title: Predictors of reading comprehension in children with cerebral palsy and typically developing children.
abstract: Predictors of reading comprehension were evaluated in 41 children with cerebral palsy and 74 typically developing children between the ages of 6 and 12 years. Regression analyses were conducted to determine the relative contributions of measures of phonemic awareness, receptive vocabulary, and general reasoning to variance in reading comprehension. All three independent variables were statistically significant predictors of reading comprehension in both groups of participants. The impact of phonemic awareness on reading comprehension was moderated by age, but only in the typically developing group. Within the group with cerebral palsy, there was an indirect effect of functional expressive ability on reading comprehension, mediated by phonemic awareness. It is concluded that largely the same variables predict reading comprehension in children with cerebral palsy as in typically developing children, but that children with cerebral palsy continue to rely on phonological processing for a more protracted period of time.
authors.affiliation: Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Shana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Asbell
authors.forename: Jacobus
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Donders
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Van Tubbergen
authors.forename: Seth
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Warschausky
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D032882:Comprehension / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D011932:Reading; D012044:Regression Analysis; D014825:Vocabulary
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