Relationship between rapid naming, phonological awareness and spelling in Farsi normally developing children

Introduction: The aim of the present study was to investigate relationship among phonological awareness, rapid naming and spelling in normally developing Farsi speaking children. Materials and Methods: In this description- analytical cross sectional study 30 normally developing students randomly selected from Tehran (Iran). The students performed Nama reading and dyslexia, rapid automatized naming, phonological awareness, and spelling tests. Results: There were significant relationships between intra syllabic awareness and rapid colors, numbers, and letters naming respectively and between total score of phonological awareness and rapid letters naming. Among different sub-tests of phonological awareness, the significant relationship was just between syllabic awareness and spelling. Among different sub-tests of rapid atomized naming the significant relationship was between rapid numbers naming and spelling (p<0.05). Conclusion: The relationships were found among rapid numbers naming and phonological awareness with spelling. Conspiciously, the lack of significant relationship between phonological awareness and rapid naming shows these two skills probably are independent in Farsi.