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Young normal readers and older severely deficient readers showed markedly and similarly poorer recall for rhyming vs. nonrhyming letter strings. This result is contrary to recent proposals attributing a phonetic code deficiency to deficient readers.
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This research was supported by a research contract from the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, Office of Education (US HEW OE 300 700 493), to the University of Illinois Chicago Institute for Learning Disabilities, and in part by a grant to the first author from the Northwestern University Research Committee. We are grateful to the school officials, teachers, and students of School District 65 in Evanston, Illinois, and to other cooperating institutions.
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Hall, J.W., Ewing, A., Tinzmann, M.B. et al. Phonetic coding in dyslexics and normal readers. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 17, 177–178 (1981). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333704
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