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Snellings, Patrick; van der Leij, Aryan; Blok, Henk; de Jong, Peter F. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2010
This study investigated the role of speech perception accuracy and speed in fluent word decoding of reading disabled (RD) children. A same-different phoneme discrimination task with natural speech tested the perception of single consonants and consonant clusters by young but persistent RD children. RD children were slower than chronological age…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency, Phonetics, Phonemes
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Goulandris, Nata K.; Snowling, Margaret J.; Walker, Ian – Annals of Dyslexia, 2000
Two groups of adolescents with language impairment (n=87) were compared with 20 adolescents with dyslexia, 19 aged-matched controls, and 18 younger typical children. Adolescents with dyslexia only performed as well as those with persistent oral language impairments and younger controls in reading and spelling, however, their reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dyslexia, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments