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Farnham-Diggory, S.; Gregg, Lee W. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1975
Investigated memory span and memory scanning in both auditory and visual modalities of 24 good and poor, 10-year-old readers. The major finding was that short-term memory function deteriorated over time in the poor reading group. (Author/LLK)
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Error Patterns
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Fletcher, Claire M.; Prior, Margot R. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1990
In contrast with younger children of the same reading age, reading-disabled (RD) children performed poorly when they were required to independently abstract grapheme-phoneme (g-p) rules and use them to pronounce pseudowords. Results suggest a phonologically based productive deficit which interferes with the learning of g-p rules. (RH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Error Patterns