PHONOLOGICAL AND VISUAL PROCESSING SKILLS IN CHILDREN WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND READING DIFFICULTIES
PHONOLOGICAL AND VISUAL PROCESSING SKILLS IN CHILDREN WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND READING DIFFICULTIES

Summary/Abstract: Considering the high frequency of reading and writing difficulties among children with intellectual disabilities, as well as the difficulties encountered by them in literacy, we set up to investigate the role of phonological awareness and visual processing skills in the complex mechanism of word decoding. The fundamental question of our study is whether the same mechanisms responsible for the complex symptomatic aspects of dyslexia are present in intellectual disabilility. The results indicate that phonological awareness skills and spatial orientation skills can discriminate between readers and non- readers with intellectual disabilities.

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