Dyslexies (6 to 9 yr. old) and a control group of 12 normal readers (second-graders) were tested on a memory task with rhyming and non-rhyming items. The most important finding is that both groups were penalized by rhyme, indicating speech coding. It was observed that the dyslexies were not less penalized by rhyme than were controls. The present results are compared with those of other recent studies.
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