Not all phonological awareness deficits are created equal: evidence from a comparison between children with Otitis Media and poor readers.

ABSTRACT: Children with reading difficulties and children with a history of repeated ear infections (Otitis Media, OM) are both thought to have phonological impairments, but for quite different reasons. This paper examines the profile of phonological and morphological awareness in poor readers and children with OM. Thirty-three poor readers were compared to individually matched chronological age and reading age controls. Their phonological awareness and morphological awareness skills were consistently at the level of reading age matched controls. Unexpectedly, a significant minority (25%) of the poor readers had some degree of undiagnosed mild or very mild hearing loss. Twenty-nine children with a history of OM and their matched controls completed the same battery of tasks. They showed relatively sm

SUBMITTER: Carroll JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5947145 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature