مجلة الحكمة للدراسات الفلسفية
Volume 13, Numéro 2, Pages 1089-1101
2025-09-01

Working Memory And Reading Difficulties

Authors : Ben Habbouche Nassima . Sadi Fatiha .

Abstract

This research paper aims to identify the most important cognitive processes that process information represented in working memory and determine the extent of their association with difficulty of learning to read by reviewing and analyzing some previous studies that addressed this topic. This study relied on the descriptive approach, and in the end the following results were extracted that: children with reading difficulties are affected by a decrease in the capacity of working memory and the reading process in children with reading difficulties is affected by the presence of disorders in the working memory systems, some studies also found statistically significant differences between normal pupils and those with reading difficulties in favor of normal children, it also concluded that there are a great difficulties in children with reading difficulties in working memory tests related to the phonological loop and the visual spatial sketchpad.

Keywords

memory ; working memory ; learning difficulties to read