Explaining Failures in Spoken Language Comprehension by Children with Reading Disabilities.
| Number | 782 |
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| Year | 1990 |
| Drawer | 14 |
| Entry Date | 11/05/1999 |
| Authors | Crain, S., & Shankweiler, D. |
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| Publication | In D. A. Balota, G. B. Flores d'Arcais and K. Rayner (eds.), Comprehension Processes in Reading. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers. (pp.539-555). |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0782.pdf |
| Abstract | The question of how the language apparatus in the brain, which is apparently biologically specified to deal with speech, becomes adapted to deal with orthographic input, is considered with relationship to the role of phonological awareness in learning to read. Means by which difficulties in understanding spoken sentences might be due to deficient phonological processes are considered. Evidence is presented to show how the failures of poor readers to comprehend sentences is directly related to their limitations in phonological processing. Experimental evidence is also presented in support of the claim that differences in spoken language comprehension between good & poor readers are a manifestation of their differences in phonological processing ability. Evidence suggests that the syntactic component of language is intact in most poor readers, & that a deficit in phonological processing can show up as a variety of deficits throughout the language system. |
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