Identify the role of processing speed (Reaction Time and Rapid Automatized Naming) in Phonological awareness of children with reading learning disabilities

This study endeavored to predict phonological awareness based on processing speed (Reaction Time and Rapid Automatized Naming) in students with reading learning disabilities. As a descriptive-correlational study with the sample size of 56 students referred to learning disability centers in the academic year of 2019-20 who were selected by available sampling method based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. To gathering the data, the binary form of information and picture completion of Wechsler (Shahim, 1995), reading and dyslexia test (NEMA) of Karami Nouri and Moradi (2006), Wilson et al. (2015) reaction time task and Wolf and Dunkla (2005) rapid automatized naming task were used. The results showed that reaction time (p < 0.01) and rapid automatized naming (p < 0.05) can predict phonological awareness. So that the reaction time and the rapid automatized naming predict 11.5% and 5.3% of the variance of phonological awareness, respectively. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to the role of processing speed in examining the phonological awareness of children with reading learning disabilities.