Rights statement: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article:Currie, N. K., Lew, A. R., Palmer, T. M., Basu, H., De Goede, C., Iyer, A. and Cain, K. (2018), Reading comprehension difficulties in children with rolandic epilepsy. Dev Med Child Neurol, 60: 275–282. doi:10.1111/dmcn.13628 which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dmcn.13628/abstract This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Reading comprehension difficulties in children with rolandic epilepsy
AU - Currie, Nicola Kate
AU - Lew, Adina Raquel
AU - Palmer, Thomas Michael
AU - Basu, Helen
AU - De Goede, Christian
AU - Ayer, Anand
AU - Cain, Kate
N1 - This is the peer reviewed version of the following article:Currie, N. K., Lew, A. R., Palmer, T. M., Basu, H., De Goede, C., Iyer, A. and Cain, K. (2018), Reading comprehension difficulties in children with rolandic epilepsy. Dev Med Child Neurol, 60: 275–282. doi:10.1111/dmcn.13628 which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dmcn.13628/abstract This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
PY - 2018/3
Y1 - 2018/3
N2 - AimDifficulties in reading comprehension can arise from either word reading or listening comprehension difficulties, or a combination of the two. We sought to determine whether children with rolandic epilepsy had poor reading comprehension relative to typically developing comparison children, and whether such difficulties were associated with word reading and/or general language comprehension difficulties.MethodIn this cross-sectional study, children with rolandic epilepsy (n=25; 16 males, 9 females; mean age 9y 1mo, SD 1y 7mo) and a comparison group (n=39; 25 males, 14 females; mean age 9y 1mo, SD 1y 3mo) completed assessments of reading comprehension, listening comprehension, word/non-word reading, speech articulation, and Non-verbal IQ.ResultsReading comprehension and word reading were worse in children with rolandic epilepsy (F1,61=6.89, p=0.011, math formula=0.10 and F1,61=6.84, p=0.011, math formula=0.10 respectively), with listening comprehension being marginal (F1,61=3.81, p=0.055, math formula=0.06). Word reading and listening comprehension made large and independent contributions to reading comprehension, explaining 70% of the variance.InterpretationChildren with rolandic epilepsy may be at risk of reading comprehension difficulties. Thorough assessment of individual children is required to ascertain whether the difficulties lie with decoding text, or with general comprehension skills, or both.What this paper addsChildren with rolandic epilepsy may be at risk of poor reading comprehension.This was related to poor word reading, poor listening comprehension, or both.Reading comprehension interventions should be tailored to the profile of difficulties.
AB - AimDifficulties in reading comprehension can arise from either word reading or listening comprehension difficulties, or a combination of the two. We sought to determine whether children with rolandic epilepsy had poor reading comprehension relative to typically developing comparison children, and whether such difficulties were associated with word reading and/or general language comprehension difficulties.MethodIn this cross-sectional study, children with rolandic epilepsy (n=25; 16 males, 9 females; mean age 9y 1mo, SD 1y 7mo) and a comparison group (n=39; 25 males, 14 females; mean age 9y 1mo, SD 1y 3mo) completed assessments of reading comprehension, listening comprehension, word/non-word reading, speech articulation, and Non-verbal IQ.ResultsReading comprehension and word reading were worse in children with rolandic epilepsy (F1,61=6.89, p=0.011, math formula=0.10 and F1,61=6.84, p=0.011, math formula=0.10 respectively), with listening comprehension being marginal (F1,61=3.81, p=0.055, math formula=0.06). Word reading and listening comprehension made large and independent contributions to reading comprehension, explaining 70% of the variance.InterpretationChildren with rolandic epilepsy may be at risk of reading comprehension difficulties. Thorough assessment of individual children is required to ascertain whether the difficulties lie with decoding text, or with general comprehension skills, or both.What this paper addsChildren with rolandic epilepsy may be at risk of poor reading comprehension.This was related to poor word reading, poor listening comprehension, or both.Reading comprehension interventions should be tailored to the profile of difficulties.
U2 - 10.1111/dmcn.13628
DO - 10.1111/dmcn.13628
M3 - Journal article
VL - 60
SP - 275
EP - 282
JO - Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
JF - Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
SN - 0012-1622
IS - 3
ER -