up serial instruction. My hypothesis was that those students with dyslexia would have a smaller recall span than the controls for all sequential recall tasks. My hypothesis was not supported by the data; children in the control group only showed a significant advantage on three tasks: memory for items, non-sequential verbal memory span, and non-sequential memory for oral instructions. I also found that the correlation between age and performance was much higher for the children with dyslexia than those without. This could suggest larger differences for younger members of the two groups.
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Recommended Citation
Hermann, Crystal, "The Ability of Students with Dyslexia to Follow Sequential Oral Instructions" (2018). Honors Theses. 586.
https://aquila.usm.edu/honors_theses/586