Dorothy Bishop|Catherine Adams
A Prospective Study of the Relationship between Specific Language Impairment, Phonological Disorders and Reading Retardation
University of Manchester|University of Manchester
abstract language literacy skills assessed 83 8 12 year olds whose language development impaired 4 years age provided language problems resolved age 5 12 years literacy development normal many children still verbal deficits 5 12 years age reading difficulties persisting oral language impairments later children reading comprehension tended poor relative reading accuracy syntactic competence preschool period accounted substantial proportion variance literacy attainments allowing effects nonverbal ability weak links expressive phonological disorders later ability read either meaningful text nonwords