The nature
of phonological processing and its causal role in the acquisition of reading skills
Persistence
of phonological processing deficits in college dyslexics with age - appropriate reading skills.
«Because
of phonological processing problems in dyslexia, establishing a finely tuned system that can quickly and efficiently learn and recognize words might be difficult or impossible,» he says.
Not exact matches
Impaired
phonological processing is characteristic
of dyslexia and thought to be a basis for difficulty in learning to read.
The researchers studied MRI scans
of preschool - age children and found that those with a family history
of dyslexia were less likely to demonstrate activation during
phonological processing and more likely to show decreases in gray matter than kids without that family history.
Characteristic features
of dyslexia are difficulties in
phonological awareness, verbal memory and verbal
processing speed.
It is the result
of one or more brain - based language
processing challenges in the area
of rapid automatized naming (RAN), working memory, and
phonological and / or auditory
processing.
In the early to mid-2000s, research on the underlying basis
of dyslexia pointed to a primary problem with the
phonological processing of speech sounds.
The researchers looked at the brain activation
of 50 soon - to - be kindergartners during a
phonological processing task — where the kids were asked to think about whether certain words started with the same sound (for instance, «goat» and «gorilla,» or «bird» and «ant.»).
Oral language,
phonological processing, and print knowledge are strongly predictive
of how well children will learn to read and write
These results suggest that a partial remediation
of language -
processing deficits, resulting in improved reading, ameliorates disrupted function in brain regions associated with
phonological processing and produces additional compensatory activation in other brain regions.
The program trains subjects by using seven computer - based training exercises that emphasize different aspects
of oral language, including auditory attention, discrimination, and memory, as well as
phonological processing and listening comprehension.
For all students, the
processes of phonological awareness, including phonemic awareness, must be explicitly taught.
Phonological processing problems are the principal cause
of dyslexia.
Though prevailing models
of dyslexia ascribe reading difficulties to poor
phonological processing, in recent years dyslexia has been increasingly associated with deficits in visual attention (e.g., [15]--[24]-RRB- and poor oculomotor control [25]--[28], prompting a suggestion [5] that e-readers could be configured to reduce demands on visual attention and oculomotor control and thus make reading less
of an effort for those impaired.
Her areas
of expertise include child language delays and disorders, articulation and
phonological delays and disorders, social language / pragmatics delays (often seen with autism spectrum disorders), stuttering and fluency disorders, and auditory
processing.