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Not all phonological awareness deficits are created equal: evidence from a comparison between children with Otitis Media and poor readers
- Source :
- Developmental Science
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2017.
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Abstract
- Children with reading difficulties and children with a history of repeated ear infections (Otitis Media, OM) are both thought to have phonological impairments, but for quite different reasons. This paper examines the profile of phonological and morphological awareness in poor readers and children with OM. Thirty‐three poor readers were compared to individually matched chronological age and reading age controls. Their phonological awareness and morphological awareness skills were consistently at the level of reading age matched controls. Unexpectedly, a significant minority (25%) of the poor readers had some degree of undiagnosed mild or very mild hearing loss. Twenty‐nine children with a history of OM and their matched controls completed the same battery of tasks. They showed relatively small delays in their literacy and showed no impairment in morphological awareness but had phonological awareness scores below the level of reading age matched controls. Further analysis suggested that this weakness in phonological awareness was carried by a specific weakness in segmenting and blending phonemes, with relatively good performance on phoneme manipulation tasks. Results suggest that children with OM show a circumscribed deficit in phoneme segmentation and blending, while poor readers show a broader metalinguistic impairment which is more closely associated with reading difficulties.
- Subjects :
- Paper
Male
Hearing loss
Cognitive Neuroscience
media_common.quotation_subject
Ear infection
Metalinguistics
050105 experimental psychology
Literacy
Developmental psychology
Dyslexia
Cognition
Phonological awareness
Reading (process)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Articulation Disorders
Child
media_common
05 social sciences
050301 education
Awareness
Otitis Media
Otitis
Child, Preschool
Papers
Female
medicine.symptom
Psychology
0503 education
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14677687 and 1363755X
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Developmental Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....677fd2aebc47ca9069b7ae57842863cb