Phonological deficit hypothesis in dyslexia

Pages: 82-84
Archana (Department of Psychology, Singhania University, Singhania, Rajasthan)

Dyslexia is characterized by an unexpected difficulty in reading in children and adults who otherwise possess the intelligence, motivation and schooling considered necessary for accurate and fluent reading. Recent epidemiologic data indicate that like hypertension and obesity, dyslexia fits a dimensional model. In other words, with in the population, reading ability and reading disability occur along a continuum, with reading disability representing the lower tail of a normal distribution of reading ability. Phonological dyslexia is an acquired reading disorder characterized by a severe impairment in reading nonwords, with otherwise normal (or near normal) reading of words (Sartori et al., 1984). The present paper reviews phonological deficit hypothesis in dyslexia.