Auditory-visual integration and its relationship to reading achievement: a meta-analysis

Percept Mot Skills. 1980 Dec;51(3 Pt 1):947-55. doi: 10.2466/pms.1980.51.3.947.

Abstract

A review of research examining the relationship of auditory-visual integration and reading achievement is presented. The techniques of meta-analysis were used to integrate statistically the findings from 31 studies. A total of 146 correlations were collected and aggregated across assessment procedures, reading skills, grade levels, and subject characteristics. Also, partial correlations and a step-wise multiple regression were used to describe the interrelationships among auditory-visual integration, intelligence, reading skills, and other auditory perceptual skills. These analyses indicate that auditory-visual integration is a correlate of reading ability but the magnitude of the relation varies with the combination of descriptive variables considered in relation to reading achievement.

MeSH terms

  • Achievement
  • Auditory Perception*
  • Child
  • Discrimination Learning*
  • Humans
  • Pattern Recognition, Visual
  • Reading*
  • Space Perception
  • Visual Perception*
  • Vocabulary