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A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S ................................................................................................ ii

LIST OF TABLES ............... ...................... ..................... ...... .. ........ vii

LIST O F FIG U RE S .................. ....................................... ................ ............. viii

ABSTRACT................................................ ix

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1 INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM ..........................................1

 R rationale for the Study ..................................... .. ........... .. ..5
 Importance of Early Identification and Intervention...........................................5
 Ongoing Debate.................. .. ...... .................................
 A Continuing Attention on Phonological Awareness Research............................6
 New Trends of Reading-Related Vision Research..............................................8
 A Rising Attention on Rapid-Naming Skills................................. .............. 10
 Problem s w ith Prior R research ........................................................................ 11
 W hy R leading F lu ency ? .................................................................................. 13
 Scope of the Study .................. .......................... ..................................... 13
 Delimitations .......................... ............... .........14
 Lim stations ...................................... ..... ........... .14
 Brief Definition of Term s ................................. ......................... .. ............ 14

2 LITERATURE REVIEW .............................................................................16

 Theoretical Fram ew ork.............................................. 17
 Connectionism ............... ............ ....... .. .............. .................. 17
 Seidenberg and McClelland's Connectionist Model................. ..... ..........18
 Seidenberg and McClelland' s Model on Orthographic Deficits.........................19
 A dam s' Reading Process M odel ................................................... .... 21
 Ehri's Theory of the Development of Word Recognition............... ...............23
 Prealphabetic phase ................................... ......................24
 P artial alph ab etic ph ase .................................................................................. 24
 Full alphabetic phase .............................. ..............................25
 Consolidated alphabetic phase ............................... ............... 25
 Deficit Theories Involving Reading Disabilities .................. ................ ....26