title: Counting rate, naming rate, phonological sensitivity, and memory span: major factors in dyslexia.
abstract: Children with severe dyslexia were slower in counting from memory and naming alternating digits and letters than those with milder reading impairment. The children most disabled also had poorer phonological sensitivity, shorter digit spans, and lower Verbal IQs, but these variables accounted for no additional variance in prediction of scores on the Wide Range Achievement Test-Revised (R = 0.89).
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock 72205.
authors.forename: P T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Ackerman
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Dykman
authors.forename: M Y
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Gardner
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D002648:Child; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004519:Education, Special; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D010700:Phonetics; D011930:Reaction Time; D012691:Serial Learning; D014705:Verbal Behavior