Journal of Paramedical Sciences & Rehabilitation

Journal of Paramedical Sciences & Rehabilitation

Comparison of Rhyme Detection Skills between 7-9 Years Age Children with Dyslexia and Normal Children

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
N Mardani
E Elahi
E Khorshidi
H Ghaemi
D Sobhani rad
J Jamali
10.22038/jpsr.2014.2335
Abstract
Purpose:
The objective of this study is to compare the rhyme detection ability between 7 to 9 years age children with their natural peer group of the same age.
Methods:
In this study, 15 dyslexic children aged between7 to 9 were examined with another 15 normal children of the same age and gender, to investigate their rhyme recognition ability by applying phonemics awareness test.
Results:
Results showed that the output of two groups from rhyme recognition ability test was 8.73+1.53 for dyslexic group and 6.47+1.64 for normal the group with an average grade of 6.88+1.94 for both of them. -Student t test showed a remarkable decline in average grade of rhyme recognition ability test in dyslexic group in comparison with the normal group (t =3.907; p =0.001).
Conclusion:
Findings derived from this survey represented a noticeable difference in dyslexic children's rhyme recognition ability and their peer normal group in a way that dyslexics have a weaker performance and more faults than normal individuals.
Keywords
Dyslexia
Rhyme recognition
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