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. 2019 Nov;25(4):360-373.
doi: 10.1002/dys.1631. Epub 2019 Aug 15.

Rapid automatized naming in a developmental perspective between ages 4 and 10

Malena Åvall  1 , Ulrika Wolff  1 , Jan-Eric Gustafsson  1
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Rapid automatized naming in a developmental perspective between ages 4 and 10

Malena Åvall et al. Dyslexia. 2019 Nov.

Abstract

During the last decades, rapid automatized naming (RAN) has been widely examined as a predictor of reading ability, but very few studies have examined the development of RAN itself. The present study followed children from ages 4 until 10, focusing on RAN performance in a developmental perspective. Relations within and between alphanumeric and nonalphanumeric RAN were investigated both concurrently and over time. The result shows that individual differences in RAN objects are stable between ages 4 and 10, with the most rapid growth of mean performance between ages 4 and 6. Early performance on RAN objects predicts both performance on RAN digits and RAN letters at age 8 and the further development between ages 8 and 10. Further, low-performing children at age 4 develop their performance on RAN digits and RAN letters later compared with high-performing children, and RAN digits performance reaches a plateau earlier than RAN letters performance.

Keywords: RAN development; alphanumeric RAN; nonalphanumeric RAN; rapid automatized naming.

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