A group of 12 disabled readers and 12 age-matched, and 12 reading-level-marched readers participated in a target-scanning task. While reading a simple five-sentence passage, S searched for a certain type of target: words of a given category, the letter “o,” or the phoneme /ae/. All 3 groups were fastest in finding the word targets and slowest in finding the phoneme. The disabled readers were slower than the age-matched group for all targets. It was concluded that the phonological coding occurred at different rates after graphemic and semantic coding for the 3 groups.
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