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de Bree, Elise; Wijnen, Frank; Gerrits, Ellen – Dyslexia, 2010
This study related the non-word repetition (NWR) abilities of 4-year-old children at-risk of dyslexia and children with specific language impairment (SLI) to their reading abilities at age eight. The results show that the SLI group obtained the lowest NWR score and the at-risk group performed in-between the control and SLI group. Approximately…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Dyslexia, Reading Ability, Followup Studies
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Mengler, Elise D.; Hogben, John H.; Michie, Patricia; Bishop, Dorothy V. M. – Dyslexia, 2005
Some children have difficulty in perceiving differences between sounds, even though they have normal hearing sensitivity, and it has been suggested that such problems could lead to difficulties in language and literacy development. Poor ability to distinguish sounds on the basis of frequency (perceived as pitch) has been described in poor readers…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Oral Language, Language Impairments, Program Effectiveness