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Beattie, Rachel L.; Manis, Franklin R. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2013
Using a non-speech-specific measure of prosody, rise time perception, Goswami and her colleagues have found that individuals with dyslexia perform significantly worse than nonimpaired readers. Studies have also found that children and adults with specific language impairment were impaired on these tasks. Despite the high comorbidity of these…
Descriptors: Intonation, Control Groups, Dyslexia, Suprasegmentals
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Valle, Araceli; Binder, Katherine S.; Walsh, Caitlin B.; Nemier, Carolyn; Bangs, Katheryn E. – School Psychology Review, 2013
The present study explored how average- and high-skilled second-grade readers (as identified by their Woodcock-Johnson III Test of Academic Achievement Broad Reading scores) differed on behavioral measures of reading related to comprehension: eye movements during silent reading and prosody during oral reading. Results from silent reading implicate…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Word Frequency, Intonation, Grade 2
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Cohen-Mimran, Ravit; Sapir, Shimon – Dyslexia, 2007
The role of central auditory processing in reading skill development and reading disorders is unclear. The purpose of this study was to examine whether individuals with specific reading disabilities (SRD) have deficits in processing rapidly presented, serially ordered non-speech auditory signals. To this end, we compared 12 children with SRD and…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Test Results, Intervals, Time on Task