Abstract
This study related the non-word repetition (NWR) abilities of 4-year-old children at-risk of dyslexia and children with specific language impairment (SLI) to their reading abilities at age eight. The results show that the SLI group obtained the lowest NWR score and the at-risk group performed in-between the control and SLI group. Approximately half of the at-risk and SLI group showed reading difficulties. Literacy and NWR abilities were correlated for the at-risk group, but not for the SLI group. The findings point toward differences between the groups and suggest that dyslexia and SLI should not be treated as a similar disorder. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 36-44 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Dyslexia |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2010 |
Keywords
- At-risk studies
- Developmental dyslexia
- Non-word repetition
- Phonological processing
- Specific language impairment (SLI)
- article
- child
- clinical article
- controlled study
- dyslexia
- family history
- follow up
- high risk population
- human
- language ability
- language development
- language disability
- mental performance
- Netherlands
- nonword repetition
- phonetics
- preschool child
- reading
- risk assessment
- risk factor
- school child
- scoring system
- spelling
- verbal memory
- word recognition
- working memory