Speech, laterality, visual-motoric coordination and reading of children at the beginning of school attandence

Autor	PaedDr. Božetěch Siwek, Ph.D.
Organisation	Pedagogická Fakulta, Univerzita Karlova
Year	2010
Research type	Ph.D. thesis
Annotation	The dissertation focuses on problem of reading as a base for literacy and regularities linked to reading and its acquisition. A special attention is paid to biopsychological relations, perception and motor functions and their role within the process of reading. Main objective of the thesis is to analyse the relations among speech, laterality, visual motoric coordination and reading among children at the beginning of their school attendance. The thesis is divided into a theoretical part and an empiric part. The theoretical part deals with the significance, essence and up-to-date concept of the reading skills, readiness for reading, teaching methods and assessment of the reading skills, reading disorders and possibilities of prevention thereof, modernization and prospects of the teaching of the reading. The empiric part focuses on the issue of speech, laterality, visual-motoric coordination and reading of children and relations between these factors.
Keywords	reading, speech, laterality, visual-motoric coordination, reading disorders, methods of teaching of reading.
Research type	quantitative
Start date	1. 10. 2007
End date	17. 9. 2010
Obor	AM Pedagogy, education
Note	supervisor: Radka Wildová oponents :Jana Miňhová, Anna Kucharská
Email	ludmila.houbova@pedf.cuni.cz
Availability	available in the NRVDM electronic library
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Research location	Pedagogická Fakulta, Univerzita Karlova , M.D. Rettigové 4, Praha 1 11639
Organisation	Pedagogická Fakulta, Univerzita Karlova
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