PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ptáčková, Monika
AU  - Lukášová, Kateřina
AU  - Krejčová, Lenka
AU  - Karunová, Hana
TI  - Dyslexia from special education and neuroscientific perspective: selected aspects of the first stage of the research
DP  - 2019 Jun 11
TA  - Journal of Exceptional People
PG  - 57--70
VI  - 8
IP  - 2
IS  - 18054978
AB  - Currently, dyslexia is a frequently discussed topic, which is central in many fields of science, such as special education, speech therapy, psychology, linguistics, or neuroscience. The report is a part of the international research which interconnects all the fields mentioned above. The paper presents a comparison of psychological and special-educational evaluation of adult university students/university alumni with dyslexia and without it. In this part of the research, 27 participants were assessed by a series of six tests. The data obtained were processed in IBM SPSS Statistics 23 with the help of Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). The results showed that group with dyslexia varied in their test performance aimed at reading and reading abilities, and there were no significant intelligence, attention or short-term memory differences. At the end, the report includes partial data taken from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).