Jurgen Tijms
Verbal memory and phonological processing in dyslexia
University of Amsterdam
study examines whether two frequently reported causes dyslexia phonological processing problems verbal memory impairments represent doubledeficit whether two expressions deficit twohundredandsixtyseven dutch children aged 1014 dyslexia completed listlearning task several phonological tasks together number reading spelling tests results indicate phonological deficits verbal memory impairments dyslexia stem root seemingly reflects inaccurate encoding phonological characteristics verbal information phonological encoding deficit negative predictor reading spelling skills dyslexic children