Universal and Specific Predictors of Chinese Children With Dyslexia - Exploring the Cognitive Deficits and Subtypes.

ABSTRACT: While previous studies have shown that the impact of phonological awareness (PA) and rapid automatized naming (RAN) on dyslexia depends on orthographic complexity in alphabetic languages, it remains unclear whether this relationship generalizes to the more complex orthography of Chinese. We investigated the predictive power of PA, RAN, and morphological awareness (MA) in dyslexia diagnosis status in a sample of 241 typically developing and 223 dyslexic Chinese-speaking children. Compared with the control group, children with dyslexia performed notably worse on character reading and all three cognitive measures. A logistic regression analysis showed that PA and RAN were both significant predictors, while MA also played a relatively important role for predicting dyslexia status in Chinese ch

SUBMITTER: Song S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6960230 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature