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Study | Reading problems sign of impaired hearing?
Children with reading difficulties should be more
thoroughly screened for hearing problems, a new report by Coventry University
academics has said.
The study, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, found
25 per cent of its young participants who had reading difficulties showed mild
or moderate hearing impairment, of which their parents and teachers were
unaware.
The researchers believe that if there was more
awareness of youngsters’ hearing problems – as well as an understanding of what
particular aspects of literacy they struggled with - then the children might be
able to receive more structured support that could help them improve their
reading and writing skills.
The study by academics at the university’s Centre
for Advances in Behavioural Science compared children with dyslexia to
youngsters who had a history of repeated ear infections to see if they had a
similar pattern of literacy difficulties.
A total of 195 children aged between eight and 10 –
including 36 with dyslexia and 29 with a history of repeated ear infections –
completed a series of tests to establish their reading and writing skills and
how they used the structures of words based on their sounds and meanings, in
speech and literacy.
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