Exploring the phonological deficit in developmental dyslexia and specific language impairment
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.
(pdf
reprint)
This line of research has now started, with the help of PhD student Gayaneh Szenkovits, and a research grant from the Fyssen Foundation.
Szenkovits,
G.,
& Ramus, F. (2005). Exploring dyslexics'
phonological deficit I: lexical vs. sub-lexical and input vs. output
processes. Dyslexia, 11(4),
253-268. (pdf
reprint)
Ramus, F., &
Szenkovits, G. (2008). What phonological deficit? Quarterly Journal of
Experimental Psychology, 61(1), 129-141. (pdf reprint)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.
(in
press). The link between prosody and language skills in children with
SLI and/or dyslexia. International
Journal of Language and Communication Disorders.Marshall,
C. R., Tang, S., Rosen, S., Ramus, F., & van der Lely, H. K. J.
(submitted). The relationship between phonological, syntactic and
morphosyntactic deficits in SLI and dyslexia.
