Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) measures and their relationship to reading in diverse Spanish-speaking populations
Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) measures and their relationship to reading in diverse Spanish-speaking populations
During the last fifteen years, more than forty papers on Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) and reading in Spanish have been published. Research shows that RAN measures are both a powerful early predictor of future reading outcomes and capable of discriminating between typical and poor readers. The results from previous studies have proven to be noteworthy enough to warrant a symposium in which to debate them and to deepen the knowledge on the applicability of RAN measures to the diagnosis and prevention of reading disorders in Spanish. Two of the five symposium papers study the nature of RAN in Spanish readers, both average and with dyslexia, under the hypothesis that RAN tasks are more visual than auditory. The other three papers relate RAN measures to cognitive and linguistic variables, and to reading outcomes in children with different cultural and socio economic status (SES) backgrounds from Argentina, Bolivia and Mexico.