[Comparison of rhyme detection skills between 7-9 years age children with dyslexia and normal children]

ABSTRACT

The objective of this study is to compare the rhyme detection ability between 7 to 9 years age children with their natural peer group of the same age. In this study, 15 dyslexic children aged between 7 to 9 were examined with another 15 normal children of the same age and gender, to investigate their rhyme recognition ability by applying phonemics awareness test. Results showed that the output of two groups from rhyme recognition ability test was 8.73+1.53 for dyslexic group and 6.47+1.64 for normal the group with an average grade of 6.88+1.94 for both of them. -Student t test showed a remarkable decline in average grade of rhyme recognition ability test in dyslexic group in comparison with the normal group [t =3.907; p =0.001]. Findings derived from this survey represented a noticeable difference in dyslexic children's rhyme recognition ability and their peer normal group in a way that dyslexics have a weaker performance and more faults than normal individuals