A Descriptive Study of the Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock Test of Auditory Discrimination and Selected Reading Variables with Primary School Children

Development of phonetic memory in disabled and normal readers

“…This interpretation was consistent with previous studies showing a developmental lag in reading related skills (cf. Satz et al, 1978;Baker et al, in press;Olson et al, in press), and with other observations that the linguistic-perceptual skills of children continue their development during the early school years (Goldman, Fristoe, & Woodcock, 1970;Finkenbinder, 1973;Schwartz & Goldman, 1974 Perhaps there was some extraneous factor that caused a decline across age in their phonetic effect, so that the effect was not linearly related to phonetic memory. Two explanations of the normal readers' decline with age were considered.…”

A Study of the Relation of Rhythm Ability to Reading Achievement in a Sample of Fifth-Grade Students

“…In recent research concerning the development of language skills, especially in relation to reading, there has been a trend to explore the role of the auditory modality (Johnson and Myklebust, 1967;Flynn and Byrne, 1970;Finkenbinder, 1973;Richie and Aten, 1976;U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1969).…”

“…Learning by the visual sense has been explored extensively in the past, but only in the last decade has there been a growing interest in the assessment of auditory learning (Finkenbinder, 1973;Flynn and Byrne, 1970;Johnson and Myklebust, 1967;Richie and Aten, 1976;Vogel and McGrady, 1975). The increased concern for children with learning difficulties has helped to foster an interest in identifying deficit areas (Gallagher, 1960).…”