Word Learning Deficits in Children With Dyslexia.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to investigate word learning in children with dyslexia to ascertain their strengths and weaknesses during the configuration stage of word learning.

Method

Children with typical development (N = 116) and dyslexia (N = 68) participated in computer-based word learning games that assessed word learning in 4 sets of games that manipulated phonological or visuospatial demands. All children were monolingual English-speaking 2nd graders without oral language impairment. The word learning games measured children's ability to link novel names with novel objects, to make decisions about the accuracy of those names and objects, to recognize the semantic features of the objects, and to produce the names of the novel words. Accuracy data were analyzed

SUBMITTER: Alt M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5548075 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature