For children and adolescents with dyslexia, the silent reading deficit is as large as or larger than the oral reading deficit¶
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Evidence · 1 study · associationalr2·q3
Currency · newest study 2022 · checked against its sources 2026-10-17 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person
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q3 i? Across both studies, individuals with dyslexia were impaired in silent reading at least as much as in oral reading, so generalizing oral scores to silent reading is not justified from adolescence onwards. → Madelon van den Boer 2022
Evidence¶
Madelon van den Boer 2022¶
Madelon van den Boer, Loes Bazen, Elise de Bree. (2022). The Same yet Different: Oral and Silent Reading in Children and Adolescents with Dyslexia. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-022-09856-w
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Authors' conclusion across Study 1 (children) and Study 2 (adolescents): the dyslexia deficit in silent reading matched or exceeded the oral deficit; for adolescents the silent deficit was "somewhat larger than in oral reading fluency".
"individuals with dyslexia show an impairment in silent reading that is as large as or larger than their impairment in oral reading"
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Decoding — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
- Learning Disabilities and Developmental Differences — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
- Reading Fluency — outcome: instruction changes it
Related Claims¶
- Adolescents read silently faster than orally, and this oral–silent difference is smaller for adolescents with dyslexia than for typical readers — related
- For children in Grades 3–5, with and without dyslexia, oral and silent text reading fluency do not differ — related
- Children with dyslexia read texts significantly more slowly than typical readers in both oral and silent reading — related
- Oral and silent text reading fluency correlate strongly in children but only moderately in adolescents, and a standardized oral word reading test relates to silent reading differently by group — related
- The oral–silent reading difference increases with reading experience, plausibly because a less extensive orthographic lexicon forces dyslexic readers to rely on phonological processing during silent reading — related
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For children and adolescents with dyslexia, the silent reading deficit is as large as or larger than the oral reading deficit |
description |
For children and adolescents with dyslexia, the silent reading deficit is as large as or larger than the oral reading deficit |
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2022 |
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2026-10-17 |
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by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-17 |
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