Word Decoding and Picture Naming in Children With a Reading Disability.(Statistical Data Included)

From: Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs | Date: August 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

THERE IS ABUNDANT EVIDENCE that poor readers are deficient in phonological skills, such as mapping alphabetic symbols, segmenting phonemes, and encoding speech sounds (Bradley & Bryant, 1983; Shankweiler & Liberman, 1989). There is only scattered evidence that poor readers are also deficient in semantically based skills, such as acquiring a vocabulary and retrieving spoken and written words from the mental lexicon (Howell & Manis, 1986). In the study by Howell and Manis, participants verified verbal category descriptions for pictures and words. To isolate semantic processing ...

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