title: A comparison of phonological skills in children with reading comprehension difficulties and children with decoding difficulties.
abstract: This paper examines phonological skills in children with two distinct forms of reading difficulty: comprehension problems and decoding problems. In the first study a group of children with normal decoding skills but poor reading comprehension skills was studied. These children were found to have age-appropriate phonological skills. It is argued that normal phonological skills have enabled them to develop proficient decoding skills. A second study assessed the phonological skills of a group of children with decoding difficulties. These children showed marked deficits on tests of phonological skills. It appears that weak phonological skills underlie these children's decoding difficulties.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Stothard
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hulme
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003210:Concept Formation; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D010700:Phonetics; D011932:Reading; D012016:Reference Values; D012660:Semantics