title: Contribution of temporal processing skills to reading comprehension in 8-year-olds: evidence for a mediation effect of phonological awareness.
abstract: This study tested whether the association between temporal processing (TP) and reading is mediated by phonological awareness (PA) in a normative sample of 615 eight-year-olds. TP was measured with auditory and bimodal (visual-auditory) temporal order judgment tasks and PA with a phoneme deletion task. PA partially mediated the association between both auditory and bimodal TP and reading, above nonverbal abilities, vocabulary, and processing speed. PA explained a larger proportion of the association between auditory TP and reading (56% vs. 39% for bimodal TP), and most of the association between bimodal TP and reading was direct. This finding is consistent with a dual-phonological and visual-pathway model of the association between TP and reading in normative reading skills.
authors.affiliation: Groupe de recherche sur l’inadaptationpsychosociale chez l’enfant, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Malenfant
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Grondin
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boivin
authors.forename: Nadine
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Forget-Dubois
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Robaey
authors.forename: Ginette
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dionne
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D032882:Comprehension / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D011932:Reading; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D014825:Vocabulary