Auditory perceptual processing in reading disabled children |
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| Authors: | Jon Shapiro Gary W Nix Steven F Foster |
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| Institution: | 1. Served on clinical faculties in the area of communication disorders. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Association for Adults and Children with Learning Disabilities. He can be contacted at the Richmond Education Clinic, 100-7541 Elmbridge Way, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.;2. Educational Psychology at a number of North American universities. Currently he is a senior member of the Department of Educational Development and Research, University of Limburg, The Netherlands. He may be contacted at P.O.B. 616, 0 & 0 University of Limburg, 6200 MD. Maastricht, The Netherlands. |
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| Abstract: | One hundred and three children attending Learning Assistance Centres due to reading difficulties and one hundred and three matched, average readers were administered a battery of auditory perceptual processing tasks. The battery was composed of auditory analysis and synthesis, auditory sequential memory, auditory discrimination, and phonemic segmentation tasks. A principal components analysis yielded four factors. These were determined to be advanced phonological awareness, sequential memory, discrimination, and simple phonological awareness. Discriminant analyses, using the factor scores, indicated that three of the four factors were able to discriminate between the able and disabled readers. Most notable among these was advanced phonological awareness. Auditory discrimination could not discriminate between the groups. The results suggest that there may not be one underlying phonological ability implicated in successful reading acquisition. Furthermore, it is clear that two levels of phonological awareness exist and that screening and diagnostic instruments should address both in order to have predictive validity. |
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