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This research analyses possible advantages of using schematic drawings with dyslexic readers in a transparent orthography (i.e. Spanish language). To assess the usefulness of such drawings, the procedure consisted of comparing latency times (LT) for familiar words and pseudo words in a naming task. The experimental group was formed by dyslexic readers who were aided by the image support of schematic drawings made with shorthand elements. After comparing LT, it was observed that the dyslexic readers identified the stenographs (syllables) not as abstract signs, but rather as an integral part of the person-characters represented in the figures themselves. It is deduced that the difficulty which syllables present to dyslexic persons could be linked to their dissociation of syllables from the image corresponding to the whole word. (Contains 20 figures, 6 graphs and 6 tables.)

This article describes a prospective study of 1,200 participants, half of whom were offspring of trauma survivors, and their emotional symptom levels before and after the Corralito, an economic crisis that occurred in Argentina at the end of 2001. The authors report pre- and postcrisis data on anxiety and depression in a group of adult offspring of victims of the Dirty War (1976–1983) in an attempt to ascertain whether they are at greater risk than a control group for developing anxiety and depression in response to an economic crisis. The results indicated the offspring of war victims experienced greater emotional distress than the control subjects before, but not after the imposition of the Corralito. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]