Naming,reading, and the dyslexias: A longitudinal overview |
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| Authors: | Maryanne Wolf |
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| Institution: | (1) Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts |
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| Abstract: | In research in the cognitive and neurosciences, a co-occurrence between naming and reading disorders has been found in children
and aphasic adults. Evidence from a completed cross-sectional study will be briefly summarized and an ongoing longitudinal
study will be presented to suggest that factors disrupting specific stages of the naming process can impede the development
of children’s reading in particular, perhaps predictable, ways. Based on the components of a neurolinguistic model of naming,
a battery of naming and reading tests was administered to a longitudinal sample of 115 children before, during, and after
reading acquisition. Preliminary trends indicate that poor readers are significantly different (p<.001) from average readers
on all naming tests except those emphasizingreceptive vocabulary perception. Tests emphasizing retrieval rate are best able to predict patterns of naming performance and errors
characterize specific subgroups of the dyslexias.
The research was supported in part by funds from the Livingston Fellowship Foundation, Department of Social Psychiatry, Harvard
Medical School and Biomedical Research Support Grants from Tufts University. |
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