James H. Smith?Spark|Lucy A. Henry|David Messer|Elisa Edvardsdottir|Adam P. Zi?cik
Executive functions in adults with developmental dyslexia
London South Bank University|City, University of London|The Open University|London South Bank University|London South Bank University
executive functioning ef deficits well recognized developmental dyslexia yet majority studies concerned children rather adults ignored subjective experience individual dyslexia regard efs followed current theoretical perspectives efs current study addressed shortfalls administering selfreport measure ef briefa roth isquith gioia 2005 experimental tasks iqmatched groups adults without dyslexia laboratorybased tasks tested three factors constituting framework ef proposed miyake et al 2000 comparison group without dyslexia participants dyslexia selfreported frequent ef problems daytoday life difficulties centering metacognitive processes working memory planning task monitoring organization rather regulation emotion behaviour participants dyslexia showed significant deficits ef inhibition set shifting working memory findings indicated dyslexiarelated problems impact daily experience adults condition ef difficulties present adulthood across range laboratorybased measures given nature experimental tasks presented extend beyond difficulties related solely phonological processing