Developmental trajectories for children with dyslexia and low IQ poor readers.

ABSTRACT: Reading difficulties are found in children with both high and low IQ and it is now clear that both groups exhibit difficulties in phonological processing. Here, we apply the developmental trajectories approach, a new methodology developed for studying language and cognitive impairments in developmental disorders, to both poor reader groups. The trajectory methodology enables identification of atypical versus delayed development in datasets gathered using group matching designs. Regarding the cognitive predictors of reading, which here are phonological awareness, phonological short-term memory (PSTM) and rapid automatized naming (RAN), the method showed that trajectories for the two groups diverged markedly. Children with dyslexia showed atypical development in phonological awareness, while

SUBMITTER: Kuppen SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4843494 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature