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Spoken language is the normal means of human communication. The progressive development of language skills characterizes the effective level of communication between people. Competence with speech and language precedes and has a direct effect on literacy development. The relationship between early speech and language difficulties and ensuing literacy difficulties is well documented in the literature (Stackhouse and Wells, 1997; Catts, et al., 1994). Theverbal deficit hypothesisproposed by Vellutino (1979) has become progressively accepted as fundamental when diagnosing and working with dyslexic children.
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Borwick, C.N. (2000). Spoken Language. In: Townend, J., Turner, M. (eds) Dyslexia in Practice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4169-1_2
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