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Fig. 3. Performance of the children with Down syndrome and typically developing subgroup during written nonword learning with standard error bars.
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also resulted in the two groups being well matched on the standardised measure of nonword reading. There were no
significant differences between this subgroup and the individuals with Down syndrome during written nonword learning.
Thus as predicted, on the task of written nonword learning the individuals with Down syndrome performed in line with their
existing decoding skill but more poorly than would be expected from their existing word reading level. This is also in line
with studies with children with dyslexia