A study on phonological processing model for reading in dyslexic boys students

The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) fitness test of phonological processingmodel in normal and dyslexic monolingual students, (b) model comparision acrossresearch groups. Two hundred and seventy six 8-10 years old student from Tehrancity participated in study (138 subjects in each group). Structural equation modelingwas used to fit model and to contrast groups and models of relations phonologicalprocessing skills to reading with IQ gender controlled. Phonological awareness,phonological working memory, rapid automatized naming (phonological retrieval),and reading tests was administered. Results showed that:1-The best-fitting model is one in which the monolingual dyslexics. Normalsubjects′ model have good fitness.2-Normal subjects performe significantly better than dislexics on phonologicalprocessing tasks.3-Normal subjects outperform in reading than dyslexics.4-Reading correctness significantly determine rapidness.