hypothesis, they examined the performance of twenty-three thirteen-year-old dyslexic

children on a test of motor balance, and compared it to that of the same age controls. To

test the "conscious compensation hypothesis" they introduced a secondary task to switch

attention away from the primary task. Under single conditions the children performed just

the motor balance (primary) task. Under dual conditions they performed the primary task

as well as a concurrent secondary task. Dyslexic subjects showed problems on the dual

task as opposed to the single task, but there was no such decrease in score for the control

subjects. Fluency is essential because it plays an important role as a bridge between word

recognition (the basic level of processing for reading; the phonological processor and the

orthographical processor) and comprehension (the upper level of processing for reading;

meaning processor and context processor). Therefore, a balanced approach based on

connectionist theories is necessary to determine early detection of RD and choosing

intervention strategies for children with reading problems.