title: Phonological coding in dyslexic readers.
abstract: A study was made of the ability of 9-, 12-, and 14-year-old dyslexics to recall auditorily presented rhyming and non-rhyming letter strings. These children showed a normal phonemic confusability effect, although overall their recall was much poorer than that of their chronological age controls; their recall levels were in fact very similar to those of their reading age controls. It was concluded that although previous studies have argued that poor readers show a weak phonemic confusability effect, this finding does not appear to be generalizable to older poor readers.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D010700:Phonetics; D012691:Serial Learning; D013067:Speech Perception; D014706:Verbal Learning