Jeremy Law|Maaike Vandermosten|Pol Ghesquière|Johan Wouters
Predicting Future Reading Problems Based on Pre-reading Auditory Measures: A Longitudinal Study of Children with a Familial Risk of Dyslexia
KU Leuven|KU Leuven|KU Leuven|KU Leuven
purpose longitudinal study examines measures temporal auditory processing prereading children family risk dyslexia specifically attempts ascertain whether prereading auditory processing speech perception phonological awareness pa reliably predict later literacy achievement additionally study retrospectively examines presence prereading auditory processing speech perception pa impairments children later found literacy impaired method fortyfour prereading children without family risk dyslexia assessed three time points kindergarten first second grade auditory processing measures rise time rt discrimination frequency modulation fm along speech perception pa various literacy tasks assessed results kindergarten rt uniquely contributed growth literacy grades one two even controlling letter knowledge pa highly significant concurrent predictive correlations observed kindergarten rt significantly predicting first grade pa retrospective analysis demonstrated atypical performance rt pa three time points children later developed literacy impairments conclusions although significant kindergarten auditory processing contributions later literacy growth lack power considered singlecause predictor thus results support temporal processing deficits contribution within multiple deficit model dyslexia