... of the many skills fundamental to speech, such as fine motor control. Pennington in 1990 & Apthorp in 1995 suggested that these language processing deficits could continue into adulthood. Even though adults have often, by then become skilled at compensating for these difficulties. Continuing deficits can carry on interfering with higher level language tasks, especially those necessary for success at the college level of education, as noted by Catts in 1989 who looked at fast repetition of words. Narrowing things down a little, the area I particularly would like to look at is articulation & whether having dyslexia affects the speed of articulation. Griffiths & Frith in 2002 found that adults with dyslexia, even those who were literate showed impaired articulatory awareness- shown in difficulties distinguishing the correct organization of the lips, tongue and teeth to create exact phonemes. As I said earlier performance does improve with age, seeming competence ...

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