Relationships between reading achievement and social class membership (SES) were studied, as were relationships between reading achievement and performance on phonemic and non-phonemic auditory discrimination tests. A direct relationship existed between reading achievement and SES. Also, reading achievement measures correlated higher with phonemic auditory assessment than with nonphonemic auditory assessment.
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