Perception of phonemic length and its relation to reading and spelling skills in children with family risk for dyslexia in the first three grades of school

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 710-724

  Pennala, Riitta ^a   Eklund, Kenneth ^a   Hämäläinen, Jarmo ^a   Richardson, Ulla ^a   Martin, Maisa ^a   Leiwo, Matti ^a   Leppänen, Paavo H T ^a   Lyytinen, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Phonemic length discrimination; Speech perception; Spelling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; RISK FACTOR; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; WRITING;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DYSLEXIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; RISK FACTORS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; WRITING;

EID: 77953328209     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2009/08-0133)     Document Type: Article

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