title: Reading and phonological awareness in Williams syndrome.
abstract: This article describes the relationship between reading, phonological awareness abilities (PA), and intelligence in a group of 16 individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) and in a group of 16 typically developing children, matched for mental age. The individuals with WS were impaired in passage comprehension, in some areas of PA investigated (syllable deletion and rhyme detection), and in nonword reading accuracy, a measure of grapheme-phoneme conversion. This latter finding is relevant, considering that in Italy regular print-to-sound correspondence is the most practiced teaching routine in the early phases of learning to read.
authors.affiliation: Institute di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesu, Santa Marinella, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Deny
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Menghini
authors.forename: Lorena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Verucci
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vicari
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001184:Articulation Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D001364:Awareness; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D032882:Comprehension / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011932:Reading; D018980:Williams Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*