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However, studies describing the relationship between reading and phonological awareness in individuals with DS by comparing them to typically developing children often report contradictory results. The aim of this study is to explore reading and phonological awareness skills in a group of participants with DS.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods\u2003<\/jats:bold> We administered reading and phonological processing ability tests to 17 DS individuals and to 17 reading\u2010age\u2010matched typically developing children.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results\u2003<\/jats:bold> Concerning reading abilities, participants with DS were impaired on non\u2010word reading and on interpreting accuracy of non\u2010homographic homophones. Their passage comprehension was also limited. Comparable ability was reported in the two groups on irregular word reading and passage reading tasks. 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