Relationship between rapid naming, phonological awareness and spelling in Farsi normally developing children

Abstract

Introduction: The aim of the present study was to investigate relationship among phonological awareness, rapid naming and spelling in normally developing Farsi speaking children. Materials and Methods: In this description- analytical cross sectional study 30 normally developing students randomly selected from Tehran (Iran). The students performed Nama reading and dyslexia, rapid automatized naming, phonological awareness, and spelling tests. Results: There were significant relationships between intra syllabic awareness and rapid colors, numbers, and letters naming respectively and between total score of phonological awareness and rapid letters naming. Among different sub-tests of phonological awareness, the significant relationship was just between syllabic awareness and spelling. Among different sub-tests of rapid atomized naming the significant relationship was between rapid numbers naming and spelling (p