Reading Development, Dyslexia and Phonological Skills

Music Training Increases Phonological Awareness and Reading Skills in Developmental Dyslexia: A Randomized Control Trial

There is some evidence for a role of music training in boosting phonological awareness, word segmentation, working memory, as well as reading abilities in children with typical development. Poor performance in tasks requiring temporal processing, rhythm perception and sensorimotor synchronization seems to be a crucial factor underlying dyslexia in children. Interestingly, children with dyslexia...

Early Precursors of Reading-Relevant Phonological Skills

Phonological working memory and reading in students with dyslexia

PURPOSE To investigate parameters related to fluency, reading comprehension and phonological processing (operational and short-term memory) and identify potential correlation between the variables in Dyslexia and in the absence of reading difficulties. METHOD One hundred and fifteen students from the third to eighth grade of elementary school were grouped into a Control Group (CG) and Group w...

Early Prediction of Reading Phonological Awareness Early Prediction of Reading Phonological Awareness and Related Language and Cognitive Skills in Children with a Familial Risk for Dyslexia

Puolakanaho, Anne Early Prediction of Reading: Phonological Awareness and Related Language and Cognitive Skills in Children with a Familial Risk for Dyslexia Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2007, 61 p. (Jyväskylä Studies in Education, Psychology and Social Research, ISSN 0075-4625; 317 ) ISBN 978-951-39-2998-5 (PDF), 978-951-39-2957-2 (nid.) Yhteenveto: Lukemistaitojen varhainen ennustamine...

Modelling reading development through phonological decoding and self-teaching: implications for dyslexia

The most influential theory of learning to read is based on the idea that children rely on phonological decoding skills to learn novel words. According to the self-teaching hypothesis, each successful decoding encounter with an unfamiliar word provides an opportunity to acquire word-specific orthographic information that is the foundation of skilled word recognition. Therefore, phonological dec...