Orthography and Reading Disabilities

Phonology and Orthography R121b 1 Phonology and Orthography in Reading Aloud

This study investigates the orthographic and phonological contribution of visually masked primes to reading aloud in Dutch. Although there is a relatively clear mapping between spelling and sound of words in Dutch, words starting with the letter are ambiguous as to whether they begin with the phoneme /s/ (e.g., FLWURHQ ‘lemon’) or with the phoneme /k/ (e.g., FRPSORW ‘conspiracy’). Therefore...

Orthography Shapes Semantic and Phonological Activation in Reading

Computer speech-based remediation for reading disabilities: the size of spelling-to-sound unit in a transparent orthography.

This study was designed to assess the effects of four reading-training procedures for children with reading disabilities (RD) in a transparent orthography, with the aim of examining the effects of different spelling-to-sound units in computer speech-based reading. We selected a sample of 83 Spanish children aged between 7 years 1 month and 10 years 6 months (M = 105.2, SD = 7.8) whose pseudowor...

Synchronous Reading: Learning French Orthography by Audiovisual Training

We assess here the potential benefit of a karaoke-style reading system for learning sound-to-letter mapping in irregular languages. We have developed a framework that eases the development of interactive systems exploiting the alignment of text with audio at various levels (letters, phones syllables, words, chunks, etc). Synchronous reading consists of using time-aligned text with speech at the...

Reading Disabilities in Chinese and Japanese Children

nature and causes of reading disability. The question centers on the role that specific features of English orthography play in reading difficulties. Does the way words are represented in the English alphabet present unique problems for children as they learn to translate between written and spoken language? In his attempt to answer this question, Stevenson discusses similarities and difference...