Down Syndrome Research and Practice Volume 2 Number 3 Pages 102-105

Research has shown that some PA skills are present in preschool children (e.g. rhyme and alliteration) and that higher level skills such as those demanded in the phoneme tasks, develop during reading instruction. It is expected, therefore, that those children who have acquired reading, will perform competently in PA tasks. It is not the case, however, that every competent reader is equally proficient in all PA tasks or that every disabled reader is equally poor, but as yet, there is no evidence of poor readers who have exceptional phonological skills.