Phonemic Processing of Children with Language Deficits: Which Tasks Best Discriminate Children with Learning Disabilities from Average Readers?.

Cole, Peter G.; Mengler, Elise D.

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ERIC Number: EJ496043

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Publication Date: 1994

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Phonemic Processing of Children with Language Deficits: Which Tasks Best Discriminate Children with Learning Disabilities from Average Readers?

Cole, Peter G.; Mengler, Elise D.

Reading Psychology, v15 n4 p223-43 Oct-Dec 1994

Finds that children with learning disabilities performed significantly worse on only the first level of phonemic awareness compared to younger children of average reading ability at the same reading age level and significantly worse on compound phonemic awareness compared to a control group. Explicates implications for diagnosis and remediation of learning disabilities. (RS)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Processing, Phonemic Awareness, Primary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Difficulties, Reading Research, Remedial Reading

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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