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auditory dyslexia?

Didier A. Depireux didier at Glue.umd.edu
Tue May 4 08:34:45 EST 1999


F. Frank LeFever (flefever at ix.netcom.com) wrote:

: Poor "decoding" of auditory
: information is at least an aspect of this, and perhaps the core of it.

I replied personally to the original poster, but the gist is that work of B
Wright, at Northwestern, shows that in some cases at least, phenomena as
basic as backward masking are quite poor in children with dyslexia. So it's
not just language processing, it's the very analysis of temporal structure
of the incoming sounds that's impaired in some dyslexics.  See
http://www.aro.org/archives/1999/124.html and other abstracts by her (esp
at the SFN meeting in New Orleans).

					Didier


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