This study examined contrasting patterns of psycholinguistic functioning among normal children and children with reading disabilities. In general, results suggested that children with reading disabilities had significantly different patterns of psycholinguistic functioning in auditory vocal, visual motor, vocal encoding, and motor encoding activities.
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