Abstract

BOHORQUEZ MONTOYA, Luisa Fernanda; CABAL ALVAREZ, María Alejandra  and  QUIJANO MARTINEZ, María Cristina. Verbal Comprehension and Reading in Children with Reading Delay. Pensam. psicol. [online]. 2014, vol.12, n.1, pp.169-182. ISSN 1657-8961.

Objective. This study aims to describe differences between performance in reading tasks and the level of verbal comprehension in subjects, with and without reading delay, as the relationship between both measures. Method. For this purpose, the reading subtests of the Evaluación Neuropsicológica Infantil (ENI) and the verbal comprehension index of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV) were used. The sample consisted of 40 children, aged from 7 to 9 years old, in 2nd to 4th grade, from a low socioeconomic strata school in Cali, and with an intelligence quotient (IQ) which averaged 86 Participants were divided into two groups; 20 with reading disabilities and 20 who were normal readers, according to the scores obtained in the ENI reading tasks. Results. The results showed differences between the perfomances of both groups of children, as well as a significant positive correlation between ICV and reading comprehension of the ENI. Conclusion. These results are in accordance with the hypothesis that states that oral language development is one of the most important facilitators of learning in reading acquisition, because while children understand what they say and what they are told, they will be able to make sense of what they read.

Keywords : Reading; reading delay; verbal comprehension; language.

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