Abstract
A series of tests of naming speed in discrete reaction time format were undertaken by seven groups of children: three groups with dyslexia with mean ages 8, 13, and 17 years; three groups of normally achieving children matched for age and IQ with the dyslexic groups; and a group of 10-year-old children with mild learning difficulties (slow learners) matched for reading age with the youngest dyslexic group. The children with dyslexia were significantly slower than even their chronological age-matched controls, and equivalent to their reading age-matched controls, on naming colors, digits, and letters, and significantly slower than even their reading age-matched controls on naming pictures of common objects. Overall, performance of the 17-year-old children with dyslexia was closest to that of the 8-year-old controls. Performance of the slow learners was equivalent to that of the youngest children with dyslexia. The results show that children with dyslexia have persistent-and unexpectedly severe-problems in naming speed for all stimuli, regardless of whether or not the stimulus requires grapheme-phoneme decoding.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 641-6 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of Learning Disabilities |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 31 Dec 1994 |
Keywords
- Adolescent
- Anomia/diagnosis
- Child
- Color Perception
- Dyslexia/diagnosis
- Female
- Humans
- Longitudinal Studies
- Male
- Pattern Recognition, Visual
- Reaction Time