Speech perception in severely disabled and average reading children.

Tested the hypothesis that children with specific disabilities in reading may have subtle auditory and/or speech perception deficits by comparing the performance of 14 severely disabled readers (aged 8–14 yrs) with 14 normal readers in 4 speech perception tasks. Results indicate that perception was significantly less categorical among the severely disabled readers in 3 of the 4 speech perception tasks. The possible implications of this small, but significant, difference are discussed in relation to previous conflicting findings concerning reading performance in dyslexia. (French abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)