Yakup Canitez, Sukru Cekic, Ugur Celik, Abdulkadir Kocak, Nihat Sapan
Health-care conditions in elementary schools and teachers' knowledge of childhood asthma
Paediatrics and international child health
examined reading phonological processing abilities english german dyslexic children compared two control groups matched reading level 8 years age 1012 years hypothesised underlying phonological processing deficit would exist language groups would differences severity written language impairments due differences orthographic consistency also hypothesized systematic differences due orthographic consistency found equally normal dyslexic readers crosslanguage comparisons based set stimuli matched meaning pronunciation spelling results supported hypotheses task challenging phonological processing skills spoonerisms english german dyslexics significantly impaired compared age reading age controls however extremely large differences reading performance english german dyslexic children compared evidence systematic differences reading performance due differences orthographic consistency similar normal dyslexic children english showing marked adverse effect acquisition reading skills