Jeremy Law|Maaike Vandermosten|Pol Ghesquière|Johan Wouters
The relationship of phonological ability, speech perception, and auditory perception in adults with dyslexia
KU Leuven|KU Leuven|KU Leuven|KU Leuven
study investigated whether auditory speech perception phonological skills tightly interrelated independently contributing reading assessed three skills 36 adults past diagnosis dyslexia 54 matched normal reading adults phonological skills tested typical threefold tasks ie rapid automatic naming verbal shortterm memory phonological awareness dynamic auditory processing skills assessed means frequency modulation fm amplitude rise time rt intensity discrimination task id included nondynamic control task speech perception assessed means sentences wordsinnoise tasks group analyses revealed significant group differences auditory tasks ie rt id phonological processing measures yet differences found speech perception addition performance rt discrimination correlated reading relation mediated phonological processing speechinnoise finally inspection individual scores revealed dyslexic readers showed increased proportion deviant subjects slowdynamic auditory phonological tasks yet individual dyslexic reader display clear pattern deficiencies across processing skills although results support phonological slowrate dynamic auditory deficits relate literacy suggest individual level problems reading writing cannot explained cascading auditory theory instead dyslexic adults seem vary considerably extent auditory phonological factors expressed interact environmental higherorder cognitive influences