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Publication Date: 2021-Mar
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Use of Duration and Rise Time Cues in the Labelling of Affricate and Fricative Speech Sounds by Children with Reading Difficulties
Antony Hughes, J.; Tree, Jeremy; Reed, Phil
British Journal of Special Education, v48 n1 p70-89 Mar 2021
Differentiation of speech is predictable from abilities to discriminate the speed at which a sound reaches its optimum amplitude (rise time). This study investigated whether rise time identification of an affricate-fricative continuum would be impacted upon by dyslexia. Children between 10 and 14 years old identified sounds along a continuum of fricative to affricate sounds (cha-sha continuum), using a novel automated learning rise time identification task. Those with higher dyslexia likelihoods (measured by the Dyslexia Screening Test -- Secondary), and poor reading scores (measured by the British Abilities Scales), showed a difference in rise time identification; greater distances between rise times were needed for those with a high risk of dyslexia to recognise fricative-affricate differences than for controls. These results were not impacted upon by IQ scores.
Descriptors: Cues, Speech Communication, Phonology, Reading Difficulties, Dyslexia, Early Adolescents
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: British Ability Scales
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