A study by the University, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, found that 25 per cent of children that were involved in their research who had reading difficulties showed mild or moderate hearing impairment, which their parents and teachers were unaware of.
Academics at the university’s Centre for Advances in Behavioural Science compared children with dyslexia to children with a history of repeated ear infections to see if they had a similar pattern of literacy difficulties.
A total of 195 children aged between eight and ten completed a series of tests to establish their reading and writing skills, and how they used the structures of words based on their sounds and meanings in speech and literacy.
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