Menghini Deny, Verucci Lorena, Vicari Stefano
Institute di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesu, Santa Marinella, Rome, Italy.
Neuropsychology. 2004 Jan;18(1):29-37. doi: 10.1037/0894-4105.18.1.29.
This article describes the relationship between reading, phonological awareness abilities (PA), and intelligence in a group of 16 individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) and in a group of 16 typically developing children, matched for mental age. The individuals with WS were impaired in passage comprehension, in some areas of PA investigated (syllable deletion and rhyme detection), and in nonword reading accuracy, a measure of grapheme-phoneme conversion. This latter finding is relevant, considering that in Italy regular print-to-sound correspondence is the most practiced teaching routine in the early phases of learning to read.
本文描述了16名威廉姆斯综合征（WS）患者和16名心理年龄匹配的正常发育儿童在阅读、语音意识能力（PA）和智力方面的关系。WS患者在阅读理解、部分所研究的PA领域（音节删除和韵律检测）以及非词阅读准确性（一种衡量字素-音素转换的指标）方面存在缺陷。考虑到在意大利，在阅读学习的早期阶段，常规的印刷与发音对应是最常用的教学方式，后一项发现具有重要意义。
