Mirela Duranovic

University of Tuzla | UNTZ

The aim of this study was to analyze various environmental factors influencing dyslexia to enhance our understanding of its risk factors, including the exposure of mothers of dyslexic children to potential negative developmental influences, perinatal and postnatal developmental characteristics of dyslexic children, genetic predisposition, socioecon...

The Tomatis® Method overcomes the limitations of conventional therapy by passively revitalizing vestibular and auditory functions through a developmental-based program. It retrains and enhances both functions by activating intricate ear-nervous system connections. The aim of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of the Tomatis® Method...

The aim of this study was to analyze various environmental factors influencing dyslexia to enhance our understanding of its risk factors, including the exposure of mothers of dyslexic children to potential negative developmental influences, perinatal and postnatal developmental characteristics of dyslexic children, genetic predisposition, socioecon...

The objective of this research was to investigate impulsivity among children with dyslexia and comorbid dyslexia/ADHD. Children with these disorders, along with a non-ADHD/dyslexia sample, completed a self-report on impulsivity. Additionally, a specific impulsivity scale was completed by the children's parents and teachers. The analysis revealed a...

The link between orthographic processing skills and reading and spelling abilities has been demonstrated in different studies and languages. However, previous research has not fully clarified this relationship. We examined the relationship between orthographic knowledge and reading and spelling performance in children from the second to the fifth g...

The current study aimed to analyze the prevalence and characteristics of geometric difficulties in elementary school children. In cooperation with teachers, tasks for assessing geometric knowledge, respecting the curriculum for a particular grade, have been developed. The level of geometric thinking was analyzed as an additional factor for classify...

Introduction. A newly discovered SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes an infectious disease called Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread around the world. Objectives. The study aims to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on speech-language pathologists (SLPs) clinical service delivery. Accordingly, this study aims to determine which modifi...

The aim of this paper was to analyze the spelling errors of children with dyslexia, in order to determine whether they have a specific pattern of spelling errors or are simply late in acquiring spelling skills. The sample included 30 children with dyslexiaand 30 spelling-level-matched younger children. The research was conducted in the area of Sara...

The main objective of the study was to determine the developmental abilities of preschool children before and after six months of speech therapy treatment, and to examine the impact of the time of initiation of speech therapy treatment on the developmental abilities of children. The sample consisted of 35 children (20 male children and 15 female ch...

A substantial body of research has noted morphological priming effects in visual word recognition in deep orthographies, but it is still unclear whether similar effects exist in transparent orthographies. In the present experiment, we investigated the development of morphological decomposition in visual word recognition in the phonologically highly...

Čitanje je temelj celoživotnog učenja, a poznavanje dva i više jezika je mera kvalitete individualca zalokalni i svetski nivo. U svetu davno je reproduktivno znanje zamjenjeno funkcionalnim znanjem, a posljedica toga su “super generacije”. Istraživanje je ispitalo čitalačke sposobnosti kod iskusnih čitača – bilingvalnih studenata, na “nesigurnom” t...

Recent research studies have shown that increased letter spacing has a positive effect on the reading ability of dyslexic individuals. This study aims to investigate the effect of spacing on the readability of different fonts for children with and without dyslexia. Results did not support the hypothesis of better performance among children with dys...

The purpose of this study was to conduct a survey of public awareness of dyslexia in five Balkan countries. Participants were surveyed about basic knowledge of dyslexia and included the populations of Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Bulgaria, and Croatia. The general public has insufficient knowledge of dyslexia in most Balkan countries...

The paper presents the results of the first research of peer violence carried out in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina on a nationally representative sample. The aim of the research was to examine the widespread use of peer violence and the characteristics of children who participated in such violence in various ways. A number of activities...

The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of spelling errors made by children with dyslexia in Bosnian language with transparent orthography. Three main error categories were distinguished: phonological, orthographic, and grammatical errors. An analysis of error type showed 86% of phonological errors,10% of orthographic errors, and 4% of...

In Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) early autism detection often fails, and when it occurs it is followed by unsystematic and inappropriate intervention programs. Education in special schools is done by an out-of-date curriculum often created for the children with intellectual disabilities. The aim of this research was to analyze efficiency of the one...

The hypothesis about the association of dyslexia with visual-spatial talents is still not verified. Evidence is inconsistent, ranging from inferior to superior visual-spatial abilities in individuals with dyslexia. Using a variety of visual-spatial tasks, this study tested the hypothesis that dyslexia is associated with superior visual-spatial abil...

The number of students with dyslexia entering higher education has increased during recent years. As a result, there is a need for development of assessment procedures for dyslexia. In Bosnia and Herzegovina there is no screening tool capable for identifying students with dyslexia in higher education. The present study investigated the validation o...

To provide an overview of student training in speech and language therapy/logopedics (SLT) in selected Central and Southeastern European countries (Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Turkey). Data were collected using a special questionnaire developed by Söderpalm and supplemented by Georgieva. Results fr...

The phonological skills are not the only linguistic abilities which are observed to have some influence on reading achievement in dyslexics. In addition to phonological skills, morphological skills should be also taken in consideration. The aim of this study is to extend investigation the linguistic abilities of children with dyslexia to the morpho...

A study was carried out on a group of 505 preschool children. The children were given tests measuring their phonological discrimination, rhyme, initial phoneme detection and letter knowledge. In general, phonological discrimination and initial phoneme tasks are easier than the rhyme task. As children increased in age, phonological awareness and let...

Information and communication technology is a key tool to help people with dyslexia. The aim of this study was to examine the usefulness of the information and communication technology for students with dyslexia, and which forms of aid are most effective for students with dyslexia. The survey included 15 students with dyslexia at Universities of Tu...

A group of children with dyslexia (mean ages 9 and 14 years) was studied, together with group of children without dyslexia matched for age. Participants were monolingual native speakers of the Bosnian language with transparent orthography. In total, the diagnostic tests were performed with 41 children with dyslexia and 41 nondyslexic children. The...

The main purpose of this study was to examine the phonological skills among children with reading disabilities of the Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language, where each phoneme is represented by a grapheme following a certain phonemic principle. The sample consists of 15 children with reading disabilities and 15 children without reading disabilities, wh...

Background: Individuals who suffer from multiple sclerosis, aside from other symptoms, usually have voice changes such as poor control of pitch, variations in voice intensity, altered voice quality and resonance disorders. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine voice acoustic characteristics in individuals with multiple sclerosis and t...

In Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, awareness of dyslexia among teachers is very low, teachers do not receive any formal training on dyslexia and the concept of inclusive education is relatively new. It was considered important to examine teachers' attitude toward dyslexia and perception of their own competence in giving support in dyslexic c...

Semantics is one of the most important components of sucessful reading. The semantics is the aspect of language function which, in addition to phonology, enabling advancement in reading, and reading comprehension. The aim of this study is to determine characteristics of semantic skills in children with dyslexia and predictive value of semantic skil...

The purpose of this study was to focus on preschool children who come from families where parents have different educational levels and where the preschool institutions are in different areas in order to the determine the children's development of specific skills that facilitate reading. The results showed that the development of skills of phonolog...

Etiology of fluency disorders has been studied for centuries from various aspects, one of those is language aspect. The purpose of this study was to examine semantic abilities in school-age children, and to determine possible differences in semantic possibilities between stuttering and normally fluent children. Sample of subjects consisted of 58 st...

In most legislation across Europe, dyslexia is not covered specifically, but comes under the umbrella term of disabilities. There are many EU resolutions with aim to support the disability community. The questionnaire for government and higher education institutions was created to identify if they conform to minimal standards of support with respec...

A lot of children with reading and writing disabilitis have poorly insufficient development auditory and visual discrimination.The purpose of this study was to investigate auditory and vizualy discrimination and influence of articulation force to understanding in children with reading and writing disabilitis. A sample of subjects consisted of two g...