Dyslexia And Dysgraphia In The Reading And Writing Of English Words By Upper-Primary Pupils From Select Schools In Sabatia Sub-County In Kenya

This study sought to investigate whether there was correlation between reading impairment (dyslexia) and writing impairment (dysgraphia), and whether function words would pose a greater challenge than content words in both reading and writing in the English of a group of twenty-five upper-primary pupils (of the Sabatia Sub-county of Vihiga County, Kenya) who experienced serious reading and writing difficulties. It found that there was a high positive correlation between the subjects’ reading and writing (r = 0.79 at p<0.01, with df =23). However, contrary to what had been hypothesized (base... Mehr ...