Strengths and new aspects
co-morbidities, dyslexia
We examined children with isolated dyslexia without co-morbidities by applying strict inclusion criteria, which gave us a homogeneous sample and reduced the influence of other factors.We developed and applied child-friendly Chinese lessons that were especially designed to avoid the use of alphabetic script.Our study assessed for the first time the eye movement pattern during naming Chinese characters in German and Chinese, which showed the same performance in both groups for the correctly named characters. The difference became visible as a higher error rate in group DD, especially in the Chinese naming task.Our results allow the conclusion that naming Chinese characters in German is mainly based on semantic processing, whereas naming them in Chinese requires an interaction between semantic and phonological processing.We see an advantage to compare objective data with subjective reports and applied quality of life questionnaires before and after the lessons. QoL (LQFurthermore, the children`s verbal subjective reports about their learning experience agreed with the objective data.