Methodological Issues in Dyslexia Research

Abstract

The Bergen Project was basically a developmental study of individual children with severe school learning disabilities. It emphasized individual research for two major reasons:

• 1. On the basis of individual case studies and diagnoses, we designed what in our opinion would be the best possible program of treatment and instruction for each child.

• 2. We assumed that the children would exhibit varied patterns of educational development, and that collection of individual data would facilitate explaining some of the factors involved in these differing patterns.