Reading abilities can be seriously compromised by a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in childhood. However, only a few researchers have specifically studied these types of abilities following a TBI, leaving nature of reading deficits unclear. This research project examines the influence of speed of information processing, decoding abilities and phonological awareness on reading comprehension deficits among children who sustained a moderate or severe TBI. The performance of a TBI group (n = 27) was compared to the one of 27 control children. This study demonstrated that TBI children present a significantly lower performance on a simple reading comprehension task, compared to children who have never experienced a TBI. Furthermore, the results showed that TBI children are significantly slower in decoding and less efficient in a task involving phonological awareness as compared to non-injured children.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LAVAL/oai:corpus.ulaval.ca:20.500.11794/44162 |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Creators | Gauthier, Karine |
| Contributors | Pépin, Michel |
| Publisher | Université Laval |
| Source Sets | Université Laval |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Format | vii, 68 feuillets, application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess, https://corpus.ulaval.ca/jspui/conditions.jsp |
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