Auditory processing and dyslexia
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in NeuroReport
- Vol. 9 (2), 337-340
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00001756-199801260-00029
Abstract
IN order to investigate the relationship between dyslexia and central auditory processing, 19 children with spelling disability and 15 controls at grades 5 and 6 were examined using a passive oddball paradigm. Mismatch negativity (MMN) was determined for tone and speech stimuli. While there were no group differences for the tone stimuli, we found a significantly attenuated MMN in the dyslexic group for the speech stimuli. This finding leads to the conclusion that dyslexics have a specific speech processing deficit at the sensory level which could be used to identify children at risk at an early age.Keywords
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