Background Reading impairment is the major learning disability in children. While research
on illiteracy has mainly been conducted from a sociological perspective, research on …

Background Children with dyslexia often show second‐language reading and writing
difficulties, but the cognitive mechanisms connected to this impairment need to be clarified …

The most common explanation for dyslexia is that it stems from an underlying phonological
deficit—a difficulty in processing the speech sounds of the native language (Snowling, 2000; …

This article reports an extended 'case series' of studies comparing performance of three age
groups of dyslexic and matched control children on primitive skills. The dyslexic children …

This study focuses on the role of numerous cognitive skills such as phonological awareness
(PA), rapid automatized naming (RAN), visual and selective attention, auditory skills, and …

Spelling is a challenge for individuals with dyslexia. Phoneme-to-grapheme
correspondence rules are highly inconsistent in French, which make them very difficult to …

We investigated the relationship between dyslexia and three aspects of language: speech
perception, phonology, and morphology. Reading and language tasks were administered to …

Purpose In adults with dyslexia (DYS), the persistent influence of phonological deficits on
spoken language processing has mainly been examined in either perceptual tasks or those …

Italian developmental dyslexic readers show a striking length effect and have been
hypothesised to rely mostly on nonlexical reading. Our experiments tested this hypothesis by …

The present study examined the persistency of phonological deficiencies over time. The
participants were 40 pupils in grade 2 with documented reading and writing difficulties and a …