102| Working Memory – A Conversation With Dr. Alan Baddeley
Navigating Neuropsychology
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The Role of Phonics in Learning to Read
Reading obviously relies to a great extent on the phonological skills. And I'm wondering how the phonological loop might relate to learning to read, as well as learning disorders in reading. The phonological loop is a system for holding sequences of sounds and particularly spoken sounds. We found that children with specific learning impairment did have impaired phonological loop and also that they had trouble in hearing and repeating back novel pseudo words. But we also found that children who were classified as dyslexic also had a problem in nonword repetition.
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