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The development of phonemic awareness in reading-disabled children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1999

Jamie L. Metsala
Jamie L. Metsala*
Affiliation:
University of Maryland
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Jamie L. Metsala, Department of Human Development, 3304 Benjamin Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-1131.
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Abstract

Reading-disabled children display a phonemic awareness deficit when compared with normally achieving children matched for word reading ability. However, previous research has not examined phonemic awareness deficits in reading-disabled children when compared with children matched on pseudoword reading. This article examines phonemic awareness ability in both a traditional design and a pseudoword reading level match design. The results show that a group of reading-disabled children who show typical pseudoword reading and phonemic awareness deficits in the traditional reading level match design nonetheless have phonemic awareness skills commensurate with their level of pseudoword reading ability.

Type
Research Article
Information
Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 1999 , pp. 149 - 158
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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