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Locus and Nature of Perceptual Phonological Deficit in Spanish Children With Reading Disabilities

2007; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 40; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/00222194070400010601

1538-4780

María del Rosario Ortiz González, Juan E. Jiménez, Eduardo García, Remedios Guzmán Rosquete, Isabel Hernández-Valle, Mercedes Rodrigo, Adelina Estévez, Alicia Díaz, Sergio Hernández Expósito,

Hearing Impairment and Communication

The aims of this study were (a) to determine whether Spanish children with reading disabilities (RD) show a speech perception deficit and (b) to explore the locus and nature of this perceptive deficit. A group of 29 children with RD, 41 chronological age—matched controls, and 27 reading ability—matched younger controls were tested on tasks of speech perception. The effect of linguistic unit (word vs. syllable) and type of phonetic contrast (voicing, place and manner of articulation) were analyzed in terms of the number of errors and the response time. The results revealed a speech perception deficit in Spanish children with RD that was independent of the type of phonetic contrast and of linguistic unit.