Hanne Poelmans|Heleen Luts|Maaike Vandermosten|Bart Boets|Pol Ghesquière|Johan Wouters
Reduced sensitivity to slow-rate dynamic auditory information in children with dyslexia
KU Leuven|KU Leuven|KU Leuven|KU Leuven|KU Leuven|KU Leuven
etiology developmental dyslexia remains widely debated appealing theory postulates reading spelling problems individuals dyslexia originate reduced sensitivity slowrate dynamic auditory cues lowlevel auditory deficit thought provoke cascade effects including inaccurate speech perception eventually unspecified phoneme representations present study investigated sensitivity frequency modulation amplitude rise time speechinnoise perception phonological awareness 11yearold children dyslexia matched normalreading control children group comparisons demonstrated children dyslexia less sensitive normalreading children slowrate dynamic auditory processing speechinnoise perception phonological awareness literacy abilities correlations found slowrate dynamic auditory processing phonological awareness speechinnoise perception reading yet significant correlation slowrate dynamic auditory processing speechinnoise perception obtained together results indicate children dyslexia difficulties slowrate dynamic auditory processing speechinnoise perception problems persist sixth grade