Cognitive and emotional challenges in children with reading difficulties.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Dyslexia is characterised by a primary difficulty in both reading and cognitive control. Children with reading difficulties also experience a broad range of social and emotional difficulties, such as low self-esteem, anxiety and depression. The aim of the study was to determine whether there is a linkage between emotional and cognitive-control difficulties and challenges in reading in children with reading difficulties compared to typical readers.

Methods

Children eight years to 12 years of age (N = 98) either with reading difficulties or typical readers participated in the current study. Cognitive control, specifically executive functions, and emotional and reading abilities were compared between the two groups and correlated.

Results

Children with reading diffic

SUBMITTER: Nachshon O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6521714 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature