Predicting Growth in Word Level Reading Skills in Children With Developmental Dyslexia Using an Object Rhyming Functional Neuroimaging Task

ABSTRACT

An object rhyming task that does not require text reading and is suitable for younger children was used to predict gains in word level reading skills following an intensive 2-year reading intervention for children with developmental dyslexia. The task evoked activation in bilateral inferior frontal regions. Growth in untimed pseudoword reading was associated with increased pre-intervention activation of the left inferior frontal gyrus, and growth in timed word reading was associated with pre-intervention activation of the left and right inferior frontal gyri. These analyses help identify pre-intervention factors that facilitate reading skill improvements in children with developmental dyslexia.

Funding

This work was supported in part by the Crowley-Carter Foundation, the Mary Carter Crowley Family Fund of the Community Foundation of Texas, and the Carl B. and Florence E. King Foundation. Some of the results reported in this article comprised a portion of the first author’s doctoral dissertation.

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Funding

This work was supported in part by the Crowley-Carter Foundation, the Mary Carter Crowley Family Fund of the Community Foundation of Texas, and the Carl B. and Florence E. King Foundation. Some of the results reported in this article comprised a portion of the first author’s doctoral dissertation.