Exploring the phonological deficit in developmental dyslexia and specific language impairment
Funding | Participants |
|---|---|
| Fyssen Foundation Rodin Remediation Academy ESRC | Gayaneh Szenkovits and a number of Master students. Chloe Marshall & Heather van der Lely |
Before I started getting intrigued by sensorimotor impairments, my original postdoc project was to further investigate the phonological deficit in developmental dyslexia. Indeed I think that its current characterisation is rather poor:
Ramus,
F. (2001).
Outstanding questions about
phonological
processing in dyslexia.
Dyslexia, 7, 197-216. 
This line of research has been developed largely with Gayaneh Szenkovits during her PhD work:
Szenkovits,
G., & Ramus, F. (2005). Exploring dyslexics'
phonological deficit I: lexical vs. sub-lexical and input vs. output
processes. Dyslexia,
11(4),
253-268.
Ramus,
F., & Szenkovits, G. (2008). What phonological deficit? Quarterly Journal of
Experimental Psychology, 61(1), 129-141.
Soroli,
E., Szenkovits, G., & Ramus, F. (in press). Exploring
dyslexics'
phonological deficit III: Foreign speech perception and production. Dyslexia.
My research on phonological processing in dyslexia is paralleled by similar work on children with specific language impairment, in collaboration with Heather van der Lely, Chloe Marshall and Stuart Rosen (UCL) and with funding from the ESRC.
Marshall, C. R.,
Harcourt-Brown, S., Ramus, F., & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2009).
The
link between prosody and language skills in children with specific
language impairment (SLI) and/or dyslexia. International Journal of
Language and Communication Disorders, 44(4), 466-488.
