Phonological and visual processing deficits can dissociate in developmental dyslexia: Evidence from two case studies
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3 Abstract The present study describes two French teenagers with developmental reading and writing impairments whose performance was compared to that of chronological age and reading-age matched non-dyslexic participants. Laurent conforms to the pattern of phonological dyslexia: he exhibits a poor performance in pseudo-word reading and spelling, produces phonologically inaccurate misspellings but reads most exception words accurately. Nicolas, in contrast, is poor in reading and spelling of exception words but is quite good at pseudo-word spelling, suggesting that he suffers from surface dyslexia and dysgraphia. The two participants were submitted to an extensive battery of metaphonological tasks and to two visual attentional tasks. Laurent demonstrated poor phonemic awareness skills but good visual processing abilities while Nicolas showed the reverse pattern with severe difficulties in the visual attentional tasks but good phonemic awareness. The present results suggest that a visual attentional disorder might be found to be associated with the pattern of developmental surface dyslexia. The present findings further show that phonological and visual processing deficits can dissociate in developmental dyslexia. key words reading, developmental dyslexia, phonological skills, visual processing.
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