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.
Source | http://www.coventry.ac.uk/primary-news/screen-children-with-reading-difficulties-more-thoroughly-for-hearing-problems-says-new-report/
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