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Single‐word reading in college dyslexics
Author(s) -
Watson Frances L.,
Brown Gordon D. A.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.2350060307
Subject(s) - dyslexia , psychology , spelling , deviance (statistics) , reading (process) , cognitive psychology , population , word recognition , linguistics , computer science , philosophy , demography , machine learning , sociology
Recent studies of single‐word processing in dyslexic populations have focused on the differential predictions made by ‘delay’ and ‘deviance’ models. Many experiments in this area have sought to determine whether the reading process in dyslexia is idiosyncratic or similar to processing in younger non‐dyslexic readers. Most relevant research has, however, failed to take account of recent developments in theoretical models of reading. Furthermore, relatively little research has examined the reading behaviour of ‘highly compensated’ subjects, who achieve high‐level academic qualifications despite their developmental dyslexia. The present paper examines such a population, and concludes that its single‐word reading is governed by the same spelling‐to‐sound word characteristics as reading by other groups. The implications of the results for the deviance/delay hypothesis and for models of word naming are discussed.