Table 1.
Participant characteristics for the readers with developmental dyslexia (DD) and the typically reading (TR) controls.
| Characteristic | TR, n = 19 |
DD, n = 22 |
Significance |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | t or U test | |
| Reading (errors) | 8.63 | 4.46 | 16.68 | 7.05 | t = 4.288** |
| Reading (time) a | 243.74 | 8.99 | 303.41 | 27.90 | U = 2.0** |
| Phonological awareness (accuracy) | 16.89 | 2.16 | 17.18 | 1.99 | t = −0.443 |
| Phonological awareness (time) a | 97.58 | 17.64 | 123.68 | 32.79 | U = 87.5* |
Note. M = mean; SD = standard deviation.
a
Mann–Whitney U test as the distribution in the DD group was nonparametrical.
*
p < .01.
**
p < .001.