Children with dyslexia performed lower than both control groups on reading, reading-related and cognitive skills except nonverbal reasoning and syntactic comprehension¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q3
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Subclaims¶

q3 i? Children with DD consistently showed lower performance than age-matched and reading-matched children in reading, reading-related and cognitive skills, except for nonverbal reasoning skills and syntactic comprehension. → Pasqualotto 2025

Evidence¶

Pasqualotto 2025¶

Pasqualotto, A., Cochrane, A., Venuti, P. et al. (2025). Impaired audio-visual associations in dyslexia: evidence beyond linguistic processing. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00382-7

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Group comparisons across the standardized battery of reading, reading-related (phonological awareness, RAN) and cognitive tasks (Figure 4). The article notes a performance gap was evident in competences critical to reading development, such as phonological awareness.

"Overall, children with DD consistently showed lower performance compared to both age -matched and reading-matched children in reading, reading-related and cognitive skills, except for nonverbal reasoning skills and syntactic comprehension (Figure 4)."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Syntax — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• Non-phonological cognitive skills correlate with AV learning efficiency: syntactic comprehension in reading-matched and DD groups, cognitive flexibility in DD, and verbal working memory in age-matched children — related
• Children with developmental dyslexia reach lower asymptotic accuracy in non-linguistic audio-visual associative learning than age-matched and reading-matched typically-developing peers — related
• Preregistered Wave 2 replicated Wave 1's finding of poorer audio-visual associative learning in children with dyslexia — related