Comorbidity of Auditory Processing, Attention, and Memory in Children With Word Reading Difficulties.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To document the auditory processing, visual attention, digit memory, phonological processing, and receptive language abilities of individual children with identified word reading difficulties.

Design

Twenty-five children with word reading difficulties and 28 control children with good word reading skills participated. All children were aged between 8 and 11 years, with normal hearing sensitivity and typical non-verbal intelligence. Both groups of children completed a test battery designed to assess their auditory processing, visual attention, digit memory, phonological processing, and receptive language.

Results

When compared to children who were good readers, children with word reading difficulties obtained significantly lower average scores on tests of au

SUBMITTER: Gokula R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6817942 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature